[Wellington-pm] [Fwd: Newsletter from the O'Reilly UG Program, April 20]

Grant McLean grant at mclean.net.nz
Thu Apr 20 21:12:59 PDT 2006


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> From: Marsee Henon <marsee at oreilly.com>
> Subject: Newsletter from the O'Reilly UG Program, April 20
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 15:48:49 -0700
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> O'Reilly News for User Group Members
> April 20, 2006
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> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> New Releases
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -Running Boot Camp 
> -Use ClickOnce to Deploy Windows Applications
> -The Art of RAW Conversion
> -The Book of Visual Basic 2005
> -Configuring SonicWALL Firewalls
> -Creative Computer Crafts
> -Enterprise Integration 
> -Enterprise Services Architecture
> -Flash 8 Cookbook
> -HTML Utopia
> -JUNOS Cookbook
> -Keep it Simple with GarageBand
> -Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005
> -Learning UML 2.0
> -Linux Annoyances for Geeks
> -Nagios
> -PGP & GPG
> -Pragmatic Ajax
> -Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
> -Programming PHP
> -RFID Security
> -Scripting VMware Power Tools
> -SQL Pocket Guide
> -Steal This Computer Book 4.0
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Upcoming Events
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -Maker Faire, San Mateo, CA--Apr 22-23
> -Digital Black and White with Stephen Johnson, Apr 22--
>  Pacifica, CA
> -Peter Morville at CHI 2006, Apr 22-27--Montreal, Canada
> -Collaborate 06, Apr 23-27--Nashville, TN
> -MySQL Users Conference, Apr 24-27--Santa Clara, CA
> -Niel M. Bornstein at the Desktop Linux Summit 2006, Apr 24-25, 
>  San Diego, CA
> -Stephen Few at the DAMA International Symposium, Apr 26--
>  Denver, CO
> -Dan Gillmor at Columbia University, Apr 27--New York, NY
> -Peter Krogh at the Commercial Industrial Photographers of 
>  New England, Apr 28--Boston, MA
> -Dan Gillmor at We Media Conference, May 4--London, England
> -Professional Exhibition with Stephen Johnson, May 6--Pacifica, CA
> -Dan Gillmor at Harvard Law School, May 12-13--Cambridge, MA
> -Dan Gillmor at Future in Review 2006 Conference, May 14--
>  San Diego, CA
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Conference News
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -OSCON, July 24-28--Portland,OR
> -Early Registration ending soon for the Where 2.0 Conference, 
>  June 13-14--San Jose, CA
> -MySQL Users Conference, April 24-27--Santa Clara, CA
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> News
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> -O'Reilly Staff Picks
> -Fire Your Boss! A Guide to Successful Freelancing From Home
> -Building a FreeBSD Build System
> -The Software of Space Exploration 
> -Mac FTP: A Guided Tour
> -Macintosh Home Monitoring 
> -Programming Word from .NET 
> -The Best Structure for Your Flash Site
> -Is AJAX Cross-Browser?
> -Implementing Mutual Exclusion for AJAX
> -Supporting Branch Office Environments
> -Scaling Games Up
> -Patterns for Communication, Moderation, and Information Processing
> -Aperture 1.1--Apple Listens
> -Digital "Not Hot" at Sundance 2006
> -Maker Faire Update, April 22-23--San Mateo, CA
> -MAKE Video Podcast
> -Make Sample Projects
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> ***Use ClickOnce to Deploy Windows Applications
> O'Reilly PDF (limited review copies available)
> ClickOnce, a new technology in Visual Studio 2005, lets you quickly and
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> ***The Art of RAW Conversion
> Publisher: No Starch Press
> ISBN: 1593270674
> "The Art of RAW Conversion" shows how to work with the RAW files generated
> by a digital camera to produce the best possible image quality in
> finished photos. The authors (both experts in digital photography, file
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> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270674/index.html>
> 
> 
> ***The Book of Visual Basic 2005
> Publisher: No Starch Press
> ISBN: 1593270747
> "Book of Visual Basic 2005" is a comprehensive introduction to Microsoft's
> newest programming language, Visual Basic 2005, the next iteration of
> Visual Basic. A complete revision to the highly-acclaimed Book of VB
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> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270747/index.html>
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> 
> ***Configuring SonicWALL Firewalls
> Publisher: Syngress
> ISBN: 1597492507
> "Configuring SonicWALL Firewalls" is the first book to deliver an in-depth
> look at the SonicWALL firewall product line. It covers all of the
> aspects of the SonicWALL product line from the SOHO devices to the
> Enterprise SonicWALL firewalls. Also covered are advanced
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> 
> 
> ***Creative Computer Crafts
> Publisher: No Starch Press
> ISBN: 1593270682
> This eye-catching, 4-color book shows how to use a computer and an
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> ***Enterprise Integration with Ruby
> Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
> ISBN: 0976694069
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> ***Enterprise SOA
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596102380
> Based on extensive research with experts from the German software
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> 
> 
> ***Flash 8 Cookbook
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> This practical, nuts-and-bolts toolkit puts theory into practice with
> ready-made answers to common Flash development questions. It's the
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> ***HTML Utopia, Second Edition
> Publisher: SitePoint
> ISBN: 0975240277
> "HTML Utopia" is for anyone who wants to use Cascading Style Sheets for
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> ***JUNOS Cookbook
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596100140
> "JUNOS Cookbook" is the first comprehensive book about JUNOS software
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> ***Keep it Simple with GarageBand
> Publisher: PC Publishing
> ISBN: 1870775163
> Contains a series of easy music making projects for beginners and
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> ***Learning SQL on SQL Server 2005
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596102151
> If you're new to databases, or need a SQL refresher, this step-by-step
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> ***Learning UML 2.0
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596009828
> Engaging and accessible, this book shows you how to use UML to craft and
> communicate your project's design. Russ Miles and Kim Hamilton have
> written a pragmatic introduction to UML; based on hard earned practice,
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> 
> 
> ***Linux Annoyances for Geeks
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596008015
> GNU/Linux is an immensely popular operating system that is extremely
> stable and reliable. But it can also induce minor headaches at the most
> inopportune times if you're not fully up to speed with its capabilities.
> In keeping with the spirit of the Annoyances series, the book adopts a
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> you along for a fun-filled ride as you master the system together. 
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/linuxannoygks/>
> 
> 
> ***Nagios
> Publisher: No Starch Press
> ISBN: 1593270704
> "Nagios: System and Network Monitoring" shows how to configure and use
> Nagios, an open source system and network monitoring tool. Nagios makes
> it possible to continuously monitor network services (SMTP, POP3, HTTP,
> NNTP, PING, etc.), host resources (processor load, disk and memory
> usage, running processes, log files, etc.), and environmental factors
> (such as temperature). When Nagios detects a problem, it communicates
> the information to the sys admin via email, pager, SMS, or other
> user-defined method. 
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270704/index.html>
> 
> 
> ***PGP & GPG
> Publisher: No Starch Press
> ISBN: 1593270712
> "PGP & GPG" is an easy-to read, informal tutorial for implementing
> electronic privacy on the cheap using the standard tools of the email
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> shows how to integrate these OpenPGP implementations into the most
> common email clients and how to use PGP and GPG in daily email
> correspondence to both send and receive encrypted email. 
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1593270712/index.html>
> 
> 
> ***Pragmatic Ajax
> Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf
> ISBN: 0976694085
> It used to be that you had to make a hard choice: the ease of deployment
> of a web page, or the interactive features of a rich desktop
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> for web applications. Using existing standards, your application can
> provide a compelling user interface--delivered plug-in free--using
> modern web browsers. This book shows you how to work the Ajax magic
> easily, exploring both the fundamental technologies and the emerging
> frameworks that make it easy.
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/0976694085/>
> 
> 
> ***Programming Excel with VBA and .NET
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596007663
> Programming Excel isn't about adding new features as much as it's about
> combining existing features to solve particular problems. With Visual
> Basic for Applications (VBA), you can transform Excel into a
> task-specific piece of software that will quickly and precisely serve
> your needs. This single-source reference and how-to guide will teach you
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> Developers looking forward to .NET development will also find discussion
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> Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). 
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/progexcel/>
> 
> 
> ***Programming PHP, Second Edition
> Publisher: O'Reilly
> ISBN: 0596006810
> As the industry standard book on PHP, all of the essentials are covered
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> 
> 
> ***RFID Security
> Publisher: Syngress
> ISBN: 1597490474
> Wal-Mart was the main force behind the widespread adoption of bar codes
> in the 80s; they have now started the conversion from bar codes to RFID
> tags and are requiring all of their suppliers to switch to RFID tags or
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> 
> 
> ***Scripting VMware Power Tools
> Publisher: Syngress
> ISBN: 1597490598
> This book covers the native tools that VMware provides with ESX Server.
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> can be leveraged to provide useful, practical and time saving
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> either copied directly from the book or with slight modifications for
> specific environments.
> <http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/1597490598/index.html>
> 
> 
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> ISBN: 0596526881
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> 
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> ISBN: 1593271050
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> ***Digital Black and White with Stephen Johnson, Apr 22--Pacifica, CA
> Photographer and author Stephen Johnson ("Stephen Johnson on Digital
> Photography") presents this one-day seminar.
> <http://www.sjphoto.com/one-day-seminars-SP06.html>
> 
> 
> ***Peter Morville at CHI 2006, Apr 22-27--Montreal, Canada
> Author Peter Morville (Ambient Findability) is speaking at CHI 2006
> "It's About the Information Stupid!"
> <http://www.chi2006.org/>
> 
> 
> ***Collaborate 06, Apr 23-27--Nashville, TN	
> Author Peter Robson ("The Art of SQL") is presenting at Collaborate 06,
> the Technology and Applications Forum for the Oracle Community, hosted
> by the Independent Oracle Users Group, the Oracle Applications Users
> Group, and Quest International Users Group.
> <http://www.ioug.org/collaborate06/>
> 
> 
> ***MySQL Users Conference, Apr 24-27--Santa Clara, CA
> O'Reilly is teaming up with MySQL AB to present the largest gathering of
> MySQL developers and users. The 2006 Conference will feature leading
> industry keynote speakers, the latest MySQL open source technologies,
> and interactive sessions and tutorials. Peruse the latest products and
> services in the expanded Exhibit Hall, meet the MySQL development team,
> and rub shoulders with fellow MySQL users.
> <http://mysqluc.com/>
> 
> 
> ***Niel M. Bornstein at the Desktop Linux Summit 2006, Apr 24-25, 
>  San Diego, CA
> Author Niel M. Bornstein ("Mono: A Developer's Notebook")is speaking
> about desktop Linux in education.
> <http://www.wilshireconferences.com/MD2006/index.htm>
> 
> 
> ***Stephen Few at the DAMA International Symposium, Apr 26--Denver, CO
> Author Stephen Few ("Information Dashboard Design") conducts two
> workshops: "Show Me the Numbers: Communicating Effectively with Charts"
> and "Information Visualization for Discovery and Analysis."
> <http://www.wilshireconferences.com/MD2006/index.htm>
> 
> 
> ***Dan Gillmor at Columbia University, Apr 27--New York, NY
> Author Dan Gillmor ("We the Media") is giving a lecture and public talk
> called "We the Media: The Rise of Grassroots, Open Source
> Journalism"	At the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.
> <http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/events/hearst/>
> 
> 
> ***Peter Krogh at the Commercial Industrial Photographers of New
> England, Apr 28--Boston, MA
> Author Peter Krogh ("The DAM Book: Digital Asset Management for
> Photographers") will be discussing DAM at CIPNE's annual membership
> meeting.
> <http://www.cipne.org/Programs/programs.html>
> 
> 
> ***Dan Gillmor at We Media Conference, May 4--London, England
> Author Dan Gillmor ("We the Media") is participating in a forum
> discussing "We and the Media."
> <http://www.mediacenterblog.org/events/06/wemedialondon/home/>
> 
> 
> ***Professional Exhibition with Stephen Johnson, May 6--Pacifica, CA
> Photographer and author Stephen Johnson ("Stephen Johnson on Digital
> Photography") presents this one-day seminar.
> <http://www.sjphoto.com/one-day-seminars-SP06.html>
> 
> 
> ***Dan Gillmor at Harvard Law School, May 12-13--Cambridge, MA
> Author Dan Gillmor ("We the Media") is participating in a forum
> discussing "Beyond Broadcasting.
> <http://www.beyondbroadcast.net/blog/>
> 
> 
> ***Dan Gillmor at Future in Review 2006 Conference, May 14--
>  San Diego, CA
> Author Dan Gillmor ("We the Media") will be discussing "From 
> Blogs to RSS to...the Future of News Reporting."
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> Join us at the 2006 edition of the MySQL Users Conference, the largest
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> ***Fire Your Boss! A Guide to Successful Freelancing From Home
> Sick of the commute? Want to establish your own freelance consultancy?
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> to recognize, understand, and address risk. 
> <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/fire-your-boss-home-freelance>
> 
> ---------------------
> Open Source
> ---------------------
> ***Building a FreeBSD Build System 
> Keeping a single BSD system up to date is relatively easy. Keeping a
> whole business full of servers fresh with patches and new applications
> and updates is more work--unless you take advantage of the ports system.
> Bjorn Nelson walks through the design and implementation of a build
> system usable to push fresh binaries to as many servers as you have.
> <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2006/04/13/freebsd-build-system.html>
> 
> 
> ***The Software of Space Exploration 
> Free software advocates often appeal to the open discovery, disclosure,
> and discussion practices of modern science as justification for sharing
> information. As software becomes more valuable for scientific research,
> free and open source software continues to grow in popularity. David
> Boswell looks at some of the software used in space exploration and
> usable by armchair scientists.
> <http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2006/03/30/software-of-space-exploration.html>
> 
> ---------------------
> Mac
> ---------------------
> ***Mac FTP: A Guided Tour
> (S)FTP has a special place in the hearts of web builders and
> developers, and is still one of the most practical methods of getting
> files from one place to another in a secure manner. In this article,
> Giles Turnbull surveys six FTP clients for the Mac platform and shows
> you the major characteristics of each.
> <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/13/ftp.html>
> 
> 
> ***Macintosh Home Monitoring 
> Want to learn a few simple home automation techniques to have your Mac
> send you a message when your mail is delivered, your kids get home, or
> your dog uses the pet door to go into the backyard? Gordon Meyer shows
> you how.
> <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/04/automation.html>
> 
> ---------------------
> Windows/.NET
> ---------------------
> ***Programming Word from .NET 
> Using .NET with Word can be a potent combination. Jesse Liberty shows
> you how to take advantage of Word's formatting features and add the
> power of .NET's programmability.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/18/programming-word-from-net.html>
> 
> 
> ***An Overview of UAC in Windows Vista 
> Vista's User Account Control represents a big step forward for system
> security. But it's not that easy to understand. Mitch Tulloch shows you
> how it works, and offers tips for making it better.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/04/uac-in-windows-vista.html>
> 
> ---------------------
> Web
> ---------------------
> ***The Best Structure For Your Flash Site
> Few developers know how to use Keyframes, ActionScript, and MovieClips,
> and can control the Flash playhead to their advantage. Optimizing your
> use of these elements can help you reduce file size, minimize download
> times, and create efficiencies that make altering your work easy. 
> <http://www.sitepoint.com/article/structure-flash-site>
> 
> 
> ***Is AJAX Cross-Browser?
> What does AJAX mean (if anything) for cross-browser compatibility? Kevin
> Yank takes a look at both sides of the argument.
> <http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/03/24/is-ajax-cross-browser/>
> 
> ---------------------
> Java
> ---------------------
> ***Implementing Mutual Exclusion for AJAX
> AJAX programmers who come from the Java world should be concerned with
> JavaScript's non-support for safely managing data structures in a
> concurrent fashion. If one thread is changing the DOM while another is
> reading it, problems are likely. Java developers can attack this with
> tools from the synchronized keyword and the old Object wait()/release()
> to the modern java.util.concurrent package introduced in J2SE 5.0. Bruce
> Wallace addresses the problem by introducing protection for critical
> blocks of JavaScript code.
> <http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2006/04/05/ajax-mutual-exclusion.html>
> 
> 
> ***Supporting Branch Office Environments 
> Supporting the IT needs of branch offices that have limited or no IT
> resources can be a challenge. What to do? Mitch Tulloch, author of
> "Windows Server Hacks," interviews Richard Harrison, CISSP, principal
> technologist for infrastructure and security at Content Master, who
> offers his expertise on how to support branch offices using Windows.
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/windows/2006/04/11/supporting-branch-office-environments.html>
> 
> ---------------------
> Podcasts
> ---------------------
> ***Scaling Games Up 
> This week we're talking about games. Big games. Amy Jo Kim talks about
> taking the lessons from game playing and applying them to your
> applications. Jane McGonigal talks about scaling up intimate two player
> games so that thousands of people can thumb wrestle. (DTF 04-18-2006: 27
> minutes 49 seconds)
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/04/18/distributing-the-future.html>
> 
> 
> ***Patterns for Communication, Moderation, and Information Processing
> We're finding patterns everywhere. Clay Shirky talks about patterns of
> moderation strategy, Jon Udell makes recommendations for those of us
> seeking attention, and George Dyson helps us understand the present by
> looking back at Von Neumann. (DTF 04-03-2006: 31 minutes 05 seconds)
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/2006/04/03/distributing-the-future.html>
> 
> For more podcasts, go to:
> <http://www.oreillynet.com/podcasts/>
> 
> ---------------------
> Digital Media
> ---------------------
> ***Aperture 1.1--Apple Listens 
> With Aperture's new features, bug fixes, and universal compatibility
> with PowerMacs and Intel Macs, it's now a serious contender for top
> digital photo software. Scott Bourne reviews Version 1.1.
> <http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2006/04/18/aperture.html>
> 
> 
> ***Digital "Not Hot" at Sundance 2006
> Digital cinema is no longer new or novel, but it is clearly and
> inevitably, the wave of the future. Susan Boyer attended this year's
> Sundance film festival and gives us a glimpse at how the cinematic landscape is
> changing.
> http://digitalmedia.oreilly.com/2006/04/05/digital-not-hot-at-sundance-2006.html
> 
> ---------------------
> MAKE
> ---------------------
> ***Maker Faire, San Mateo County Fairgrounds, San Mateo, CA--April 22-23
> Join the creators of MAKE magazine, the MythBusters, and thousands of
> tech DIY enthusiasts, crafters, educators, tinkerers, hobbyists, science
> clubs, students, and authors at MAKE's first ever Maker Faire!
> 
> People and attractions we'll have at the Faire includes: a flying Pterosaur
> replica, a flock of whale blimps, a giant painting machine, DIY RFID
> implants, model rocketry, breadboarding, trailer glass blowing, The
> Crucible's welding workshops off the back of a fire truck, pinhole
> photography, soldering, spud gun building, bubble machines and a bubble
> guy that appeared on Johnny Carson in the seventies, Bunnie Huang, Joe Grand,
> William Gurstelle and his Backyard Ballistics, The Exploratorium, Zeum,
> The Lunar Society (rocket builders), Graffiti Research Lab, Squid Labs,
> biodiesel making, electric cars, a Linux supercomputer cluster running
> on veggie oil, neon art, circuit bending, VJs, slide rules, pinball
> restoration, the Phenomenauts, Satan's Calliope and much more. Quite 
> an eclectic collection, not to mention Diana Eng of Bravo's Project 
> Runway and the 50 craft booths in Bizarre Bazaar and the Swap-o-Rama-Rama.
> 
> CNN, NPR's Science Friday's Ira Flatow, KPIX TV, Discover Magazine, CBS
> News, The Discovery Channel, The New York Times, Kevin Rose of Digg and
> digg.com Films, and CNET will be covering the event. But hey why wait
> to read it in a blog or see it on TV when you can be there in person?
> 
> If you haven't purchased your ticket yet, visit:
> <http://www.makezine.com/faire/>
> 
> 
> ***MAKE Video Podcast
> The making of a Warbot and death of a RAZR phone.
> <http://www.makezine.com/blog/archive/2006/04/make_video_podcast_the_making.html>
> 
> ***Try a Sample Project from MAKE:
> <http://makezine.com/samples/>
> 
> 
> Until next time--
> 
> Marsee Henon
> 
> 
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