Using Google Apps

Friendly advice on leveraging the power of the new Nexus 7 Google tablet!

The arrival of the new Nexus 7 Google tablet is eagerly awaited, thanks to its cutting-edge software, top-notch hardware, unprecedented abilities, and nine-hour battery life. This easy-to-understand, engaging guide covers everything you need to know about this amazing Android tablet. Bestselling Dummies author Dan Gookin uses his friendly writing style to deliver clear instructions for setting up, navigating, and using the device. You'll learn to use all your favorite Google applications that come loaded on the device, personalize it, and much more.

• Walks you through the touchscreen, wireless access, and software updates
• Demonstrates how to download, shop for, and fill your Nexus 7 with movies, e-books, games, and music
• Helps you keep on top of your schedule and appointments and pursue your interests and hobbies with the latest apps and websites
• Offers guidance on using your device to navigate from here to there and stay connected with friends and family while you're away

Nexus 7 For Dummies is an essential companion to your other new companion: the Nexus 7!

Brian Doyle knows where to find many of the members of his demographic cohort - that 1929-to-1939-born generation of which Doyle, who drew his first breath in Ottawa in the summer of 1935, finds himself smack dab in the middle.

“Try one of the food courts sometime between breakfast and noon,” he writes in the first of two dozen essays about growing up as a Depression baby. “We’ll be sitting around talking sports or pensions or grandchildren ... stuff like that ... capital gains, taxes, past adventures, travel ... where certain businesses and establishments were but aren’t anymore ... sex ... what used to be ... what’s now ... what’s coming ... the obscene costs of funerals ...”

But Doyle, a former Glebe Collegiate teacher (and even more formerly a student there) best known for his grainy young-adult novels about growing up in Ottawa and along the Gatineau River, is a consummate storyteller - and his 24 essays are no less engaging than the vivid scenes he painted for readers in such books as Angel Square, Up to Low and Easy Avenue.

The subjects that Doyle, now nearly 77, tackles are as routine as any. And they’ve probably all been dissected to bits time and again at every food court in every shopping mall in the world: cars, money, school, jobs, sex, travel, reading, race, religion, food, movies, cars (again), dementia, death.

The idea for the series came in 2011, after Doyle’s grandson Matt, then 19, tossed out a casual “kids these days” remark in conversation. It occurred to Doyle then that as the rate of change in society quickens, the gaps between generations - and even within them - get wider and wider.

“I think I was in my mid-40s before I ever said, ‘Kids today,’ with that tone,” he says.

This is the eBook version of the printed book.

This Element is an excerpt from Marketing in the Moment: The Practical Guide to Using Web 3.0 Marketing to Reach Your Customers First (9780137081097) by Michael Tasner. Available in print and digital formats.

Open source: finding free software that can empower your next-generation marketing efforts.

Open-source code is a big part of the Web 3.0 revolution. It’s developed by several people (even thousands) working together–and even when it’s finished, some of them (or others) may continue to improve it for the good of all. Using it can help you develop marketing programs, tools, and even Web sites–and it’s free.

Master the Android mobile development platform

Build compelling Java-based mobile applications using the Android SDK and the Eclipse open-source software development platform. Android: A Programmer's Guide shows you, step-by-step, how to download and set up all of the necessary tools, build and tune dynamic Android programs, and debug your results. Discover how to provide web and chat functions, interact with the phone dialer and GPS devices, and access the latest Google services. You'll also learn how to create custom Content Providers and database-enable your applications using SQLite.

• Install and configure Java, Eclipse, and Android plugin
• Create Android projects from the Eclipse UI or command line
• Integrate web content, images, galleries, and sounds
• Deploy menus, progress bars, and auto-complete functions
• Trigger actions using Android Intents, Filters, and Receivers
• Implement GPS, Google Maps, Google Earth, and GTalk
• Build interactive SQLite databases, calendars, and notepads
• Test applications using the Android Emulator and Debug Bridge

"Perfect for anyone that is a fan of imagination" 

Max Lego also known as "Mad Max" is hired to design/build an Ionic Thruster Powered racing machine and race it across America. He introduces his race car, the X1R and tells about different components used to make it. Max also introduces other vehicles and staff members of his team.

This is a whimsical, imaginative book created by a home school father using Mindstorms, Minifigures and other LEGO products to tell a story. The idea came about after the author's children created cars to compete in a race sponsored at their monthly 4H LEGO and Robotics club meeting. The race was similar to Pine Wood Derby events but cars made only of LEGO bricks were used.
The family recently won the National LEGO Smart Creativity Contest in the Homeschool division and some of the winnings from the contest were used to help create the book. There is a section providing some details about the contest and events leading up to it.

The first two pages are vertical format but the remaining pages are meant for horizontal viewing.This was done on purpose to allow a larger better quality of picture for viewing. The book can be viewed in color or black and white depending on your viewing device.
Special thanks to Andrew Gutu and Mark Glass for photo Editing.
The author has also written "The Animator Inside of You" a how to guide to stop motion animation.

When Arizona Senator John McCain and Illinois Senator Barack Obama hit the campaign trail in 2008 in quest of the Oval Office, soon to be vacated by George W. Bush, the American economy was in crisis. The high times of the early 2000s were gone, erased by the effects of the housing market crash. The National Bureau of Economic Research reported that the American economy entered a recession, or an overall decline in economic activity, in December 2007, ensuring that the economy would surpass the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan as the primary issue on the minds of most voters.

At the heels of the 2012 Presidential election, the economy is once again one of the biggest issues on the campaign trail. The question continues to loom: did Obama handle the economy correctly and, if so, why is it still not fixed?
 
This book looks at the economy in a way that is non-partisan and free of any bias. It tells you the facts in an easy to read way and let’s you form your own conclusions.

If you want to know what’s really up with the economy, but don’t want something that reads like propaganda for a political party, then read this book!

Special forces members are not well known. Their identities and their missions are kept secret. They don’t join for money or fame, even though they have talents that make them perfectly suited for an elite status within the military. They are the best of the best, simultaneously intelligent and sociable, and hardworking and driven. But they also can kill better than anyone on the planet. That is what makes them the best soldiers of the United States.

Read on to discover the fascinating history of the Special Forces.

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