Hackers, who are they?
They people that break into business computers and steal credit card information. They deface Web sites. They plant computer viruses.
What the hack! There's an older, more honorable tradition that defines a hacker as someone who discovers a simple shortcut or an elegant solution to a technical problem.
Here are a host of new books invite you to tinker with the internal workings of personal computers and other electronic gadgets. This is an enjoyable way to learn about technology.
Hardware Hacking Projects for Geeks by Scott Fullam
Hacking TiVo by Jeff Keegan - Another do-it-yourself hacking book. It covers a variety of modifications that can make the TiVo digital video recorder perform tricks that the manufacturers never intended.
O'Reilly, a noted publisher of computer books, has become so enamored of the hacking genre that it has issued an entire line of how-to-hack books. All are aimed at conveying insider tips on using common tools to maximum advantage.
Google Hacks, eBay Hacks, Amazon Hacks, Wireless Hacks and Online Investing Hacks.
These books are competing for shelf space with the myriad Dummies and Idiots how-to books.
With a good hack, you might extend its life or expand its capabilities. If it doesn't work out, you'll have gotten a last bit of enjoyment out of the gizmo before trashing it. 
Building Applications with the Amazon API
With Mining Amazon Web Services: Building Applications with the Amazon API, you can profit with Amazon Web Services as a Buyer, Seller, or Independent Developer. With the launch of Amazon Web Services, buyers and sellers have unprecedented access to the immense body of data underpinning this marketplace. Mining Amazon Web Services: Building Applications with the Amazon API shows you what you can do with these powerful tools, and exactly how to do it. As a buyer, youīll build applications that let you comparison-shop far more effectively, consistently saving money and finding exactly the right product. As a seller, youīll leverage Amazon Web Services in ways that help you attract more customers, make more commissioned referrals, and improve your bottom line. This book is also a great resource for independent developers who want to create and publish - even make money with - applications for others.
ISBN: 0-7821-4307-5
Publisher: Sybex
What is Xanadu all about?
Xanadu (trademark for software by Ted Nelson) is a set of ideas and a software design project for a universal system of electronic information storage and access. Its inventor, Ted Nelson, is credited with inventing the term hypertext, an idea that is a central part of Xanadu. In his book of 1987, Literary Machines, Nelson envisioned a distributed document system that in some ways anticipated the World Wide Web.
Conceived in the early 1960īs, Xanadu encompassed a system for distributed and collective authoring, the ability to retain all previous levels of a document, and a number of specific hypertextual ideas including the link type and the backlink. Nelson described Xanadu as "an instantaneous electronic literature" and "perhaps the ultimate" hypertext system - sounds like the world wide web! Although Xanadu has failed to materialize for actual use, Nelsonīs concepts have stimulated the thinking of a number of information architects and system designers.
The Hypertext Concept was developed by Vannevar Bush in 1945. In 1960 Ted Nelson gets the idea of Xanadu hypertext was chosen the word hypertext in 1963 only published 1965. The Model-T Enfilade was developed by Ted Nelson, John Ridgeway and Cal Daniels in 1972. In 1980, Olivia Newton-John popularised the Xanadu in one of a many golden hits.
Reference: xanadu.com
In 1992, Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web as a text-based 1-way hypertext system. NCSA introduced the Mosaic browser that was designed by Marc Andreessen, which added graphics directly into the pages in early 1994. By the late 1994 the browser and the internet is really take off.
Power-Up : How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life
Chris Kohler, one of video game journalism's most important new voices, has joined forces with BradyGames, the leader in video game strategy guides, to launch a new book designed to give readers an entertaining and authoritative look at the indelible influence that video gaming, specifically Japanese gaming, has had on the world. Whether a hardcore gamer, a fan of Japanese films and anime, or a student of Japanese culture, Power-Up: How Japanese Video Games Gave the World an Extra Life is a must-have. The book, scheduled to release in early September, is the first English-language work of its kind to examine the reasons behind the success of Japanese video games, rather than focusing on the history of video games. At over 300 pages, this compelling paperback profiles some of the most fascinating Japanese video game designers in the industry and takes a critical look at Japanese video games from their earliest beginnings to new, exciting trends that ride the bleeding edge of popular culture.
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