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Preparing your website to use Gridster

by Marcos Placona | May 2013 | Open Source

This article by Marcos Placona, from the book Instant_jQuery Drag and Drop Grids How-to, will describe all the necessary steps to get Gridster up and running on your website, as well as demonstrate how to include any of the dependencies needed by the library.

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Quick start

by Limoke Oscar | May 2013 | Web Development

In this article by Limoke Oscar, authors of Instant Google Map Maker Starter [Instant], we will show you how to perform one of the core tasks of Google Map Maker—mapping the places you love and know. Follow the steps to create your own map features, which will be the basis of most of your work in Google Map Maker.

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Animating capabilities of Cinema 4D

by Aaron Kaminar | May 2013 | Open Source

Cinema 4D is a powerful 3D application created by Maxon computing. It is relatively easy to learn and use. Despite this, it also has a host of powerful features that can be used to create dynamic and eye catching 3D images and animations, quickly and efficiently. In this article by Aaron Kaminar from the book Instant Cinema 4D Starter, we will walk through some of the animating capabilities of this powerful application.

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LESS CSS Preprocessor

by Alex Libby | May 2013 | Open Source Web Development

In this article by Alex Libby author of Instant LESS CSS Preprocessor How-to, we will take you on a journey through using the LESS library file as a CSS preprocessor language, and show you how the little power of JavaScript can make a positive impact on your CSS development workflow.

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A Tour Around GIMP

by Fazreil Amreen | May 2013 | Open Source Web Graphics & Video

In this article by Fazreil Amreen author of Instant GIMP Starter [Instant],Let's take a tour around GIMP for a start. This tour will give you an exposure to basic tasks to do with GIMP. Along the way, we will introduced to the GIMP conceptual idea that makes it different than some of the other image manipulation programs.

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