-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 ================================================================ O'Reilly UG Program News--Just for User Group Leaders April 28, 2005 ================================================================ - -Thank you! - -Promotional Material Available for Your Group - -Safari Affiliate Program for User Groups - ---------------------------------------------------------------- Book Info - ---------------------------------------------------------------- ***Review books are available Copies of our books are available for your members to review-- send me an email and please include the book's ISBN number on your request. Let me know if you need your book by a certain date. Allow at least four weeks for shipping. ***Please send copies of your book reviews Email me a copy of your newsletters or book reviews. 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The book is organized according to special "cleaning" processes that will improve the performance of your computer. Shortcut and time calculation charts are provided at the beginning of the book to help you determine how much time is required to perform different degunking tasks from small to large. http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1932111956/index.html ***Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows One-on-One Publisher: O'Reilly ISBN: 0596008449 "Photoshop Elements 3 for Windows One-on-One" is a complete training system on how to use Adobe Photoshop Elements software to edit and optimize images. Written in conversational style and packed with full-color photos, this book contains 12 step-by-step lessons on real-world tasks, along with two hours of video tutorials on CD. Youâ•˙ll also learn about photography and graphic theory, best practices, and tips for avoiding problems. 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Brian McConnell suggests that third-party wireless providers use pay-per-call as a means to build and profit from voice and data services. http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2005/04/18/900numbers.html - --------------------- Open Source - --------------------- ***The State of the Dolphin at the MySQL Users Conference 2005 Daniel Steinberg's report from the 2005 MySQL Users Conference covers David Axmark and Michael Widenius' "State of the Dolphin" keynote and Michael Tiemann's keynote. http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/04/20/dolphinatmySQL.html For all the announcements, press coverage, blogs, and photos from the MySQL Conference, check out our Conference Coverage page: http://www.onlamp.com/mysqluc2005/ ***PHP 5 on Mac OS X Blane Warren discusses writing PHP 5 on Mac OS X systems--the tools, the software, and the utilities available to web developers. http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=257605 ***Trust and Zeal in Open Source Advocacy Advocacy is critical to the spread of open source and free software. Good advocates build trust in their audiences, explaining how, and if, F/OSS can help them solve their problems. Jono Bacon explains how to build trust and avoid overzealous advocacy. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2005/04/21/advocacy.html - --------------------- Mac - --------------------- ***Housecleaning Tips for Tiger Is your Mac ready for a smooth transition to Tiger? Maybe you're in need of a spring housecleaning anyway. Check out these tidy tips from Derrick Story, then roll out the red carpet for Mac OS X 10.4. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/04/26/tiger.html ***Mac Mini Eye for the Linux-Windows Guy Todd had no intention of giving up his Linux and Windows boxes to become a "Mac switcher." But he had heard good things about OS X, so the Mac mini presented the opportunity for him to become a Mac-tryer. He details his experiences here. http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2005/04/19/mac_mini.html - --------------------- Windows/.NET - --------------------- ***Protect Yourself from WiFi Snoops You needn't be at the mercy of WiFi snoops. There's a lot you can do to protect your home or business network, without spending a lot of time or even any money. Preston Gralla, author of "Windows XP Hacks, 2nd Edition," shows you how with step-by-step guides to hiding your network SSID, filtering out MAC addresses, and using encryption. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/04/19/WiFiHacks.html ***XML DataSource Controls in .NET 2.0 With .NET 2.0's XML DataSource control, you can bind to an XML document just as easily as you bind to tables in a database. If the XML document you load is hierarchical, the data is exposed hierarchically, which makes it ideal for mapping an XML document to a TreeView control. Jesse Liberty explains how the XML DataSource works in ASP.NET. http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2005/04/18/liberty.html - --------------------- Java - --------------------- ***Five Favorite Features from 5.0 David Flanagan reviews five of his favorite new Java 5.0 features: the Callable and Future interfaces, new APIs for varargs and autoboxing, new ability interfaces, the @Override annotation, and MatchResult. Read to the end, where David reveals a bonus sixth feature, a new language syntax supported by Java 5.0 but known to very few. David is the author of "Java in a Nutshell, 5th Edition." http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2005/04/20/javaIAN5.html ***Adding Custom Buttons to Internet Explorer Have you ever wanted to extend the Internet Explorer toolbar by adding your own buttons? It's not that tough to do. Mitch Tulloch, author of "Windows Server Hacks," walks you through it in a few easy steps. http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2005/04/26/ie_buttons.html - --------------------- Digital Media - --------------------- ***Make Your Own Music Software with Pure Data With Pd (Pure Data), the graphical music toolkit for Windows, Linux, and Mac, you can wire up custom music programs no commercial software can duplicate--for free. Generate and process complex streams of MIDI and audio for live performance, build your own software synthesizer and effects, and even process video. Here's how to get started. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/04/27/pd.html ***Johnny ╲Juice╡ Rosado: Digital Public Enemy Chuck Dâ•˙s right-hand man explains the high-tech (and surprisingly low-tech) secrets behind the Public Enemy sound, then shares a track from the groupâ•˙s upcoming album. http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2005/04/20/juice.html ***Panoramas Made Easy Alex reviews some groundbreaking new software that any web designer or digital camera enthusiast will find extremely useful in stitching together panoramas. http://www.sitepoint.com/blog-post-view.php?id=254954 - --------------------- Web - --------------------- ***The CSS Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks, & Hacks "The CSS Anthology" from SitePoint offers a problem/solution format designed to help make your site easier to maintain and faster to load with CSS. 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