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Go Multimedia with Linux
Linux Multimedia Hacks --
This newest Hacks book gives you the technical chops to enjoy the considerable multimedia options available on the Linux platform. Learn, step-by-step, how to do cool things with images, audio, and video. Included are tips and tricks for connecting to iPods, creating MP3s and Oggs, watching and making DVDs, turning your Linux box into a Tivo, and much more.
Elements 4 in High Definition
Photoshop Elements 4 One-on-One --
Revised to cover all the new features of Photoshop Elements 4, this full-color book and accompanying high-definition video DVD give new users the accessible guidance they need to master this powerful but complex digital imaging program, while still providing a wealth of tips, shortcuts, and secrets that even the most experienced Photoshop users won't know.
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Free Programming Languages Poster
O'Reilly has produced a fascinating poster called History of Programming Languages, which plots over 50 programming languages on a multi-layered, color-coded timeline. While supplies last, U.S. residents can get a copy of the "History of Programming Languages" poster when purchasing two books through the O'Reilly bookstore. Use discount code OPC79 to get your free poster.
The Future Is Calling -- O'Reilly's premiere Emerging Telephony Conference will be held January 24-26 in San Francisco. If you want to know how communication will change, what technologies will change it, and who's building the application innovations that will become products, come to the one place you'll find the answers: ETel. Check out the conference schedule and be sure to register before early registration ends on December 4th.
Wireless Hacks: Long Distance Links -- Radio range isn't something "built into" a product, but is in fact the same for all wireless devices: potentially infinite. The hacks in Chapter 6 of Wireless Hacks expose some of the important details you need to keep in mind, as well as techniques you can use, to make your long distance projects possible. If you like this chapter, read the whole book (and up to nine others) on Safari with a free trial subscription. 
Web Programming Certificate Series Special -- Go from newbie to know-how in six 40-hour courses spanning the client-server spectrum. Upon completion of the series, receive a Certificate of Professional Development from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education. Keep your free O'Reilly books for reference and your Learning Lab account as an online portfolio. Pre-enroll in all six courses and receive a $300 instant rebate. Offer expires December 31st.
Avoid Common Pitfalls in Greasemonkey -- Mark Pilgrim walks through a major security concern that prompted the architectural changes in Greasemonkey 0.5, and then provides solutions to ten common pitfalls to avoid when writing Greasemonkey scripts. Mark is the author of Greasemonkey Hacks.
Hacking Swing: Translucent Windows -- All Java windows are absolutely rectangular, so you can forget about creating a nice Winamp-like window for your Swing app, right? Wrong. In this excerpt from Swing Hacks, authors Joshua Marinacci and Chris Adamson show how you can use some imaging trickery to create arbitrarily shaped windows with Swing.
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