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Designing for a Digital World (Architectural Design)
Manufacturer: Academy Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items:
ASIN: 0470844191 |
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Digital technologies are changing the way that we live and work today. But what impact are they having on the discipline of architecture?
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Designing Web Audio
Josh Beggs , and Dylan Thede Manufacturer: O'Reilly Media, Inc. ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback Similar Items: ASIN: 1565923537 |
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While the day when Web documents will engage all five of the senses remains far away, Designing Web Audio makes it clear that there's much more to creating stylish pages than pretty graphics and carefully chosen fonts. Internet broadcasts of music and voice make use of the network in a way that was impossible three years ago. Music and audio effects, selected with an artist's ear and implemented with careful engineering, can add a lot to surfers' page-viewing experiences without placing undue strain on their Internet connections. Authors Josh Beggs and Dylan Thede--with combined experience in the Internet and commercial recording industries--show (technically, and to some extent artistically) how to send sound over the Internet for the enjoyment of all and sundry.Designing Web Audio recognizes that many readers won't know much about recording and editing techniques, and so devotes some space to microphone placement, levels, equalization, and other techniques that aren't specific to Internet audio. Once that's out of the way, the book digs into specific encoding and broadcast tools, such as RealAudio and Beatnik. Coverage of these tools is comprehensive, and code samples complement explanatory text. Embedded audio, Macromedia Flash, and synchronized audio-video presentations are also explained. --David Wall
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Designing Web Audio is the most complete Internet audio guide on the market. It's loaded with informative real-world case studies and interviews with some of the world's leading audio and web producers. It contains step-by-step intstructions on how to build multimedia web pages using the most popular web audio formats. This book also includes a wealth of basic digital audio and sound wave theory, practical tips and techniques for recording and editing audio for the Web, and an invaluable buyer's guide to building an effective sound studio. Designing Web Audio explains how digital audio is encoded from microphone to hard disk; how sound is processed using compression and equalization; and how to turn audio source material into a great soundtrack using loops and ambient soundscapes. Designing Web Audio demystifies its subject with informative step-by-step techniques for encoding, compression, and streaming audio over the Web. This book includes the following:Customer Reviews:
This Book Is A Masterpiece!.......2001-02-07
Readers will learn how audio sounds are created, how microphones and other input devices work, what the latest streaming audio file formats are and how they work, how leading audio file editors work, how to create effective multimedia Web pages and multimedia presentations, how to write basic audio file programming scripts, and how to create Webcasts. Many helps, tips, and sample scripts are included to assist readers to achieve the best possible results!
The authors explain in significant detail the many considerations involved in creating and using Web audio. Factors such as determining the overall purpose of a Website, determining the target audience, recognizing bandwidth limitations, hardware and software used, system and browser platforms used, mode of delivery, audio content, and legal constraints are all important matters to be analyzed and taken into full account before getting started.
The book features a convenient buyer's guide to selecting and using audio file editing and presentation programs, recording studio equipment, and sound effects libraries. Readers receive solid instruction on how they can create professional Web sound studios costing anywhere from several thousand dollars on up to $20,000 or more. A number of leading software and recording equipment options are presented to help serious readers select and put to use the latest audio software and recording tools. Checkout the buying tips!
Familiarity with audio file formats is essential. An excellent appendix compares the latest audio file formats: MP3, RealAudio, Windows Media, QuickTime, Liquid Audio, Flash, Director Shockwave, Beatnik, MIDI, WAV, and AIFF. With this information available to them, readers will be able to select and use the Web audio broadcasting formats best suited to meet their own particular needs.
This book is a masterpiece. It provides thorough coverage of today's latest Web audio technology. It's laid out well, it's clearly written and illustrated, and it will produce professional results. It's ideally suited for professional Web developers and musicians who have significant experience working with computers and the Internet. This is an outstanding Web audio resource!
No Missing Sound Files To Download Are There!.......2001-02-02
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I also wanted to say I am very happy with Designing Web Audio. I learned how digital audio is encoded from recording studio to computer. It gives step-by-step info for compression, encoding, and streaming audio over the Web. Thanks to: Josh Beggs, Dylan Thede, Richard Koman.
More Audio-to-Web than Web-to-Audio; Missing Files.......2001-01-28
What I was really disappointed in was that the sound files the books lists as being on the website (see the book, p.17) aren't available as described.
You know, I skimmed this book while nursing my latte at Borders, I sped-read the chapters of most interest to me, and I saw that they had cool sound files on their website - and I bought the book rather than chumping out and just going to the website, because I want to support the people that are helping me.
When I went to the site and found that the sound clips aren't up as promised, I felt like the one who'd been chumped. This is NOT the standard experience when dealing with O'Reilly products. I wish I had not bought it.
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Constructionism in Practice: Designing, Thinking, and Learning in A Digital World
Manufacturer: Lawrence Erlbaum ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover Similar Items:
ASIN: 0805819843 |
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The digital revolution necessitates, but also makes possible, radical changes in how and what we learn. This book describes a set of innovative educational research projects at the MIT Media Laboratory, illustrating how new computational technologies can transform our conceptions of learning, education, and knowledge. The book draws on real-world education experiments conducted in formal and informal contexts: from inner-city schools and university labs to neighborhoods and after-school clubhouses. The papers in this book are divided in four interrelated sections as follows:
* Perspectives in Constructionism further develops the intellectual underpinnings of constructionist theory. This section looks closely at the role of perspective-taking in learning and discusses how both cognitive and affective processes play a central role in building connections between old and new knowledge.
* Learning through Design analyzes the relationship between designing and learning, and discusses ways that design activities can provide personally meaningful contexts for learning. This section investigates how and why children can learn through the processes of constructing artifacts such as games, textile patterns, robots and interactive devices.
* Learning in Communities focuses on the social aspects of constructionist learning, recognizing that how people learn is deeply influenced by the communities and cultures with which they interact. It examines the nature of learning in classroom, inner-city, and virtual communities.
* Learning about Systems examines how students make sense of biological, technological, and mathematical systems. This section explores the conceptual and epistemological barriers to learning about feedback, self-organization, and probability, and it discusses new technological tools and activities that can help people develop new ways of thinking about these phenomena.
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Designing Web Graphics 2
Lynda Weinman Manufacturer: New Riders Pub ProductGroup: Book Binding: Paperback ASIN: 1562057154 |
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A good design title practices what it preaches, and Designing Web Graphics 2 is on its second round of showing off how elegant web graphics can be. Significantly expanded in its new edition, the book is a superb overview of the web design process, rich with examples and illustrations, and very practical and hands-on when offering advice.Unlike similar books, it offers software-specific advice on getting tasks completed. Many screen shots from programs like PhotoShop and Fractal Design Painter, and step by step screen shots from both programs and web sites, help Lynda Weinman walk between the theoretical and practical in very compelling fashion.
Weinman plans to update this book annually, which is both a warning and sign of an interesting phenomenon. This is one of the few books for which I've not hesitated to purchase the 2nd edition, and won't feel resentful purchasing a third. The new version adds so much to the original and makes so many improvements, it's keeping the subject alive while at the same time keeping pace with graphics tools that have a lot of new functionality to offer. Word processors have pretty much evolved as much as they can at this point in history, but graphics tools are still making some big leaps and offering some exciting upgrades. Weinman has devoted herself to keeping pace with the change and promises to persist in adding value to each new edition. From the looks of her first revision, she'll keep the promise.
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National bestseller updated to include the latest web graphics technologies! Master web graphics with step-by-step instructions from acclaimed author and instructor Lynda Weinman. This full-color guide will teach you the most successful methods for designing and preparing graphics for the World Wide Web. Completely updated and expanded to include the latest on file formats, file sizes, compression methods, cross-platform web color, and browser-specific techniques, Designing Web Graphics.2 is the definitive graphics guide for all Web publishers. Step-by-step instruction in a conversational and easy-to-read style from one of the leaders in the field will help you understand the best methods and techniques for preparing graphics and media for any Web site. Get in-depth coverage of different file formats, and learn how to keep your file sizes small and your quality high to ensure that your graphics will look the best and load quickly over the Net.Customer Reviews:
You are new to web design? This is the best book.......2000-07-14
A Literal Bible for web designers.......2000-04-06
I have found this book very useful.......1999-12-16
Excellent.......1999-10-30
Haven't read the whole book and not sure that I want to.......1999-10-13
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From Web to Workplace: Designing Open Hypermedia Systems (Digital Communication)
Kaj Grønbæk , Randall H. Trigg , and Kaj Gronbaek Manufacturer: The MIT Press ProductGroup: Book Binding: Hardcover ASIN: 0262071916 |
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In this book Kaj Grønbæk and Randall H. Trigg present a set of principles for the design of open hypermedia systems and provide concrete implications of these principles for issues ranging from data structures to architectures and system integration, and for settings as diverse as the World Wide Web and the workplace.Customer Reviews:
An exercise in pseudo-academic self-indulgence.......2000-01-24
The book is full of references to earlier hypertext/hypermedia systems, but they all assume that the reader is as familiar with them as the authors. The net result is that only someone who is already an expert in this field can make any sense out of anything they are saying.
The book includes a number of "design patterns," but they are of little value. None of them includes a "motivation" section to put the problem into perspective. Nor do they include many of the other sections (applicability, structure, collaborations, etc) that made the "Design Patterns" book so valuable.
Similarly,the object-oriented framework for hypermedia they discuss is presented at only the most abstract level, with little discussion of parctical implementation and use issues.
If you are already an expert in this field and you want an academic discussion of the state of the art, this book might be OK. Otherwise, forget it.
Amazon is getting my copy back. The publisher needs feedback too.
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The 2006-2011 World Outlook for Creating and Designing Public Display Advertising and Campaign Materials
Manufacturer: Icon Group International - POD ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000B1HIK8 Release Date: 2005-07-21 |
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WHAT IS LATENT DEMAND AND THE P.I.E.?
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Big machine dreams: designing forestry equipment.(Potential): An article from: Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World
Sue Mitrovich Manufacturer: Thomson Gale ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B000PC6TVM Release Date: 2007-04-11 |
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This digital document is an article from Resource: Engineering & Technology for a Sustainable World, published by Thomson Gale on November 1, 2006. The length of the article is 703 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Designing a home page for the Web.: An article from: Business Communication Quarterly
Lynnette Porter Manufacturer: Association for Business Communication ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B00096MYUE Release Date: 2005-07-28 |
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This digital document is an article from Business Communication Quarterly, published by Association for Business Communication on September 1, 1996. The length of the article is 681 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Designing a powerful prospecting system: can you accurately project how many new franchises you will have this year? Do you know your cost per lead and ... Article): An article from: Franchising World
Laurie Wotawa Manufacturer: International Franchise Association ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0009FQBE0 Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Franchising World, published by International Franchise Association on July 1, 2002. The length of the article is 766 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Designing a safe and highly productive system.: An article from: Robotics World
Steve Freedman Manufacturer: Douglas Publications ProductGroup: Book Binding: Digital ASIN: B0008FKFZM Release Date: 2005-07-30 |
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This digital document is an article from Robotics World, published by Douglas Publications on September 1, 2002. The length of the article is 703 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Books:
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