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Featured Articles New Beta Chapters New Book Releases ================================================================== Dear Reader, I've had the opportunity to work on the first issue of O'Reilly's new magazine, MAKE, and I'm very excited about what I'm seeing. This will be a one-of-a-kind quarterly, full of colorful, homegrown, step-by-step projects, and amazing tales of what some people are building in their backyards. MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life, celebrating your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. The first issue will be released in February. If you haven't yet, sign up for our email newsletter. And if you're a maker with interest in sharing your projects with others, send us your project proposals. http://make.oreilly.com/ Mary Hubben oreilly.com editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Books: http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/prdindex.html - Conferences: http://conferences.oreillynet.com/ - O'Reilly Network: http://www.oreillynet.com/ - Safari Bookshelf: http://safari.oreilly.com/ - SafariU: http://academic.oreilly.com/safariu-more.csp - Learning Lab: http://learninglab.oreilly.com/ ================================================================== Featured Articles Creating Learning PHP 5 http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/php/2004/11/11/writingphp5.html Developers often write open source software in public, but what about developers who write *about* open source software? Do they build tools? How do your favorite books come about? David Sklar explains how he wrote Learning PHP 5. Related reading: Learning PHP 5 http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/learnphp5/ -- Hacks for Smart Homes http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2004/11/11/smrthome_hks1.html Implementing home automation may be easier and less expensive than you ever imagined. Learn the basics of automating your home with MisterHouse, an open source, home automation application. Related reading: Smart Home Hacks http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/smarthomehks/ -- Transferring Presentations to DVD with DVDSP 3 http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2004/11/10/dvdsp_3.html Marc Loy brings you yet another way to embrace the digital video revolution. In this article, he shows you how to transfer your presentations onto DVD for archive and distribution purposes, and how to extract each slide or extract a movie of the presentation. Related reading: DVD Studio Pro 3: In the Studio http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/dvdstudio3/ -- Got Project Automation? http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2004/11/10/automation.html Each project task you automate is an investment that pays off immediately and increases in value over time. Here's an overview of the benefits that automating your project can bring. Related reading: Pragmatic Project Automation http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0974514039/ -- Book Review: iLife '04: The Missing Manual http://www.applelinks.com/pm/more.php?id=2640_0_1_0_M In this Applelinks book review, Kirk Hiner writes, "iLife '04 is written and laid out in a way that makes it both easy to read from start to finish [and easy] to find only the information you need." The book covers iTunes, iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD, and GarageBand, making it a veritable "Greatest Hits" collection. Related reading: iLife '04: The Missing Manual http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/ilifetmm/ -- Russian Denies Authoring "SoBig" Worm http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2004/11/02/sobig.html The SoBig computer worm that ran rampant on the internet in 2003 is the subject of a new, anonymously authored report that definitively claims Ruslan Ibragimov, the owner of the Russian-based bulk email company Send-Safe, as its creator. Ibragimov flatly denies the report's claim in an online interview with Brian McWilliams. Related reading: Spam Kings http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/spamkings/ -- A New Approach: Excel 2003 DevNotebook http://visualbasic.about.com/od/vbnetspecialtopics/fr/blwebb1_1a.htm Dan Mabbutt writes in this review that O'Reilly's book on programming in Excel 2003 is "a 'how to' book written by an author who really knows 'how to'." Further, he says it's a "forward-looking and compact read into the future of programming with Microsoft technologies." Related reading: Excel 2003 Programming: A Developer's Notebook http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/exceladn/ -- Putting the Linux Desktop Closer to the User Sun's JDS http://lxer.com/module/newswire/view/24529/index.html LiveCD has helped many curious people discover Linux without having to install the distribution on their hard drives. But the LiveCD doesn't necessarily help new users navigate around the system or really understand Linux. New users could use a blueprint. Now there is one, and this LXer.com article by O'Reilly author Tom Adelstein explains just how and why it was developed. Related reading: Exploring the JDS Linux Desktop http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/jds/ -- Tips for Improving Graphics Performance http://www.windowsdevcenter.com/pub/a/windows/2004/11/02/pcannoy_1.html Whether you're an avid gamer looking to get the best possible image quality for a new first-person shooter or MMORG, or you're just trying to smooth system performance at high resolutions and color depths, getting the most from your graphics subsystem can be a real challenge. Here are seven tips to improve graphics performance. 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