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Quick Guide to Creating Advanced Buttons and Event Handling In Flash CS3: Jul 6, 2007; If you want to make your Flash movies interactive, you need to master a few key events, all of which are covered in this sample chapter.

Put Your Mac to Work: Top Automation Tips: Jun 29, 2007; Computers are good at doing the repetitive tasks that humans find annoying. Neale Monks looks at some of the best ways to automate your Mac.

Adding Text To Your Web Pages in Dreamweaver CS3: Jun 22, 2007; The main message of most Web sites is conveyed by the site's text, and a major part of your job in working with any site will be adding, modifying, and styling that text. Dreamweaver gives you the tools you need to effectively put text on your pages and get your message across. In this chapter, you'll learn how to get text onto your page and apply structure using headings and lists. You'll also learn how to use basic HTML text styles to change the look of your text.

Creating Interactive Movies with QuickTime Pro: Jun 8, 2007; QuickTime container files can hold much more than just audio and video. In fact, you can add entire layers of interactivity to your media. Wiring your movies transforms the audience's experience from merely watching the movie play to playing with the movie while watching it. In this sample chapter, you'll learn how to create autoloading Web pages, clickable Web links, chapter tracks, custom skins, and slideshows to make your QuickTime movies truly hands-on experiences.

From Flash to Flex: Integrating ActionScript with MXML: Jun 8, 2007; Are you familiar with Flash and interested in making a move to Flex? This article is for you. It will show you the differences between the two applications and how to make a smooth transition. In this first article of a multipart series, "From Flash to Flex," Kris Hadlock shows you how to begin creating your first Flex application by integrating ActionScript with MXML.

The Color Thief: Stealing Colors Using Illustrator CS3's LiveTrace: Jun 8, 2007; Adobe Ambassador Mike McHugh wants you to get excited about color. In this colorful article, he shows you how to create swatches in Adobe's Creative Suite 3 using Adobe Illustrator's new LiveColor tool.

Shockproof Guide to Working Safely on Your Mac: Jun 1, 2007; Whether the computers you're taking care of belong to you, a customer, or a large group, this sample chapter provides the information you need to approach any situation safely and with the proper tools. In this one-hour lesson, you'll learn about the risks to you and the computer when you service computers, as well as general maintenance tasks you might perform during the "verify repair" step in the Apple General Troubleshooting Flowchart. While these may seem like unrelated topics, safe workstations and conscientious work practices are all part of keeping computers, customers, and yourself happy.

The Power of Preview: Ten Tricks for Getting More Out of Apple's Little PDF Viewer: Jun 1, 2007; Can you dump Photoshop in favor of Preview? Probably not, but Preview is a little gem of a program capable of doing far more than you might imagine, says Neale Monks.

Press, Prospects, and Spiders: How to Capture All Three Audiences With Your Message: May 25, 2007; Getting quoted by the press offline is great. Getting quoted by the press online is even better. In this chapter, search marketing strategist Catherine Seda talks about low-cost ways to reach the press online and shares her hard earned tips for connecting with three audiences at once: press, prospects, and spiders.

Add A Google-Compatible Sitemap For Your WordPress Blog: May 25, 2007; Want to help Google index your WordPress-based Web site more efficiently and effectively? Sign up for Google’s Webmaster tools, install a plugin that creates a sitemap, and be sure to tell Google where to find it. In this article, WordPress 2: Visual QuickStart Guide author Maria Langer takes you through the steps you need to follow. It’s fast, it’s free, and it’s a lot easier than you might think.

The Art of TextEdit: May 4, 2007; Need a fast and easy-to-use word processor/page layout program with lists, styles, tables, advanced typography, and support for multiple languages? Ladies and gentlemen, Neale Monks wants to introduce you to TextEdit, which is a viable, attractive alternative to heavyweight word processors.

Press, Prospects, and Spiders: How to Capture All Three Audiences With Your Message: Apr 23, 2007; Getting quoted by the press offline is great. Getting quoted by the press online is even better. In this chapter, search marketing strategist Catherine Seda talks about low-cost ways to reach the press online and shares her hard earned tips for connecting with three audiences at once: press, prospects, and spiders.

PHP 5 Security Techniques: Apr 13, 2007; Most beginning programmers fail to understand the truth about security: there is no such thing as "secure" or "insecure." The wise programmer knows that the real question is how secure a site is. The focus in this sample chapter is therefore how to make your applications more secure.

Using and Understanding Masks, Gradients, and Blend Effects in Adobe Illustrator: Mar 30, 2007; In the past, if someone gave you a pile of digitally produced artwork it was a snap to divide the images easily into two piles—those created in Photoshop and those done in Illustrator. Not so today. While Photoshop has garnered the ability to create vector shapes, so has Illustrator been given incredible tools and methods to give line art three dimensionality through techniques such as masks, blends, gradients, and true transparency. In this sample chapter, you'll learn how to make images that wow using masks, gradients, and shadows.

How to Add WordPress Category Feed Links to Posts: Mar 23, 2007; When Maria Langer changed her blog's RSS feed from summary to full text, she worried that readers would stop subscribing to her feed because her blog covers so many wide-ranging topics. The solution? Push category-specific feeds. In this article, Maria shows you how to add category feed links to your blog posts using WordPress.