Make microcontrollers, PCs, servers, and smartphones talk to each other.Building electronic projects that interact with the physical world is good fun. But when the devices you've built start to talk to each other, things really get interesting. With 33 easy-to-build projects, Making Things Talk shows you how to get your gadgets to communicate with you and your environment. It’s perfect for people with little technical training but a lot of interest.Maybe you're a science teacher who wants to show students how to monitor the weather in several locations at once.

Hear greatly improves audio quality in movies and music throughout all of your Mac OS X applications. With Hear, music is richer, movie sound and dialog is clearer and games will blow you out of your chair!

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and most influential pop albums from the 1955 through 2003. By a carefully selected team of the International Critics, each album is a groundbreaking work seminal to the understanding and appreciation of music from the 1950s to the present.

1001 Albums You Must Hear Before You Die is a highly readable list of the best, the most important, and most influential pop albums from the 1955 through 2003. By a carefully selected team of the International Critics, each album is a groundbreaking work seminal to the understanding and appreciation of music from the 1950s to the present. Included with each entry are production details and credits as well as reproductions of original album cover art. Perhaps most important of all, each album comes with an authoritative description of its Importance and Featured influence. Among the Critics involved in selected in the list are some of the best known music Reviewers and commentators, including Theunis Bates (music writer for Time and urban editor at worldpop), Jon Harrington (staff writer at MTV), Seth Jacobson (writer for Dazed & confused), as well as many others.

Hear greatly improves audio quality in movies and music throughout all of your Mac OS X and Windows applications. With Hear, music is richer, movie sound and dialog is clearer and games will blow you out of your chair!