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By chco  | Yesterday, 08:17 AM

The iPad is an amazing media device, once you really know how to use it. J.D. Biersdorfer, author of iPad 2: The Missing Manual, shares her top ten tips for using the iPad 2.Paper books and Post-It N...

By chco  | 21 April 2011 - 01:57 PM

Possibly the most amazing part of Droid X’s amazing Voice Actions feature is this: The only thing you really need to know about it is how to talk. Your voice is its command. The excerpt below from t...

By chco  | 20 April 2011 - 05:55 AM

Geographic information is such a wide field that it probably deserves its own guide, but in this excerpt below from the O'Reilly publication Data Source Handbook we're going to focus on the mo...

By chco  | 18 April 2011 - 04:01 PM

Should you want to create a bar chart while using R, the following excerpt below from the O'Reilly publication 25 Recipes for Getting Started with R will show you how. Use the barplot function. Th...

By VandadNP  | 16 April 2011 - 07:31 AM

In this video, I will show you how you can set up your environment for writing books using DocBook on Mac OS X. This is the first video in the series of 4 videos that I'm preparing, showing author...

By chco  | 16 April 2011 - 12:59 AM

It’s amazing what the AWS team achieved with RDS in a little over a year since it was introduced. The team added the high-availability feature it calls multi-AZ, or multiavailability zone. And after...

By macnlos  | 13 April 2011 - 10:58 AM

The iPad 2 has been out for a few weeks. There was a lot of discussion about whether it was a major advance from the first iPad or not. Setting those discussion aside, what have your really liked ab...

By chco  | 14 April 2011 - 11:15 PM

There are tens of thousands of great Android apps, and a whole world of them to discover. To give you a head start, here is an excerpt from Droid X: The Missing Manual listing five favorites—and the...

By macnlos  | 22 February 2011 - 08:58 PM

My wife just got a MacBook Pro and I went in and created a network location that is specific to our home and another for when she's outside of the home. She keeps calling me and asking where to g...

By chco  | 13 April 2011 - 04:18 PM

When you work with a cluster, you lose the ability to examine an entire collection as a single “snapshot in time.” Many people don’t realize the ramifications of this until it hits them in the n...