Apple's iWork is more versatile than ever now that there are versions for Mac, iOS, and even iCloud. The only thing iWork doesn't include is its own how-to guide. That's where this friendly, jargon-free Missing Manual comes in. With complete instructions and helpful examples, you'll quickly learn how to create stunning documents, slideshows, and spreadsheets with iWork's Pages, Keynote, and Numbers.

The important stuff you need to know: Create elegant files in minutes. Save tons of time by using iWork's collection of prebuilt templates and themes.Craft a variety of documents. Use Pages to design attractive newsletters, catalogs, brochures, flyers, and posters.Build eye-popping presentations. Turn Keynote's themes and easy-to-use cinematic effects into beautiful custom slideshows.Organize and clearly convey information. Jazz up your Numbers spreadsheets with charts, images, and videos.Always have your work on hand. Store your files in iCloud and have them sync automatically to your Mac and iOS devices.Work anywhere, any time. Use the web-based iWork for iCloud to create projects on any computer--even a PC.Versions covered: This edition covers Pages for Mac 5.1, Keynote for Mac 6.1, Numbers for Mac 3.1, version 2.1 of each iOS app, and iWork for iCloud.

So you've got an idea for an iPhone app - along with everyone else on the planet. Set your app apart with elegant design, efficient usability, and a healthy dollop of personality. "Best iPhone App Design" takes you from concept to polished interface design with plain-spoken principles and a rich collection of visual examples for designing exceptional interfaces for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Witty, down-to-earth, and irreverent, this guide is for everyone involved in the app design process: designers, programmers, managers, and marketers. You'll discover practical advice for sharpening your app's features, creating an effortless user experience, using iPhone controls correctly, and creating your own personality-packed visuals. At every stage, you'll find a gallery of app screenshots to illustrate best practices and inspire you with innovative designs. Case studies let you look over the shoulders of the best app developers, following the evolution of app designs from early sketches to finished product. The book's common-sense principles will equip you to ask the right questions throughout the design process to make aesthetic, technical, and usability decisions that will make your app a pleasure to use.

With iWork '09, Apple's productivity applications have come of age. Unfortunately, their user guides are stuck in infancy. That's where iWork '09: The Missing Manual comes in. This book quickly guides you through everything you need to know about the Pages word-processor, the Numbers spreadsheet, and the Keynote presentation program that Al Gore and Steve Jobs made famous. Friendly and entertaining, iWork '09: The Missing Manual gives you crystal-clear and jargon-free explanations of iWork's capabilities, its advantages over similar programs -- and its limitations. You'll see these programs through an objective lens that shows you which features work well and which don't. With this book, you will: Produce stunning documents and cinema-quality digital presentationsTake advantage of Mac OS X's advanced typography and graphics capabilitiesLearn how to use the collection of themes and templates included with iWorkGet undocumented tips, tricks, and secrets for each programIntegrate with other iLife programs to use photos, audio, and video clips

Learn why iWork is the topic most requested by Missing Manual fans. One of the few sources available on Apple's incredible suite of programs, "iWork '09: The Missing Manual" will help you get the best performance out of Pages, Numbers, Keynote, and more in no time.

Josh Clark and Chuck Bryant started the podcast Stuff You Should Know back in 2008 because they were curious-curious about the world around them, curious about what they might have missed in their formal educations, and curious to dig deeper on stuff they thought they understood. As it turns out, they aren't the only curious ones. They've since amassed a rabid fan base, making Stuff You Should Know one of the most popular podcasts in the world. Armed with their inquisitive natures and a passion for sharing, they research and discuss a wide variety of topics-always working to uncover the weird, fascinating, delightful, or unexpected pieces of any given subject, and then talking about it together in an accessible and humorous way. The pair have now taken their near-boundless "whys" and "hows" from your earbuds to the pages of a book for the first time-and with it comes loads of new content, covering subjects about which they've long wondered or wanted to explore in greater detail. Follow along as they dig into the underlying stories and interesting ways things fit into the world, touching on everything from the origin of Murphy beds, to the history of facial hair, to the psychology of being lost. An additional layer of visual material allows the duo to further embellish their engaging storytelling and bring these topics to life in a snappy new way-including charts and graphs, illustrations, and sidebars for rabbit-hole tangents and wandering digressions. Have you ever wondered about the world around you, and wished to see the magic in everyday things? Come get curious with Stuff You Should Know. With Josh and Chuck as your guide, there's something interesting about everything (...except maybe jackhammers)

The Bare Bones Book of Screenwriting is one of the most authoritative, popular and useful books on screenwriting, written by a USC Cinema-Television alumni with several sold, optioned, produced and award winning screenplays. Using a 'let's-get-down-to-brass-tacks' approach it focuses on the essentials of screenwriting: creative, technical and business principles. For teens, college students and beginners of all ages, this easy to understand filmmaking resource provides screenplay tools to help with feature film writing, short screenplays and TV scripts: script formatting, screenplay outlines, contest and competitions, writing the synopsis, treatments, story development, the hero's journey, three act structure, book adaptations, character, dialogue, structure, plot, mechanics, comedy writing, selling a screenplay, screenwriting agents and managers, working with producers, directors and more. Referred to in the industry as "the bootcamp for screenwriters" this is one tool any aspiring screenwriter needs in their toolbelt. An "all in one" guide to writing screenplays that sell for beginners and intermediate writers. Film school is expensive, and won't give you real world experience. The lessons will teach you the correct format and storytelling rules, tricks and mistakes to avoid when writing your screenplay. Any film or TV writer can benefit as it walks the reader through creating a professional industry standard Hollywood screenplay to attract agents and filmmakers. Students, non WGA and WGA members use this for help during outlining and writing screenplays. Film school or college can only teach an aspiring film writer so much. This screenwriter's "bible" offers trade secrets and education only found by working as a professional screenwriter. "The perfect guide for new writers. Sharp prose and practical advice in simple English with all the nuts, bolts, and screws you'll need." - Ravi Malhotra (Academy Award winning producer, West Bank Story). "Josh has written the most digestible and realistic I've read dealing with plot, format and the realty of marketing my screenplay. It takes the confusion away." - Michael Klima (Editor Lucasfilm, USC Cinema-Television Alumni, Director "My Sister's Keeper" starring Henry Winkler and Bruce Davison)