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Buddhist Jewelry 18 Sacred Mud From Ganges Buddha Amulet
$24.99
Some of these old yak bone beads have said the OM Mantra a million times! From the most mysterious and mystical place in the world, own a piece of history! The ultimate conversation piece, magic amulet. Blessed old clay amulet. Blessing by monks in ritual for protection. Our base shipping fee is based on the large & heavy antiques that we custom build foam boxes for. We have marked small items at less than half what we were previously selling the items for to offset the shipping fee. Our apology that we can not offer 2 base rates. Dzi stones may have made their first appearance between 2000 BC to 1000 BC, in ancient Tibet: a few thousand were brought back by Tibetan soldiers from Persia. Dzis were crafted using agate as the base stone and then fabricated with lines and circles using unique ancient methods and techniques by Persian craftsmen. Fear of the evil eye was taken very seriously by these people, so they created talismans with eyes on them as a fight fire with fire form of protection. Shepherds and farmers pick them up in the grasslands or while cultivating fields. Because dzi are found in the earth, Tibetans cannot conceive of them as man-made. One reason the beads may be found near the surface in places such as freshly tilled fields, for example, may be because ancient monks were burned in funeral pyres (wearing the beads), and long after the remains were gone, the beads therefore remained, and were found at later dates. Since knowledge of the bead is derived from oral traditions, the beads have provoked controversy concerning their source, method of manufacture and even precise definition. In Tibetan culture they are believed to attract protector deities. Dzi bead ("zee") is a bead stone of mysterious origin worn as part of a necklace and sometimes as a bracelet. In several Asian cultures, including that of Tibet, the bead is considered to provide positive spiritual benefit.

Diesel Bags Sleek & Chic Glib Clutch (Black)
$110.00

4GB GREEN New Generation Generic Brand MP3 MP4 Versatile Multifunction Multimedia Player
$120.00
Brand New 4GB 1.8" versatile multifunction 10-in-1 MP3/MP4 Digital Media Player. Elegant Plated Aluminium Slim Case! This all around portable media center plays MP3/MP4 files, video clips, views photos, E-book, plays and records music from built-in FM radio, digital voice recording, and even stores files as a portable hard drive! It's a complete MINI-POWERHOUSE, which is Lightweight and small but HUGE in capabilities! Very easy to use, just hook it up to your computer's USB Port with USB cable included. It will be recognized in the file Explorer as Removable Disk. Just copy your multimedia files and you are ready to go in minutes. No need of any proprietary software like I Tunes. Plus use it as a storage drive to transfer or keep a backup of your important files. Its a very versatile, and innovative item that any one can love to have! It has original TRUE FLASH Memory installed, also genuine Philips FM Radio chip on the PCB Board! Buy with confidence, all the chips used in the player are original and genuine by very well known manufacturers! FCC inspected for quality all the way through! Support formats: MP1/2/3/4, WMA, WMV, WWA, ASF, MTV, MPGE, JPG, BMP, TXT, MOV, AVI, AMV video playing (AMV tools can convert and compress video format into AMV to replay) Built-in rechargeable Lithium Battery - Up to 6 hours of playback. 7 types of inside EQ Presets for your Music: Natural, Rock, Popular, Classic, Soft, Jazz, DBB. 8 presets EQ: Jazz, Classic, Pop, Rock, Natural, 3D, Bass, custom. A-B multiple REPEAT function: loop one, loop folder, loop all.

Foundations of GTK+ Development (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
$49.99
first of all, as someone who has already done a handful of small, basic GTK+ projects, i bought this book in hope to find some more information on how to build custom widgets, and how to incorporate custom widgets into a new/existing project. that was my goal.

this book is for the person who has no Internet/web-searching skills whatsoever, as well as the person who has no native/core understanding of how computers work. it is definitely a 'how to program' book for those who have no clue on how to program. the book goes into pretty good detail of all of the native widgets available in GTK, plus it talks a little bit about Glade. there is a chapter on Glib, and there is 1 [small] chapter on creating custom widgets.

i find the [long] chapter on Glib useless. this is because Glib is actually one of the best documented OS libraries out there. the Glib documentation page is pretty thorough, and there are lots of examples out there. in my opinion, this was a waste of a chapter/paper. a quick visit to a codesearch page will provide lots of easy examples of what you are looking for in Glib. i can understand a reference book dedicated to Glib (a good idea, actually...), but glazing over it in a long chapter isnt worth it, because i can get that same cookie-cutter, mediocre information on the web pretty quickly.

the areas that this book shines are chapters 7, 8, and 9. these are chapters over the text view widget, the tree view widget, and menus and toolbars. the text view widget has many facets because of the buffers involved, and this book covers them. the tree view widget can be as simple or as complicated as you want, and this book touches on some good concepts. same goes for menus and toolbars. these are the least documented widget sets on the internet (there is a big tree view tutorial out there, but it is old), so these chapters are nice to have.

the chapter on custom widgets didnt help much. his 2 examples of custom widgets are: a small program that displays an IP address in textboxes (each octet in a textbox, and with rules applied so only numbers can be entered, valid range...), and a scrolling marquee (just scrolling text). there is some mildly useful info in these chapters, but it is too lightweight to really help and be worth much. there are only a handful of tutorials on the internet on how to create C-based custom GTK widgets, and they all contain the same information that this guy is giving us.

if you want to learn some detail of every widget in GTK (or at least in Glade), then buy the book. but, i would say that with 2-4 hours of time and $0 of investment, you can sit down and screw around with Glade enough to figure out almost everything that this book has to say about the widgets and Glade. i opened up Glade for the first time, and within a few hours, understood almost everything there is to know about Glade and what it is doing, as well as all of the widgets contained therein.

in summary, this book is for anyone who has no clue what they are doing, and is either no good at using search engines (or just doesn't want to). if you're doing a GTK project, you have more than likely been scouring the Internet for hours already, and I would say that most of this book contains information that you have already seen. it really doesn't bring anything new to the table, although the chapters 7, 8, and 9 are useful, as information on those subjects isn't really centralized anywhere on the Internet.

this book could have shined if it had gone into 2 or 3 in-depth, full-fledged projects involving both GTK widgets and custom widgets (with a little bit of Cairo). there is no great reference [online or book] on how to build a project with both normal & custom widgets (with some Cairo), and this book refused to touch on those subjects as well, which stinks. it is mostly regurgitated information that you are either likely to see or likely to have seen in your initial learning/development of GTK+ projects.