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The Presenter's EZ Graphics Kit List Price: Sale Price: $31.00 You save: $8.95 (22%)  |
DescriptionThe Presenter's EZ Graphics Kit provides easy to do, step-by-step graphics, simple design ideas, color combinations, borders and lettering styles for creating outstanding visuals on the spot--even if you feel artistically challenged drawing in front of an audience.The reluctant artist in you will quickly pick up how to create spontaneous visuals with the ready made, ready-to-go examples and these instant-graphic-language drawing techniques.You can liven up any presentation, any training event or any class with these simple methods and ideas. You audiences and classes will enjoy the change of pace when you use your visuals on flip charts and overheads. You can also make your PowerPoint® slides stand out from the crowd by importing images and borders from the accompanying CD-ROM (without copyright concerns). The book also explains how you can scan and import your own drawings into presentation software or to print them on overheads. Create new images at will, or reuse the authors' or your own images again and again. If you are your own graphics department, you will want to add this book to your library. |
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Cocoa Design Patterns List Price: Sale Price: $28.94 You save: $26.05 (47%) |
Description“Next time some kid shows up at my door asking for a code review, this is the book that I am going to throw at him.” –Aaron Hillegass, founder of Big Nerd Ranch, Inc., and author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X Unlocking the Secrets of Cocoa and Its Object-Oriented Frameworks Mac and iPhone developers are often overwhelmed by the breadth and sophistication of the Cocoa frameworks. Although Cocoa is indeed huge, once you understand the object-oriented patterns it uses, you’ll find it remarkably elegant, consistent, and simple. Cocoa Design Patterns begins with the mother of all patterns: the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, which is central to all Mac and iPhone development. Encouraged, and in some cases enforced by Apple’s tools, it’s important to have a firm grasp of MVC right from the start. The book’s midsection is a catalog of the essential design patterns you’ll encounter in Cocoa, including Fundamental patterns, such as enumerators, accessors, and two-stage creation Patterns that empower, such as singleton, delegates, and the responder chain Patterns that hide complexity, including bundles, class clusters, proxies and forwarding, and controllers And that’s not all of them! Cocoa Design Patterns painstakingly isolates 28 design patterns, accompanied with real-world examples and sample code you can apply to your applications today. The book wraps up with coverage of Core Data models, AppKit views, and a chapter on Bindings and Controllers. Cocoa Design Patterns clearly defines the problems each pattern solves with a foundation in Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks and can be used by any Mac or iPhone developer.
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The Big Book of Flip Charts List Price: Sale Price: $15.10 You save: $14.90 (50%) |
DescriptionWith all the razzle-dazzle technology around, there’s still no more lively, informative, and audience-friendly way to make an impact than with flip charts. But using flip charts well is a skill. Here’s a book that provides you with the proven techniques that will make you shine. You’ll learn the basic design principles and artistic "tricks of the trade" that give a flip chart a professional look: Selecting and arranging lettering that makes an impact all the way to the back of the room … Transporting and setting up flip charts … Arranging the presentation room … Finding the best, most dependable equipment--including easels, paper, masking tape, and markers … Jazzing up your flip chart with "ready-to-copy" graphics … Devising flip chart activities that lead to brainstorming and team problem-solving. Soon, even the least artistic presenter will know how to develop pro-level flip charts that can make every presentation come alive. |
