http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/ en http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/ http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Computer-Keyboards-the-old-the-new 2013-04-25 04:39:05 I've fimmally had emough of this danm' keyboard! Yes, yes, I kmow – I cam't tell ny ‘m's fron ny ‘m's… So out the bloody thing goes! And in its place I have this lovely new one. And, at last, I can tell which letters are produced by which keys. The problem of letters that vanish from the keys over time is quite a common one. On my old Dell keyboard, the ‘N' and the ‘M' have long since vanished – and the (...) Huw Collingbourne 2013-04-25T09:39:05Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/The-Basics-Of-Cyber-Warfare 2013-04-10 09:06:03 The Basics Of Cyber Warfare $29.95 / £18.99 by Steve Winterfield and Jason Andress http://www.syngress.com Computer Manuals ISBN-10: 0124047378 ISBN-13: 978-0124047372 Cyber warfare may sound like rather a specialist subject. Increasingly in recent years, however, the general public has become aware of the threats posed by attacks upon computer networks, and this book aims to fill in some of the detail. ‘The Basics Of Cyber Warfare' provides a fairly simple overview of (...) Huw Collingbourne 2013-04-10T14:06:03Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/MotionComposer-Review 2013-04-09 07:47:56 MotionComposer 1.6 (Mac), 1.0 (Windows) $149 Aquafadas http://www.aquafadas.com/en/motioncomposer/ Until quite recently, if you wanted to design and program cross-platform animations for display in a web browser your clear choice would be to use Adobe's Flash. With the advent of HTML5, however, you now have a choice. You can either create Flash animations programmed with ActionScript or you can render the animations with HTML5 programmed in JavaScript. Here I have created a (...) Huw Collingbourne 2013-04-09T12:47:56Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/How-to-teach-online 2013-03-19 07:30:55 I've been teaching multimedia courses on Udemy since the late summer of 2011. I now have five programming courses and over 4,000 students. In the time I've been teaching on Udemy I have learnt a great deal about how to record and produce videos and screencasts, and how to put together a home studio on a budget. If you need to create your own studio - whether for producing tutorials or just for making better-looking YouTube videos - you might like to read Udemy's (...) Huw Collingbourne 2013-03-19T12:30:55Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Portrait-Professional-11 2013-03-08 06:45:28 Standard Edition £39.90 (currently on offer at £19.95) Studio Edition £63.90 (includes Photoshop plugin – offer price £31.95) Studio 64-bit Edition £105.90 (offer price - £52.95) Anthropics Technology Ltd. http://www.portraitprofessional.com Feature List: http://www.portraitprofessional.com/editions/ Not so long ago, the airbrush in Photoshop might have been considered to be the ultimate tool for touching up portrait photographs. Not any longer! Portrait Professional is an image (...) Huw Collingbourne 2013-03-08T12:45:28Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Vue-11-Infinite 2013-02-20 09:00:43 Vue 11 Infinite $1,295 e-on software http://www.e-onsoftware.com/ Vue 11 Infinite is the latest release of e-on software's beautiful landscape design application. The core features of this program were established several versions ago and the last few releases might be said to have concentrated on adding refinements to give digital artists more control over their designs and the ability to create still or animated images with even more ‘photo-realism' than hitherto. (...) Huw Collingbourne 2013-02-20T15:00:43Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/JavaScript-In-Easy-Steps 2013-02-13 06:15:28 JavaScript In Easy Steps (5th edition) $14.99 / £10.99 by : Mike McGrath ISBN-13: 9781840785708 ISBN-10: 1840785705 http://ineasysteps.com/products-page/programming/javascript-in-easy-steps-5th-edition/ JavaScript is, in principle, a fairly simple and lightweight language. So it's ironic that many of the books about JavaScript are incredibly complicated and heavy. But not this one. JavaScript in Easy Steps is a slim, easy-to-follow book that contains just over 200 pages. As with (...) Huw Collingbourne 2013-02-13T12:15:28Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Bitwise-Courses-Launch 2013-02-05 13:36:02 The expansion in online multimedia courses has been an extraordinary phenomenon over the past couple of years. And I am very pleased to have played my own small part in it! For just over a year, I have been teaching programming courses on the Udemy site. In that time, more than 3,000 people have signed up to my courses on Ruby, Advanced Ruby, Object Pascal, C# and The Business of Programming. Recently I decided that I really needed to provide an online 'hub' for my courses - (...) Huw Collingbourne 2013-02-05T19:36:02Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Brilliant-Edge-Animate 2013-01-29 05:20:51 Brilliant Edge Animate £18.99 by Steve Johnson Pearson ISBN-10: 0273773410 ISBN-13: 978-0273773412 Adobe Edge Animate is a development tool for creating animated web content using HTML (principally HTML5), CSS and JavaScript without having to do any explicit coding. Instead it uses a timeline onto which elements are placed and animated using keyframes. Edge Animate is an attractive and powerful system which is available for Windows or Mac and, best of all, it's free (for the (...) Huw Collingbourne 2013-01-29T11:20:51Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne http://www.bitwisemag.com/2/Mac-Keyboards-why-I-bought-one 2013-01-23 08:46:40 There are some things about the Mac that are beautiful and some things that drive me up the wall. The keyboard falls into both categories. Slim and elegant with a sleek aluminium sheen and low-profile white keys it certainly looks lovely. But in use, it's a pig. The damn' thing doesn't even have a Forward-delete key. If you want to delete the character to the right of the cursor, you have to press a key labelled ‘FN' and simultaneously press the (...) Huw Collingbourne 2013-01-23T14:46:40Z text/html en Huw Collingbourne