#4240
GIMP is the best free, open-source, and cross-platform alternative of Photoshop, which has become popular when first launched on Linux. GIMP Bible is currently the most comprehensive reference book for GIMP that you can find on the Internet. Its detailed instruction on how to get the most out of GIMP even goes beyond GIMP's official documentation.

#4147
If you want to learn 3D modeling and animation design, but are unable to afford the Autodesk 3ds Max and Maya such kind of 3D modeling or animation software costing thousands of dollars, then the very popular, free, and open-source Blender is currently the best choice for you. However, the available books or any tutorials written for Blender have been always scarce, really not systematic, and incomplete all the time, until the day Blender For Dummies, 3rd Edition comes out.

#3904
Today, cars are more electronized than ever before. The "This Car Runs on Code" report published in the IEEE Spectrum journal indicated: As of 2009, a typical car already contains 100+ processors, 50+ electronic control units, 5000+ meters of cabling and 100 millions of lines of code. That means, along with the more and more close integration between computer systems and vehicles, the security audit is also becoming increasingly important and complicated.

#3855
Linux is cool not just because it's free and open-source, more often than not, that's because it's so powerful. For example, it is used to build large servers with high performance and high stability; to make the old computers bloom; as desktop or office operating system for individual users or enterprise users, and more. I think any users who are interested in computers, somewhat get tired of Windows, and want to try some new OS, they may want to begin to reach the mysterious Linux operating system. But if you want to make learning Linux easy, you really need a good book for the level of beginners.

#3603
The Mind Map Book is a classic bestseller written by Tony Buzan - inventor of Mind Map, founder of World Memory Championships, originator of World Speed Reading Tournament, organizer of Mind Sports Olympiad, world's super writer, top speaker in the brain and learning aspects, and global public media figure. All other relevant books were written based on it, and many of the authors are just the students of Tony Buzan around the world.

#3576
As an open-source and UNIX-like OS, Linux is so powerful and highly secure that it has been controlling so many IT technology fields of great concern. Therefore, mastering the essential basic knowledge about Linux can make IT professionals scale new heights in work.

#3549
Thinstall (renamed as VMware ThinApp after acquired by VMware) is currently the most popular application virtualization tool. Most often, it is used to make single portable applications, which encapsulate all the related resources of a program (such as EXE, DLL, OCX, registry, etc.) into a single executable (EXE) file, so as to realize the isolation from operating system.

#3206
HTML5 Multimedia: Develop and Design is a simple guideline teaching you how to build native HTML5 multimedia applications for your website (with only less than 300 pages). It is suitable for developers who just learn HTML5 to read as a reference book.

#3174
For self-hosted blogs/websites using CMS building platforms, WordPress has defeated all the competitors, and thus became the king in fact. The key to its success lies in the flexible and powerful plugin & theme extending system.

#3122
Since Red Hat published its last one (9th) release (Red Hat Linux 9) in 2003, they decided not to provide free technical support & product certification any more, and fully turned to the development of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL for short). This made some Red Hat rebuilders (open-source Enterprise Editions, such as White Box Enterprise Linux, Tao Linux, X/OS Linux, Scientific Linux) were born at the right moment. The most active one is CentOS (short for Community Enterprise Operating System).