What's the Ultimate Scanner? A radio receiver with wires, dials, knobs, switches and meters that were never on the manufacturer's plans? A discipline that leads into the next generation el scanning? A way to have it all: to cover all the bands, all the channels and miss nothing but what you choose to exclude? A system that gives you total control over everything that comes out of your speaker? It's this book, which describes the emergence of the scanning hobby into the information and computing era, where automation adds fun, channels and functionality to radio monitoring.

Fully updated to cover new hardware and technology Here's how to choose a scanner, set it up, and start capturing images Flatbed or sheet-fed? USB or FireWire? And what the heck is a dpi, anyway? This handy guide tells you all that and more - everything you need to know to get the most use, and fun, out of your scanner. Choose the right image editing software, share photos online, even get the scoop on tricks the experts use. All this on the bonus CD-ROM * Evaluation versions of Paint Shop Pro and Photo Album * Adobe Photoshop Elements and Acrobat Professional tryout versions * Mac GraphicConverter and VueScan trial versions * SnapCopier(TM) and Ulead PhotoImpact XL trial versions Discover how to: * Buy the right scanner for your needs * Choose your software * Fine-tune your scans * Select and install extra equipment * Edit images like a pro * Keep your scanner happy and healthy

Identifies seven personality types that share a common quality of having numerous unrelated interests, explaining how to prioritize and pursue multiple goals simultaneously in order to enjoy a successful and varied life.

Will help you pick and use the best apps and services to pull together all your content, media, and knowledge: email, Internet, books, movies, TV, personal and work documents, magazines, financial data, and more.

Whether you're scanning for valuable emergency information or just our of curisity, you want to get the most out of your equipment. This book will teach you how to get your straight-out-of-the-box scaner working to its fullest potential. Instructions are written as simply as possible so that just about anyone who can determine the hot end of a soldering iron can modify his or her scanner.

"The story traces the lives and techniques of Alex Raymond (Flash Gordon, RipKirby), Stan Drake (Juliet Jones), Hal Foster (Prince Valiant), and more, dissecting their techniques through recreations of their artwork,and highlighting the metatextual resonances that bind them together"--Page 4 of cove

The official guide to the Nmap Security Scanner, a free and open source utility used by millions of people, suits all levels of security and networking professionals.

Offers detailed instruction in photographic skills, including selecting a digital camera, using point-and-shoot and other film cameras, making better prints, scanning and archiving, digital editing, and conceiving projects.

Frank Bidart and David Gewanter have compiled the definitive edition of Robert Lowell's work, from his first, impossible-to-find collection, Land of Unlikeness; to the early triumph of Lord Weary's Castle, winner of the 1946 Pulitzer Prize; to the brilliant willfulness of his versions of poems by Sappho, Baudelaire, Rilke, Montale, and other masters in Imitations; to the late spontaneity of The Dolphin, winner of another Pulitzer Prize; to his last, most searching book, Day by Day. This volume also includes poems and translations never previously collected, and a selection of drafts that demonstrate the poet's constant drive to reimagine his work. Collected Poems at last offers readers the opportunity to take in, in its entirety, one of the great careers in twentieth-century poetry.