RFID Handbook or Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

RFID Handbook: Fundamentals and Applications in Contactless Smart Cards and Identification

Author: Klaus Finkenzeller

RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) is used in all areas of automatic data capture allowing contactless identification of objects using RF. With applications ranging from secure internet payment systems to industrial automation and access control, RFID technology solutions are receiving much attention in the research and development departments of large corporations. RFID is a major growth are in auto ID, allowing emergency vehicles to safely trip traffic signals, and providing the technology behind contactless smart cards, "autopiloting" cars, and production automation. Fully revised and updated to include all the latest information on industry standards and applications, this new edition provides a standard reference for people working with RFID technology. Expanded sections explain exactly how RFID systems work, and provide up-to-date information on the development of new tags such as the smart label.

• Updated coverage of RFID technologies, including electron data carrier architecture and common algorithms for anticollision

• Details the latest RFID applications, such as the smartlabel, e-commerce and the electronic purse, document tracking and e-ticketing

• Detailed appendix providing up-to-date information on relevant ISO standards and regulations, including descriptions of ISO 14443 for contactless ticketing and ISO 15693 covering the smartlabel

A leading edge reference for this rapidly evolving technology, this text is of interest to practitioners in auto ID and IT designing RFID products and end-users of RFID technology, computer and electronics engineers in security system development and microchip designers,automation, industrial and transport engineers and materials handling specialists. Also a valuable resource for graduate level students in electronics and industrial engineering design. 

Table of Contents:

	Preface
	List of Abbreviations
1	Introduction	1
2	Differentiation Features of RFID Systems	11
3	Fundamental Operating Principles	29
4	Physical Principles of RFID Systems	61
5	Frequency Ranges and Radio Licensing Regulations	161
6	Coding and Modulation	183
7	Data Integrity	195
8	Data Security	221
9	Standardisation	229
10	The Architecture of Electronic Data Carriers	273
11	Readers	309
12	The Manufacture of Transponders and Contactless Smart Cards	329
13	Example Applications	341
14	Appendix	394
	Index	419

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Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2007

Author: Timothy J OLeary

The O’Leary Office 2007 text is crafted to allow students to easily develop Microsoft Office application skills. The text design emphasizes step-by-step instructions with full screen captures that illustrate the results of each step performed. Each Lab, designed to be covered in 1 hour of class time, combines conceptual coverage with detailed software-specific instructions. Each Lab opens with a running case study that highlights real-world applications of each software program and leads students from problem to solution.

Project Study Guide or IPsec Virtual Private Network Fundamentals

Project+ Study Guide: Exam (Pko-002)

Author: Lona Cram

Here's the book you need to prepare for the latest version of CompTIA's Project+ exam. This Study Guide was developed to meet the exacting requirements of today's certification candidates. In addition to the consistent and accessible instructional approach that has earned Sybex the "Best Study Guide" designation in the 2003 CertCities Readers Choice Awards, this book provides:

• Clear and concise information on project management

• Practical examples and insights drawn from real-world experience

• Leading-edge exam preparation software, including a test engine and electronic flashcards

You'll also find authoritative coverage of key exam topics, including:

• Project Initiation and Scope Definition

• Project Planning

• Project Execution, Control and Coordination

• Project Closure, Acceptance and Support

This book has been reviewed and approved as CompTIA Authorized Quality Curriculum (CAQC). Students derive a number of important study advantages with CAQC materials, including coverage of all exam objectives, implementation of important instructional design principles, and instructional reviews that help students assess their learning comprehension and readiness for the exam.

Note:CD-ROM/DVD and other supplementary materials are not included as part of eBook file.

Table of Contents:

Ch. 1	IT project management overview	1
Ch. 2	Project initiation	31
Ch. 3	Scope planning	69
Ch. 4	Schedule planning	103
Ch. 5	Cost planning	133
Ch. 6	Other planning processes	165
Ch. 7	Comprehensive project plan	207
Ch. 8	Project execution	231
Ch. 9	Project control	275
Ch. 10	Project closure	321
App. A	Systems development life cycle	343

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IPsec Virtual Private Network Fundamentals

Author: James Henry Carmouch

An introduction to designing and configuring Cisco IPsec VPNs

Understand the basics of the IPsec protocol and learn implementation best practices

Study up-to-date IPsec design, incorporating current Cisco innovations in the security and VPN marketplace

Learn how to avoid common pitfalls related to IPsec deployment

Reinforce theory with case studies, configuration examples showing how IPsec maps to real-world solutions

IPsec Virtual Private Network Fundamentals provides a basic working knowledge of IPsec on various Cisco routing and switching platforms. It provides the foundation necessary to understand the different components of Cisco IPsec implementation and how it can be successfully implemented in a variety of network topologies and markets (service provider, enterprise, financial, government). This book views IPsec as an emerging requirement in most major vertical markets, explaining the need for increased information authentication, confidentiality, and non-repudiation for secure transmission of confidential data. The book is written using a layered approach, starting with basic explanations of why IPsec was developed and the types of organizations relying on IPsec to secure data transmissions. It then outlines the basic IPsec/ISAKMP fundamentals that were developed to meet demand for secure data transmission. The book covers the design and implementation of IPsec VPN architectures using an array of Cisco products, starting with basic concepts and proceeding to more advanced topics including high availability solutions and public key infrastructure (PKI). Sample topology diagrams and configuration examples are provided in each chapter toreinforce the fundamentals expressed in text and to assist readers in translating concepts into practical deployment scenarios. Additionally, comprehensive case studies are incorporated throughout to map topics to real-world solutions.

Second Lives or The Future of Reputation

Second Lives: A Journey through Virtual Worlds

Author: Tim Guest

We’ve always dreamed of perfect places: Eden, heaven, Utopia. Imagine gambling without loss, love without heartbreak, sex without exposure, experience without risk. Welcome to the fascinating world of online virtual reality, the land of invented places and populations that is entered and inhabited every week by nearly fifty million people worldwide. Each participant creates a virtual body, works at virtual jobs, and makes virtual friends and family. In Second Lives, Tim Guest, an internationally acclaimed young journalist, takes us on a revelatory journey through the electronic looking glass as he investigates one of the most bizarre phenomena of the twenty-first century.

From Second Life to EverQuest and beyond, here are the computer-generated environments and characters that can easily become more engrossing and fulfilling than earthly existence. With the click of a mouse you can select eye color, face shape, height–you can even give yourself wings. Your character, or avatar, can build houses, make and sell works of art, earn money, get married and divorced.

In this fascinating and groundbreaking book, Guest meets people who found meaningful love and friendship despite never having met in person, catches up with the companies that have used virtual worlds to make big money, investigates the U.S. military’s massive online global model that trains soldiers to fight anyone anywhere, and travels all the way to gaming-crazed Korea to get a taste for just how big this phenomenon really is.

At first glance, these new computer-generated places seem free from trouble and sorrow. But Guest examines the dark side of this technology too, includingthe online criminals who plague imaginary worlds, from cyber mafiosos and prostitutes to real hackers and terrorists. It seems that one cannot escape greed, corruption, and human weakness–even inside a computer screen.
Are these virtual worlds a way to enhance life or to escape it? Guest explores this question personally as he lets himself be transported into myriad parallel universes. By turns provocative, inspiring, and disturbing, Second Lives is a crucial book for this millennium. After all, real life is so twentieth century.

Advance praise for Second Lives
“Tim Guest is a young writer with the literary goods. My Life in Orange, his hit memoir of growing up in a commune, looked at his past; his riveting new book, Second Lives, looks at our future: the world of virtual reality and the spellbound people who inhabit it. The book is some kind of revelation–by turns compelling, chilling, and illuminating. Curious, intelligent, offbeat, and artful, Guest is at the beginning of a big career.”
——John Lahr, senior drama critic, The New Yorker, author of
Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton

Praise from England for Second Lives
“An anthropological adventure but also Guest’s personal voyage . . . a fascinating portrait of rainbow landscapes and their inhabitants.”
–Time Out London

“Rich and colourful . . . an important mapping of a new social frontier.”
–The Guardian

“Remarkably timely.”
–The Sunday Telegraph

“Astonishing.”
–The Sunday Times

Look this: Ex Boyfriend Cookbook or The New York Times Passover Cookbook

The Future of Reputation: Gossip, Rumor, and Privacy on the Internet

Author: Daniel J Solov

Teeming with chatrooms, online discussion groups, and blogs, the Internet offers previously unimagined opportunities for personal expression and communication. But there’s a dark side to the story. A trail of information fragments about us is forever preserved on the Internet, instantly available in a Google search. A permanent chronicle of our private lives—often of dubious reliability and sometimes totally false—will follow us wherever we go, accessible to friends, strangers, dates, employers, neighbors, relatives, and anyone else who cares to look. This engrossing book, brimming with amazing examples of gossip, slander, and rumor on the Internet, explores the profound implications of the online collision between free speech and privacy.

 

Daniel Solove, an authority on information privacy law, offers a fascinating account of how the Internet is transforming gossip, the way we shame others, and our ability to protect our own reputations. Focusing on blogs, Internet communities, cybermobs, and other current trends, he shows that, ironically, the unconstrained flow of information on the Internet may impede opportunities for self-development and freedom. Long-standing notions of privacy need review, the author contends: unless we establish a balance between privacy and free speech, we may discover that the freedom of the Internet makes us less free.

 

Microsoft Expression Web or Apple Pro Training Series

Microsoft Expression Web: On Demand

Author: Steve Johnson

Microsoft^® Expression^®Web On Demand

FOR THOSE WHO WOULD RATHER BE SHOWN HOW THAN TOLD HOW
SEE HOW TO
• Create Web sites using drag and drop controls
• Employ Cascading Style Sheets formatting and management
• Create Cascading Style Sheet layouts
• Create a page design using layout tables
• Create page transition effects and background sounds
• Add interactive buttons and create hyperlinks
• Create dynamic Web templates to reuse
• Create forms to gather online information
• Write, edit, and optimize code and scripts
• Use IntelliSense to help reduce coding errors
• Retrieve and present data from live RSS feeds
• Integrate data from databases or XML data
• Create dynamic Web content using ASP.NET technology

On the Web
This book uses real world examples to give you a context in which to use the task. This book also includes workshops to help you put together individual tasks into projects. The Expression Web example files that you need for project tasks are available at perspection.com

Perspection has written more than thirty-five books on a variety of computer software, including Microsoft Office 2007 and XP, Microsoft Windows Vista and XP, Apple Mac OS X Panther, Adobe Photoshop CS2, Macromedia Flash 8, Macromedia Director MX, and Macromedia Fireworks. In 1991, after working for Apple Computer and Microsoft, Steve Johnson founded Perspection, Inc. Perspection is committed to providing information and training to help people use software more effectively.Perspection has written more than 80 computer books, and sold more than 5 million copies.

Introduction

1 Getting Started with Expression Web

2 Creating a Web Site

3 Working with Web Pages

4 Working with Web Page Text

5 Working with Web Page Graphics

6 Adding Hyperlinks to Web Pages

7 Adding Interactive Behaviors

8 Adding Tables and Layout Tables

9 Adding Frames and Borders

10 Gathering User Input Using Forms

11 Creating Styles and Layouts with CSS

12 Publishing and Managing a Web Site

13 Customizing Expression Web

Index

Table of Contents:

Introduction xv
1 Getting Started with Expression Web 1
2 Creating a Web Site 23
3 Working with Web Pages 43
4 Working with Web Page Text 77
5 Working with Web Page Graphics 117
6 Adding Hyperlinks to Web Pages 151
7 Adding Interactive Behaviors 171
8 Adding Tables and Layout Tables 195
9 Adding Frames and Borders 225
10 Gathering User Input Using Forms 241
11 Creating Styles and Layouts with CSS 267
12 Publishing and Managing a Web Site 293
13 Customizing Expression Web 315
Index 349

New interesting book: Practical Risk Management or The Professional Vocalist

Apple Pro Training Series: Encyclopedia of Visual Effects (Apple Pro Training Series)

Author: Damian Allen

This is the ultimate recipe book for visual effects artists working in Apple Shake, Adobe After Effects, and Apple Motion. An impressive lineup of Hollywood and independent effects pros have pulled together this compendium of the coolest and most useful effects from A to Z ("Adding Clouds" to "Z-Depth Effects"). The book includes everything from practical everyday commercial techniques to breakdowns of well-known shots from blockbuster films. Readers learn to create light sabers from the artists who created them for Star Wars Episode 3; learn to freeze time from the wizard who invented the effect for The Matrix; and learn to create matte paintings from the pros who did them for Lord of the Rings. Coverage includes rotoscoping, painting, warping and distortion effects, dramatic lighting, adding lightening and fire, matchmoves, 3D CG integration techniques, advanced blue- and greenscreen techniques, and much more. DVD-ROM included. Foreword by Ron Brinkmann.