iWork '05: The Missing Manual -- While iWork '05 helps you create stunning documents and presentations, it doesn't come with any in-depth documentation of its own. Refreshingly entertaining and scrupulously detailed, our newest Missing Manual gives you all the essentials of iWork '05, including countless undocumented tips, tricks, and secrets that you won't find anywhere else. Best yet, you get an objective look at iWork's capabilities, its advantages over similar programs, and its limitations.

Retro Gaming Hacks -- Video game journalist Chris Kohler serves up 85 hard-nosed hacks for reviving classic games. Want to game on an original system? Kohler shows you how to hack ancient hardware, and includes a primer for home-brewing classic software. Rather adapt today's equipment to run retro games? Kohler provides emulation techniques, complete with instructions for hacking a classic joystick that's compatible with a contemporary computer.

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What Is Vonage -- The modernization of telephone service, driven by Vonage and hundreds of competitors, is transforming voice communications as we know it. But what is Vonage? James Gaskin provides the answer and looks at how Vonage is and isn't like traditional telephone companies. James is the author of Talk Is Cheap.

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!

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.

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.