Browse eBook Series: O'Reilly Hacks

Looking for a unique set of practical tips, tricks, and tools for administrators and power users of BSD systems? From hacks to customize the user environment to networking, securing the system, and optimization, BSD Hacks takes a creative approach to saving time and accomplishing more with fewer resources...

Now power users can rejoice! Windows XP Hacks offers tips, tools, and know-how to bend Windows XP to your will...

Google Hacks is a collection of industrial-strength, real-world, tested solutions to practical problems...

Setting up and maintaining a Linux server requires understanding not only the hardware, but the ins and outs of the Linux operating system along with its supporting cast of utilities as well as layers of applications software...

This information-packed book provides more than 100 quick, practical, and clever things to do to help make your Linux, UNIX, or Windows networks more secure...

Written for developers, researchers, technical assistants, librarians, and power users, Spidering Hacks provides expert tips on spidering and scraping methodologies...

Mac OS X Hacks reflects the real-world know how and experience of those well steeped in Unix history and expertise, sharing their no-nonsense, sometimes quick-and-dirty solutions to administering and taking full advantage of everything a Unix desktop has to offer: Web, Mail, and FTP serving, security services, SSH, Perl and shell scripting, compiling, configuring, scheduling, networking, and hacking...

TiVo Hacks helps you get the most out of your TiVo personal video recorder...

ntel-and AMD-powered PCs--which account for more than 90% of all personal computers--are powerful and expandable, and operating systems like Windows and Linux do a great job of running well on this hardware...

Developers and system administrators alike are uncovering the true power of XML, the Extensible Markup Language that enables data to be sent over the Internet from one computer platform to another or one application to another and retain its original format...

Knoppix is a portable Linux distribution with a collection of hundreds of programs and utilities--a veritable Swiss Army knife in CD form...

Everyone loves Google, and it's the first place many people turn to locate information on the Internet...

Firefox Hacks is ideal for power users who want to take full advantage of Firefox from Mozilla, the next-generation web browser that is rapidly subverting Internet Explorer's once-dominant audience...

With more than a million dedicated programmers, Perl has proven to be the best computing language for the latest trends in computing and business...

The KDE and Gnome desktops have developed into mature operating environments...

PDF--to most of the world it stands for that rather tiresome format used for documents downloaded from the web...

More and more computer owners are looking to get the most out of Windows XP...

With start-up templates for projects ranging from Windows applications to web services, and extensive help and on-line documentation, Visual Studio ...

If you've ever seen an especially cool Flash effect on the web, gone straight to your trusty Flash book to find out how to do it, then turned away empty-handed--Flash Hacks is for you...

As one of the applications in Microsoft Office, Word is the dominant word-processing program for both Windows and Mac users...

If you think that getting creative with Excel means the underhanded tweaking of numbers, think again...

Amazon Hacks is a collection of tips and tools for getting the most out of Amazon...

Want to know how best to use eBay? Whether you're a newcomer or longtime user, eBay Hacks will teach you to become efficient as both a buyer and seller...

If you've bought or sold items through eBay, or through hundreds of other online sites, then you're familiar with PayPal, the online payment service...

IRC (Internet Relay Chat) may very well turn out to be the world's most successful hack...

It's an increasingly wired world, but many people are finding that the best way to get connected is to do away with wires entirely...

For the geek who's an investor, and the investor who's a geek, we present Online Investing Hacks, 100 industrial-strength, bleeding edge tips, tools and techniques for analyzing and managing online portfolios...

Your digital camera is more than new incarnation of your old film camera...

As part of the Microsoft Office suite, Access has become the industry's leading desktop database management program for organizing, accessing, and sharing information...

Nokia's smartphones pack a powerful computer into a very small space...

If you program in Java, often you have graphical elements in a user interface...

Podcasting does for Internet audio listeners what TiVo does for television viewers--it puts you in charge of when you enjoy a program...

Palm OS is one of the most popular handheld operating systems on the planet...

Maybe it was the recent Atari 2600 milestone anniversary that fueled nostalgia for the golden days of computer and console gaming...

The BlackBerry has become an invaluable tool for those of us who need to stay connected and in the loop...

Yahoo! took the world by storm in the 1990s as a one-of-a-kind, searchable list of interesting web sites...

Greasemonkey Hacks is an invaluable compendium 100 ingenious hacks for power users who want to master Greasemonkey, the hot new Firefox extension that allows you to write scripts that alter the web pages you visit...

The popularity of wireless networking has grown exponentially over the past few years, despite a general downward trend in the telecommunications industry...

Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is gaining a lot of attention these days, as more companies and individuals switch from standard telephone service to phone service via the Internet...

Programmers love its flexibility and speed; designers love its accessibility and convenience...

Today's system administrators deal with a vast number of situations, operating systems, software packages, and problems...

If you've heard about Skype--and who hasn't with all the recent media attention devoted to Internet telephone services--chances are you've been mighty tempted to try it out...

Want to find every pizza place within a 15-mile radius? Where the dog parks are in a new town? The most central meeting place for your class, club or group of friends? The cheapest gas stations on a day-to-day basis? The location of convicted sex offenders in an area to which you may be considering moving? The applications, serendipitous and serious, seem to be infinite, as developers find ever more creative ways to add to and customize the satellite images and underlying API of Google Maps...

Those of you familiar with Ajax (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML) know how useful the technology is for creating interactive web applications with XML-based web services and JavaScript in the browser to process the web server response...

The Mono Project is the much talked-about open source initiative to create a Unix implementation of Microsoft's ...

Sure, it's just what you've been clamoring for: an ultra slick, portable version of the most popular console gaming system in the world...

Over two million registered Flickr users and counting have discovered the ease and fun of organizing their photo libraries, showing off their favorite pictures to the world, and securely sharing their private pictures with friends, family, or ad hoc groups...

Want to calculate the probability that an event will happen? Be able to spot fake data? Prove beyond doubt whether one thing causes another? Or learn to be a better gambler? You can do that and much more with 75 practical and fun hacks packed into Statistics Hacks...

The Ubuntu distribution simplifies Linux by providing a sensible collection of applications, an easy-to-use package manager, and lots of fine-tuning, which make it possibly the best Linux for desktops and laptops...

Whatever you call it--an online auction house, the world's largest flea market, or a vast social experiment--no metaphor completely describes the huge trading community that is eBay...

A car PC or carputer is a car tricked-out with electronics for playing radio, music and DVD movies, connecting to the Internet, navigating and tracking with satellite, taking photos, and any electronic gadget a person wants in a car...

In order to establish and then maintain a successful presence on the Web, designing a creative site is only half the battle...

The fact that Linux has more multimedia application choices than Mac OS X and Windows combined may come as a surprise to many, but not to those who know Linux well...

Everyone loves Google, and it's the first place many people turn to locate information on the Internet...

In the fast-moving world of computers, things are always changing...

Whether you're running Access, MySQL, SQL Server, Oracle, or PostgreSQL, this book will help you push the limits of traditional SQL to squeeze data effectively from your database...

Millions of users create and share Excel spreadsheets every day, but few go deeply enough to learn the techniques that will make their work much easier...

If you think Knoppix is just a Linux demo disk, think again...

Bigger, better, and broader in scope, the Big Book of Windows Hacks gives you everything you need to get the most out of your Windows Vista or XP system, including its related applications and the hardware it runs on or connects to...