Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual, Tiger Edition -- This incomparable guide delivers what Apple doesn't: everything you need to know to smoothly and seamlessly move to a Mac. Bestselling author David Pogue teams up with Adam Goldstein to cover every aspect of the switch in a refreshingly funny and down-to-earth style.

Ambient Findability -- Written by best-selling author Peter Morville, this thought-provoking book describes the future of information and connectivity, examining how the melding of innovations like GIS and the internet will impact the global marketplace and society at large. Morville presents extensive and compelling research, stories, and examples for support.

Encrypting Voice: An Interview with Phil Zimmermann -- VoIP Magazine recently interviewed Phil Zimmermann, creator of PGP, the most widely used email encryption software. Phil discusses the urgency of creating powerful encryption for VoIP, among other issues. Phil will be speaking at O'Reilly's upcoming Emerging Telephony Conference, January 24-26 in San Francisco. Join us!

Prefactoring: General Development Issues -- Developers often stop in the middle of a project's build stage to rethink and recode the software design, a process known as refactoring. "Prefactoring" advocates considering the best possible design patterns before you even begin your project. Chapter 3 of Prefactoring looks at some general development issues related to all forms of software development: interface contracts, communicating with code, simplicity, dealing with errors, and the spreadsheet conundrum. If you like this chapter, read the whole book (and up to nine others) on Safari with a free trial subscription.

Hacking Your Car: How to Get Clean Audio and Video Signals into Your Car -- In the living room, red, white, and yellow RCA jacks are the universal standard for input. Wouldn't it be nice if car manufacturers did the same and put these jacks in your car? Damien Stolarz thinks so, and shows you how to hack your ride to get a clean audio and video signal into your car. Damien is the author of Car PC Hacks.

EuroOSCON Is Almost Here -- The first annual O'Reilly European Open Source Convention, October 17-20 in Amsterdam, is a rare and valuable chance to immerse yourself in all things open source. Join us and spend four days with fellow open source enthusiasts, hear from experts from around the world on the latest technology developments, and test drive new products and services that can help you and your company work smarter. Register today!

What Is ASP.NET -- Part of the .NET Framework, ASP.NET allows developers to build dynamic web apps and web services using compiled languages like VB.NET and C#. Wei-Meng Lee provides a look under the ASP.NET hood, describing how it works, its improved support in areas like state management and tracing and debugging, and important new features in version 2.0. Wei-Meng is the author of ASP.NET: A Developer's Notebook.

Learning Lab Linux/Unix System Administration Online Course Series -- This four-course series teaches you Unix administration skills from basic to complex. Courses include: The Unix File System, Networking and DNS, Unix Services, and Scripting for Administrators with Sed, Awk, and Perl. Students have online root access to unique O'Reilly Linux machines and networks and to a personal coach. Upon completion of the series, students receive a Certificate of Professional Development from the University of Illinois. From now through October 21st, enroll in all four courses and get an additional $200 off the discounted price.

What Is C# -- Jesse Liberty reveals this little-understood secret: C# is really one of two "coatings" of MSIL, the Microsoft Intermediate Language (the second is Visual Basic 2005). Both C# and VB 2005 produce MSIL, and it is MSIL that runs on the .NET platform. Jesse provides an overview of the C# language and how it works within the .NET platform, and concludes with resources for coding in C#. Jesse is the author of Programming C#, 4th Edition.

Painless Merging with SVK: An Interview with Chia-liang Kao -- What's so special about SVK, the Subversion-based, distributed version control system? Edd Dumbill talks with SVK's creator, Chia-liang Kao, about SVK's painless merging, its major innovations, and more. At O'Reilly's EuroOSCON (October 17-20 in Amsterdam), Chia-liang will explain how SVK has removed the headaches from source control.