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Quicken 2006 for Starters: The Missing Manual --
This newest release from the Starter Missing Manuals series is a refreshingly funny and sensible guide to using Quicken, simplifying your finances, and making the most of your money. Award-winning author Bonnie Biafore uses her years of expertise to deliver clear explanations, step-by-step instructions, relevant advice, and plenty of real-world examples.
Go Multimedia with Linux
Linux Multimedia Hacks --
This new Hacks title 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.
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MAKE Someone Happy
What better gift for the holidays than one that pushes the boundaries of your imagination? O'Reilly's MAKE is the first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and DIY inspiration. And right now, when you buy a gift subscription, you get a free T-shirt for yourself. Subscribe today and everyone wins!
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.
UFOs (Ubiquitous Findable Objects) -- The emergence of ubiquitous findable objects (UFOs) enables us to tag and track products, possessions, pets, and people as they wander through space and time. In this fascinating read, bestselling author Peter Morville illustrates the power of the future present of UFOs with real examples, GPS, RFID, flocking patterns, anomaly detection, and more. Peter is the author of Ambient Findability. 
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.
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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