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If you've ever struggled to find something with SharePoint you'll appreciate the highly visual step-by-step nature that the SharePoint Shepherd's Guide uses. You will be able to find and use all of the common features that every user needs. With over 116 tasks you'll find what you need. Find out more about the book and see samples at http://www.sharepointshepherd.com.
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Laminated quick reference guide showing step-by-step instructions and shortcuts for advanced features of Lotus Notes 7. Topics include: Logging on to and off of Sametime Instant Messaging, Changing your status, Chatting with Others, Managing your Contact List, Status Indicators, Saving Chat Transcripts, Allowing others access to your Mail and Calendar, Accessing another user's Mail and Calendar, Sharing Address Book Entries, Importing vCard files, Deleting Past Calendar and To Do Entries, Searching a View Using the Search Bar, Viewing Database Security Level, Viewing the Access Control List, Restricting Execution Access, Adding Custom Buttons to the Toolbar, Closing All Open Tabs, Using the Permanent Pen, Creating a Document or Hotspot Link, Creating a Hotspot URL. Applying, Creating and Modifying Styles, Deleting a Paragraph Style, Adding Headers and Footers, Creating a Section, Setting Section Properties, Expanding and Collapsing a Section, Removing a Section, Creating a Table, Creating an Embedded Table, Naming Tabs or Captions for a Table, Table and Column Width, Table Borders, Setting Cell Borders and Colors, Inserting Graphic Images, Setting Picture Properties. This guide is suitable as a training handout, or simply an easy to use reference guide, for any type of user..
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In the "User's Guide to Brain-Boosting Supplements," leading nutritionist Shari Lieberman terams up woth top nutrition writer James Gormley to describe the best brain-boosting dietary supplements-including vitamin E, amino acids, huperzine A, and acetyl-L-carnitine-and how to use them safely and effectively to achieve optimum brain power..
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If running a Windows Small Business Server 2003 network is just one of your many job responsibilities, this book is for you. It applies the tried and true "80/20" rule to this incredibly complex operating system, providing you with exactly the information you need to install, configure, and troubleshoot the W2K3 features most likely to ruin your day (such as setting user permissions, restoring lost data, and sharing hardware) without having to wade through material you don't need. .
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By now, most people have become familiar with the basic functionality and interfaces of computers However, developing new or modified applications that effectively support users' goals still requires considerable expertise in programming that cannot be expected from most people. Thus, one fundamental challenge for the coming years is to develop environments that allow users who do not have background in programming to develop or modify their own applications, with the ultimate aim of empowering people to flexibly employ advanced information and communication technologies.

The present book is an effort to make many important aspects of the international discussion on End-User Development (EUD) available to a broader audience. It provides a unique set of contributions from various research institutes in various countries addressing relevant issues and proposing original solutions.

The editors hope that this broad look at the emerging paradigm of End-User Development leads you to appreciate its diversity and potential for the future. And we look forward to having you, the reader, the "end-user" of this book, contribute what you can to the field, whether it is working on a system for EUD, or simply achieving a better understanding of how EUD might fit into your work and your life.

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Until recently most programming power has been in the hands of the professional programmer rather than the end user. Programming by Demonstration is a method that allows end users to create, customize, and extend programs by demonstrating what the program should do. Programming by Demonstration systems have existed since 1975, yet this is the first time that information on all of the best of these systems has been gathered in one place. The first section of the book describes 18 computer implementations of Programming by Demonstration, and the second section discusses the problems and opportunities for this method in more general terms.

Included in the appendices is a test suite, a collection of practical examples illustrating the broad variety of tasks that are amenable to Programming by Demonstration. The test suite is also useful for researchers, who can evaluate their own systems in terms of how well they are able to automate these tasks.

Allen Cypher is a Research Scientist with the Advanced Technology Group, Apple Computer, Inc.

Contents: Introduction.
Section 1. Systems. Pygmalion. Tinker. A Predictive Calculator. Rehearsal World. SmallStar. Peridot. Metamouse. TELS. Eager. Garnet. The Turvy Experience. Chimera. The Geometer's Sketchpad. Tourmaline. A History-Based Macro by Example System. Mondrian. Triggers. The AIDE Project.
Section II. Components. A History of Editable Graphical, Histories. Graphical Representation and Feedback in a PBD System. PBD Invocation Techniques. A System-Wide Macro Facility Based on Aggregate Events. Making Programming Accessible to Visual Problem Solvers. Using Voice Input to Disambiguate Intent.
Section III. Perspectives. Characterizing PBD Systems. Demonstrational Interfaces. Just-in-Time Programming..
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A Small Matter of Programming asks why it has been so difficult for end users to command programming power and explores the problems of end user-driven application development that must be solved to afford end users greater computational power.

Drawing on empirical research on existing end user systems, A Small Matter of Programming analyzes cognitive, social, and technical issues of end user programming. In particular, it examines the importance of task-specific programming languages, visual application frameworks, and collaborative work practices for end user computing, with the goal of helping designers and programmers understand and better satisfy the needs of end users who want the capability to create, customize, and extend their applications software.

The ideas in the book are based on the author's research on two successful end user programming systems--spreadsheets and CAD systems--as well as other empirical research. Nardi concentrates on broad issues in end user programming, especially end users' strengths and problems, introducing tools and techniques as they are related to higher-level user issues..
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