Hi,

I am using a new email system starting today for these User
Group Newsletters. Just thought I'd warn you in case they look 
a bit different then usual.

--Marsee


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*Google on NPR
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http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1421546

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http://www.itconversations.com/index.php

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***Hacking Windows XP 
In these two hacks excerpted from "Windows XP Hacks," author 
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for your desktop to appear when you turn on your PC (and make XP
shut down faster as well), and how to use some of Preston's 
favorite Registry hacks to make nifty interface changes.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/network/excerpt/winxphacks_chap1/index.html

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***Single Sign-on for Your Web Applications
Jason Garman walks you through the implementation of SPNEGO, 
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http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2003/09/11/kerberos.html

Jason is the author of "Kerberos: The Definitive Guide."
Order Number: 4036
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/kerberos/


***The Hacker Behind "Hacking the XBox" 
Reverse engineering seems a mysterious and dark art, aided, 
perhaps, by the specter of the U.S. DMCA. Andrew "Bunnie" Huang 
risked penalties for his self-published "Hacking the Xbox." 
Howard Wen recently interviewed Huang on reverse engineering, 
disclosure, and the guts of the Xbox itself.
http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/2003/09/11/bunniehuang_interview.html

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***Web and Enterprise Architecture Design Patterns for J2EE 
From their experience as web-era application designers, Ganesh 
Prasad, Rajat Taneja, and Vikrant Todankar saw a need for a set 
of named ways of doing things at the application or subsystem 
level, in the same manner that the original design patterns 
fulfilled a need for standardization of lower-level 
functionality. In part one of a two-part series, the authors 
discuss their Web and Enterprise Architecture Design Patterns 
in the Partitioning and Scope categories.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/09/10/patterns.html

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***Enhancing ASP.NET Pages with JavaScript 
A sprinkling of JavaScript code can enhance the reach and 
responsiveness of your ASP.NET web pages without sacrificing 
ASP.NET's secure, server-based model for your coding. Matthew 
MacDonald, coauthor of "ASP.NET in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition," 
shows you how to use JavaScript in an ASP.NET web page to 
perform three common tasks: showing a pop-up window, changing 
control focus, and handling frame navigation. You can use these 
tricks to quickly solve problems that have no native .NET solution.
http://www.ondotnet.com/pub/a/dotnet/2003/09/15/aspnet.html

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***Ten Tips for Building a Flash Remoting Application
Flash Remoting has not changed much for the release of Flash MX 
2004, which is good news for programmers building complex Rich 
Internet Applications (RIA). Flash Remoting still offers the 
most flexible, intuitive way to add an application server to an 
RIA. Tom Muck, author of O'Reilly's upcoming "Flash Remoting: 
The Definitive Guide," offers ten tips for building a Flash 
Remoting application that will help programmers deliver the most
efficient RIA possible.
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/javascript/2003/09/16/flashremoting.html

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***Keynote Plays Ball with PowerPoint
Apple's Keynote is the first major-company presentation software
in years to step up to bat against ruling giant Microsoft 
PowerPoint. Ian Darwin provides a detailed comparison of the 
two presentation heavyweights.
http://www.macdevcenter.com/pub/a/mac/2003/09/12/keynote.html

Until next time--

Marsee