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 new 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.

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. Sample Chapter 6, Sharing Pages Documents (PDF), is available free online.

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.

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. Focused on information literacy, information architecture, and usability as critical components, this book doesn't preach or pretend to know all the answers; rather, Morville presents research, stories, and examples for support. Sample Chapter 1, Lost and Found (PDF), is available free online.

Switching to the Mac: The Missing Manual -- Becoming a Mac convert is easy--so long as you've got our newest Missing Manual. 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.

Programming Visual Basic 2005 -- Perfect for experienced VB6 and VB .NET developers, this information-packed guide by bestselling author Jesse Liberty aims to make you immediately productive in creating Windows and web applications using Visual Basic 2005 and all of its tools. Liberty shares his thorough understanding of the subject matter through lucid explanations and intelligently designed lessons that guide you to increasing levels of expertise. Sample Chapter 12, Personalization (PDF), is available free online.

Essential SNMP, 2nd Edition -- Written for network and system administrators, this practical book introduces the basics of SNMP and offers the technical background to use it effectively. This updated edition covers version 3 and offers valuable information on SNMP scripting and programming. Five new chapters and a host of real examples have been added. Administrators will attain a solid foundation for managing their networks, creating managed objects, and extending the operation of SNMP agents. A complete set of code examples is available free online.

Halo 2 Hacks -- Even if you've finished Halo 2 in Legendary Mode, you're not done with this game. This incredible book gives you a horde of great hacks for weapons, levels, vehicles, game play, and mods. With all the clever tips and tricks we have in store, you'll turn Halo 2 into a whole new experience, whether you're at level 25 or a complete n00b. Sample Hack 46, Drop Your Weapons (PDF), is available free online (along with five others).

Windows Server 2003 Network Administration -- Ideal for system administrators and network managers, this essential guide is divided into three distinct sections: fundamental concepts, tutorial, and reference. The first three chapters are a basic discussion of the network protocols and services. The remaining chapters provide a how-to tutorial for planning, installing, and configuring various important network services. The book concludes with three appendixes that are technical references for various configuration options. Sample Chapter 14, Troubleshooting TCP/IP (PDF), is available free online.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wired Magazine's Profile of Tim O'Reilly -- Wired magazine ran this in-depth profile of Tim O'Reilly online and in the October issue of their print version. Aptly titled "The Trend Setter," the article delves deep into Tim's history, philosophy, and vision, giving insight into the man behind the O'Reilly Radar.