Monday, April 30, 2007

The Haunted


WRITER: Peter David
ARTISTS: Nat Jones (pencils) / Kevin Conrad & Rich Bonk (inks)
Chaos! Comics
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I have to admit, I'd always stereotyped Chaos! Comics as being all about huge knockers and ultraviolence, and not much concerned with telling a good story (kind of like my movie TEENAGE CAVEMAN, right, Feo? [ahh . . . you don't wanna know what I think - feo]). I kind of grew out of that halfway through the run of DEADWORLD back in the late '80s. But when I heard Peter David was writing a new four-issue miniseries for Chaos, I decided to check it out. David is best known for his superhero work (HULK, CAPTAIN MARVEL, YOUNG JUSTICE), and I was curious to see how he'd handle a horror comic. When I heard the protagonists have supernatural powers, I was afraid it might read like a superhero book in drag, but I am happy to report that THE HAUNTED sits squarely in the shadows.

The titular characters are four high school teenagers: cheerleader Celia Thorne, who can manipulate the elements; school slut Kat Dinateo, who takes on the feral aspects of a were-cat; jock Cliff Cross, who can summon shades of the dead; and activist Desiree Bricker, who has the ability to leave her body in an astral form. As the kids are struggling with the ramifications of their newly manifested abilities, they are brought together by the mysterious Stitch, a dropout with a mysterious secret who no one has seen in a while, and who seems to know what’s going on. He finds them at the same time as a group of the requisite men-in-suits-and-sunglasses try to capture the kids. Stitch rescues them with his own occult abilities, and explains that they are the product of an experiment in which their mothers were secretly impregnated by an organization called "The Gray Cell", to create children with occult powers. Now that the plans have come to fruition, the Gray Cell’s leader, Mr. Gray, wants to harvest the crop. In the second issue, he sends some of his more loyal experiments after our heroes.

Although comparisons to BUFFY will no doubt be made, this series reminds me more of Stephen King's FIRESTARTER, albeit with the occult taking the place of genetic engineering. The idea of a bunch of kids with newly emerging powers hunted by a mysterious, evil shadow organization is far from new (see everything from THE X-MEN to GEN 13), but David's skill as a writer manages to keep it engaging. His characters, though seeming stereotypes (slut, jock, princess, overachiever), are given enough shading to make them three-dimensional. For instance, Cliff, the quarterback, may be gay, and is the sole supporter of his troubled younger sister. Though I generally enjoy David's work, the one thing that's always bothered me about his writing is a tendency to go overboard with humor and snappy one-liners, even where it's not appropriate. I'm pleased to say he doesn't cross the line here. My one major complaint is that, by the second issue, the attitude these kids are throwing at each other does become tiresome. We've all seen this sort of story before, and know that these kids from different social circles will have to come together to survive, so all the posturing seems kind of pointless. Bottom line, though, David takes a lot of formulaic elements and manages to make them interesting, which speaks well of his talents as a writer.

The art, by Nat Jones, is of the Todd McFarlane school, and I have mixed feelings about it. It's definitely moody, and he can certainly draw grotesque creatures and walking corpses very well, but at times it gets a bit cartoony. I suspect that as Jones breaks away from the McFarlane mold and nurtures his own style, that'll become less of a problem.

Overall, THE HAUNTED treads ground we've all seen before, but does it well enough to keep the reader engaged. If you like this kind of thing, give it a whirl. I bestow upon THE HAUNTED three Rabid Fanboys
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Friday, April 20, 2007

IDo.Wedding.Couple.Edition.v9.0.2590


IDo Wedding Couple Edition v9.0.2590

a wedding planning software designed to help save time and energy while planning a wedding. From compiling your guest list to mailing the last thank you note, your wedding will be a success. Brides and grooms across 40 countries have enjoyed using iDo to organize their wedding details.

Contacts

Contacts includes all individual guest names and address information. Saving your contacts as individuals, not as couples, helps you track e-mail addresses, names of guests invited by your contacts, meals, gifts and roles more efficiently. Enter the information manually or quickly import contacts from Microsoft Outlook or a Comma Delimited Values (*.csv) file. Highlight all your contacts and send out a mass save-the-date e-mail. Once you are married, you and your fiancé(e) will have compiled the most current contact list of your family members and friends. You may export this list to your favorite address book.

Invitations

Once you have compiled a thorough master contacts list, you are ready to assign contacts to specific invitations. In iDo, the term “invitations” describes the actual storage of invitation information–you can format invitation wording in “Widgets.” Invitations are created one at a time, and you can assign multiple contacts to one invitation by dragging and dropping contact names.

A unique RSVP ID will be assigned to each new invitation. This RSVP ID is to be written on the back of your RSVP for identification purposes in case your guests do not write their names on the RSVP. Inner and outer envelope wording is automatically suggested based on accepted wedding etiquette. You may customize the wording according to your preferences. Once your invitations are mailed and marked as “sent,” you may eagerly await your RSVPs!

RSVPs

Whether you are receiving RSVPs via mail or phone, record all acceptances and regrets in iDo. Acceptances are saved as “Attendees.” When sending out invitations, if you allowed guests to select a meal, enter their meal selections here. You can customize your meal selections in iDo. Also, iDo provides you with ongoing statistics of your RSVPs. Note: On average, 20% of your guests will send their regrets. Example: if you invite 200 people, expect 160 to say Yes, 40 to send regrets.

Attendees

Attendees include all invited contacts who will be attending your wedding and reception. In Attendees, review headcount and meal selections, and design your seating chart with iDo’s powerful yet flexible table layout feature. Seating your guests is like a puzzle. Because of this, we provide the ability to quickly create a table layout and assign attendees to tables using drag-and-drop capabilities. iDo offers quick views of possible seating scenarios for your reception.

Gifts

Gifts are offerings given to you in celebration of your engagement, shower or wedding. They will surprisingly sneak up on you. They may appear on your desk at work or on your doorstep. They may arrive before or after the wedding. iDo prepares you to track gifts, who gave them (either an individual contact or a group of contacts listed on an invitation), and if you sent a thank you note. As a matter of etiquette, you should mail thank you notes within 3 months of receiving a gift. Print out the Avery® 8160 label report to speed up your thank you note effort.

Checklist

Set your own pace using the wedding checklist. iDo comes pre-loaded with 100 wedding planning tasks that every bride and groom will need to address. The checklist is customizable so you can add, edit, or delete any tasks you like. All of the wedding tasks are grouped together in suggested time frames. By clicking the ‘Current’ filter, you will see a filtered list showing the tasks that you need to focus on.

Budget

Monitor all of your wedding related expenses. When first visiting the budget form, you will be prompted to enter in your total wedding budget, a number that can be changed at any time. Next, group your projected expenses into categories. iDo provides you with general budget entries or suggestions for wedding purchases without recommending how much you should spend. It is ultimately up to you to shop around and decide where and how your money should be used for your wedding. iDo totals your expenses and calculates how much money you have remaining based on your total wedding budget number. iDo also calculates percentages. Stay on top of your budget and know exactly how much you have spent and how much you have remaining. After entering expenses in iDo, be sure to save all receipts in one location.

Vendors

Vendors are businesses or people that take care of specific areas of your wedding. You may make purchases from a bridal salon, sign a contract with a photographer, receive deliveries from a florist, etc. It is important to keep your vendor information organized to ensure that wedding specifics are handled smoothly and professionally. Store all of your wedding vendors here. From the Vendor page you can quickly visit the vendor’s web page, send them an e-mail or view a map of the vendor’s address. Vendor information also appears on the Budget form so you can identify the respective vendor when adding expenses.

Events

Events can be considered as parties, appointments, meetings, etc. that are related to and include your wedding. Enter your important events here. From the Event page, like the Vendors page, you can easily visit the event’s web site, send the event contact an e-mail and view a map of the event location. Track gifts and thank you notes for each event entered in iDo.

Timelines

Set a detailed itinerary or “timeline” for any of your events stored in iDo. For example, you can plan the “who, what, when, where, and how” for your “wedding day.” Timeline reports with detailed information regarding when tasks should be completed and who is responsible for them ensure that everyone–bridal party and vendors alike–is on the same page on your special day. Timelines are also helpful for tracking travel arrangements.

Widgets

Widgets include Invitation Wording, Wedding Vows, and Quick Invitation Lists. These are extra add-ons to assist you with your wedding planning. Print the Invitation Wording Report to make your own invitations or to give to your stationer or calligrapher. Print the Wedding Vows Report to help you and your fiancé(e) memorize your vows for the wedding day. For events other than your wedding to be planned by others, such as a bridal shower, print Quick Invitation List Reports to make the planning task easier for the hosts or hostesses. For example, you can quickly create a Bridal Shower Invitation report and labels for your shower hostess. With this list, your shower hostess can send out invitations, manage RSVPs, and keep track of gifts that were given to you at the shower. After the event, she returns the list to you so you can use it to send thank you notes.

Options

In Options, further customize iDo to suit your needs. Specify your meal selections, your budget categories (flowers, photography, etc.), your expenses “paid by” field (bride’s family, groom’s family, etc.), your wedding roles (bride, groom, bridesmaid, etc.), your titles (Mr., Mrs., Ms., etc.), and your inner envelope invitation etiquette preference. The inner envelope invitation etiquette preference can be set to either ‘Personal’ or ‘Formal’. Examples of each: Personal = “David and Trudy,” Formal = “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.”

Reports and Labels

Every section of iDo described above can be printed out in an instant. Over 100 reports can be generated. There is also an overall wedding statistics report that provides you with every wedding statistic imaginable.

All reports are written using RTF and can be read by Microsoft Word, WordPerfect, or any RTF compatible reader. You can also print labels for Contacts, Invitations, Attendees, Gifts, Vendors

and Widgets. We recommend using Avery® 8160 specification (white, size 1″ x 2 5/8″), 8660 (clear, size 1″ x 2 5/8″) or L7160 (white, A4 paper size) address labels.

Help

Included with iDo is a comprehensive Help system. Simply press F1 anywhere in the application to receive context-sensitive Help. If there is something not covered in the Help system, please e-mail us or call us at 1-888-ELM-SOFT (1-888-356-7638). We will provide a quick and thorough response to any question you may have.

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Microsoft Office has evolved from a suite of personal productivity products to a more comprehensive and integrated system. Building on the familiar tools that many people already know, the Microsoft Office System includes programs, servers, services and solutions designed to work together to help address a broad array of business problems.

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Stock Investing for dummies



Paul Mladjenovic, «Stock Investing For Dummies (For Dummies (Business & Personal Finance))»
For Dummies | ISBN 0764599038 | 2 edition (January 2, 2006) | PDF | 2,9 Mb | 336 pages

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Cambridge IELTS 3 Self-study Pack

Cambridge IELTS 3 Self-study Pack: Examination Papers from the University of Cambridge Local Examinations Syndicate
# Paperback: 176 pages
# Publisher: Cambridge University Press; Book & CD edition (October 14, 2002)
# Language: English
# ISBN-10: 0521013372
# ISBN-13: 978-0521013376
Book Description
Cambridge IELTS 3 provides students with an excellent opportunity to familiarise themselves with IELTS and to practise examination techniques using authentic test material. This collection contains four complete tests for Academic candidates, including practice in the updated Speaking test (June 2001 syllabus), plus extra Reading and Writing modules for General Training candidates. The book includes an introduction to these different modules together with an explanation of the scoring system used by Cambridge ESOL. The inclusion of a comprehensive section of answers and tapescripts means that the material is ideal for students working partly or entirely on their own. The CDs contain material for the listening paper in the same timed format as the exam.

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Hardcore Windows XP



McGraw-Hill Osborne Media; 1 edition ISBN: 0072258659
English 288 pages PDF 4.6 MB

Take control of Windows XP and get the most out of everything this powerful operating system has to offer. Written by Microsoft Windows XP Expert Zone columnist Joli Ballew, this book shows you hundreds of tips and tricks you?ll be able to use right away.

Learn to do everything from kick starting the boot process to disabling unnecessary applications and services to taking advantage of built-in administrative tools. Start at the beginning or jump straight to the task you want to perform.

You?ll get full details on security and Service Pack 2, remote access, gaming functions, networking features, multimedia capabilities, and so much more. Work faster, smarter, and more securely with help from this definitive guide.

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Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day


Book Description
Redefine your personal productivity by tweaking, modding, mashing up, and repurposing Web apps, desktop software, and common everyday objects. The 88 "life hacks" -- clever shortcuts and lesser-known, faster ways to complete a task -- in this book are some of the best in Lifehacker.com's online archive. Every chapter describes an overarching lifehacker principle, then segues into several concrete applications. Each hack includes a step-by-step how-to for setting up and using the solution with cross-platform software, detailed screen shots, and sidebars with
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Portable CuteFtp Pro


Portable CuteFtp Pro


A full-featured and powerful FTP client.
"How is CuteFTP Professional different from other FTP clients? CuteFTP Professional offers significant advantages over other FTP clients in the following areas: Connect: Cute FTP Professional includes step-by-step help for initiating your first connection, connect through a standard or HTTP proxy, firewall or SOCKS server, connect to multiple sites simultaneously, even cache sessions for offline browsing. Secure: Cute FTP Professional protects both the login and transfer process using any one of the following industry standard: Secure Shell’s SFTP (SSH2), Secure Socket and Transport Security Layer (SSL/TLS), the One Time Password (OTP) authentication protocol, and Hyper Text Transport Protocols Secure (HTTPS). Transfer: Save valuable time by performing up to 100 concurrent transfers, accelerate large file transfers through segmented deliver, transfer between remote hosts, compress files prior to transfers, schedule batch transfers, and queue transfers for future delivery. Manage: Edit remote documents such as HTML or PHP files using the built-in editor, view remote graphics as thumbnails, synchronize or backup your site, monitor a local folder for changes and perform a variety of typical site management operations. Automate: Perform routine or complex tasks though Cute FTP Professional’s Component Object Model (COM) programmatic interface with scripts you develop or have CuteFTP Professional create them for you using the Script Record & Playback."
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The Everyday Internet for Dummies


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Sunday, April 8, 2007

Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design

Book Description
"Head First Object Oriented Analysis and Design is a refreshing look at subject of OOAD. What sets this book apart is its focus on learning. The authors have made the content of OOAD accessible, usable for the practitioner."

Ivar Jacobson, Ivar Jacobson Consulting

"I just finished reading HF OOA&D and I loved it! The thing I liked most about this book was its focus on why we do OOA&D-to write great software!"

Kyle Brown, Distinguished Engineer, IBM
"Hidden behind the funny pictures and crazy fonts is a serious, intelligent, extremely well-crafted presentation of OO Analysis and Design. As I read the book, I felt like I was looking over the shoulder of an expert designer who was explaining to me what issues were important at each step, and why."

Edward Sciore, Associate Professor, Computer Science Department, Boston College

Tired of reading Object Oriented Analysis and Design books that only makes sense after you're an expert? You've heard OOA&D can help you write great software every time-software that makes your boss happy, your customers satisfied and gives you more time to do what makes you happy.
But how?
Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design shows you how to analyze, design, and write serious object-oriented software: software that's easy to reuse, maintain, and extend; software that doesn't hurt your head; software that lets you add new features without breaking the old ones. Inside you will learn how to:

Use OO principles like encapsulation and delegation to build applications that are flexible
Apply the Open-Closed Principle (OCP) and the Single Responsibility Principle (SRP) to promote reuse of your code
Leverage the power of design patterns to solve your problems more efficiently
Use UML, use cases, and diagrams to ensure that all stakeholders are communicating clearly to help you deliver the right software that meets everyone's needs.
By exploiting how your brain works, Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design compresses the time it takes to learn and retain complex information. Expect to have fun, expect to learn, expect to be writing great software consistently by the time you're finished reading this!
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Content Syndication with RSS


Content Syndication with RSS
By Ben Hammersley

Publisher : O'Reilly
Pub Date : March 2003
ISBN : 0-596-00383-8
Pages : 222
Originally developed by Netscape in 1999, RSS (which can stand for RDF Site Summary, Rich Site Summary, or Really Simple Syndication) is an XML-based format that allows web developers to describe and syndicate web site content. Content Syndication with RSS offers webloggers, developers, and the programmers who support them a thorough explanation of syndication in general and RSS in particular. Written for web developers who want to offer XML-based feeds of their content, as well as developers who want to use the content that other people are syndicating, the book explores and explains metadata interpretation, different forms of content syndication, and the increasing use of web services in this field. If you're interested in producing your own RSS feed, this step-by-step guide to implementation is the book you'll want in hand.
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Friday, April 6, 2007

Smart Computing May 2007


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