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Hive is a Big Data processing tool that helps you leverage the power of distributed computing and Hadoop for analytical processing. Its interface is somewhat similar to SQL, but with some key differences. This course is an end-to-end guide to using Hive and connecting the dots to SQL. It’s perfect for both professional and aspiring data analysts and engineers alike. Don’t know SQL? No problem, there’s a primer included in this course!

• Access 86 lectures & 15 hours of content 24/7
• Write complex analytical queries on data in Hive & uncover insights
• Leverage ideas of partitioning & bucketing to optimize queries in Hive
• Customize Hive w/ user defined functions in Java & Python
• Understand what goes on under the hood of Hive w/ HDFS & MapReduce
  

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  • Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
  • Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
  • Certification of completion not included
  • Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
  • Experience level required: all levels, but knowledge of SQL and Java would be helpful

  


  Compatibility

  • Internet required

  THE EXPERT

  Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

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Big Data sounds pretty daunting doesn’t it? Well, this course aims to make it a lot simpler for you. Using Hadoop and MapReduce, you’ll learn how to process and manage enormous amounts of data efficiently. Any company that collects mass amounts of data, from startups to Fortune 500, need people fluent in Hadoop and MapReduce, making this course a must for anybody interested in data science.

• Access 71 lectures & 13 hours of content 24/7
• Set up your own Hadoop cluster using virtual machines (VMs) & the Cloud
• Understand HDFS, MapReduce & YARN & their interaction
• Use MapReduce to recommend friends in a social network, build search engines & generate bigrams
• Chain multiple MapReduce jobs together
• Write your own customized partitioner
• Learn to globally sort a large amount of data by sampling input files

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime access
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals–Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh–who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

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Analysts and data scientists typically have to work with several systems to effectively manage mass sets of data. Spark, on the other hand, provides you a single engine to explore and work with large amounts of data, run machine learning algorithms, and perform many other functions in a single interactive environment. This course’s focus on new and innovating technologies in data science and machine learning makes it an excellent one for anyone who wants to work in the lucrative, growing field of Big Data.

• Access 52 lectures & 8 hours of content 24/7
• Use Spark for a variety of analytics & machine learning tasks
• Implement complex algorithms like PageRank & Music Recommendations
• Work w/ a variety of datasets from airline delays to Twitter, web graphs, & product ratings
• Employ all the different features & libraries of Spark, like RDDs, Dataframes, Spark SQL, MLlib, Spark Streaming & GraphX

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Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels, but some knowledge of Python and Java are assumed

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

The functional programming nature and the availability of a REPL environment make Scala particularly well suited for a distributed computing framework like Spark. Using these two technologies in tandem can allow you to effectively analyze and explore data in an interactive environment with extremely fast feedback. This course will teach you how to best combine Spark and Scala, making it perfect for aspiring data analysts and Big Data engineers.

• Access 51 lectures & 8.5 hours of content 24/7
• Use Spark for a variety of analytics & machine learning tasks
• Understand functional programming constructs in Scala
• Implement complex algorithms like PageRank & Music Recommendations
• Work w/ a variety of datasets from airline delays to Twitter, web graphs, & Product Ratings
• Use the different features & libraries of Spark, like RDDs, Dataframes, Spark SQL, MLlib, Spark Streaming, & GraphX
• Write code in Scala REPL environments & build Scala applications w/ an IDE
  

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  • Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
  • Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
  • Certification of completion not included
  • Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
  • Experience level required: all levels, but some knowledge of Java or C++ is assumed

  


  Compatibility

  • Internet required

  THE EXPERT

  Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

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For Big Data engineers and data analysts, HBase is an extremely effective databasing tool for organizing and manage massive data sets. HBase allows an increased level of flexibility, providing column oriented storage, no fixed schema and low latency to accommodate the dynamically changing needs of applications. With the 25 examples contained in this course, you’ll get a complete grasp of HBase that you can leverage in interviews for Big Data positions.

• Access 41 lectures & 4.5 hours of content 24/7
• Set up a database for your application using HBase
• Integrate HBase w/ MapReduce for data processing tasks
• Create tables, insert, read & delete data from HBase
• Get a complete understanding of HBase & its role in the Hadoop ecosystem
• Explore CRUD operations in the shell, & with the Java API

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Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels, but some knowledge Java is assumed

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

Think about the last time you saw a completely unorganized spreadsheet. Now imagine that spreadsheet was 100,000 times larger. Mind-boggling, right? That’s why there’s Pig. Pig works with unstructured data to wrestle it into a more palatable form that can be stored in a data warehouse for reporting and analysis. With the massive sets of disorganized data many companies are working with today, people who can work with Pig are in major demand. By the end of this course, you could qualify as one of those people.

• Access 34 lectures & 5 hours of content 24/7
• Clean up server logs using Pig
• Work w/ unstructured data to extract information, transform it, & store it in a usable form
• Write intermediate level Pig scripts to munge data
• Optimize Pig operations to work on large data sets

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Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels, but some knowledge of SQL, Hadoop, and MapReduce is assumed

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

Data sets can outgrow traditional databases, much like children outgrow clothes. Unlike, children’s growth patterns, however, massive amounts of data can be extremely unpredictable and unstructured. For Big Data, the Cassandra distributed database is the solution, using partitioning and replication to ensure that your data is structured and available even when nodes in a cluster go down. Children, you’re on your own.

• Access 44 lectures & 5.5 hours of content 24/7
• Set up & manage a cluster using the Cassandra Cluster Manager (CCM)
• Create keyspaces, column families, & perform CRUD operations using the Cassandra Query Language (CQL)
• Design primary keys & secondary indexes, & learn partitioning & clustering keys
• Understand restrictions on queries based on primary & secondary key design
• Discover tunable consistency using quorum & local quorum
• Learn architecture & storage components: Commit Log, MemTable, SSTables, Bloom Filters, Index File, Summary File & Data File
• Build a Miniature Catalog Management System using the Cassandra Java driver

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Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels, but some knowledge of SQL, Hadoop, and MapReduce is assumed

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

Working with Big Data, obviously, can be a very complex task. That’s why it’s important to master Oozie. Oozie makes managing a multitude of jobs at different time schedules, and managing entire data pipelines significantly easier as long as you know the right configurations parameters. This course will teach you how to best determine those parameters, so your workflow will be significantly streamlined.

• Access 23 lectures & 3 hours of content 24/7
• Install & set up Oozie
• Configure Workflows to run jobs on Hadoop
• Create time-triggered & data-triggered Workflows
• Build & optimize data pipelines using Bundles

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels, but some knowledge of Hadoop and MapReduce is assumed

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

Flume and Sqoop are important elements of the Hadoop ecosystem, transporting data from sources like local file systems to data stores. This is an essential component to organizing and effectively managing Big Data, making Flume and Sqoop great skills to set you apart from other data analysts.

• Access 16 lectures & 2 hours of content 24/7
• Use Flume to ingest data to HDFS & HBase
• Optimize Sqoop to import data from MySQL to HDFS & Hive
• Ingest data from a variety of sources including HTTP, Twitter & MySQL

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Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels, but knowledge of HDFS, HBase, and Hive shells is required

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Loonycorn is comprised of four individuals—Janani Ravi, Vitthal Srinivasan, Swetha Kolalapudi and Navdeep Singh—who have honed their tech expertises at Google and Flipkart. The team believes it has distilled the instruction of complicated tech concepts into funny, practical, engaging courses, and is excited to be sharing its content with eager students.

KEY FEATURES

Ruby on Rails can seem overwhelming at first, but it doesn’t have to be! In this course, you’ll follow along with step-by-step instructions for building your first web app in minutes. You’ll be amazed how quick and easy it is to create very professional looking websites, even if you have no programming or web design experience at all. You don’t even need to know the Ruby programming language to get started–so what are you waiting for?

• Learn to use Ruby on Rails for web development w/ 24 videos & 5 hours of content
• Watch the creation of a Pinterest website
• Follow along & build your own clone of the Pinterest site
• Get a solid understanding of Ruby on Rails & how to use it to build awesome web apps
• Watch the videos at your own pace
• Post questions along the way if you get stuck

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Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: beginner

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Some web programming knowledge such as HTML & CSS suggested

THE EXPERT

John Elder is a pioneer in Internet Marketing who created one of the first Internet advertising networks back in 1997. He sold it to a publicly traded company at the height of the dot com boom and then went on to create the best-selling Submission-Spider search engine submission software that’s been used by over 3 million individuals and small businesses in over 45 countries.

Today he teaches Web Development courses at Codemy the online code school he founded. John graduated with honors with a degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis where he was an artsci scholar.

KEY FEATURES

This unique course provides a thorough introduction to using Behavior Driven Development (BDD) to build web applications with Ruby on Rails. Why? The advantages go on and on– for example the feature specs used extensively in BDD read like plain English. This allows end users and developers to easily communicate with each other, and even allows end users to write the features themselves.

• Learn Behavior Driven Development w/ 102 lectures & 13 hours of content
• Gain essential RSpec & Capybara experience for automated testing
• Emulate browser-based user behavior to complete a business process from beginning to end
• Give your resume a boost
• Build two complex & functional web apps
• Learn to work w/ external JavaScript libraries for charts & date pickers
• Study migrations, one-to-many & many-to-many associations
• Utilize Rails 4.2

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Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: intermediate

Compatibility

• Basic understanding of Rails suggested
• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Mashrur Hossain has been a technology professional for over a decade and holds degrees in both Computer Science and Economics. He has worked with Enterprise Software Systems throughout his career with roles in analysis, development, and management. He is very passionate about web application development, and believes Ruby on Rails has proven to be a very strong force in this field. Join him for his comprehensive Ruby on Rails Developer courses as he guides you through the world of web application development using Rails.

Emmanuel Asante studied mining engineering and information systems at the University of South Africa. While working in the mines, he developed various mining, rock mechanics, and geological applications using languages ranging from Perl, Turbo Pascal to C#, Java and Ruby. In particular, he developed a mining production information management system, as well as a pit crew performance management system, both for Thompson Creek Metals (Endako Mines). Also noteworthy was his client management application for Snowden Mining Industry Consultants.

KEY FEATURES

Unfamiliar with Ruby on Rails? Time to get with the program: Rails is the framework of choice for big-name tech companies, including Soundcloud and Kickstarter. In this course, you’ll learn to connect databases and accept user input, ending your lessons with the ability to build stunning apps faster than you’ve dreamed. That, and you’ll be able to slap “Ruby on Rails” onto your resume–something you’ll appreciate when employers come knocking.

• Dive into Ruby on Rails w/ 5 hours of content
• Install & set up your programming environment
• Master Rails fundamentals: models, controllers, views, etc.
• Connect databases to Rails apps
• Complete a challenging course project
• Create fully interactive Rails apps & websites

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime access
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

  THE EXPERT

  Stone River eLearning was founded in 2011, and calls itself the Online Technology Bootcamp. It has taught over 250,000 students through its website and reseller partners since its founding, with a focus on developing high quality video training in all areas of the tech field.

KEY FEATURES

Go beyond the basics of this extremely popular programming language by diving into advanced concepts. Based on the instructor’s book The Book Of Ruby, this course provides all source code as you explore a deeper understanding of this dynamic language.

• Take your Ruby skills to the next level w/ 13 hours of content & 37 lectures
• Experiment w/ included source code
• Get into the advanced features of Ruby like blocks & procs, threads, regular expressions, exception handling, singletons & metaprogramming
• Follow along w/ the supplied course notes
• Become an expert at the language used by some of the most popular websites
• Learn to write easily maintainable code

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: intermediate

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Knowledge of Ruby basics required

THE EXPERT

Huw Collingbourne is a programmer with over 30 years’ experience, and a published technology writer. He is the technology director at SapphireSteel Software, which created the Ruby in Steel Ruby programming environment. He has written about numerous coding languages, and is most notably the author of the Little Book of Ruby.

KEY FEATURES

Projects in Ruby On Rails is for developers looking to upgrade their skills without enrolling in a full time coding institution. Primarily taught in Linux, this course also includes tutorials to help you get started in Windows if needed. The following projects have been selected and created for this course, and will not only help you understand the core concepts of Ruby on Rails, but also teach you essential best practices for web development.

• Upgrade your Ruby on Rails skills w/ over 47 lectures & 13 hours of content
• Install Ruby on Rails & MySQL to build a simple web app
• Create a complete blog management system like WordPress while mastering Ruby technique
• Explore professional Ruby techniques while creating a Ruby image gallery
• Extend your code to make a shopping cart
• Learn to use Ruby code effectively in commercial projects
• Study best software development practices

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: intermediate

Compatibility

• Internet required
• Basic knowledge of Ruby and Rails & Linux suggested

THE EXPERT

Eduonix creates and distributes high-quality technology training content on the web! Their team of industry professionals have been training manpower for more than a decade, and aim to teach technology the way it’s used in the professional world. They have a professional team of trainers for technologies ranging from mobility to web to enterprise to database and server administration.

KEY FEATURES

Adobe Photoshop is the choice image editing software for industries as diverse as fashion and design to web and game development. Whether you’re an amateur photographer interested in editing techniques, or you’re aspiring to a career using Photoshop, this course will immerse you in all of the key tools available in Photoshop CS6 and CC. Through a series of mini-projects, you’ll be up to speed on how to optimize Photoshop in no time.

• Access 54 lectures & 4 hours of content 24/7
• Cover Photoshop’s extensive tools, from the magic wand & magic eraser to crop & brush tools
• Master Photoshop’s powerful vector tools
• Learn how to navigate the Photoshop toolbar effectively
• Use the blur, sharpen & smudge tools to shape & color backgrounds
• Add text to your images to create flyers, ads, and much more

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Richard Sneyd (1st Class B.A Hons.) is founder and CEO of CyberMyth Games. In the performance of his duties within the company, he must wear many hats, including that of a programmer, designer, digital 2D & 3D artist, sound designer, scriptwriter, texture artist, leader, marketer and business man.

He is also a fully registered, qualified, and highly experienced lecturer. His speciality subjects include 3D Modelling & Animation, Computer Game Programming, 2D Image Processing, Game Design, Desktop Audio, Psychology, Consumer Behavior, Human Resources & Business Management.

Richard is enthusiastic about his work, with students and colleagues noting that he is a highly dedicated and accomplished teacher. All of his courses are characterized by a steady, incremental flow of information, and a lucid teaching style which is easy to understand and follow for all.

KEY FEATURES

Chances are you’ve seen incredible images that were produced with Adobe Photoshop Elements 14. It’s one of the most powerful photo softwares on earth, and an excellent tool for any photographer, from amateur to professional, to know. This extensive course starts right at the beginning, from how to install PE14, and will guide you right through to expert techniques.

• Access 125 lectures & 15 hours of content 24/7
• Learn how to use Photoshop Organizer efficiently
• Gain full coverage of the basic functions in Photoshop Elements 14
• Discover where to get great content & print professional looking photos
• Work miracles w/ the Editor & accelerate projects w/ Quick Mode
• Understand practical retouching & enhancing techniques

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: beginner

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Since 2008, individuals, small businesses, and Fortune 500 companies with thousands of employees have benefited from the easy and hands-on software training offered by Simon Sez IT. With 70+ courses and 3,500+ video tutorials on a range of software programs, Simon Sez IT ensures stress-free e-learning and enhanced employee productivity – whether you’re implementing new software or a technological upgrade for your workplace. With over 225,000 Udemy students in over 180 countries, Simon Sez IT is the preferred e-learning choice for individuals and businesses everywhere.

KEY FEATURES

Black and white photography is a timeless medium that is always in demand by art enthusiasts. With Photoshop, you can seamlessly convert color photos into trendy, vintage black and white photographs that will be great additions to your portfolio and may even find a buyer. Using the high-quality image base provided, you’ll receive complete instruction on how to produce gorgeous black and white photos using some of the best photo editing software available.

• Access 31 lectures & 4.5 hours of content
• Use Adjustment Layers to speed up the editing process
• Master the Curves tool to flexibly edit your photos
• Learn how to evaluate tonal range in your images using the Histogram tool
• Understand how the RGB additive color model works & apply it to your work
• Fix common photography issues like low contrast, lack of definition or texturing

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels
• Photoshop CC free trial required

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Kasia Zmokla is a digital artist, graphic designer and a photographer with 20 years experience working in the Graphic Design industry. That consists of working full time for design studios in Poland, Ireland and Malta and independently as an artist, photographer and freelance designer. She has received formal training at the Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design in Wroclaw, Poland and graduated as a Master of Fine Arts in 2003.

Her Fine Art photography prints are available at several international fine art galleries, amongst others at Asia Contemporary Art Buyer and Saatchi Art, and she is an active contributor at many stock agencies including the prestigious world’s largest stock photo collection – Alamy and Stockimo. Links to her professional portfolio are available in the last Lecture of the Course.

KEY FEATURES

Colorization is a great asset for any photographer, and can completely change the look and feel of an image. In this course, you’ll learn how to effectively use color in photos by colorizing historical black and white photos. Before you know it, you’ll have a firm grasp of coloring practices in the free trial of Photoshop you get through the course.

• Access 18 lectures & 2.5 hours of content 24/7
• Set up the Photoshop project for colorization
• Choose the right brush settings & add color to images
• Colorize skin, hair, eyes, backgrounds & more
• Save & share images easily
• Practice on the included practice photos, Photoshop templates, coloring cheat sheet & skin tone charts

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Phil Ebiner’s passion is inspiring people through online courses. Since 2012, over 200,000 students have taken his online courses.
He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Film and Television Production from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles. Over the past 5 years, he has shot and edited thousands of videos that have played everywhere from the movie screen and television to film festivals and YouTube.

KEY FEATURES

Learning Adobe Photoshop can be a great asset for photographers of all skill levels, granting a greater degree of creative liberty, and even setting you up to take your photography skills to a professional level. This course will teach you how to organize and use Photoshop efficiently to create dazzling photo effects in no time.

• Access 44 lectures & 5 hours of content 24/7
• Create a layout for your own specific work tendencies
• Learn keyboard shortcuts for each major menu section
• Understand how to effectively resize images & canvases
• Discover the curve tool
• Manipulate text effects to spice up your designs

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: lifetime
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion not included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Brett Romero is a software engineer and entrepreneur who has started several businesses. Bitesizebschool.com is his latest business, where he writes about applying business principles to the real world and solving technology issues that every online business faces. He has also written desktop applications in languages running from Delphi to C# winforms/WPF, as well as built ASP.NET webforms and MVC based applications. He is also an iOS developer and currently has seven apps in the iTunes App Store.

KEY FEATURES

Built with 40mm drivers, powerful circuitry, and anti-vibration aluminum for a power-backed soundstage, the A-Audio Legacy Over-Ear Headphones provide an unrivaled listening experience to connoisseurs of sound. Incorporating patented 3-Stage Technology, the Legacy allows a user to switch between passive audio, bass enhanced, and active noise cancellation modes to curate the best experience for the moment.

8.5/10, Sound Guys

CES Innovation Awards, 2015 Honoree

• 3-Stage Technology allows you to select the best sound for the moment
• Chrome-plating, steel construction w/ zinc hinges give the headphones added durability
• Closed circumaural ear cups w/ memory foam padding provide comfort & isolated sound
• Dual jacks allow you to share music w/ friends
• Detachable phone cord w/ remote & mic for connecting to your mobile device

PRODUCT SPECS

• Battery: Rechargeable Lithium ion battery
• Battery life: Up to 12 hours
• Materials: Leather band, steel octagonal bezels

Includes

• A-Audio Legacy Over-Ear Headphones (liquid chrome)
• Hard-shell Travel Case
• Cleaning Cloth
• 1/4″ Gold-Plated Adapter
• Detachable Phone Cord
• Audio Only Cable
• Micro-USB Cable
• 2 AAA Batteries
• Warranty Card
• User Manual

KEY FEATURES

Google Analytics is the most widely used analytics platform for business in the world – including in approximately 90% of web-related businesses. Good business managers and analysts know they need real time data to evaluate their business and formulate strategies to grow. This course will immerse you in Google Analytics from the very basics, to advanced features, so you can separate yourself from the data-crunching pack.

• Use visual demonstrations, quizzes, networking, flash cards & more to complement your learning
• Learn Google Analytics fundamentals like inputting new users & setting up conversion data
• Understand the dashboard, shortcuts, alerts & more
• Explore reports in Google Analytics
• Create behavioral reports, audience reports, & more

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: 3 Years
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

KEY FEATURES

The social uses of social media are obvious, but how well do you understand the business applications? Social networks are treasure troves of data that can be harnessed for advertising, research, and networking to build a business. Through this course, you’ll learn how to optimize Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, Pinterest, and other social media platforms for personal as well as professional use.

• Access 10 hours of training 24/7
• Learn how to use Facebook for & as your business
• Understand how to effectively post & share to Facebook
• Discover Twitter, Pinterest & Reddit & how they are used
• Optimize your LinkedIn presence
• Explore Google+ & YouTube
• Get an introduction to Bitly, Woobox, Storify & HootSuite

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: 3 Years
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

KEY FEATURES

The Code Black is our top-selling drone of all time–and for good reason. This powerful, palm-size drone is not only insanely fun to fly, but can capture some serious video footage from up above. With a flight time of about 10 minutes and an ultra-smooth ride, it’s a great introductory drone for anyone looking to dominate the sky. This exclusive offer can’t be found anywhere else on the web, so be sure to snag this great price before it flies away!

• Ready-to-fly out of the box
• 6-axis flight control system for an extremely stable flight
• 4-way flip (left, right, forward, backward) capabilities
• Beginner & expert flight modes
• Built-in quality HD camera

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Details & Requirements

• Material: plastic, alloy
• Channels: 4
• Battery: 3.7V 380 mAh
• Remote control battery: 4 x AAA (not included)
• Main rotor diameter: 2.17″/ 55 mm
• Recommended ages: 14+
• Flight time: 7 mins
• Charging time: 30 – 40 minutes
• Frequency: 2.4GHz
• Camera: 2.0MP, HD 720p (1280×720), records onto micro SDHC card
• Color: matte black
• Dimensions: (3.25″L x 3.25″W x 1.25″H) (95.3mm)
• Packaged weight: 1.11 lb

Includes:

• 1 matte black quadcopters w/ HD camera (includes battery for drone only)
• 1 remote control
• 1 USB charger
• 4 rotors
• Attachable blade protector, found underneath box insert
• U-wrench
• 1 extra set of blades
• Please note: controller batteries and micro SDHC card not included

Compatibility

• 2 AAA batteries required

KEY FEATURES

You’ve got lots of devices, and lots of individual cables to charge them with. They wrestle and coil in your bag like a pit of angry snakes, awaiting you to reach in and pull out four chargers all tangled together. No longer! This cable combines Lightning, microUSB, and USB-C connectors in a single tough, braided, aluminum cord. It truly is one cord to rule them all.

• Charge Apple, Android, & USB-C compatible devices w/ a single cord
• Use w/ the newest MacBook model without having to buy anything extra
• Save money on buying new chargers when you’ve got 3-in-1
• Use for longer thanks to the tough aluminum housing & braided cable

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• MFi-Certified
• Material: aluminum housing and braided cable
• Length: 1 m

Includes

• 3-in-1 Lightning, MicroUSB & USB-C Cable (black)

KEY FEATURES

SEO (Search Engine Optimization) is a vital component of inbound marketing, prioritizing a business’s position in search engine results to ensure that consumers can find your goods and services easily. Given that there are six billion Google searches every day, the demand for SEO marketers is huge and growing. In this course, you’ll get expert instruction in common and advanced SEO techniques that can make your resume shine and open up new, lucrative career opportunities.

• Access 6 hours of content 24/7
• Learn a brief history of SEO
• Understand the importance of keyword research to site architecture, link building, SEO measurement, & more
• Discover local business marketing & local search ranking factors & how to manipulate them to your benefit
• Master SEO best practices & learn how to track SEO performance effectively
• Explore careers that exist in online marketing

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Length of time users can access this course: 180 days
• Access options: web streaming, mobile streaming
• Certification of completion included
• Redemption deadline: redeem your code within 30 days of purchase
• Experience level required: all levels

Compatibility

• Internet required

THE EXPERT

Simplilearn is a leading provider of a suite of professional certification courses. They work with companies and working professionals to address their unique learning needs. They are constantly improving their learning frameworks to make them more user-friendly, while simultaneously upgrading their courses to remain up- to-date. They assist all their learners in applying for certification exams, and help them pass by sharing essential tips and tricks.

For more details on this course and instructor, click here.

KEY FEATURES

Fitness amateurs and professionals alike will love the Magellan Switch Up GPS Fitness Watch. This rugged, highly water resistant watch uses extreme GPS sensitivity to track your position precisely so you can record time, distance, speed/pace, elevation, calories, and more across a range of activity types – not just running or walking. Embedded with ANT+ technology, as well, this watch can receive data from Magellan and any third-party ANT+ sensor, including heart rate monitors, foot pods, bike speed sensors, and power meters, so you can have a more holistic view of your health. Plus, with the included multisport mounting kit, you can easily transfer the watch between wrist and bike to get more accurate data tracking.

“Rugged, waterproof, and, most importantly, accurate, the Magellan Switch series is a good GPS and ANT+ monitoring option for amateur to enthusiast athletes,” 8/10, CNET

• Track time, distance, speed/pace, elevation, calories, & more
• Wear for an extended period in water thanks to a 50 meter water-resistance rating
• Set your desired distance, time, & pace & stay on target w/ the built-in Activity Pacer
• Record multisport activities like triathlons as one single workout
• Create up to 9 activity profiles for different sports or different uses for the same activity & customize each
• Configure display w/ up to 9 data screens & up to 6 data fields per screen
• Mark & save locations or navigate back to the starting point w/ basic navigation capabilities
• Integrate w/ other leading fitness sites to view your activities on maps & get more in-depth analysis

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Dimensions: 1.73″ x 2.28″ x 0.67″
• Weight: 2.5oz
• Battery type: lithium-ion rechargeable
• Battery life: 8 hours
• Water resistance: 50 meters
• Display resolution: 144 x 168
• Activity history: up to 60 hours

Compatibility

• PC
• Mac
• ANT+

Includes

• Magellan Switch Up GPS Fitness Watch
• Multisport mounting kit
• USB charging kit

KEY FEATURES

Add some shine to your neckline with this gorgeous Ribbon of Hope Necklace, featuring a sentimental ribbon design with a round Swarovski Element crystal and plated in 18K white gold. Every day is precious, and this necklace will help you remember that each time you glance in the mirror!

PRODUCT SPECS

Details & Requirements

• Pendant size: approx. 0.8″
• Chain length: 17″ (+2″ extension)
• Lead, nickel, and cadmium free

Includes

• Ribbon of Hope Necklace