Creating Web Sites: The Missing Manual -- Think you have to be a technical wizard to build a great web site? Think again. For anyone who wants to create an engaging web site--for either personal or business purposes--this Missing Manual demystifies the process and provides the tools, techniques, and expert guidance you need to make your ideas and vision a reality online.

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.

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ETel Early Registration Open -- Telephony and the internet have merged to offer a network with unprecedented potential for developers, entrepreneurs, and end users, disruption the communications establishment but opening up new opportunities and markets. Join us to explore this potential at O'Reilly's Emerging Telephony Conference, January 24-26 in San Francisco. Register now and save $300.

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.