slide:ology The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations

Nancy Duarte, the Principle of Duarte Design (the firm behind the creation of Al Gore's Oscar-winning presentations), has published a presentation book for the rest of us. It's called 'slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations.' 'slide:ology' is practical, it's highly visual, and it's beautiful. I love this book.

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Your Brain: The Missing Manual

Our brain which controls our day to day activities is a mysterious creation of the Nature. We are curious about it and me too. When I go through Your Brain: The Missing Manual By Matthew MacDonald; It change my way of thinking and solve lots of queries for me.

Book is divided into three parts and several chapters; there are total 10 chapters. The main three parts are

• Warming Up
• Exploring Your Brain
• Understanding Other People's Brains

Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems

PHP is a widely used server side scripting language used for producing dynamic web pages. In the PHP development lifecycle everyone face some common problem and considering this No Starch Press come with a good book "Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems" written by William Steinmetz with Brian Ward.

Wicked Cool PHP is a wide-ranging collection of complete PHP scripts that solve specific problems frequently encountered by PHP coders. Book contains 12 chapters covering 76 frequently encountered problems.

Chapter 1, "The FAQs of Life—The Scripts Every PHP Programmer Wants (or Needs) to Know", answers several questions that frequently asked on PHP forums and discussion groups all over the world. This chapter gives quick solution and tricks on error we face while including Another File as a Part of Your Script, Highlighting Alternate Row Colors in a Table, Implementing pagination, dealing with Array. This chapter also gives a quick introduction on the most common templating solution Smarty.

.PSD released his fourth issue of year 2008 as Summer issue, introducing us how to use Adobe Photoshop in more advanced ways. The theme behind this issue is the art of designing computer games. Fern The Farmer, created by Patrick Beaulieu and Chevisodes Crew occupy cover of issue and article Wild adventures of Fern the farmer gives us idea behind the Making Of Fern, a 3D artwork created by the Chevisodes team.

Making of Uchronia by Morgan Yon illustrated the Paris, if Nazism had triumphed. Darkness monster by Steve Jubinville & Yanick Gaudreau express the concept based on the use of lighting and on the character’s traits and expressions. Think of the wall by Stewart Michael Bruce create phantasmagoric images that capture the imagination and introduce a effective way to play with layers. Game over by Neil Deuerden is simple tutorial we will step you through making a computer based editorial style piece. All the above article are freely available to download. Just go to http://psdmag.org/prt/view/about-the-mag/issue/489.html and download PDF's of complete article.