Summary: In this program two interactive software developers describe multimedia hardware and software, and how multimedia content-text, audio, and video-is created and supported. Tin Man Games programmer Ben Britten discusses Apple's Xcode suite of tools used to make iPhone applications, and gives an overview of the software that plans, captures, edits, and displays multimedia, including codec programs...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011

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Summary: What do Amazon.com, Kaiser Permanente, Envera, and NASA have in common? They all use XML, or Extensible Markup Language, the "nuts and bolts" of Internet programming and the emerging standard for e-commerce applications. Whereas HTML is a single, predefined text formatter, XML functions as a very flexible data formatter, a metalanguage allowing for the smooth transfer of information between...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005

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Summary: This program offers a comprehensive introduction to the basic principles of Web site design. Applicable to online retail outlets, electronic newspapers, blogs, search engines, and other types of sites, it explains how to identify the target audience, determine the site's core purpose, apply Ben Schneiderman's eight golden rules of GUI design, address technological issues and matters of visual...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Seven years and

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008

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Summary: Data is of extremely limited value unless it can be quickly and easily sorted, searched, and linked to other data-tasks at which database management systems excel. This program takes viewers through the fundamentals of making and maintaining a database: creating a basic table structure, setting up relationships, creating a data capture form, formulating queries, setting up reports, and creating...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: Designed for novices, this unintimidating program examines the basic steps involved in producing any piece of software: identifying the goal, crafting algorithms, coding and compiling, testing and debugging syntax and logic errors, and documenting. Since the video does not rely on viewer familiarity with specific computer languages, Introduction to Programming is a good starting point for any...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009

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Summary: Designed to give users comprehensive conversational language and grammar skills. The basic course (10 lessons) focuses on polite greetings and small talk and is perfect for patrons who are planning a short trip to a foreign country, or for those who want to get a taste of a foreign language and culture. The complete course (100 lessons) is designed for patrons who already know the basics of a...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mango Languages 2009

Summary: The relationship between supervisors and support staff members can often run off the smooth road of productivity. The major reason for problems between supervisors and staff is a lack of effective, open communication. This program is a dramatization of one employee's problems with his supervisor. The information he receives from the company's personnel manager gets him on track with how to cope...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: Video version. Viewers meet two young managers who help workers with appropriate responses to feedback in different work situations. Whether feedback is true, unclear, or downright false, we discover how to respond in a way that enables us to develop confidence, separate our reactions from our feelings, and learn from the situation. Using live-action video, the CD-ROM program guides the user...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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Summary: At the height of the dotcom mania, Silicon Alley ran with gold, the "new economy" ruled Wall Street, and business as usual was declared dead. A sequel to The Internet Money Machine, this cautionary program tracks the fortunes of TheGlobe.com and Pseudo.com after the bubble burst; bottom-feeder Overstock.com, which profited from the tech wreck; and DigitalCity.com, which sold out to AOL before...

Format: software, multimedia

Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006

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