"As the only woman programmer at her firm, Lark is thrilled to land an account for a huge client. But her dream job quickly becomes a nightmare when she accidentally projects a scandalous (and completely unsolicited) picture from her phone onto the screen during a presentation. Before she can recover, her coworkers jump in to steal the account, leaving Lark jobless and broke. When a friend suggests text message-based sex work as a stopgap between...

"Ever wonder how your text message gets from your phone to your friend's phone? You type it, hit send, and boom -- the text appears on your friend's phone just moments later. But how?! From your brain to your fingers to your phone, once you hit send, off your message goes on a journey that seems impossibly far: traveling through the air, underground, under oceans, and even through mountains, in seconds. Turns out texts are big on adventure, and this...

In The Limehouse Text, Cyrus Barker and Thomas Llewelyn discover a pawn ticket among the effects of Barker's late assistant, leading them to London's Chinese district, Limehouse. There they retrieve an innocent-looking book that proves to be a rare and secret text stolen from a Nanking monastery, containing lethal martial arts techniques forbidden to the West. With the political situation between the British Empire and Imperial China already unstable,...

Takes an in-depth look at Photoshop's powerful tools for creating and customizing text. Chances are, when you think of Adobe Photoshop, working with text isn't the first thing you think of. And yet Photoshop offers powerful tools for creating and customizing text. In this course Tim Grey explores all the possibilities—from basic tools and techniques for adding and formatting text to advanced options like presets, styles, layer effects, and text...

Create type in Illustrator that's both beautiful and communicative, whether it's destined for logos, brochures, signs, infographics, or simple documents. In this installment of Illustrator Insider Training, author Mordy Golding shows how to create type that's both beautiful and communicative, whether it's destined for logos, brochures, signs, infographics, or simple documents. This course covers core typography concepts, such as working with Unicode...

Discover some of the basic, not-so-basic, and downright hidden features of the Sublime Text 2 code editor, and become a more productive developer. Sublime Text 2 is a cross-platform text and code editor for OS X, Windows, and Linux with many innovative features and a thriving ecosystem of add-on packages. This course reveals some of the basic, not-so-basic, and downright hidden features of the editor, and shows you how to become a more productive...

An author-preferred edition of the story of Richard Mayhew, who discovers an alternate city beneath London, reconciles inconsistencies between the U.S. and U.K. versions, reinstates previously cut scenes, and incorporates the Neverwhere tale "How the Marquis Got His Coat Back."

Learn key techniques for cleansing and processing text in R, and discover how to convert text to a form that's ready for analytics and predictions. Today’s big data and analytics pipelines are consuming more and more text data generated through websites, social media, and private communications. But deriving insights from text isn't straightforward; it requires a series of techniques and forms for preparing text for analytics and machine learning....

Learn how to use text summarization with the Hugging Face AI. The Hugging Face AI community aspires to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science. In this course, Janani Ravi guides you through using this powerful AI tool to summarize text. Learn how extractive text summarization works, as well as its intermediate representations. Explore evaluation metrics, and find out how to navigate and access information...

Learn the etiquette you need to improve your business emails, phone calls, text communications, and writing. Business etiquette skills are just as important today as ever—they impact an individual's communication, confidence, and career. In this course, etiquette expert Toni Purvis guides you through essential etiquette for business communications. Learn about email etiquette, with topics including subject lines, using gender and pronouns respectfully,...