Blackberry Hacks -- For both corporate and consumer users, this new Hacks book delivers tips, tools, and innovative ways to most effectively use your BlackBerry for phone calls, instant messaging, email, organizing, web browsing, receiving RSS feeds, and much more. You'll learn that the BlackBerry is capable of things you never thought possible.

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.

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.

Greasemonkey Hacks -- For those who prefer to control their web content, this new release provides all the expertise you need to customize any web page you view. More than just an essential collection of tailor-made Greasemonkey solutions, this clever book is crammed with sample code, a Greasemonkey API reference, and a comprehensive list of resources.

Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML -- Tired of reading HTML books that only make sense after you're an expert? Then it's about time you pick up this hot new title from the Head First series and really learn HTML. Using the latest research in neurobiology, cognitive science, and learning theory, this book employs a a visually rich format that is guaranteed to load HTML, CSS, and XHTML into your brain in a way that sticks.

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.

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.

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.

Java Enterprise in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition -- This practical guide for enterprise Java developers has been modified to cover the new Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4, offering a clear understanding of how to apply the new APIs, use the latest open source Java tools, and learn the capabilities and pitfalls in J2EE 1.4. Includes new chapters, among others, on Ant, Cactus, Hibernate, Jakarta Struts, JUnit, security, XDoclet, and XML/JAXP.

Wireless Hacks, 2nd Edition -- Completely revised and updated, this second edition includes over 30 brand new hacks, major overhauls of over 30 more, and timely adjustments and touchups to dozens of others introduced in the first edition. Wireless Hacks offers 100 ways to answer real-life networking needs with direct solutions.

O'Reilly Books on Amazon's Best of 2005 -- Head First Java, Mac OS X: The Missing Manual, and Make magazine were voted Best of 2005 in the Computers & Internet category of both the Editors' Picks and the Top 10 Customers' Favorites lists. In addition, iLife: The Missing Manual, Mapping Hacks, and Revolution in the Valley were all chosen as Editors' Picks in the Digital Life category. Thanks!

What's New in ModSecurity -- Two years ago, Ivan Ristic introduced ModSecurity, an Apache httpd module to increase the security and safety of web applications. Now his team has released version 1.9 with many features and improvements. Here's why you should use ModSecurity. Ivan is the author of Apache Security.

Ask Tim: Why Is the Web the Way It Is Today? -- In what direction could the internet have gone if it were not for the FSF/GNU movement? How would the internet have looked today? These questions were recently asked of Tim O'Reilly. Read what he had to say in this Ask Tim feature.

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.

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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.