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Breaking Out of the Web Browser with Adobe AIR
Jeff Tapper
$6.00

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With the introduction of Adobe AIR, Flex developers have more capability than ever before. Now you can build dynamic applications that combine the rich experience of a traditional desktop application with the power of the Internet. Leveraging your existing knowledge of Adobe Flex and Flash, Breaking out of the Web Browser with Adobe AIR will help you build well-architected desktop applications. Flex and Flash experts Jeff Tapper and Michael Labriola will teach you techniques to create truly custom interfaces by leading you through exercises with a real world time-tracking application. The book’s abundance of examples will help you become adept at interacting with the end user’s underlying operating system and teach you the most important concepts for using AIR.

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Will Rogers Speaks (And Writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers...)
Bryan B. Sterling
$11.19

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More than two thousand quotes by America's beloved humorist cover four hundred subjects, including Americans, The World at Large, City Blight, Country Living, Government, Taxes, and more, arranged in alphabetical order. By the coauthors of A Will Rogers Treasury. IP.

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Browser's Ecstasy
Geoffrey O'Brien
$0.95

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From one of the most original writers now at work, an expansive, learned, and utterly charming reverie on what it means to be lost in a book.

Louis Menand, writing in The New Yorker, called Geoffrey O'Brien's The Phantom Empire "a prose poem about the pleasures and distractions of movie-watching," "an ambitiously literary attempt to write about the [mystery of the] medium as though it were a dream the author had just awakened from." Now, in The Browser's Ecstasy, O'Brien has written a prose poem about reading, a playful, epigrammatic nocturne upon the dream-state one falls into when "lost in a book," upon the uncanny, trancelike pleasure of making silent marks on paper utter sounds inside one's head.

We call The Browser's Ecstasy a "Meditation on Reading," but like any truly original book--and especially the short book that goes both far and deep--it resists easy summary and classification. As Luc Sante once wrote, "The density of O'Brien's work makes word count irrelevant as an index of substance; he is seemingly capable of compressing entire encyclopedias into his parenthetical asides. I defy you to name any precedent for what he does. He's a school unto himself."

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Browser wars: Metaphor, Web browser, Microsoft, Internet Explorer, Netscape, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari (web browser), Opera (web browser), Usage share of web browsers
$82.50

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Browser wars is a metaphorical term that refers to competitions for dominance in the web browser marketplace. The term is often used to denote two specific rivalries: the competition that saw Microsoft's Internet Explorer replace Netscape's Navigator as the dominant browser during the late 1990s and the erosion of Internet Explorer's market share since 2003 by a collection of emerging browsers including Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome, and Opera.

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Opera (web browser)
$33.87

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Opera (web browser). Web browser, Internet suite, Opera Software, Internet Relay Chat, Web feed, BitTorrent (protocol), Tabbed browsing

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Sega Dreamcast Web Browser
$0.01

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The Antique Market Browser's Marks Guide: Silver, Sheffield Plate, Pottery, Pewter
$4.99

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Supercharged Web Browsers : A Plug-Ins Field Guide
Cheryl Kirk
$7.95

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There are so many plug-ins and ActiveX controls available that it's hard to keep track of them all--or to know which ones really make your Web browsers more useful. Cheryl Kirk comes to the rescue with this comprehensive guide.

Taking a chatty and nontechnical approach, Kirk describes what plug-ins do and discusses how average users can employ them to make Web browsing more fun, and how Web-site owners can use them to make life easier and more productive for themselves, their visitors, and their customers. She also covers the use of plug-ins on corporate intranets as well as on the Internet. Her case studies of how various people are using plug-in technology are eye-opening idea generators. Kirk clears up the confusion over the difference between Netscape-style plug-ins and Microsoft Internet Explorer ActiveX controls and then offers insightful reviews of the leading software in both formats.

Kirk includes a valuable chapter on plug-ins for alternate browsers, such as the old browser technology many still use on America Online and CompuServe. The enclosed CD-ROM contains her top recommended plug-ins for both Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer as well as links to sites featuring more options. -- Elizabeth Lewis

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Firefox For Dummies
Blake Ross
$14.22

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• Firefox For Dummies gives you the inside scoop on the exciting new browser from the Web wizard that got it started. The book's author, Blake Ross, began developing Firefox as a teenager. Once available to the world, the simple and powerful tool was an instant hit claiming a sizable share of the Web browser market with over 140 million downloads.
• In this book Blake not only gives you the lowdown on how to use Firefox for safe Web searching, but he also shares his insight into how the product came to life. It's a combination of practical tech insight and a good story that is rare in computer books.
• Topics covered include downloading and installing Firefox, creating a home page, searching with Google, creating customized themes and toolbars, using tabbed browsing, downloading and saving files, maintaining security and privacy, eliminating annoying popups, and adding Firefox extensions.

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PHP3: Programming Browser-Based Applications with PHP
David Medinets
$3.69

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David Medinets's principal task in PHP3: Programming Browser-Based Applications is to find common ground for a discussion of PHP3, the database-interfacing module for the Apache Web server. Unfortunately, his task is subverted by PHP3's complexity.

In principle, PHP3's Perl-like script slides into HTML. When accessed by a browser, the code is interpreted by the Apache server, building a Web page out of data pulled from an SQL database through Apache's PHP3 module. The centrality of PHP3 in linking the user to the database is clear, but the stability of a uniform PHP3 implementation in an intrinsically heterogeneous Linux/Unix environment is so problematic as to be prohibitive.

To be fair, Medinets's PHP3: Programming Browser-Based Applications is a thoughtfully constructed book, but it sends mixed signals about whether it will enter the fray of PHP3 module support. Medinets's 20-page line-by-line description of building PHP3 begins with guidelines on how to make a new gcc compiler. Safe to ignore? Maybe not, because his Apache server-build instructions should be followed verbatim. A clean build and test on a generic Linux distribution is a multi-day effort because essential environment variables aren't documented--neither by Medinets nor by the PHP3 development team. Dynamical loading of the PHP3 module (the modern standard for module handling) is itself a subject of strongly worded statements in the newsgroups. Medinets has no comment on this show-stopping issue.

The book consists of didactic chapters on data manipulation, regular expressions, basic object-orientation, the CGI interface, and XML, all of which get interspersed with task-oriented interludes on connecting to databases, maintaining lists, creating HTML modules, and managing concurrent access. Over 100 pages of appendices provide SQL and PHP function references and Internet resources.

But the PHP3 development team must stabilize its interfaces before any single-source tract will suffice. Until then, readers must make personal commitments to read all available documentation. For the fearless few who venture into the PHP3 backcountry, Medinets offers an errata page at www.mtolive.com/phpbook to help with orientation. Active PHP3 mailing lists (www.php3.org) contain questions and answers, which are disparaging and hyperbolic but occasionally helpful.

The PHP3 developers have an outpost with a stable platform, and Medinets is safe at the outpost, but his smoke signals are too far away and the winds too variable for him to be of much help to us yet. --Peter Leopold