Brian Sawyer is an editor for O’Reilly Media’s Head First division and the co-author of Best Android Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders . The following is based in part on content from the book. Wherever you are, if you find yourself alone and in need of entertainment, you’ll likely reach for your Android phone
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Sending invoices is a vital task if you ever expect to make any money as a contractor or freelancer. Fortunately, numerous applications on OS X can turn this mundane task into a streamlined and efficient process – often also creating great looking invoices.
Today we’ll be taking a look at 7 examples of invoicing software for [...]
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With it’s larger screen, multitouch capabilities and ultra-portability, the iPad is an ideal tool for designers, particularly when it comes to working on the go or going [...]
Artists have been painting portraits for millennium, from the first days when we discovered brushes and colored paint. The early days of computer generated art was admittedly pretty bad but as computers gained in power and software improved in quality CGI art began to take its place with the best in the art world.
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Having a camera built into your phone isn’t a big deal anymore. But when you combine that camera with the rich software applications that run on devices like the iPhone and Android, you get lots of cool new ways to put your cameraphone to good use.
Got an aging Windows laptop or desktop computer, but money’s too tight to buy a new one? Fret not. There’s plenty of life in your old PC. It may seem sluggish and on the point of expiring, and its hard disk may be nearly full to bursting, but there’s plenty you can do to clean [...]
When the average computer user hears about Ubuntu or Linux, the word “difficult” comes to mind. This is understandable: learning a new operating system is never without its challenges, and in many ways Ubuntu is far from perfect. I’d like to say that using Ubuntu is actually easier and better than using Windows.
This doesn’t mean [...]
This week my friend Greg from Submit CSS proposes a new list of beauty websites for your inspiration. If you love the clean design of Apple website take a look at this collection of 10 stunning Mac software websites.
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In programming, regular expressions are a very useful tool designed to validate, search, and match text patterns. In this article, I have compiled more than 10 incredibly useful regular expressions, for any language, that will probably be very beneficial to you.
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Building a social network isn’t an easy task, let alone a successful one. As developers our job is to create, build, and bring to life the gears and functions of a social network. When it comes to marketing, well that’s a different department in most cases. We build then later deploy, and in order to [...]
After the tremendously successful 2000 and 2003 security tools surveys, Insecure.Org is delighted to release this 2006 survey. I (Fyodor) asked users from the nmap-hackers mailing list to share their favorite tools, and 3,243 people responded. This allowed me to expand the list to 100 tools, and even subdivide them into categories. This is [...]
Google’s Apps suite for domain owners and businesses has finally received some star treatment with the launch of the Apps Marketplace. Which Google-friendly apps are free, worth the cost, and entirely useful? These 10 are definitely worth a look
Here’s a new roundup of popular Windows XP tips from our Microsoft Windows blog, from gathering MAC addresses to creating custom characters to removing resource-consuming device drivers you no longer need. You can download the tips as a PDF or check out the individual entries that interest you:
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This is where today’s wireframing tools come in. Engineered to make the design process as intuitive as possible, these tools allow you to construct a visual representation of your interface. Some even allow designers to construct interactive prototypes in order to receive user feedback before a single line of code is written. The following list [...]