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Okay folks, it's free book time again. Every month New Riders Publishing / Peachpit Press donates one book to the HLUG Library. Check the list & register your preferences in a comment. Anonymous votes won't count much. I will make the selection in about three weeks, say Nov.13. Here is the short list:

And here are the verbatim (except for the selection numbering) details from their e-mail to me:

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NEW BOOKS

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Adobe Creative Suite (CS)
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On September 29, Adobe Systems Inc. unveiled the Adobe Creative Suite, a new software lineup that combines new full-version upgrades of Adobe Photoshop CS, Adobe Illustrator CS, Adobe InDesign CS, and Adobe GoLive CS (only available with Creative Pro Premium Suite); incorporates Acrobat 6.0 Professional CS (only available with Creative Pro Premium Suite); and introduces the innovative Version Cue file version manager. The Adobe Creative Suite is a complete design environment that gives today's creative professionals everything they need to create and publish content for print and the Web faster, more easily, and more efficiently than ever.

NEW PHOTOSHOP BOOKS AVAILABLE NOW!

1. PHOTOSHOP CS DOWN & DIRTY TRICKS

By Scott Kelby; ISBN: 0-7357-1353-7, $39.99
http://www.newriders.com/0735713537
Updated for the latest version of Photoshop, Photoshop CS Down & Dirty Tricks is packed cover-to-cover with step-by-step tutorials on the coolest Photoshop CS effects. Who needs yet another reference on masking, resolution, and file formats? This book gives you just the cool stuff from Photoshop expert and best-selling author Scott Kelby.

2. THE GLITTERGURU ON PHOTOSHOP: FROM CONCEPT TO COOL

By Suzette Troche; ISBN: 0-7357-1133-X; $39.99
http://www.newriders.com/073571133X
Using Photoshop for commercial work is a far cry from doodling around with it for your own amusement. If you want to break into the world of commercial design, you couldn¹t ask for a better guide than Suzette Troche, the renowned GlitterGuru. Suzette's book, filled with eye-catching before and after images, will help you take your commercial work from blah to beautiful.

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Macromedia MX 2004
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In August, Macromedia Inc. announced the next generation of MX. The MX 2004 family includes new releases of Dreamweaver, Flash, and Fireworks and introduces a new product: Flash MX Professional 2004, which will enable a new segment of developers to create rich Internet applications. Studio MX 2004 includes Dreamweaver MX 2004, Flash MX 2004 (or Flash MX Professional 2004), Fireworks MX 2004, Freehand MX, and ColdFusion MX 6.1 Developer Edition. For more information, visit http://www.macromedia.com/go/mx2004/

Check out the first wave of MX 2004 books! All shipping this month!

3. MACROMEDIA DREAMWEAVER MX 2004 AND DATABASES

By Sean R. Nicholson; ISBN: 0-7357-1370-7; $45.00
Available: Now
http://www.newriders.com/0735713707
If you want to use Dreamweaver to build dynamic, database-driven sites, this book is your ticket. Through a combination of hands-on projects and technical narrative, this book provides all the instruction you need to start using Dreamweaver MX 2004 with Access, ASP.NET, SQL Server, and ColdFusion to create database-driven sites that range from small communications-driven intranets to full-blown e-commerce shops.

4. MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 FOR RICH INTERNET APPLICATIONS

By Phillip Kerman; ISBN: 0-7357-1366-9; $45.00
Available: October 17
http://www.newriders.com/0735713669

Say good-bye to stale page-metaphor Web sites and hello to single-screen rich Internet apps with Flash MX 2004 and this handy guide. In these pages, a Flash master and master teacher shows you how to build the Flash front end that will allow you to pull data from multiple sources and deliver them via a single Web interface. Talk about user-friendly!

5. MACROMEDIA FLASH MX 2004 ACTIONSCRIPT 2.0 DICTIONARY

By Macromedia, Inc.; ISBN: 0-321-22841-3, $24.99
Available: October 20
http://www.newriders.com/0321228413
With a more robust programming model and better object-oriented programming support than ever before, ActionScript 2.0 is the key to unlocking all of Flash MX 2004¹s power?-and this comprehensive dictionary is the key to deciphering it! In addition to definitions of every keyword, statement, action, property, function, object, component, and method in ActionScript, you¹ll find articles by various Flash and ActionScripting luminaries.

6. BUILDING DYNAMIC WEB SITES WITH MACROMEDIA STUDIO MX 2004

By Tom Green, Jordan L. Chilcott, and Chris S. Flick; ISBN: 0-7357-1376-6; $45.00
Available: October 23
http://www.newriders.com/0735713766
Written by a trio of Web experts, this guide uses the creation of a fictitious community center to show you how to use Macromedia¹s Studio MX 2004 product suite to create your own dazzling sites. You start by learning about the principles that govern the creation of database-driven sites and the planning that ensures their successful deployment, and finish by creating practical, real-world applications.

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Digital Video and Audio
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7. JERRY HOFMANN ON FINAL CUT PRO 4

By Jerry Hofmann; ISBN: 0-7357-1281-6; $35.00
Available: October 17
http://www.newriders.com/0735712816
In this series of hands-on seminars from Jerry Hofmann, you'll learn to convert footage from many different sources, manage the footage, edit the content, adjust sound, and output your final film to different sources. Work through the book cover-to-cover to put together an entire short film that includes basic editing, audio, compositing, and various effects or go right to the specific seminar that covers the technique you want to learn, open the source files from the DVD, and get started!

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Games
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For die-hard game designers, check out these new titles to keep you on the edge of your craft!

8. CREATING EMOTION IN GAMES: THE CRAFT AND ART OF EMOTIONEERING

By David Freeman; ISBN: 1-59273-007-8; $49.99
Available: Now
http://www.newriders.com/1592730078
Master the future in game development and design by learning how to create emotional immersion in games, otherwise known as emotioneering. David Freeman brings you the inside scoop on how to apply his proven emotioneering techniques to increase player immersion and involvement--two key factors to a game's success in today's market. With David's help you'll learn how to identify and apply techniques such as dialog and plot deepening, game repeatability, game and player transitioning, non-player character (NPC) arc, NPC to NPC chemistry, and relationship building. David uses case studies from well-known games such as Grand Theft Auto III, Elite Force, and American McGee's Alice to help you identify specific techniques and understand how they are applied so that you can duplicate the techniques in your own games.

9. GAME ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN: A NEW EDITION

By Andrew Rollings and Dave Morris; ISBN: 0-7357-1363-4; $49.99
Available: October 24
http://www.newriders.com/0735713634
The physicist and cartographer are at it again?-updating the best-selling guide to game design and planning that¹s now a cult classic. Andrew Rollings and Dave Morris provide comprehensive coverage of the skills and techniques required by today¹s game industry using case studies and their own real-world experience to drive points home. What works; what doesn¹t work; and why: You¹ll find it all here!

Here's a first look at Nokia's new N-Gage platform!

10. MOBILE GAMES: CREATING BUSINESS WITH NOKIA N-GAGE

By Jouni Paavilainen; ISBN: 0-7357-1375-8; $14.99
Available: October 14
http://www.newriders.com/0735713758
With more than a billion users worldwide, the cell phone population is huge and growing and, well, bored. They need games, and this guide to programming mobile games for the Nokia N-Gage platform is your opportunity to deliver. Take a peek inside and you'll learn how to make mobile games that are easy to obtain and even easier to use.

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Web Design
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11. WEB DESIGN ON A SHOESTRING

By Carrie Bickner; ISBN: 0-7357-1328-6; $24.99
Available: October 8
http://www.newriders.com/0735713286
Make your Web site look like a million bucks without spending it! Explore do-it-yourself, budget-conscious ideas for Web site design and development through the hundreds of little known, easy-to-access resources described in this book. Examine before and after shots of existing Web sites to learn valuable tips and techniques that will save you a bundle and see how some thrifty designers pull off expensive-seeming technical feats on a shoestring.

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-- Rick Archibald - 04 Nov 2003

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