Yahoo! Hacks -- This requisite collection of hacks shows you how to use, expand, personalize, and tweak Yahoo! in ways you never dreamed possible. You'll learn how to fine-tune search queries, manage and customize Yahoo! Mail, explore your social networks, roll your own Yahoo! applications, and much more. Whether you want to become a power searcher, news monger, super shopper, or innovative web developer, this new release will take you there.

Asterisk: The Future of Telephony -- This cost-cutting guide offers a complete roadmap for installing, configuring, and integrating Asterisk with existing phone systems, opening the door to open source telephony. The authors walk you through a basic dial plan step by step, and give you enough working knowledge to set up a simple but complete system.

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Hacking Your Car: Install Windows on a CompactFlash Card -- The car PC community is constantly searching for hardware and software solutions to improve the system's boot speed and reliability, and reduce the physical size of the computer. One of these solutions is to build a system that boots off of a CompactFlash (CF) drive. Learn how to install Windows on a CompactFlash card in this excerpt from Car PC Hacks.

What Is Phishing (Or, How to Fight Phishing at the User-Interface Level) -- Phishing attacks deceive users into disclosing personal, financial, or computer account information. This type of internet fraud will only grow more sophisticated in the days ahead, so our defenses against it must continue to improve. This excerpt from Security & Usability defines phishing, and offers techniques and advice on fighting phishing at the user-interface level.

Moving Past Java: An Interview with Bruce Tate -- WebServicesSummit.com recently interviewed Bruce Tate about the future of Java and web development. Bruce discusses scalable enterprise applications, database-enabled applications, AJAX, and lightweight solutions for web development, while questioning whether Java is still a technology for the masses. Bruce is the author of the newly released Beyond Java.

Linux/Unix System Administration Course Series Offer Extended -- 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. Upon completion of the series, students receive a Certificate of Professional Development from the University of Illinois. Extended through October 31st, enroll in all four courses and get an additional $200 instant rebate.

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.