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iPhone Open Application Development: Write Native Objective-C Applications for the iPhone
Amazon price: $39.99 USD
Certain technologies bring out everyone's hidden geek, and iPhone did the moment it was released. Even though Apple created iPhone as a closed device, tens of thousands of developers bought them with the expressed purpose of designing and running third-party software. In this clear and concise bo...
There are only three countries that do not use the metric system: Liberia, Myanmar, and the United States.
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User generated content is all the rage but most of it totally sucks. That is why sites like YouTube, MySpace, CNN, and HuffPost are all embracing the mullet strategy. They let users party, argue, and vent on the secondary pages, but professional editors keep the front page looking sharp.
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Groovy in Action
Amazon price: $49.99 USD
Groovy, the brand-new language for the Java platform, brings to Java many of the features that have made Ruby popular. Groovy in Action is a comprehensive guide to Groovy programming, introducing Java developers to the new dynamic features that Groovy provides. To bring you Groovy in Action, Man...
Chad - Then it's only the windows users that suffer on the memory. Jamis - They suffer so much already, they won't notice the difference Chad - Exactly. it's like giving a slightly cheaper brand of ramen noodles to a college student.
Why do Americans spend so much time and money performing menial tasks when they don't have to? What's with all the knitting, gardening, and — as the Census Bureau dubs it — "cooking for fun"?
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Amazon price: $26.95 USD
A black swan is a highly improbable event with three principal characteristics: It is unpredictable; it carries a massive impact; and, after the fact, we concoct an explanation that makes it appear less random, and more predictable, than it was. The astonishing success of Google was a black swan;...
The World Is Flat [Updated and Expanded]: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century
Amazon price: $30.00 USD
Updated Edition: Thomas L. Friedman is not so much a futurist, which he is sometimes called, as a presentist. His aim in The World Is Flat, as in his earlier, influential Lexus and the Olive Tree, is not to give you a speculative preview of the wonders that are sure to come in your lifetime, but ...
