4/13/2011

Microsoft Windows Home Server 2011 Unleashed, 3rd Edition - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Covers the newest version of WHS!

This is the most comprehensive, practical, and useful guide to the brand-new version of Windows Home Server 2011. Paul McFedries doesn't just cover all facets of running Windows Home Server: He shows how to use it to simplify everything from file sharing to media streaming, backup to security.

With real-world examples, McFedries guides you through using new features ranging from the Dashboard and Launchpad to Remote Web Access and Alert Viewer. You'll find network configurations and step-by-step solutions you can easily understand and use, even if you have no server experience. Then, when you're ready, McFedries reveals how Home Server's hidden business-class features can help you save more time and get even better performance.

Packed with exclusive tips and tricks, this go-to guide will help you every step of the way…as you create a home network that does more and runs perfectly!

  • Quickly set up networks, user accounts, devices, and storage
  • Add any computer to your network: Windows 7, Vista, XP, Mac, or Linux
  • Efficiently share folders, files, and digital media
  • Set up passwords and users and protect your sensitive information
  • Reliably automate backups, so you never lose an important file
  • Centrally manage all your storage, so you never have to buy more than you need
  • Stream and share your digital images, audio, and video–even on your Xbox 360 or other devices
  • Use Home Server's built-in web server to create powerful, flexible websites
  • Use Windows SharePoint Foundation to help everyone coordinate their busy lives
  • Automatically apply up-to-date security fixes to all your Windows computers
  • Remotely access your content from any Internet-connected computer–safely and securely
  • Use Home Server power tools, including Local Group Policy Editor, Computer Management snap-ins, and scripting
  • Efficiently monitor, maintain, tune, and troubleshoot Windows Home Server

Book Details

  • Paperback: 720 pages
  • Publisher: Sams; 3rd Edition (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 9780672335402
  • ISBN-13: 978-0672335402
  • File Size: 39.2 MiB
  • Hits: 102 times
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Data-driven iOS Apps for iPad and iPhone with FileMaker Pro, Bento by FileMaker, and FileMaker Go - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Use FileMaker® technologies to create powerful mobile data apps for iPhone®, iPod® touch, and iPad™

Apple's FileMaker technologies make it easy to create powerful, data-driven apps for iPhone, iPod touch, iPad, and any mobile device's web browser. In this book, leading FileMaker and iOS expert Jesse Feiler teaches you all the skills and techniques you'll need, whether you're a developer, knowledge worker, or manager.

Feiler thoroughly reviews each strategy for delivering mobile data using FileMaker Pro, FileMaker Server, FileMaker Go, and Bento. You'll learn how mobile data-driven apps are different from traditional desktop-driven apps, and how to create highly usable interfaces for them. Step by step, Feiler demonstrates how to extend existing databases to mobile devices and the web, and how to create and optimize brand-new databases for iPad and iPhone.

This book brings together core principles, practical development techniques, and proven tips and shortcuts. You'll discover the best ways to incorporate printing, touch interface elements, and location-based features into your apps; integrate data from multiple FileMaker and non-FileMaker sources; and much more.

  • Use FileMaker Go apps to access FileMaker databases hosted on FileMaker Server or FileMaker Pro, or databases resident on a mobile device
  • Move FileMaker Pro databases, scripts, and layouts to mobile environments
  • Develop easy-to-use interfaces for mobile data apps
  • Design FileMaker Go solutions for iPhone, iPad, or both
  • Optimize FileMaker databases for FileMaker Go
  • Integrate printing and charting features into your mobile database apps
  • Use Bento to share data and synchronize libraries
  • Work effectively with Bento records, fields, forms, and tables
  • Build location-aware database apps for iOS mobile devices
  • Import/export data from Bento, FileMaker, spreadsheets, and other sources
  • Move FileMaker databases to the web with IWP, CWP, and FileMaker Server

Jesse Feiler is a developer, web designer, trainer, and author. He has worked with Apple mobile devices from Newton through iPad and has worked with FileMaker technologies since 1984. Feiler created ChamplainArts.com's powerful iPad meeting management app MinutesMachine. His books include Using FileMaker Bento, Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours, The Bento Book, and FileMaker Pro 10 in Depth.

Book Details

  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Que (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789747863
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789747860
  • File Size: 13.5 MiB
  • Hits: 97 times
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Microsoft Excel for Stock and Option Traders: Build Your Own Analytical Tools for Higher Returns - Free DownLoad

Book Description
Trade More Profitably by Exploiting Excel's Powerful New Statistical and Data Mining Tools!
  • Uncover subtle anomalies and distortions that signal profit opportunities
  • Create powerful new custom indicators, alerts, and trading models
  • Visualize and analyze huge amounts of trading data with just a few clicks
  • Powerful techniques for every active investor who can use Excel

Now that high-speed traders dominate the market, yesterday's slower-paced analysis strategies are virtually worthless. To outperform, individual traders must discover fleeting market trends and inefficiencies and act on them before they disappear.

Five years ago, this required multimillion-dollar data mining and analytical infrastructures. Today, you can do it with Microsoft Excel, a powerful PC, and this book.

Step by step, world-class trader Jeff Augen shows how to use Excel 2007 or 2010 to uncover hidden correlations and reliable trade triggers based on subtle anomalies and price distortions…create and test new hypotheses others haven't considered…visualize data to reveal insights others can't see!

From the Back Cover
"Augen authors another winner. A skilled analyst and trader himself, Augen offers individuals a cutting-edge approach to analysis, utilizing simple software, which allows traders to better steer their own financial destiny. In this new book, he outlines his personal investing techniques, unlike any other technical approach I've ever seen. This unique book is a must-read for self-directed traders seeking to create their own tools to gain an edge in the computer-driven markets of today."
–Kira McCaffrey Brecht, Managing Editor, SFO Magazine

"Jeff Augen continues his streak of great books that can help traders improve returns with a book about programming option trades that doesn't require a quant degree to be put into action. He has done what I thought was impossible: He has written a programming guide for option traders that is interesting and actionable. This is the most interesting, understandable, and actionable guide to using Excel to trade options that I have read."
–Mark Sebastian, COO and Director of Education, Option Pit

"Jeff's insights into modern-day options have provided me with several real-world trading breakthroughs. I increasingly lean on Jeff for clarity in today's hard-charging, volatile markets–I'd get my hands on everything he puts out!"
–Preston James, Founder, Traders Edge Network, LLC

Trade More Profitably by Exploiting Excel's Powerful New Statistical and Data Mining Tools!

There's only one way to gain a consistent edge in today's high-speed markets: adopt the same advanced data mining and analysis techniques the institutions use. Fortunately, with Microsoft Excel and a modern PC, you can do just that. In this book, Jeff Augen covers a variety of approaches for systematically improving your trades by exploiting Excel's most powerful new features.

Augen demystifies key analytical concepts and teaches all the Excel skills you'll need. Using realistic examples, he explains everything from simple conditionals and expressions to sophisticated VBA macro programming.

You'll learn to create new indicators and alerts that identify high-profit opportunities…perform statistical analyses to back-test strategies more accurately…validate, invalidate, or tune combinations of indicators across any time frame…quickly visualize enormous datasets, so hidden trends jump out at you.

Own Excel? Use a trading platform? You already have the tools to gain a powerful trading advantage. Get this book–and put those tools to work.

  • Use Excel 2007/2010 to systematically improve the way you analyze trades
    Translate complex trading hypotheses into simple, testable Excel models
  • Uncover market distortions in time to profit from them
    Profit from inefficiencies that disappear in hours, minutes, or even seconds
  • Identify new correlations the market hasn't noticed
    Perform "experiments" of virtually unlimited size, number, or complexity

Book Details

  • Hardcover: 208 pages
  • Publisher: FT Press (March, 2011)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0137131828
  • ISBN-13: 978-0137131822
  • File Size: 2.8 MiB
  • Hits: 132 times
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