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Author by : Michael Easter
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2021-05-11
Publisher by : Rodale Books

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Description : “If you’ve been looking for something different to level up your health, fitness, and personal growth, this is it.”—Melissa Urban, Whole30 CEO and New York Times bestselling author of The Book of Boundaries “Michael Easter’s genius is that he puts data around the edges of what we intuitively believe. His work has inspired many to change their lives for the better.”—Dr. Peter Attia, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Outlive Discover the evolutionary mind and body benefits of living at the edges of your comfort zone and reconnecting with the wild—from the author of Scarcity Brain, coming in September! In many ways, we’re more comfortable than ever before. But could our sheltered, temperature-controlled, overfed, underchallenged lives actually be the leading cause of many our most urgent physical and mental health issues? In this gripping investigation, award-winning journalist Michael Easter seeks out off-the-grid visionaries, disruptive genius researchers, and mind-body conditioning trailblazers who are unlocking the life-enhancing secrets of a counterintuitive solution: discomfort. Easter’s journey to understand our evolutionary need to be challenged takes him to meet the NBA’s top exercise scientist, who uses an ancient Japanese practice to build championship athletes; to the mystical country of Bhutan, where an Oxford economist and Buddhist leader are showing the world what death can teach us about happiness; to the outdoor lab of a young neuroscientist who’s found that nature tests our physical and mental endurance in ways that expand creativity while taming burnout and anxiety; to the remote Alaskan backcountry on a demanding thirty-three-day hunting expedition to experience the rewilding secrets of one of the last rugged places on Earth; and more. Along the way, Easter uncovers a blueprint for leveraging the power of discomfort that will dramatically improve our health and happiness, and perhaps even help us understand what it means to be human. The Comfort Crisis is a bold call to break out of your comfort zone and explore the wild within yourself....

Author by : Todd Moore
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2011-12-19
Publisher by : "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

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Description : Got a great game idea? This complete do-it-yourself guide shows you how to make your game idea a reality for the iPhone and iPad. By developing a real game hands-on through the course of this book, you’ll get a thorough introduction to Xcode and Objective-C, while learning how to implement game logic, sophisticated graphics, game physics, sounds, and computer AI. Author Todd Moore taught himself how to create an iPhone game in a week, with no previous knowledge of Apple’s development tools. Now he develops smartphone games and apps full time. With this book, any coder can turn game ideas into real products, ready for the App Store. Get started by writing a simple game in only 20 lines of code Build a complete air hockey game from scratch Learn best practices for tracking multiple screen touches Use animation loops and create collision functions Get the tools you need to build your own stunning game graphics Apply game physics to give your game a sense of realism Record and edit lifelike sound effects, and create your own background music Design a computer player with different levels of difficulty Featuring an introduction by Steve Wozniak Todd Moore founded TMSOFT to create unique smart phone applications and games. His most popular game title, Card Counter, was featured by Engadget, the Los Angeles Times, and CNET TV. Todd’s most popular application, White Noise, was featured by iTunes, Health Magazine, The Washington Post, PC Magazine, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon....

Author by : Matt Lacey
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2018-07-22
Publisher by : Simon and Schuster

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Description : Summary Usability Matters: Mobile-first UX for developers and other accidental designers gives you practical advice and guidance on how to create attractive, elegant, and useful user interfaces for native and web-based mobile apps. Purchase of the print book includes a free eBook in PDF, Kindle, and ePub formats from Manning Publications. About the Technology Just because a mobile app works doesn't mean real people are going to like it. Usability matters! Most mobile developers wind up being part-time designers, and mastering a few core principles of mobile UI can make the difference between app and crap. About the Book Usability Matters is a guide for developers wrestling with the subtle art of mobile design. With each expertly presented example, app developer and designer Matt Lacey provides easy-to-implement techniques that instantly boost your design IQ. Skipping highbrow design theory, he addresses topics like gracefully handling network dropouts and creating intuitive data inputs. Read this book and your apps will look better, your users will be happier, and you might even get some high-fives at the next design review. What's Inside Understanding your users Optimizing input and output Creating fast, responsive experiences Coping with poor network conditions Managing power and resources About the Reader This book is for mobile developers working on native or web-based apps. About the Author Matt Lacey is an independent mobile developer and consultant and a Microsoft MVP. He's built, advised on, and contributed to apps for social networks, film and TV broadcasters, travel companies, banks and financial institutions, sports companies, news organizations, music-streaming services, device manufacturers, and electronics retailers. These apps have an installed base of more than 500,000,000 users and are used every day around the world. Matt previously worked at a broad range of companies, doing many types of development. He has worked at startups, small ISVs, national enterprises, and global consultancies, and written software for servers, desktops, devices, and industrial hardware in more languages than he can remember. He lives in the UK with his wife and two children. Table of Contents Introduction Part 1 - Context Who's using the app? Where and when is the app used? What device is the app running on? Part 2- Input How people interact with the app User-entered data Data not from a user Part 3 - Output Displaying items in the app Non-visible output Part 4 - Responsiveness Understanding the perception of time Making your app start fast Making your app run fast Part 5 - Connectivity Coping with varying network conditions Managing power and resources...

Author by : Catherine Price
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2018-02-13
Publisher by : Ten Speed Press

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Description : Packed with tested strategies and practical tips, this book is the essential, life-changing guide for everyone who owns a smartphone. Is your phone the first thing you reach for in the morning and the last thing you touch before bed? Do you frequently pick it up “just to check,” only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Do you say you want to spend less time on your phone—but have no idea how to do so without giving it up completely? If so, this book is your solution. Award-winning journalist Catherine Price presents a practical, hands-on plan to break up—and then make up—with your phone. The goal? A long-term relationship that actually feels good. You’ll discover how phones and apps are designed to be addictive, and learn how the time we spend on them damages our abilities to focus, think deeply, and form new memories. You’ll then make customized changes to your settings, apps, environment, and mindset that will ultimately enable you to take back control of your life....

Author by : Pamela Paul
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2021-10-26
Publisher by : Crown

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Description : The acclaimed editor of The New York Times Book Review takes readers on a nostalgic tour of the pre-Internet age, offering powerful insights into both the profound and the seemingly trivial things we've lost. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS • “A deft blend of nostalgia, humor and devastating insights.”—People Remember all those ingrained habits, cherished ideas, beloved objects, and stubborn preferences from the pre-Internet age? They’re gone. To some of those things we can say good riddance. But many we miss terribly. Whatever our emotional response to this departed realm, we are faced with the fact that nearly every aspect of modern life now takes place in filtered, isolated corners of cyberspace—a space that has slowly subsumed our physical habitats, replacing or transforming the office, our local library, a favorite bar, the movie theater, and the coffee shop where people met one another’s gaze from across the room. Even as we’ve gained the ability to gather without leaving our house, many of the fundamentally human experiences that have sustained us have disappeared. In one hundred glimpses of that pre-Internet world, Pamela Paul, editor of The New York Times Book Review, presents a captivating record, enlivened with illustrations, of the world before cyberspace—from voicemails to blind dates to punctuation to civility. There are the small losses: postcards, the blessings of an adolescence largely spared of documentation, the Rolodex, and the genuine surprises at high school reunions. But there are larger repercussions, too: weaker memories, the inability to entertain oneself, and the utter demolition of privacy. 100 Things We’ve Lost to the Internet is at once an evocative swan song for a disappearing era and, perhaps, a guide to reclaiming just a little bit more of the world IRL....

Author by : Sherry Turkle
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2016-10-04
Publisher by : Penguin

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Description : “In a time in which the ways we communicate and connect are constantly changing, and not always for the better, Sherry Turkle provides a much needed voice of caution and reason to help explain what the f*** is going on.” —Aziz Ansari, author of Modern Romance Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity—and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground. We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection. Preeminent author and researcher Sherry Turkle has been studying digital culture for over thirty years. Long an enthusiast for its possibilities, here she investigates a troubling consequence: at work, at home, in politics, and in love, we find ways around conversation, tempted by the possibilities of a text or an email in which we don’t have to look, listen, or reveal ourselves. We develop a taste for what mere connection offers. The dinner table falls silent as children compete with phones for their parents’ attention. Friends learn strategies to keep conversations going when only a few people are looking up from their phones. At work, we retreat to our screens although it is conversation at the water cooler that increases not only productivity but commitment to work. Online, we only want to share opinions that our followers will agree with – a politics that shies away from the real conflicts and solutions of the public square. The case for conversation begins with the necessary conversations of solitude and self-reflection. They are endangered: these days, always connected, we see loneliness as a problem that technology should solve. Afraid of being alone, we rely on other people to give us a sense of ourselves, and our capacity for empathy and relationship suffers. We see the costs of the flight from conversation everywhere: conversation is the cornerstone for democracy and in business it is good for the bottom line. In the private sphere, it builds empathy, friendship, love, learning, and productivity. But there is good news: we are resilient. Conversation cures. Based on five years of research and interviews in homes, schools, and the workplace, Turkle argues that we have come to a better understanding of where our technology can and cannot take us and that the time is right to reclaim conversation. The most human—and humanizing—thing that we do. The virtues of person-to-person conversation are timeless, and our most basic technology, talk, responds to our modern challenges. We have everything we need to start, we have each other. Turkle's latest book, The Empathy Diaries (3/2/21) is available now....

Author by : Jin Kim
Languange Used : en
Release Date : 2014-06-20
Publisher by : ITMagnet

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Description : - Length : 260 pages (PDF book pages) “It is a step-by-step guide book for marketing which comprises market research for boosting profitability, marketing strategy, pricing strategy, and measuring performance after launching.” 1. Based on global cases, it contains all kinds of practical methods to launch apps globally and to boost profitability of mobile apps 2. It presents the analysis of app data, operation, application guidelines, the inflow of users based on concrete numbers like KPIs and practical methods of how to analyze it. 3. It suggests strategic frameworks covering App Indexing, ASO(App Store Optimization), SEO(Search Engine Optimization), mobile webs, blog marketing, SNS marketing, PR, and even design, realization and operation of mobile app marketing. “App marketing, how can we start and operate?” The key for success in mobile app business is to completely integrate these three components: product strategy, content strategy and marketing strategy [Table of Contents] 1 STARTING ANDROID MARKETING - The Android Market, It is nothing to sneeze at 2 UNDERSTANDING THE ECOSYSTEM OF ANDROID - Understand the Ecosystem Structure 3 FINDING IDEAS - Good Ideas are Always Around YouImitate Actively - Create a Mashup App - Use Open Source codes - Apply the Newest Technology 4 CONDUCTING MARKET RESEARCH - Market Research is Really Important! - Are You Confident of Success? 5 PLANNING AN ANDROID APP - Set a Target Version - How to Make Apps that Sell Well? - Never Do These 6 APP DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT - Guides for Development and Design, Know This - App Development, Quality is the First Priority 7 DEVISING A MARKETING STRATEGY - Understand the Flow of the Strategy Road Map for App Marketing - Promote Your App through Marketing before Launching - Strive to Succeed Within 30 Days - What to Do after 30 Days 8 ESTABLISHING PRICING STRATEGY - Understand the Monetization Measures for Individual App Business Model - Setting the Price, Think Cautiously! - How Much to Charge? - Try to Maximize Profit in a Paid App 9 APPLYING REVENUE REALIZATION MEASURE - Make Money with Free Apps 10 STABILIZING THE PRODUCT - Strengthen the Essential Value 11 LAUNCHING AN ANDROID APP AND AN OPERATING SERVICE - Establishing Operation Strategies is the Key - Finally, You Launch an App! - Set the App Coverage - Understand the Knowledge that is Helpful for a Service Operation 12 HOW TO GET SPOTTED IN THE MARKET - Aim for Top 50 in Free and Paid Sections 13 EXECUTE MARKETING PROGRAMS - Is it a Product Worthy of Marketing? - The Key is Exposure and PR - Secure Word-of-Mouth Marketing Channels 14 ADVERTISING - Enjoy Maximum Effect with Minimum Investment 15 MAINTENANCE - Keep the Tension 16 MEASURING THE PERFORMANCE AFTER LAUNCHING - Business without Measuring is Dangerous - Design an App Service Operation Process that Enables Comprehensive Management - Understand Major Indexes that are Quantifiable - Apply the Models Appropriate for App Service Analysis - Set Service KPI centered on OMTM (One Metric That Matters) - Acquire Significant Analysis Data by Applying Professional Analysis Tools - Understand the Types of the Collected Statistics Data - Using Data Analysis that Increases the Actual Revenue [Book Review by Publisher] Now that app business is creating a new paradigm, This is the Real Android Marketing is a must-read book for everyone who is interested in or related to android app business— student, app marketer, app designer, app developer, and app businessman— regardless of the fields. The author has accumulated experiences and insights by mastering diverse businesses in web and app as a former developer and businessman who majored in management and put them into this book in ways for readers to understand easily with his own wit. The android market is already overflowing with so many excellent apps just for you to jump in only with business plan and app development ability. The author emphasizes that the key for success in this unstable reality is the business that organically combines product strategy, contents strategy, and marketing strategy. With the know-how’s of this author who has both theory and actual experience, lead your app plan, development, marketing, and business to success....