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"Google Hacks" is an excellent industrial strength tips and tools book that both the novice newbie as well as the seasoned veteran will appreciate and keep next to their computer as a important search reference! Definitely appreciate and enjoy the no nonsense to the point style of information delivery offered by this book!
The information, layout and format of the book all relate to obtaining information quickly and concisely in the same way that it shows one to receive the same from Google(tm). I consider "Google Hacks" to be a "must have" for anyone interested in searching the Internet using Google(tm) as their primary source! I will mention it in my national speeches and talk show interviews. -- Marcus P. Zillman, M.S., A.M.H.A. on Google Hacks
This is one of the best books I've laid my hands on. It is small but the quality and level of technical details in many tips are just too good. Most notable are the tips on backing up, ssh and various other hacks with perl, shell scripts, apache etc. Any system administrator with about 1-2 years of experience would definitely appreciate most of the cool hacks in this book. Great work by the
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Fast LILO boot floppy Sometimes you want to leave the hard drive's boot setup alone, But booting from floppy is too slow or your bootimages (bzImage + initrd) don't fit on the floppy. Make a Linux Loader floppy that uses bootimages on the hard drive.
Losing saved folder views in XP desktop folders A documented annoyance in XP is a sudden and irreparable loss of memory between different folders even after all precautions have been taken. Here is a fix.
Mining Popular Books and Movies in Social Networks I describe how I generated a list of most cited books and movies from the profiles of the people who are connected to me at Orkut, Google's online social-networking service.
View microsoft word documents with less Hack #52 in Linux Destop Hacks introduced wvWare doc viewer. This hack allows it to be used in conjunction with the pager less.
Get a memory drive out of your digital camera or iPod In this hack you will learn how to make your iPod or other mp3 player, your digital camera, or just about any digital storage devise act like a memory drive, though sometimes this will give you a spacious advantage (such as with an iPod)
Integrating Google Deskbar with a Request System I configured Google Deskbar with a request-system and got a superb non-flow breaking and non-distracting way to look up the request corresponding to a particular Request-Id that I encounter in the code.
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