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Free Your Phone
Skype Hacks --
Author Andrew Sheppard details what all the Skype hype is about, explains the basics, and shows you more than 100 clever tips and tricks for tweaking and tuning Skype so you too can enjoy free phone calls and services. Drop your phone carrier and start saving money today.
The Future of Java
Beyond Java --
In this intriguing book, Bruce Tate chronicles the rise of the most successful language of all time, and then lays out, in painstaking detail, the compromises the founders had to make to establish success. Bruce argues that Java is abandoning its base, and conditions are ripe for an alternative to emerge.
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MAKE Magazine Holiday Special
This holiday season, we invite you to hack, tweak, mod, bend, and reclaim your technology with MAKE, the first magazine devoted to digital projects, hardware hacks, and DIY inspiration. Take advantage of our special offer and use code M5CMK to save 50% off the cover price and get free, instant access to the digital edition of MAKE. Subscribe now.
Managing and Monitoring JBoss -- In part one of this two-part excerpt, authors Norman Richards and Sam Griffith covered how to use the Web Console and its MBeans to manage your web apps. In this second part, learn how to create a monitor for your app, how to configure alerts to be sent via email, and how to manage JBoss from the command line. If these excerpts whet your appetite, check out the whole book, JBoss: A Developer's Notebook.
Killer Game Programming in Java: A 3D Checkerboard, Part 1 -- This book excerpt is for all Java gamers, especially the 3D junkies. In part one of a two-part series taken from Chapter 15 of Killer Game Programming in Java, author Andrew Davison describes how to create a scene in a Checkers3D application, using Java 3D. In the second installment, Andrew will show how to create a floating sphere for the Checkers3D app. What Are Generics -- Generics provide the ability to create type-safe collections in .NET. Jesse Liberty explains why they're important, and how to best make use of them. Jesse is the author of Programming ASP.NET, Third Edition. 
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.
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I strongly recommend Word Hacks for even the casual Word user. This book will show you how to dig underneath the hood and unleash the program's most powerful capabilities. My favorite hack? Search Google without ever leaving Word.
Full Disclosure: I was the editor of Word Hacks. Read More »
Brett Johnson, Associate Editor Consumer Books
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