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By sarahkim : Today, 02:07 PM

Excel also provides some invaluable ready-to-use functions to help you do things like identify the current date. This excerpt from Excel 2010: The Missing Manual shows you how to use the TODAY() and ...

By filmbilly : Today, 02:01 PM

Two years ago at Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco, Elon Musk of Tesla Motors rolled up to the entrance of the Palace Hotel in his prototype electric roadster to speak with John John Battelle of Federat...

By BrianSawyer : 09 June 2010 - 12:17 PM

When working on Best Android Apps, we wanted to test as many apps on as many different devices as we possibly could. Now that the book is in print, we're adding new apps, updates, tips and tricks,...

By sarahkim : Today, 10:49 AM

This excerpt from Excel 2010: The Missing Manual explains how Excel stores date and time values so you can use Excel's functions to manipulate them. The reality is that even though many dates look...

By blackbear : 21 June 2010 - 05:56 AM

One of the more useful (from a developer standpoint) features coming in iOS 4 (formerly iPhone OS 4) is the UIAutomation tool. This lets you run an automated set of tests against an application, and ...

By adfm : Today, 08:11 AM

Microsoft Silverlight offers some unique rich imaging tools. In this excerpt from Laurence Moroney's Microsoft® Silverlight® 4 Step by Step you'll learn how to work with multiple images by buildin...

By adfm : Today, 07:58 AM

Did you know SharePoint offers version control? You wouldn't notice it because it's not enabled by default. This excerpt from Ben Curry's Microsoft® SharePoint® 2010 Administrator's Pocket Consult...

By adfm : Today, 07:30 AM

Designing an interface usually involves matching up to a grid. For a finger friendly interface to be effective you'll want the active interface elements to be no larger than a finger tip. But who&...

By filmbilly : Yesterday, 04:59 PM

In this conversation Dale Doughtery of MAKE magazine gets a back street tour of manufacturing tech products in China from Liam Casey of PCH International. This interview is a must watch if you plan t...

By adfm : Yesterday, 08:58 AM

Have you ever wished that your spreadsheets would automatically format themselves, the way you wanted them to, and not from some generic template? Luckily, Excel provides all the tools you'll need t...

By macslocum : Yesterday, 05:08 AM

I had inklings there was a connection between search engine optimization and site speed -- Google is clearly gung-ho on all things speedy after all -- but until Velocity 2010 I didn't realize that SEO...

By adfm : 28 June 2010 - 10:32 AM

Now that you have Forefront Threat Management Gateway up and running, it's time to configure your protected networks. This excerpt from Diogenes, Harrison, & Saxena's Forefront Threat Management...

By adfm : 28 June 2010 - 08:59 AM

Are you trying to set up a "liveblog" and want to know the modern approach to getting information pushed to the browser? This excerpt from Ted Roden's Building the Realtime User Experience will help y...

By adfm : 24 June 2010 - 01:47 PM

Are you an artist, tinkerer, or programmer interested in creating interactive graphics? Perhaps you're interested in physical computing and would like to control a 3D printer? You're likely going to...

By mvark : 27 June 2010 - 02:57 AM

Do you hate it when a link that you click on turns out to be a PDF, freezes your browser for a few seconds while it opens it and spoils the browsing experience? Do you detest it when the PDF reader th...