Adobe Photoshop CS One-on-One clears the fog, taking you from graphics newbie to Photoshop warrior. This full-color book from Photoshop master Deke McClelland includes a CD with nearly two hours of professionally produced video tutorials that feature Deke and relate to the book's written instructions, giving you an up-close and personal training experience that simulates the classroom environment. You'll travel step by step through real-world projects that help you gain Photoshop proficiency, and along the way, you'll get a good dose of graphics theory, best practices, and tips for avoiding Photoshop disasters.

Dreamweaver MX 2004: The Missing Manual helps first-time and experienced web designers bring stunning, interactive web sites to life. A step-by-step annotated tutorial takes readers through the construction of a state-of-the-art commercial web site, complete with Flash buttons, Cascading Style Sheets, and dynamic databases. You'll learn how to create and when it's appropriate to use web features such as forms, animations, and pop-up windows. And you'll learn scores of undocumented workarounds and shortcuts. With over 500 illustrations and a handcrafted index, this book is the ultimate atlas for Dreamweaver MX 2004.

Ethereal Packet Sniffing (Syngress) is the first book available on Ethereal, the premier open source protocol analyzer for Windows and Unix. Ethereal offers more protocol decoding and reassembly than any free sniffer out there, and this book will show you how to make the most out of it. You'll learn how to use Tethereal, the command-line version of Ethereal; install and build Ethereal from source; pinpoint network problems using filters to manage network operations and traffic; import and export files between Ethereal and various compatible products; and so much more.

Linux Pocket Guide gets you up to speed quickly on day-to-day Linux use. The book begins with general concepts like files and directories, the shell, and X windows, and then presents detailed overviews of the most essential commands. You'll learn each command's purpose, usage, options, location on disk, and even the RPM package that installed it. Throw in a host of valuable power user tips and a friendly, accessible style, and you'll find this practical, to-the-point book a small but mighty resource for Linux users. Sample Excerpts are available online.

Java Examples in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition has been updated to cover Java 1.4. It contains 193 complete, practical examples, with more than 21,900 lines of densely commented, professionally written Java code that cover 20 distinct client-side and server-side APIs. There are new chapters on the Java Sound API and the New I/O API, and the chapters on XML and servlets have been rewritten to cover the latest versions of the specifications and to demonstrate best practices for Java 1.4. Sample Chapter 13, Printing, is available free online.

sendmail Cookbook provides step-by-step solutions for administrators who need to solve configuration problems fast. Each recipe outlines a configuration problem, presents the code that solves that problem, and explains the code in detail. The book provides lots of material that doesn't get much coverage elsewhere: STARTTLS and AUTH are given entire chapters, and LDAP is covered in recipes throughout the book. Don't wade through dense documentation to work out custom solutions; just grab a recipe and solve the problem. Sample Chapter 2, Delivery and Forwarding, is available online.

Oracle Essentials, 3rd Edition: Oracle Database 10g distills a vast amount of knowledge into an easy-to-read volume. The new edition of this classic book covers the full range of Oracle's features and technologies, including the product line, architecture, data structures, networking, concurrency, and tuning. With a new overview of Oracle 10g, as well as coverage of recent releases 9i and 8i, this book provides everything you need to install and run Oracle databases. If you're new to Oracle or upgrading to Oracle 10g, you'll find this comprehensive guide essential. Sample Chapter 1, Introducing Oracle, is available online.

Running Mac OS X Panther is the ultimate Swiss Army Knife™ for power users who want to customize, rev up, and get the most out of their Macs. The book takes readers deep inside Mac OS X's core, revealing the inner workings of Panther. Learn where Mac OS X came from, how it's put together, and how it works; get the tools you to need to examine how your Mac is running and adjust all the knobs behind its operation; and learn all the ways Mac OS X interfaces with the world around it.

Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks -- From building a home arcade machine to creating a cubicle intrusion detection system, Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks offers an array of inventive, customized electronics projects for the geek who can't help looking at a gadget and wondering how it might be "upgraded." The book begins with less complex hacking projects then moves into more advanced hacks. Clear step-by-step instructions allow even those with no formal electronics- or hardware-engineering skills to hack real hardware in clever ways. Sample Excerpts are available free online.

iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual -- iTunes and the iTunes music store aren't just for Mac fans anymore. Anyone running Windows XP or 2000 can now cash in on all the capabilities of this music store jukebox. Our new version of iPod & iTunes: The Missing Manual has been thoroughly updated to reflect these changes. No matter what kind of music moves you, this book will help you get much more out of your iPod--and much more into it.

Hardware Hacking (Syngress) is for people who dream of running Linux on an Xbox and opening a garage door with a PDA. To successfully hack consumer and SOHO electronic devices, you need knowledge of electrical engineering, operating systems, software coding, and mechanics; the first part of this book is a primer on these topics. Then the real fun begins. You'll learn how to hack mobile devices (PDAs, cell phones), gaming systems (Xbox, PS/2, Atari), audio/visual equipment (TiVo boxes, home theater PCs), computer equipment (iMacs, laptops, mini-motherboards), and much more.

Squid: The Definitive Guide -- Squid is the most popular web caching software in use today, and it works on a variety of platforms including Linux, FreeBSD, and Windows. Written by Duane Wessels, the creator of Squid, this book will help you configure and tune Squid for your particular situation. Newcomers to Squid will learn how to download, compile, and install code. Seasoned users will be able to dive into advanced topics such as high-performance storage options, rewriting requests, HTTP server acceleration, monitoring, debugging, and troubleshooting Squid. Sample Chapter 8, Advanced Disk Cache Topics, is available online.

400 O'Reilly Books on Safari -- O'Reilly now offers over 400 books on Safari, the premier electronic reference library for IT professionals and programmers. With Safari you can search electronic versions of a broad range of the best technical books from leading publishers, including O'Reilly. Find an answer online to solve an immediate problem, or print out a chapter to read on the run. Give it a try today with a free trial subscription.

Cooking with C#, Part 2 -- Suppose you need to examine the HTML from a remote web server to pluck out items of interest, or perhaps you'd like to secure exclusive write access to a shared resource while allowing multiple threads to still read from it. You can achieve both goals by following these recipes from C# Cookbook.

Magnets Versus PDAs -- How well does your phone play with your PDA? Does your iPod coexist peacefully with your laptop? We're not talking about Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, USB, or Firewire. Rather, does a strong magnet on one device interfere with the sensitive electronics of another? The debate began with a fancy orange tote in a recent thread From the Editors List.

OSCON Ideas -- The theme of this year's O'Reilly Open Source Convention is "Opening the Future: Discover, Develop, Deliver." Join us at OSCON this July in Portland to learn from and mingle with open source leaders and practitioners who've gathered to integrate projects, launch revolutionary new ideas, and push the boundaries of their respective technologies. If you have thoughts about topics you'd like to see covered at OSCON, send us an email: oscon-idea@oreilly.com.

Cooking with Apache, Part 3 -- Authors Rich Bowen and Ken Coar solve problems related to authentication, symbolic links, and the ever-troublesome trailing slash, in this third and final batch of sample recipes from O'Reilly's Apache Cookbook.

New O'Reilly Beta Chapters -- Visit our Beta Chapters site for a preview of upcoming titles, including: Windows Server Hacks; Hardcore Java; Eclipse: A Java Developer's Guide; Mac OS X Panther for Unix Geeks; Network Security Assessment; and Cascading Style Sheets: The Definitive Guide, 2nd Edition. Read a beta chapter today.

Protect Against Denial-of-Service Attacks -- Perhaps the best way to defend yourself is to understand your attacker in-depth. In this O'Reilly book excerpt, the authors investigate two denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against Windows XP: the first attacks the Server Message Block protocol used by Windows machines, and the second targets the Universal Plug and Play service. Learn the many ways your Windows and Unix systems can be attacked in the recently released Security Warrior.

The Trouble with RFID -- Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology is already widely used to track pharmaceuticals, meat shipments, and manufactured goods. It has the potential to save businesses billions of dollars. It also has the potential to enable a police surveillance state, further erode consumer privacy, and make identity theft even easier. Writing for The Nation, Simson Garfinkel explains the problem and a potential code of conduct that might help address it. Simson is the author of Database Nation.

Client-Side Scripting Certificate Series -- O'Reilly Learning Lab's newest series comprises three courses that span web scripting from basic to complex. Students will learn the core technical skills necessary for a complete understanding of web scripting and development. Upon completion of the series, students receive a Certificate of Professional Development from the University of Illinois Office of Continuing Education. Enroll now and the first course in the series is free. You'll also save $298 on the other courses for a total savings of $496. Offer ends February 29.

Tim O'Reilly at FOSDEM 2004 -- In this FOSDEM interview, Tim O'Reilly talks about O'Reilly's book publishing program, past and present, and his goal to create the maximum value for users, developers, and everyone in the software ecosystem. Today, Tim's sights are set on the next-generation applications that run on top of Linux and the Internet and are changing the rules of the computing game. He'll discuss how we might reinvent open source in the age of the Internet at this year's FOSDEM.

Things Squid Administrators Should Know -- New users often struggle with the same frustrating set of idiosyncrasies involved in learning Squid, the popular web caching software. Here are six things you should know about using Squid from the get-go, from Duane Wessels, creator of Squid and author of Squid: The Definitive Guide.

Finalists for the 2004 Jolt Awards -- Software Development magazine recently announced the finalists for the 14th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards. Among the finalists are java.net and O'Reilly Network in the category of "Websites and Developer Networks," and Head First Java and Programming .NET Windows Applications in the "Books--Technical" category. The awards ceremony will take place on March 17 during SD West 2004.

Six Cool New JSP and Servlet Features -- Bruce Perry describes six cool new features that Java developers who use Tomcat 5.x and other Servlet-API-2.4- and JSP-2.0-compliant containers will want to use in their projects. Bruce is the author of Java Servlet & JSP Cookbook.

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Annotating Everything: Marc A. Smith at ETech -- Daniel Steinberg reports from O'Reilly's Emerging Technology Conference with an in-depth look at Marc A. Smith's session, "Catalyzing Collective Action on the Net." Marc demonstrated several tools that show promise as ways to enhance online communities. Find complete news coverage, the conference wiki, weblogs, photos, and much more on O'Reilly Network's ETech 2004 Conference Coverage page.