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Latest Books

Foundation Flash CS5 For Designers
Learn Flash CS5 from scratch and get up-to-speed with all of the cool new features—including iPhone application creation, a whole new animation engine, custom easing, and more.
Getting StartED with Google Apps
Getting StartED with Google Apps gets you started collaborating and creating with Google’s online suite of applications on the Chrome operating system.
Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst: The New Workflow
The Flash Platform is changing. Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst have brought a new separation of design and coding to web development that enables a much more efficient and streamlined workflow. For designers and developers used to the close confines of Flash, this is a hugely liberating but at first alien concept. This book teaches you the new workflow for the Flash platform.
Getting StartED with Windows Live Movie Maker
Learn from the ground up how to edit, save, and share your home movies using the free Windows Live Movie Maker.
The Essential Guide to 3D in Flash
If you are an ActionScript developer or designer and you would like to work with 3D in Flash, this book is for you. You will learn the core Flash 3D concepts, using the open source Away3D engine as a primary tool. Once you have mastered these skills, you will be able to realize the possibilities that the available Flash 3D engines, languages, and technologies have to offer you with Flash and 3D.

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Foundation Flash Catalyst
This book offers an introduction to Flash Catalyst for designers with intermediate to advanced skills. It discusses where Catalyst sits within the production process and how it communicates with other programs. It covers all of the features of the Flash Catalyst workspace, teaching you how to create designs from scratch, how to build application designs and add functionality, and how to master the Catalyst/Flex workflow.
AdvancED Flex 4
AdvancED Flex 4 makes advanced Flex 4 concepts and techniques easy. Ajax, RIA, Web 2.0, mashups, mobile applications, the most sophisticated web tools, and the coolest interactive web applications are all covered with practical, visually oriented recipes.
AdvancED Game Design with Flash
Getting StartED with JavaScript
Foundation Expression Blend 4 with Silverlight 4
Foundation Drupal 7: Learn how to use the Drupal framework to quickly build feature-rich web sites

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