Send to a FriendTOP 10 BOOKS – iPHONE
The top 10 most read books about iPhone and iPhone development in the past month include:
- Beginning iPhone 4 Development: Exploring the iOS SDK (Apress)
- Head First iPhone
Development (O’Reilly Media) - Programming iOS 4
(O’Reilly Media) - iPhone Programming:
The Big Nerd Ranch Guide
(Big Nerd Ranch Guides) - Sams Teach Yourself iPhone Application Development in 24 Hours, Second Edition (Que)
- Learn iPhone and iPad cocos2d Game Development (Apress)
- Learning iPhone Programming
(O’Reilly Media) - Learning Cocos2D: A Hands-On Guide to Building iOS Games with Cocos2D, Box2D, and Chipmunk (Addison-Wesley)
- iPhone and iPad in Action: Introduction to SDK Development (Manning Publications)
- iPhone 3D Programming
(O’Reilly)
books giveaway
Not able to make TechEd? Play catch up with the latest and greatest Microsoft technologies books from Sams Publishing and Addison-Wesley Professional. Sams and AW are giving away a library of books on Microsoft Programming or Microsoft Servers. Two winners will be randomly selected on June 30th. The library includes popular titles such as 101 Windows Phone 7 Apps, Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Unleashed, and Effective C#.
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Get it for the iPad Did you see the news? Now you can use Safari To Go on your iPad to enjoy full access to the thousands of books and videos in the Safari Books Online library. Search, navigate and organize your content using the intuitive interface designed specifically for iPad. Plus, select a book of choice to read offline when you are on the go. Safari To Go has been downloaded 30,000 times in its first few weeks. Ready To Go?
Visit the App Store to download the latest version of the Safari To Go iPad app. 
The Safari Books Online video player has been revamped to improve performance, provide a more user friendly and intuitive interface and to allow you to view video on your mobile devices - you get the fastest possible method of video viewing, tailored to the specific device and bandwidth being used for access.
The number of video tutorials in the library keeps getting bigger. Safari Books Online has over 1,300 videos on a wide variety of topics. The 10 most popular videos in the past month include:
- Java Fundamentals I and II (Video Training) (Prentice Hall)
- Programming in Objective-C 2.0 LiveLessons, Part I: Language Fundamentals and Part II: iPhone Programming and the Foundation Framework (Addison-Wesley)
- Developing Android Applications with Java, Part 1 (O'Reilly Media)
- McCullough and Berglund on Mastering Git (O'Reilly Media)
- Randal Schwartz on Learning Perl (O'Reilly Media)
- C# 2010 Fundamentals I, II, and III LiveLessons (Video Training Sneak Peek) (Prentice Hall)
- PHP MySQL (InfiniteSkills)
- C# 2008 Fundamentals I and II (Video Training) (Prentice Hall)
- The Douglas Crockford JavaScript Master Class (O'Reilly Media)
- Ruby on Rails 3 Live Lessons (Video Training): Learn Rails by Example (Addison-Wesley)
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