ISBN: 978-0-470-38119-9
Pages: 400
October 2008

With Adobe Flash CS4 For Dummies as your guide, you can unleash your creativity and contribute to the “Flash”-iest showcase of dynamic content: the Web! You’ll beecome acquainted with Flash CS4 and learn when to use this popular Web development tool. Plus, you’ll discover what you can create, from animation to games to presentations.

This full color edition gives you the opportunity to get acquainted with Flash CS4, discover all the possibilities, and become familiar with the new tools. You’ll be able to create dynamic content, adapt the program’s features to suit your development needs, publish your Flash files to the Web, and showcase your creativity and newly acquired skills. You’ll discover how to create graphics, text, and layers, make animations, add sound and video, and optimize your files for download.

Web site designers, Web developers, and visual designers all use Dreamweaver CS4 to build world class Web sites. Whether you’re just starting out or you’re a design pro, DreamweaverCS4 All-In-One for Dummies makes Web development easy!

You’ll start with Dreamweaver basics and the essentials of a good Web site. Then you’ll learn to add zing with Spry effects, set up Contribute, build dynamic pages, extend your site with Web applications, configure database connections using PHP, ASP.NET, or ColdFusion, and more!

Discover how to:
* Get familiar with Dreamweaver’s workspace, use the toolbars and panels, and set preferences
* Plan, design, build, and manage a site that meets your audience’s expectations
* Add Flash files, movies, and sound, and keep your site updated with Cascading Style Sheets
* Create and use code snippets and history panel commands
* Follow the right steps for setting up links

ISBN: 978-0-470-38848-8
Pages: 432
October 2008

Whether you’re an experienced designer or just want to create a cool newsletter for the school soccer team, InDesign is the gold standard for desktop publishing programs. This easy-to-follow guide is packed with tips and techniques for making the most of InDesign’s features, along with some wise advice on designing pages that do their job perfectly.

* Make it work for you — explore the new tools, take advantage of personal workspaces, and set preferences for the way you work
* Master the details — take advantage of precise typography, layout, and graphics tools to get exactly the document you want
* Add color — use color libraries, multi-ink colors, and gradients to make your document sparkle
* Play well with others — learn how InDesign works seamlessly with other applications in the Adobe Creative Suite
* Get in style — take text and object formatting up a notch by using styles and InDesign’s many special effects
* Be Web savvy — use hyperlinks, multimedia elements, and more for Web, PDF, and Flash files
* Pack it up — prepare for printing or other output with enhanced preflighting and service-bureau tools

ISBN: 978-0-470-39656-8
Pages: 384
Date: November 2008

Adobe Illustrator is the gold standard for creating exciting, color-rich artwork for print, the Web, or even mobile devices. Whether you’re stepping up to Illustrator CS4 or tackling Illustrator for the first time, you’ll find Illustrator CS4 For Dummies is the perfect partner.This full-color guide gives you the scoop on the newest tools, tips on color control and path editing, ways to organize graphics, and how to get your work into print or on the Web.

Have more fun and get more done with Illustrator—here’s how to free your creativity!

Illustrator is the artist’s choice for creating spectacular graphics, and here’s the fast and easy way to get up to speed on all the coolest features. This full-color guide gives you the scoop on the newest tools; tips on color control and path editing; ways to organize graphics; and how to create for print, the Web, or mobile devices.

Published: Wiley Publishing, Inc. 2008
ISBN: 978-0-470-32725-8
Pages: 418

This latest version of Photoshop has a few new tricks up its sleeve and Adobe Photoshop CS4 For Dummies will teach you how to use them. From the basics like getting your images into and out of Photoshop to enhancing, cropping, and colour correction, it’s all here!
You’ll get all of the basics of digital images and master the importing and exporting of images. You’ll find out how to create easy enhancements like adding shadows and highlights and making colour natural, in addition to learning how to use the Adobe camera raw plug-in. Before you know it, you’ll be making beautiful “art” with Photoshop by combining images, precision edges, dressing up images, painting in Photoshop, and using filters. You can even streamline your work in Photoshop using advanced techniques.

Find out how to:
- Import images and use all the tools and processes
- Reduce digital noise, make colors look natural, add highlights and shadows
- Optimise images for print or the Web
- Edit images

Audio Record Edit Toolbox is an ideal solution for audio editing and mastering. The program contains everything you need to create great sounding recordings and audio CDs, including professional tools for recording, analysis and editing. The Audio Record Edit Toolbox user interface was designed with speed, accuracy and ease of use in mind.

A large range of high quality audio tools and effects are integrated in Audio Record Edit Toolbox — including tools for dynamic processing, equalizing, numerous effects such as echo, amplification, noise reduction, reverb, chorus and flanger, as well time stretching and key transposition tools. Recordings distorted by noise, clicks, crackle, clipping or missing high frequency content can be restored.

Make high-quality audio recordings from any external source
Audio Record Edit Toolbox helps you transfer tapes, LPs, live performances, Internet radio, TV, DVD, or any other sound source to your hard drive. The software helps protect your valuable recordings--just set the sound source, the recording quality, and volume, then start recording.

Enhance the sound quality
The Editor allows you to perform various operations with audio data such as displaying a waveform image of an audio file, filtering, applying various audio effects and more. It includes a click and crackle filter for cleaning vinyl records, a noise filter for cassette-tape recordings, and an equalizer to enhance the sound quality of all recordings.

Java software allows you to run applications called "applets" that are written in the Java programming language. These applets allow you to play online games, chat with people around the world, calculate your mortgage interest, and view images in 3D.

Requirements:
Windows 2000/XP/2003/Vista/XP64/Vista64

License:
Freeware

Homepage: www.sun.com/java

Note:
This is the offline installer the one to download from the official site is a web installer.

Mastering Microsoft Visual Basic 2008
Evangelos Petroutsos
ISBN: 978-0-470-18742-5
1118 pages
March 2008

Main Features of Total Video Converter:
* Convert all kinds of videos to mobile videos or audios (mp4, 3gp, xvid, divx mpeg4 avi, amr audio) which are used by cell-phone, PDA, PSP, iPod, iPhone, Xbox360, PS3 etc.;
* Photos slide show combines multi-photos and musics with more than 300 photos fantasy transition effect;
* High compatibility and high efficiency for Importing RMVB or RM video/audio;
* Convert various videos to MPEG videos compatible with standard DVD/SVCD/VCD;
* Burn the converted videos to DVD/SVCD/VCD;
* Rip DVD to popular videos of all sorts;
* Extract audio from various of videos and convert which to all kinds of audios (mp3, ac3, ogg, wav, aac);
* RIP CD to audios of all sorts directly;
* Support using with command line;
* Combine several video and audio files to one video file;
* Demultiplex or extract video and audio;
* Multiplex video and audio to one file;

Photo Go software helps you stay organized with a simple, easy-to-navigate interface and essential editing tools that make photo management fun and headache-free. Easily import, organize, and fix your pictures to keep your memories looking their best. You can even learn as you go with helpful, interactive tutorials that walk you through the program step by step.

Complete photo organization in a snap
If your digital photo collection is growing out of control, Photo Go software can help you organize everything in a way that works for you. Photo Go automatically imports pictures from your digital camera and finds images stored on your computer so you can easily view, edit, tag, and sort your photos with one convenient application.

Find Photos Fast
Photo Go software sorts all your photos by time, date, and attributes. Tag your pictures with keywords to helpyou search and retrieve your pictures with ease.

Fix Pics in One Click
Photo Go software makes it easy to fix common photo flaws. Crop, remove red-eye, fix contrast and color, and enhance brightness with the click of a button.

Add Impact with Effects
Create instant classics by converting photos to black-and-white or sepia tone. Or, use additional effects to give your pictures the look of old newspaper or currency.

Sony Vegas Pro 8 is a Professional HD video editing, audio editing, and DVD authoring software
which offers an integrated environment for all phases of professional video, audio, DVD, and broadcast production. This tool let you edit and process DV, AVCHD, HDV, SD/HD-SDI, and all XDCAM™ formats in real time, fine-tune audio with precision, and author surround sound, dual-layer DVDs

Precise Editing Tools
Edit SD or HD video with drag-and-drop functionality, mouse and keyboard trimming, and ripple editing. Features include ProType Titling technology, multicamera editing tools, 32-bit floating point video processing, customizable window layouts, color-coded snapping, improved HDV/SDI/XDCAM support, Cinescore plug-in support, A/V synchronization detection and repair, and auto-frame quantization. More about video editing

Efficient, Professional Workflow
The Vegas Pro 8 interface provides a fully customizable workspace for accomplishing a wide range of production requirements. Dock multiple windows across multiple monitors, and save your layouts to fit specific editing tasks; nest Vegas projects within the timeline, customize and save keyboard commands, and use application scripting to automate repetitive tasks. System-wide media management produces maximum efficiency. Network rendering saves time by using multiple computers and networked drive arrays to render complex projects. Vegas Pro software also supports 24p, HD and HDV editing. More about the Vegas Pro workflow