1. Chapter 1 Search

   1. Hacks 1–22: Introduction

   2. Fine-Tune Yahoo! Web Search Queries

   3. Save Time with Search Shortcuts

   4. Create a Yahoo! ID

   5. Set Persistent Yahoo! Search Preferences

   6. Assemble Advanced Search Queries

   7. Translate Any Page with Yahoo!

   8. Personalize, Track, and Share the Web

   9. Prefetch Yahoo! Search Results

   10. Compare Yahoo! and Google Search Results

   11. Find Content You Can Reuse Legally

   12. Find Video from Across the Web

   13. Streamline Browsing with the Yahoo! Toolbar

   14. Customize the Firefox Quick Search Box

   15. Spot Trends with Yahoo! Buzz

   16. Find Hot Technologies at the Buzz Game

   17. Tame Long Yahoo! URLs

   18. Opt Out of Advertiser Cookies

   19. Track News About Yahoo!

   20. Spider the Yahoo! Catalog

   21. Browse the Yahoo! Directory

   22. Track Additions to Yahoo!

   23. Yahoo! Directory Mindshare in Google

2. Chapter 2 Services

   1. Hacks 23–50: Introduction

   2. Track Your Investments

   3. Build Your Own Stock Update Email

   4. Download Financial Data Using Excel Web Queries

   5. Convert Currencies with One Click

   6. Do the Math with Yahoo! Calculators

   7. Add a Yahoo! Bookmark with One Click

   8. Import Existing Bookmarks into Yahoo! Bookmarks

   9. Open Yahoo! Bookmarks in a Sidebar

   10. Publish Your Yahoo! Bookmarks

   11. Track the Media's Attention Span over Time

   12. Monitor the News with RSS

   13. Personalize My Yahoo!

   14. Track Your Favorite Sites with RSS

   15. Add a Feed to My Yahoo! with a Right-Click

   16. Build Your Own News Crawler

   17. Replace Your Phone Book with Yahoo!

   18. Monitor Your Commute

   19. Get the Facts at Yahoo! Reference

   20. Find and Rate Movies

   21. Subscribe to Movie Showtimes

   22. View Movie Lists on Your Cell Phone

   23. Plan Your TV Viewing

   24. Create a TV Watch List

   25. Develop and Share a Trip Itinerary

   26. Shop Intelligently

   27. Visualize Your Music Collection

   28. Take Yahoo! on the Go

   29. Stay Connected with Yahoo! Alerts

3. Chapter 3 Communicating

   1. Hacks 51–67: Introduction

   2. Navigate Yahoo! Mail

   3. Manage Yahoo! Mail

   4. Create Yahoo! Mail Macros

   5. Read All Your Email in One Place

   6. Read Yahoo! Mail in Your Preferred Email Client

   7. Manage and Share Your Schedule

   8. Add Contacts to Your Yahoo! Address Book

   9. Map Yahoo! Address Book Contacts

   10. Discuss, Share, and Collaborate with Others

   11. Archive Yahoo! Groups Messages with yahoo2mbox

   12. Explore Your Social Networks

   13. Import an Existing Blogroll to Yahoo! 360

   14. Add an API to Your Yahoo! 360 Blog

   15. Create a Yahoo! Avatar

   16. Add a Content Tab to Yahoo! Messenger

   17. Send Instant Messages Beyond Yahoo!

   18. Store, Sort, and Share Your Photos

4. Chapter 4 Web Services

   1. Hacks 68–76: Introduction

   3. Program Yahoo! with Perl

   4. Program Yahoo! with PHP 5

   5. Program Yahoo! with Python

   6. Program Yahoo! with VBScript

   7. Program Yahoo! with ColdFusion

   8. Program Yahoo! with XSLT

   9. Program Yahoo! with Java

   10. Program Yahoo! with Ruby

   11. Program Yahoo! with REBOL

5. Chapter 5 Applications

   1. Hacks 77–91: Introduction

   2. Visualize Yahoo! Web Search Results

   3. Find Links to Any Web Site

   4. Import Yahoo! Local Listings into Your Address Book

   5. Create a Yahoo! Local MIDlet

   6. Import Yahoo! Local Listings into Excel

   7. Spell Words with Yahoo! Images

   8. Randomize Your Windows Desktop Background

   9. Randomize Your Mac Desktop Background

   10. Mash Up Images from Around the Web

   11. Illustrate Any Web Site

   12. Add Links to a Block of Text Automatically

   13. Visualize News Topics as Tags

   14. Get Related Terms Instantly with Ajax

   15. Compare the Popularity of Related Search Terms

   16. Plot Multiple Points on Your Own Map

6. Chapter 6 Webmastering

   1. Hacks 92–100: Introduction

   2. Get Your Site Listed at Yahoo!

   3. Hide Part of Your Web Site from Yahoo!

   4. Search Your Web Site with Yahoo!

   5. Add Presence to Your Web Site

   6. Syndicate Rich Media

   7. Add Contextual Search to Your Blog

   8. Post Photos to Your Blog

   9. Feed Your Latest Photos to Your Web Site

   10. Display Messages from a Yahoo! Group on Your Web Site

1. Colophon

Our look is the result of reader comments, our own experimentation, and feedback from distribution channels. Distinctive covers complement our distinctive approach to technical topics, breathing personality and life into potentially dry subjects.

The image on the cover of Yahoo! Hacks shows a pair of cowboy boots with spurs. American cowboy boots evolved from Hessians (boots with the familiar V-cut in front, worn by German soldiers who fought in the Revolution), Wellingtons (knee-high British boots), and others. They are treadless, in order for one to quickly slide the forefoot into and out of the stirrup, and have a tall heel that holds the boot in place while one is mounted. The revolving rowel used in modern spurs became popular around the fourteenth century. Earlier spurs (used throughout Europe from the time of the Etruscans, and farther east by Genghis Khan and his support staff) had a single sharp protrusion. Early Native Americans did not use spurs, preferring a sort of quirt (short-handled whip).

Unlike "down at the heel" and "slipshod," the term "well-heeled" originally referred not to footgear but to fowl: in cockfighting, it has long been used to indicate that a bird has sharp spurs (natural weapons on its legs, sometimes augmented artificially). On the American frontier, the term was used to mean one was carrying a gun; later it evolved to mean one was armed with wealth. The phrase "to earn one's spurs" traces back to chivalric tradition, when spurs were awarded in recognition of battlefield or tournament heroics.

Abby Fox was the production editor and proofreader for Yahoo! Hacks. Derek Di Matteo was the copyeditor. Lydia Onofrei and Marlowe Shaeffer provided production assistance. Adam Witwer and Claire Cloutier provided quality control. Lucie Haskins wrote the index.

Hanna Dyer designed the cover of this book, based on a series design by Edie Freedman. The cover image is a photograph from Getty Images. Marcia Friedman produced the cover layout with Adobe InDesign CS using Adobe's Helvetica Neue and ITC Garamond fonts.

David Futato designed the interior layout. Keith Fahlgren converted this book from Microsoft Word to FrameMaker 5.5.6 with a format conversion tool created by Erik Ray, Jason McIntosh, Neil Walls, and Mike Sierra that uses Perl and XML technologies. The text font is Linotype Birka; the heading font is Adobe Helvetica Neue Condensed; and the code font is LucasFont's TheSans Mono Condensed. The illustrations that appear in the book were produced by Robert Romano, Jessamyn Read, and Lesley Borash using Macromedia FreeHand MX and Adobe Photoshop CS. Abby Fox wrote this colophon.