Mac OS X Tiger Pocket Guide -- This concise guide introduces you to the fundamental concepts of using Mac OS X Tiger, including over 250 tips and tricks for using and configuring your system. It concentrates a wealth of tables, common keyboard shortcuts, tips for configuring your Mac, and an introduction to issuing basic Unix commands using the Terminal application into a package that is literally small enough to fit in your pocket.

Going to the Movies (and More) in iTunes -- Have you played with the video functionality in iTunes? If not, J.D Biersdorfer presents a few things that Steve Jobs has mentioned--and a few he hasn't. J.D. is the author of iPod and iTunes: The Missing Manual, 3rd Edition.

Podcasting with Your iPod Photo -- With Apple's release of the iPod photo, podcasting just got more fun. Using iPodderX, a podcast client for the Mac, you can download audio, movies, images, documents, and any other kind of files from the internet onto your Mac. Cool, huh? Wei-Meng Lee explains how. For more fun tips for your iPod photo, check out Wei-Meng's All About Your iPod Photo.

Ten PowerPoint 2004 Tips to Beat Tight Deadlines -- PowerPoint 2004 lets you turn text, graphics, sounds, and movies into dazzling presentations that get your message across in high style. But what if you're on a short deadline? Franklin Tessler shows you ten ways to use PowerPoint to put together slideshows in no time. Frank is the coauthor of Office 2004 for Macintosh: The Missing Manual.

Display Your Favorite Album Artwork in iTunes -- Love your iPod but miss the album art? In iTunes 4, you can associate an album's artwork with a song so it can be displayed while you play the song. Wei-Meng Lee shows you how to use two free programs, Clutter and art4iTunes.com, to simplify the task. For more tricks and tips on using your iPod photo, check out Wei-Meng's latest eDoc, All About Your iPod Photo (PDF).

DTG's Best Books of 2004 -- DT&G;: Design, Type & Graphics Magazine has announced its selection of the best products in 2004 for the visual communications fields. O'Reilly titles won in several categories: Best in Digital Photography went to Digital Photography Hacks; We the Media took the Best for All Computer Users category; and The Cult of Mac (by O'Reilly publishing partner No Starch Press) was named the Best for Macintosh Computer Users.

Top Ten AppleScript Tips--AppleScript lets you control Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, FileMaker Pro, and hundreds of other Mac programs with just a few lines of code. But if you think of AppleScript as just a nerdy workflow-automation tool, you're missing out on a lot of power. Adam Goldstein has hand selected ten of the most useful tips for making AppleScript work for you. Adam is the author of AppleScript: The Missing Manual.

Reclaiming Hacks -- The books in O'Reilly's Hacks series celebrate the positive aspects of the hacking spirit. The curious nature of the hacker ethic, whether prompted by a spark of genius or the urge of an annoyance, is all about rolling up one's sleeves and taking action. But "hack" means different things to different people, and for some it has negative connotations. Hadley Stern discusses some of the issues he faced while writing iPod and iTunes Hacks.

Something That Reeks of Honesty -- Andrew Leonard writes in this Salon.com book review, "Reading Revolution in the Valley, you may feel as though you're sitting in a bar listening to engineers swap stories. You may not understand every word, but you know you're getting the real thing, and that has value." Learn how the Mac was made: Revolution in The Valley.

David Pogue's "CBS News Sunday Morning" Wins an Emmy -- The National Television Academy has announced the winners of the Annual Emmy Awards for Business and Financial Reporting. In the category of "Outstanding Interpretation and/or Analysis of a Business News Story -- Regularly Scheduled Newscast," David Pogue's "CBS News Sunday Morning" won the Emmy: "David Pogue takes complex technological applications such as Google or Spam and makes them comprehensible to the ordinary, non-technophile viewer." David is the creator of the Missing Manuals Series.

2004 MDJ Power 25 -- MDJ has released its fifth annual list of the 25 most influential people in the Mac world. We're proud to see that our own Tim O'Reilly, David Pogue, and Derrick Story all made this year's list. For all the latest happenings in the Mac world, visit O'Reilly's Mac DevCenter.

Five Favorite Mac Annoyances -- As much as we love our Macs, we've got to admit that sometimes they annoy the patience out of us. Don't get mad; get clever. Here are John Rizzo's favorite annoyances, along with their fixes, of course, from his book, Mac Annoyances.