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Yahoo! took the world by storm in the 1990s as a one-of-a-kind, searchable list of interesting web sites. But ten years later, it has expanded into a department store overflowing with useful and innovative tools and services-from email, blogging, social networking, and instant messaging, to news, financial markets, shopping, movie and TV listings, and much more. Today''s Yahoo! keeps you connected with every aspect of your life and every corner of the Web.

Yahoo! Hacks shows you how to use, expand, personalize, and tweak Yahoo! in ways you never dreamed possible. You''ll learn how to:

Fine-tune search queries with keyword shortcuts and advanced syntaxManage and customize Yahoo! Mail, using it as your universal email client to access all your other accountsExplore your social networks with Yahoo! 360, blogging your life, keeping up with friends, and making new contactsStore, sort, blog, feed, track, and otherwise share photos with Flickr and RSSMake My Yahoo! your Yahoo!, and personalize Yahoo!''s many propertiesRoll your own Yahoo! applications with Yahoo! new Web Services API and Perl, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, or the programming language of your choiceVisualize search results and topics, mash up images from around the Web, and remix other web contentList (or hide) your site with Yahoo!, and integrate Yahoo! Groups, Messenger, contextual search (Y!Q), or other Yahoo! features

Whether you want to become a power searcher, news monger, super shopper, or innovative web developer, Yahoo! Hacks provides the tools to take you further than you ever thought possible.

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. But Flickr''s own plethora of intuitive menus, options, and features just scratches the surface.

Flickr Hacks goes beyond the basics of storing, sorting, and sharing your photos to the much bigger playground of what''s possible. Whether you''re a beginner looking to manage your metadata and play with tags, or a programmer in need of a detailed reference of Flickr API methods, you''ll find what you''re looking for here. In addition to getting under the hood of some of the most popular third-party Flickr toys already in the wild, you''ll learn how to:

Post photos to your blog directly from your cameraphoneMash up your own photos or others'' public pictures into custom mosaics, collages, sliding puzzles, slideshows, or ransom notesBack up your Flickr library to your desktop, and save the comments tooSet random desktop backgrounds and build your own Flickr screensaverGeotag your photos and map your contactsDownload a list of photos and make a contact sheetMake your own Flickr-style tag cloud to visualize the frequency of common tagsBuild a color picker with a dynamic color wheel of Flickr photosFeed photos to your web site and subscribe to custom Flickr feeds using RSSTalk to the Flickr API using your web browser, Perl, or PHP; authenticate yourself and other users; and build custom API applications

Everyone knows that Google lets you search billions of web pages. But few people realize that Google also gives you hundreds of cool ways to organize and play with information.

Since we released the last edition of this bestselling book, Google has added many new features and services to its expanding universe: Google Earth, Google Talk, Google Maps, Google Blog Search, Video Search, Music Search, Google Base, Google Reader, and Google Desktop among them. We''ve found ways to get these new services to do even more.

The expanded third edition of Google Hacks is a brand-new and infinitely more useful book for this powerful search engine. You''ll not only find dozens of hacks for the new Google services, but plenty of updated tips, tricks and scripts for hacking the old ones. Now you can make a Google Earth movie, visualize your web site traffic with Google Analytics, post pictures to your blog with Picasa, or access Gmail in your favorite email client. Industrial strength and real-world tested, this new collection enables you to mine a ton of information within Google''s reach. And have a lot of fun while doing it:

Search Google over IM with a Google Talk botBuild a customized Google Map and add it to your own web siteCover your searching tracks and take back your browsing privacyTurn any Google query into an RSS feed that you can monitor in Google Reader or the newsreader of your choiceKeep tabs on blogs in new, useful waysTurn Gmail into an external hard drive for Windows, Mac, or LinuxBeef up your web pages with search, ads, news feeds, and moreProgram Google with the Google API and language of your choice

For those of you concerned about Google as an emerging Big Brother, this new edition also offers advice and concrete tips for protecting your privacy. Get into the world of Google and bend it to your will!

Yahoo! took the world by storm in the 1990s as a one-of-a-kind, searchable list of interesting web sites. But ten years later, it has expanded into a department store overflowing with useful and innovative tools and services-from email, blogging, social networking, and instant messaging, to news, financial markets, shopping, movie and TV listings, and much more. Today''s Yahoo! keeps you connected with every aspect of your life and every corner of the Web.

Yahoo! Hacks shows you how to use, expand, personalize, and tweak Yahoo! in ways you never dreamed possible. You''ll learn how to:

Fine-tune search queries with keyword shortcuts and advanced syntaxManage and customize Yahoo! Mail, using it as your universal email client to access all your other accountsExplore your social networks with Yahoo! 360, blogging your life, keeping up with friends, and making new contactsStore, sort, blog, feed, track, and otherwise share photos with Flickr and RSSMake My Yahoo! your Yahoo!, and personalize Yahoo!''s many propertiesRoll your own Yahoo! applications with Yahoo! new Web Services API and Perl, PHP, Java, Python, Ruby, or the programming language of your choiceVisualize search results and topics, mash up images from around the Web, and remix other web contentList (or hide) your site with Yahoo!, and integrate Yahoo! Groups, Messenger, contextual search (Y!Q), or other Yahoo! features

Whether you want to become a power searcher, news monger, super shopper, or innovative web developer, Yahoo! Hacks provides the tools to take you further than you ever thought possible.

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. But Flickr''s own plethora of intuitive menus, options, and features just scratches the surface.

Flickr Hacks goes beyond the basics of storing, sorting, and sharing your photos to the much bigger playground of what''s possible. Whether you''re a beginner looking to manage your metadata and play with tags, or a programmer in need of a detailed reference of Flickr API methods, you''ll find what you''re looking for here. In addition to getting under the hood of some of the most popular third-party Flickr toys already in the wild, you''ll learn how to:

Post photos to your blog directly from your cameraphoneMash up your own photos or others'' public pictures into custom mosaics, collages, sliding puzzles, slideshows, or ransom notesBack up your Flickr library to your desktop, and save the comments tooSet random desktop backgrounds and build your own Flickr screensaverGeotag your photos and map your contactsDownload a list of photos and make a contact sheetMake your own Flickr-style tag cloud to visualize the frequency of common tagsBuild a color picker with a dynamic color wheel of Flickr photosFeed photos to your web site and subscribe to custom Flickr feeds using RSSTalk to the Flickr API using your web browser, Perl, or PHP; authenticate yourself and other users; and build custom API applications