Blogcritics Category: Books: Computers and Internet

Book Review: Algorithms in a Nutshell by George T. Heineman, Gary Pollice, and Stanley Selkow

Fitz — Tue, 6 Jan 2009 00:00:18 EST

More Tools for the Software Developer.
In my career as a software engineer, my job is always more a process of finding a particular solution in a particular context to solve a particular problem. Easy enough, right? Just have to have the right tools and the right parts to get from point A to point B.Well, you don't always have an easy time finding the right tools or the right parts....

Book Review: Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS4 By Bruce Frasier and Jeff Schewe

T. Michael Testi — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 16:12:58 EST

An absolutely, positively, must-own.
To be a serious digital photographer you need to learn some serious techniques and Real World Camera Raw is one of those books that help you get there. Adobe Camera Raw (ACR), the Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom plug-in, will give you the greatest possible control over your image. You gain precise control over qualities like white balance,...

Book Review: Ubuntu For Non-Geeks, 3rd Edition by Rickford Grant

Triniman — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:32:17 EST

A true beginner's book with many exercises that will comfortably take you outside of your initial comfort zone.
Even if you're a pretty good user of Windows or Apple's OS X, you can still be intimidated by the prospect of learning Linux if you dive in too deeply with the wrong book for your level of understanding. The trick for most hobbyists who are reluctant to give Linux a try is to know where to safely begin, where one won't get overwhelmed...

Video Training Review: Designing The Moment with Robert Hoekman

T. Michael Testi — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 01:27:51 EST

This is a short but very focused video, the goal of which is to show you how to get a user to sign up to your Web site.
When you see a popular site, do you ever wonder how they get so many people to sign up for their products and services? It all has to do with providing an experience to the user that makes them feel comfortable turning over personal information like their e-mail address to the site. It also has to do with providing an environment that makes it easy...

Book Review: The Little Digital Video Book, Second Edition by Michael Rubin

T. Michael Testi — Wed, 3 Dec 2008 19:12:34 EST

This is an excellent book for beginners and those who want to get the fundamental concepts of video editing.
You have just purchased a digital video camera and now you are confused on how to work it. Most of the time when you purchase one of these, it isn't months, or even weeks before you need it, it is usually a day or two before the event. It is usually because you have found that your old one is no longer working, or there is something coming up...

Book Review: Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure by Mikkel Aaland

T. Michael Testi — Tue, 2 Dec 2008 19:00:15 EST

If you want to learn more about Lightroom 2, and you like great pictures, you will like this book.
Photoshop Lightroom 2 Adventure is a concept book. The point is to go out on location for two weeks and work with the latest version of Adobe Photoshop Lightroom software. The last adventure was to Iceland, this time it takes us to Tasmania. Keep in mind that this is not just the author on the adventure, but rather the author along with more than...

Video Training Review: Photoshop Studio: Lessons In Digital Painting with Bert Monroy

T. Michael Testi — Mon, 1 Dec 2008 04:13:25 EST

If you want to learn how to do digital painting, then you need to see Photoshop Studio: Lessons In Digital Painting.
Photoshop Studio: Lessons In Digital Painting is the companion DVD to Bert Monroy's book Photoshop Studio with Bert Monroy: Digital Painting. In this video, you get to meet with the author as he explains on a more personal level the techniques that are described in the book. Photoshop Studio: Lessons In Digital Painting is a very...

Book Review: Pragmatic Thinking and Learning - Refactor Your Wetware by Andy Hunt

Fitz — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 10:57:40 EST

Streamline your thinking!
It's rare that I read nonfiction these days that is worth reviewing. Most nonfiction to me simply consists of reference material, examples, and step-by-step instructions to help in a given field of study. As a software engineer, I often find myself digging into a particular book for an example or a hint as to how to implement a piece of code....

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Book Review: How Wikipedia Works - And How You Can Be Part a of It by Phoebe Ayers, Charles Matthews, and Ben Yates

Mary K. Williams — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 09:52:34 EST

The site and this book have more to offer than I realized.
After I had already agreed to read and review How Wikipedia Works, I found myself second guessing my request, and by extension, the purpose of HWW. Do they really need a book? The site’s navigation is intuitive. You can find nearly everything you’re looking for and much more, the site does not really need a dead tree companion.Well, yes...

Book Review: Digital Infrared Photography By Cyrill Harnischmacher

T. Michael Testi — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:44:38 EST

Digital Infrared Photography provides a solid introduction with a lot of beautifully done images.
Infrared Photography is the practice of recording that part of the light spectrum that is referred to as infrared. Infrared light is outside the range of what the human eye can see, but with the digital camera we are now able to not only block the visible part of light, but see the invisible, infrared, part of the light spectrum. Artists have been...