American Craft celebrates the modern makers who shape the world around us. Presenting unknown innovators and artistic stalwarts, American Craft connects the disparate worlds of art, industry, fashion, architecture and design, giving an entirely new voice to the craft community.

Web Technologies: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications provides a comprehensive depiction of current and future trends in support of the evolution of Web information systems, Web applications, and the Internet.

Generation 2 is a major update to the acclaimed Generation visual effects desktop, the must-have workflow frontend for artists and studios. With tight deadlines, revision management and team work, Generation excels at providing a flexible desktop for studios to manage many projects, shots, versions, and elements. Customizable, scriptable and designed for teams, Generation makes it easy to integrate into existing studio workflow.

MagicDraw is an award-winning business process, architecture, software and system modeling tool with teamwork support. Designed for Business Analysts, Software Analysts, Programmers, QA Engineers, and Documentation Writers, this dynamic and versatile development tool facilitates analysis and design of Object Oriented (OO) systems and databases. It provides the industry's best code engineering mechanism (with full round-trip support for Java, C++, C#, CL (MSIL) and CORBA IDL programming languages), as well as database schema modeling, DDL generation and reverse engineering facilities.

WinDriver family of software products to rapidly build high-performance, high-quality drivers, devices, ystv to work in user mode. No DDK knowledge or kernel level development.

Advantages WinDriver:
- Much easier and shortens the development cycle driver
- Development of User mode - execution in kernel mode
- Does not require knowledge of the internal structure of the operating system or kernel
- Does not require knowledge of DDK, - optimal performance
- High reliability - support for cross-platform and multiple operating systems,
- Developing a driver immediately for all supported operating systems (Windows 98-2003, Windows CE.NET, Embedded, Linux, Solaris, VxWorks).

Continuing from his first DVD, Global Illumination: Exteriors, Christopher Nichols explains how interior global illumination differs from exterior GI. Christopher focuses on the concept of digital sets and explores issues of interior lighting for GI, including the variety of light sources that can be used, as well as how space plays an important role in lighting. Christopher demonstrates the differences between regular light sources, environment light, IES lighting, area lights, and even how geometry and shaders can affect the lighting of a scene. Additionally, since bouncing light plays an important role in interior GI, this lecture looks at some special techniques such as using V-Ray’s photon mapping and light cache. Christopher also explores the idea of baking lighting into textures, which is a useful technique for some situations. With Global Illumination: Interiors, you will see the rendering of an interior space in a whole new light.

In this lecture on the subject of Global Illumination lighting techniques, Christopher Nichols discusses the subject of exterior lighting. This DVD covers a general introduction to the principles of Global Illumination, which are essential to the understanding of this specialized form of lighting. While the series primarily uses V-Ray as the render engine in a 3ds Max environment, those using other GI renderers will also benefit from the conceptual techniques described. From the general concepts of reflected specular and diffuse light, to sky lights and image based lighting with HDRIs, Christopher shows how to light scenes using real world lighting in a fully reflective environment. He also demonstrates how to tackle the issues of animation by finding the most optimal way to bake lighting for exterior sets. This series is geared toward the CG artist that already has an intermediate understanding of direct lighting and is making the transition to GI lighting.

WinDriver™ PCI for Windows automates and simplifies the development of user mode Windows device drivers with Kernel mode performance for PCI / PCI Express / CardBus / ISA / PCI-104 / PCMCIA / PMC / PCI-X and CompactPCI. No DDK knowledge or kernel level programming required.

Business Intelligence (BI) software aims to bring together different pieces of a business into views that can make comprehending mountains of data easier. BI is everywhere. Applications that include reports, analytics, statistics, and historical and predictive modeling are all examples of BI applications. Currently, we are in the second generation of BI software, called BI 2.0. This generation is focused on writing BI software that is predictive, adaptive, simple, and interactive.

The Palm Pre is the hottest new device on the block. It’s the cell phone—nay, personal digital everything—that all the cool kids want to get their hands on . . . but no one wants to use it more than developers! The Palm Pre is more than just a way-cool device, though: it is built on Palm’s brand-spanking-new webOS, an operating system that changes the game for developers. Building on standards-based web technologies, webOS allows us to create applications more quickly and easily than any other platform out there using the same technologies we know and love already. It turns out to be quite fun, too!

The new world of cloud computing needs data storage. CouchDB is the scalable, portable, simple database engine that is helping open source cloud architects put their data stores onto a firm foundation. Beginning CouchDB provides the tools to begin using this very powerful database engine without having to pay license fees for the software, or worry about administrator’s certifications or vast hardware requirements.

Learn how to plan, implement and manage Essential Business Server -- Microsoft's integrated server product for medium-sized businesses. It's literally a network infrastructure in a box.
Technology expert Don Jones guides you through everything contained in EBS, from licensing, architecture, planning, and deployment to managing EBS components,

Billing Organizer Pro is a flexible billing and invoicing software for all kinds of professionals such as lawyers, developers, consultants, field experts, artists, constructors, designers, architects, accountants, programmers, landscapers, doctors, gardeners, … our billing software is for anyone who bills for labor and/or material.

Bricscad is the powerful DWG-alternative CAD platform that enables DWG-based applications and offers a complete and recognizable feature set to professional users. BricsCad v9 is the smart choice for architects, engineers,designers-virtually any professional who creates or uses CAD drawings.BricsCad provides unrivaled compatibility with Autodesk AutoCAD and is fully programmable with hundreds of third-party solutions. AutoCAD command line Most CAD professionals spend years mastering AutoCAD commands until they're second nature.Since these commands help create the majority of CAD work,BricsCad transparently maps them to BricsCad equivalent commands.

Here are 10 reasons why to choose Bricscad:
» You can modernize your CAD for 1/5 the price of AutoCAD.
» Bricscad offers full-function 2D/3D DWG-based CAD and a compelling technology roadmap.
» Bricscad comes with friendly upgrade policies.
» The people behind Bricscad are CAD veterans committed to world-class support.
» Most users are transitioning from AutoCAD to Bricscad in one week or less.
» Bricscad has over 100,000 users around the world and earned a 98% satisfaction rating.
» Users and administrators in organizations with both Bricscad and AutoCAD prefer Bricscad.
» Bricscad offers an AutoCAD-compatible programming platform that supports existing applications.
» Increasingly, top developers are offering their existing AutoCAD applications and add-ons on Bricscad.

Want to build your dream house? Add a room to your home?
Whatever your drawing needs, Home Plan Pro 5 is your best choice. Home Plan Pro is designed to quickly and easily draw high quality floor plans, site plans, and architectural designs.

IBM® Cognos® 8 BI delivers the complete range of BI capabilities on a single service-oriented architecture (SOA). Provide the capabilities and information you need to make better decisions. Use reports, analysis, dashboards and scorecards to monitor business performance, analyze trends and measure results. A service-oriented architecture makes it easy to deploy and manage.

Monitor, diagnose, and maximize the system performance of Oracle Fusion Middleware solutions

PowerArchiver - universal archiver with support for all popular formats. At the time the program was distributed free of charge, but as they expand their capabilities moved to commercial status that, if you look at the overall trend is not surprising.

This is a modern application, which combines support practically all popular archival formats. If necessary, you can use encrypted archives using AES algorithm with varying degrees of stability (128-bit/192-bit/256-bit). The interface supports change skins, works as in classical and modern form.

ESET Smart Security is a tightly integrated solution designed to protect computers from a range of threats. Built on the award-winning ESET NOD32® Antivirus and its powerful ThreatSense® engine, ESET Smart Security provides antispyware, antispam and customized firewall features. Utilizing ThreatSense — the industry's most advanced heuristics — the window of vulnerability between virus outbreak and signature update is reduced.
The key advantage of this approach is that individual protection modules are able to communicate together seamlessly, to create unparalleled synergy to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of protection. Moreover, the integrated architecture guarantees optimal utilization of system resources, so ESET Smart Security continues ESET's well know reputation for providing rock solid security in a small footprint that will not slow down an individual's computer.

Home Plan Pro is designed to quickly and easily draw high quality floor plans, site plans, and architectural designs. Home Plan Pro provides a full array of graphic tool buttons to let you easily pick a tool or action. Once you choose a tool, Home Plan Pro tells you how to use it. You may use the mouse or keyboard, or both, to create your plan. Home Plan Pro gives you many choices for printing your plans. You may select a specific scale, or elect to have your plan printed at the largest size that will fit on the paper you select. While there are a number of impressive and powerful CAD programs available, they are more difficult to learn and use than Home Plan Pro. To preserve its intuitive ease of use and low cost, Home Plan Pro is not designed to compete with full-fledged CAD programs.

Sandra 2009 - the latest version of its award-winning utility which includes remote analysis, benchmarking and diagnostic features for PCs, servers, PDAs1, Smart Phones1, small office/home office (SOHO) networks and enterprise networks. SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information (including undocumented) you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. Giving the user the ability to draw comparisons at both a high and low-level. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCI-X, PCIe (PCI Express), database, USB, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc.

SiSoftware, founded in 1995, is one of the leading providers of computer analysis, diagnostic and benchmarking software. The flagship product, known as "SANDRA", was launched in 1997 and has become one of the most widely used products in its field. Nearly 600 worldwide IT publications, magazines and review sites use SANDRA to analyse the performance of today’s computers. Over 8,000 on-line reviews of computer hardware that use SANDRA are catalogued on our website alone.Since launch, SiSoftware has always been at the forefront of the technology arena, being among the first providers of benchmarks that show the power of emerging new technologies such as multi-core, GPGPU, OpenCL, AMD64/EM64T/x64, IA64, NUMA, SMT (Hyper-Threading), SMP (multi-threading), AVX, FMA, SSE4.2, SSE4.1, SSE4A, SSSE3, SSE3, SSE2, SSE, MMX, Java and .NET.

A Comprehensive, Proven Approach to IT Scalability from Two Veteran Software, Technology, and Business Executives. In The Art of Scalability, AKF Partners cofounders Martin L. Abbott and Michael T. Fisher cover everything IT and business leaders must know to build technology infrastructures that can scale smoothly to meet any business requirement. Drawing on their unparalleled experience managing some of the world’s highest-transaction-volume Web sites, the authors provide detailed models and best-practice approaches available in no other book.

Program complex Leica Cyclone - one of the most popular in the world of solutions for data processing ground-based laser scanning. Leica Cyclone contains all the tools necessary to perform the full cycle of work, using equipment Leica HDS, starting with the management process of scanning and finishing design of the outcome and transfer it to the customer. Work in Cyclone is available in single user mode and technology "Client-Server", using a floating or node licenses.

Leica Geosystems HDS Cyclone - software modules provide point cloud users with the widest set of work process options for 3D laser scanning projects in engineering, surveying, construction and related applications.

* Architectural Interiors
* DayArchitectural Interiors
* NightArchitectural Exteriors
* DayArchitectural Exteriors
* Night. Learn how to setup & render a basic (still-frame) architectual scene using 3ds Max & mental ray.

Maxwell Render is acclaimed as a landmark in next generation rendering technology, having produced the best quality images to date, and continues to be the leader in unbiased rendering for photorealistic imagery and advanced lighting, especially in architecture, interior design, product design, and film/animation production.

The VisMasters Online:V-Ray Video Training for Architectural Visualization are pre-recorded training lessons designed to teach the concept of global illumination with V-Ray and how to achieve it with photorealistic and transcendental qualities. Each module is taught by expert instructors who work day-to-day in the production of architectural visualizations. Throughout these modules, users will learn how to maximize speed and efficiency in the same type of architectural production environment. Each module is a 30 to 90 minute self-contained lesson that covers the critical settings of each major V-Ray feature, and builds upon the instruction provided with each subsequent module.

KONTAKT is the third generation of NIЃLs award-winning flagship sampler. With a powerful new sampling engine, comprehensive surround integration, the unique KONTAKT Script Processor (KSP), integrated convolution effects and unrivaled import capabilities, KONTAKT is simply the most advanced sampler ever. KONTAKT has a powerful new sampling engine that offers virtually unlimited polyphony as well as 64-part multitimbrality, allowing for the most complex arrangements even within a single instance of KONTAKT. Multiprocessor support delivers up to 100% performance increase on dual processors systems, while Altivec optimization gives a further performance boost on Macintosh computers equipped with G4 and G5 processors. KONTAKT is the first-choice sampler for every musician, producer and sound designer - from beginners to celebrated composers.

7-Zip - free file archiver with high compression ratio that works on most versions of Windows. As compression archiver 7-Zip is a leader among similar free and paid programs. The program supports 256-bit AES encryption, can work with multiple archive formats, including 7Z, RAR, CAB, ISO, ARJ, LZH, CHM, MSI, WIM, Z, CPIO, RPM, DEB, NSIS, and others. In most cases, the compression ratio higher than that of RAR, with the exception of some multimedia data. Moreover, it is considered that the degree of compression 7-Zip is second only to a packer PAQ and its GUI-update KGB, which, however, have an order of magnitude greater time compression. The program supports 64-bit operating systems. Interface is translated into many languages, including Russian language

The only book to cover and compare Oracle's online analytic processing products. With the acquisition of Hyperion Systems in 2007, Oracle finds itself owning the two most capable OLAP products on the market--Essbase and the OLAP Option to the Oracle Database. Written by the most knowledgeable experts on both Essbase and Oracle OLAP, this Oracle Press guide explains how these products are similar and how they differ. Oracle Essbase & Oracle OLAP will help you architect the Oracle OLAP product that is most appropriate for your application, and build, tune, and maintain OLAP solutions.