Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop -- The ideal guide to JDS, Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop is clear and direct, and carefully covers such housekeeping chores as setting up networking, updates, and backups. It enters into great depth concerning the key productivity tools every user needs: email, web browsing, instant messaging, word processing, spreadsheets, and slide presentations. Beta Chapter 4, JDS Networking, is available online.

iPod and iTunes Hacks -- Some people are content to use their iPod simply to play music. Some people want to do much more. If you want to get the most out of your iPod iPod and iTunes Hacks will take you beyond the obvious with 100 ingenious tips and tricks that will delight, entertain, and add astonishing power to the iPod and iTunes experience. Beta Hacks are available online.

Knoppix Hacks -- Knoppix Hacks is an invaluable collection of one hundred industrial-strength hacks for new Linux users, power users, and system administrators using--or considering using--the Knoppix Live CD. These tips and tools show how to use the enormous amount of software on this live CD to troubleshoot, repair, upgrade, disinfect, and generally be productive without Windows--without the difficulty of installing Linux itself. Beta Hacks are available online.

Modding Mac OS X -- This book uncovers dozens of ways to customize the user interface for both Mac OS X and its applications, using the newest tools; from hacking the preferences, enabling and disabling plug-ins, to using the Terminal and applications like the Property List Editor to tweak files and edit resources. If you're ready to tweak and experiment, to create and refine, to customize and control OSX and your applications and have some fun doing it--this is an indispensable guide. Beta Chapter 3, Application Dumpster Diving, is available online.

Real World Web Services -- The core idea behind Real World Web Services is simple: after years of hype, what are the major players really doing with web services? Standard bodies may wrangle and platform vendors may preach, but at the end of the day what are the technologies that are actually in use, and how can developers incorporate them into their own applications? Those are the answers Real World Web Services delivers. It's a field guide to the wild and wooly world of non-trivial deployed web services. Beta Chapter 6, Project 3: Billing and Faxing, is available online.

SELinux -- This small but information-packed book covers the wide range of knowledge needed to secure your system using this respected extension to Linux. SELinux discusses critical topics, such as SELinux concepts and its security model; installation instructions; system and user administration; understanding, implementing, and developing your own SELinux security policies. With SELinux, a high-security computer is within reach of any system administrator, and this book provides the means. Beta Chapter 4, Using and Administering SELinux, is available online.

Spam Kings (hardback) -- The mounting onslaught of email pitches for porn, pills, and penis enlargement has some techno-pundits declaring that spam is on the verge of destroying the Internet. In Spam Kings, author and veteran investigative journalist Brian S. McWilliams delivers a compelling account of the cat-and-mouse game played by spam entrepreneurs (including the notorious Davis Wolfgang Hawke, "Dr. Fatburn," and Scott Richter) in search of easy fortunes and the cyber-vigilantes who are trying to stop them. Beta Chapter 1, Birth of a Spam King, is available online.

SWT: A Developer's Notebook -- In typical Developer's Notebook style, you'll learn how to take SWT out for a spin, make it work for you,and turn it upside down, all without wasted words or space. Each lab in this notebook details a specific task; you can read from the first page to the last, look up just what you need to know, and even squeeze this book into your laptop bag as a quick reference when you forget how to create a multi-tabbed view. Beta Chapter 15, SWT CoolBars, is available online.

Windows XP Power Hound -- Windows XP power-users troll the web, documentation, and friends for useful tips and tricks--a keyboard shortcut here, an undocumented double-click there to eliminate annoyances, save time, and take control of their Windows XP. There's an easier way. This insightful and amusing book is packed with hundreds of power tips, cool tricks, and workarounds in one organized, easy-to-use resource--for everything from the desktop to Office programs to the registry. Beta Chapter 6, The Internet, is available online.