A collection of short stories, reminiscences, poems, personal letters, recollections, prose, observations, anecdotes, remembrances, experiences, tributes, quotes and appreciations. There's comedy, tragedy, beauty, inclemency; matters of significnce and of nothingness; and this book is one man's view of the building blocks of love, life, and time. There have been more interesting lives lived, more dramatic, more daring, intriguing... but this is about mine... in so many words.
Practically every crime now involves some aspect of digital evidence. This is the most recent volume in the Advances in Digital Forensics series. It describes original research results and innovative applications in the emerging discipline of digital forensics. In addition, it highlights some of the major technical and legal issues related to digital evidence and electronic crime investigations. This book contains a selection of twenty-eight edited papers from the Fourth Annual IFIP WG 11.9 Conference on Digital Forensics, held at Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan in the spring of 2008.
A one-stop guide to making the most of your desktop PC or laptop computer PCs and Laptops For Dummies is the essential user's guide to the features your PC or laptop has to offer—and how to use them successfully. With this book as your coach, you can jump over technological hurdles with ease, navigating the hardware and software of your personal computer. Regardless of what brand of computer you use, you'll learn to navigate the latest version of Windows. You'll also explore how PCs, laptops, and other mobile devices can be used together, and how to keep your data secure. This Dummies guide is your first step toward computer-whiz status, saving you time and energy with everything in one place. Learn about Microsoft Windows, the operating system for PC and laptop Discover PC and laptop features you never knew about, and get your devices to play nicely together Identify the specs and features you need, so you can purchase a computer that's a fit for you Get easy-to-understand information, advice, and tricks at your fingertips This is the perfect Dummies guide for PC or laptop users at home or at work who need a go-to guide for their hardware and software questions.
This celebration of high-end men's wristwatches is a collection of essays, timelines, and more than 250 color photographs. Aimed at collectors, watch enthusiasts, and anyone with an interest in fashion, the book ranges from in-depth looks at specific models, including classics and contemporary timepieces, to overviews of pilot's watches, diver's watches, and other watches developed for various purposes. Short essays and timelines take a look at pop culture, including topics such as cars and watches, watches in space, watches in films, famous advertising campaigns, and celebrities and their timepieces. Learn about today's customized watches, smart watches, and a watch that shows the time in words only. Featured watch brands include Audemars Piguet, Omega, Rolex, IWC, Patek Philippe, Hublot, Tag Hauer, and more. The author also presents his top 10 list for the ultimate watch collector.
Written by a highly successful author team, this handbook goes beyond the basics with technical references and practical troubleshooting, administrative tools, networking technologies, and more. The authors help readers maximize the many new features of Mac OS X, including enhanced robustness and full multitasking capability. The CD includes dozens of shareware and freeware utilities to modify tasks.
This book tells the reader about the history of different timepieces, why they are given different names such as the chronograph or the Diver's watch and how they revolutionized human practices in their time. The book has classified 10 different types of watches; Swiss watch, Quartz watch, Radio controlled watch, Chronograph watch, Diver's watch, Pilot's watch, Space watch, Military watch, Sports watch and the Race watch.Each of the watches discussed above have come from some idea about making a certain practice better than before. These watches have served to make life easier for man in his pursuit to achieve success. The book starts off with an introduction where a brief history of the watch is discussed. The first inventor of the wristwatch (though there is not widespread agreement on who invented it), a wrist watch given as a gift to the Queen of England, and afterwards to the Queen of Naples and how that made the wristwatch become a fashion statement for women. Then the history of the wristwatch takes it turn to a more practical use; War. It was used by soldiers on the battlefield in order to coordinate and time attacks. This led to the wrist watch being manufactured for Mass Production. The Garstin company was the first to patent a watch design. The watch was used by the British in their colonial struggle. Afterwards, the discussion shifts towards the design changing overtime, simple leather straps and bulky watch faces becoming more thinner and sleeker. The wristwatch overtime became desirable for men as well after soldiers were recognized by watches on their wrists. The introduction hints further in the book about how WWl and WWll revolutionized watch-making. The first chapter is about Swiss watches. A thorough introduction is given about Swiss watches, the history of how the wristwatch became so central to Swiss national identity and how the Swiss were the first in most major watch innovations, such as the first watch-maker's guild, the first perpetual watch, the first waterproof watch and the first quartz watch all came from Switzerland. Further, a discussion on how the Swiss prioritized looks over timekeeping when they made a watch, and the effort they exerted in the fashioning of each timepiece. Moreover, Daniel Jean Richard's innovation in watch-making practices revolutionized the Swiss watch manufacturing process, and the idea of the Establisseur came into being. The second chapter informs the reader about the Quartz watch. The pioneer company in this technology Seiko invented a Quartz watch that was used to time events in the 1964 Tokyo Summer Olympics. A general idea about how a Quartz operates in the watch and regulates the gears within it. Further, Quartz being the reason behind the fall of Swiss global hegemony over wristwatches and the mechanical watch soon becoming a luxury item is outlined as well, which strengthened Japanese and American watch companies. The third chapter talks about the technology of Radio controlled watches, the watches are relatively a new breakthrough, but have allowed the user the comfort to never having to set their watches again. Junghans is considered the first in inventing a radio controlled watch, and Citizen being the first Japanese brand to experiment with this technology. A brief note on the atomic watch is also within this chapter which can keep time accuracy of one second in 1000 years. The fourth chapter called Chronograph watches credits Louis Moinet as its inventor. The chronograph history and the role of King Louis IVIII of France in making it sophisticated is discussed. The chronograph became very popular in the world of racing and watch companies started to focus production according to the demands of the race track. The book ends on the note that though in the world of smart watches, the mechanical watch should not be belittled because it has made human progress possible.
This vintage book contains a fascinating treatise on the history of clocks and timepieces. It contains a wealth of interesting historical information from the first sun dial to the pocket watch, and it is highly recommended for horologists and those with an interest in the development of timekeeping. Contents include: "The Man Animal and Nature's Time Pieces," "The Land Between the Rivers," "How Man Began to Model After Nature," "Telling Time by the 'Water Thief'," "How Father Times Got his Hour Glass," "The Clocks Which Named Themselves," "The Modern Clock and its Creators," "The Watch That Was Hatched From the Nuremberg Egg," et cetera. Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. We are republishing this volume now in an affordable, modern edition complete with a specially commissioned new introduction on the history of clocks and watches. First published in first published in 1919.
