A little birdy told us you needed to know more about Mastodon Ready to escape the drama of existing social media platforms and try something new and awesome in the world of social media? In Mastodon For Dummies, experienced tech trainers Chris Minnick and Mike McCallister show you exactly how to use Mastodon, the hot decentralized social media offering on the web and destination for thousands of social media migrants. Learn how to sign up for the service on your choice of server and get familiar with the rules of what’s sure to become your new favorite app. You’ll discover how to connect with other people, attract your own followers, and make yourself right at home in the Mastodon community. In the book, you’ll find: Easy-to-follow instructions on how to choose the Mastodon server that suits you best Instructions for establishing new connections on a new social platform and learning the rules of the road Tips for conducting business on Mastodon and making a home for your home-based business or brand on the social media service Step-by-step guides on launching your very own server If you’re ready to leave old social platforms in the rear-view and try something new, grab a copy of Mastodon For Dummies.
Do more with WordPress – in less time! This is the most complete, coherent, and practical guide to succeeding with WordPress 3.1 and WordPress.com’s hosted services. The authors help you efficiently design, secure, and manage your blog, and add powerful features to attract visitors and build thriving communities. Get comfortable with WordPress, leverage its immense power, and customize it to your unique needs—no matter how large your blog grows, or how complex your content management challenges are! • Start your WordPress blog right, to avoid hassle and rework later • Make your blog’s appearance stand out from the crowd • Use QuickPress to create new posts in no time • Make your posts easier to find and more useful to casual visitors • Revamp your whole blog in minutes with themes • Use HTML and CSS “power tools” to add advanced blog features • Engage readers with comments, polls, and ratings • Manage teams of blog administrators, editors, authors, and contributors • Use WordPress Statistics and Google Analytics to understand and grow your audience • Add graphics and media to your blog posts • Work with a hosting provider that runs WordPress software for you • Create new blog networks with WordPress Multisite • Integrate social networking features with BuddyPress • Find, test, activate, and use powerful third-party plug-ins • Build your own themes and plug-ins All In Depth books offer: • Comprehensive coverage with detailed solutions • Troubleshooting help for tough problems you can’t fix on your own • Outstanding authors recognized worldwide for their expertise and teaching style Learning, reference, problem-solving...the only WordPress book you need!
A great book is no longer enough. An author platform is the most powerful key to success in today's saturated market, and increasingly, publishers are demanding that new authors come to them with an existing audience of interested followers. Authors who are self-publishing have an even bigger need to build an engaged audience. Social media makes building the author platform easier than ever, but, unfortunately, most authors struggle to get it right. How can authors create their unique platform, connect with followers, write a manuscript, and grow their business? In Build Your Author Platform: The New Rules, top literary agent Carole Jelen and tech expert Michael McCallister apply their combined 35 years of expertise to outline 14 practical, hands-on steps to create a presence that will produce high book sales and expanded audience. From pre-publication through book launch and beyond, authors will learn how to: • Define goals and a unique brand • Employ successful website strategies, content, social presence, media authority, and training • Secure positive reviews • Attract viewers efficiently without cost Filled with detailed lessons, examples, success stories, and techniques used by marketing departments at major publishers, Build Your Author Platform is an indispensable guide for anyone looking for insight into publishing, promoting, and marketing books.
SUSE Linux 10 Unleashed presents comprehensive coverage of the latest version of SUSE Linux, one of the most popular and most complete Linux distributions in the world.
The eagerly-anticipated Ubuntu Touch brings one of the world's most powerful open source operating systems to a whole new world of devices: tablets, smartphones, and beyond. Ubuntu Touch is the first and only comprehensive introduction to Canonical's exciting new mobile operating system. Perfect for everyone from adventurous early adopters to developers and support professionals, it will be especially valuable to the millions of open source aficionados who've made Ubuntu the #1 desktop distribution of Linux. Best-selling author and influential tech blogger Mike McCallister covers all this, and more: Getting started with Ubuntu Touch, and navigate its unique, button-less interface Installing Ubuntu Touch on an Android device (including setting up dual-boot) What Android, iOS, and Windows Phone users need to know to get productive fast Using Ubuntu Touch's "Core Apps": Calendar, To-Dos, Reminders, and more Setting up email accounts and RSS feeds Using productivity tools, from LibreOffice to PDF readers Connecting to Ubuntu One Music, Ubuntu TV, YouTube, and other media resources Socializing on Facebook Finding the best third-party apps (since there's no specific Ubuntu Touch store) Managing your files locally and through Ubuntu One's cloud storage Getting help, troubleshoot problems, and connect with the worldwide Ubuntu community Getting started developing native or HTML5 apps for Ubuntu Touch
Criminal defense attorney Paul Johns-if that is his real name-feels out of his league on K Street in Washington, DC, home of cutthroat lobbyists and the even more venal legal world in which he's a junior associate. The lawyers serve the street; the street serves them. It's a lucrative symbiosis fueled by billion-dollar deals and power games among a class who already have more wealth than they'll ever need. It's power most of them crave, not money.That's not Paul; not yet. He still drives his college junker, lives in a tiny apartment, eats takeout from the deli over the hundred-dollar lunches many of his colleagues enjoy. But he wants more. Much more.When a senior partner at the firm, Eric Cantor, learns of Paul's family connection to an influential bureaucrat at the FAA, the young lawyer finds himself propelled into a linchpin, life-changing position-suddenly he's the only one who can bring home a billion-dollar airline merger. Soon Cantor treats Paul not only like a major player but a son, especially when they're sailing out on Chesapeake Bay together? But soon the less-than-honest intentions of the various players come to light, and the idea of loyalty becomes tenuous and vague: When Jack Tate, the owner of the airline, makes him an offer he can barely refuse-a chance at a payday totaling millions, if he's willing betray his boss and father-figure Eric Cantor-Paul will be forced to choose whose avarice, his own or that of K Street, he will truly serve.
Byron and Dianne's marriage, while never perfect, had had its good times. No question. But she'd been into more than he could stand to admit-addiction can cause a person to behave in ways they never would otherwise. A test of a husband's love, resolve and dignity-but enough to move him to murder his childhood sweetheart? The police with whom he once served seem to think Byron's guilty, as do the victim's parents. The rest of the town smells blood too, at least once the story hits the local press about a husband who'd had enough humiliation-as well as taken out a huge insurance policy only weeks before her death. That leaves Robert Taylor, a faithful friend and attorney, along with muckraking TV host Sydney Biddle-and the bereaved husband himself-as the only ones left convinced of Byron Round's innocence. At the mercy of a legal system determined to win a conviction on premeditated, capital murder, the accused must prove to a jury that he'd never kill the woman he once loved, no matter what.
Detective Nick McCallister investigates a rash of suicides three on the south end and three on the west end, his own son Justin among them. Something evil is happening in the city. McCallister comes face to face with that evil when Satan's personal assistant Nathan appears in his living room late one night and asks if he's ready for the truth. While an escape from reality is actually what he wants, McCallister knows Nathan must be stopped but he has no idea how to proceed. McCallister is already being sucked downward by the emotional undercurrent from a failing marriage, Justin's suicide, and the investigation of his own police force over the grim murder of a local African American civil rights activist. He's drawn into the ugliest corners of a truth he never could have imagined, a world where the myths of civilization are exposed, the Inquisition analyzed, and the Holy Bible rewritten. McCallister is challenged to determine what is truly good and what is truly evil after he realizes his son and his wife have made their own informed and untimely decisions.
William J. McCallister has seen it all--or so he believes. As he nears the end of a career that has spanned many years, he is left with the one question that he finds himself seeking to answer. Will I make it to the end? Dealing with the complexities of an ever-increasing diverse workplace for most of his working life and resolving these employee issues for his employers, he looks forward to winding down a very rewarding but sometimes stressful career. Frequently when commiserating with colleagues on human interactions the common consensus is "You just can't make this stuff up!" This regular guy who has spent his entire career serving others comes to realize that getting to the end of anything in life is just a matter of interpretation...and sometimes that interpretation is not just yours alone! Little does he suspect of what he is about to face before he can ride off into the sunset. This might just be the very thing that prevents him from Getting to the End.
The wheat and the tares live together, but no matter how long a tare lives amidst wheat it will never become wheat, likewise the wheat will never become a tare. The day of harvest is coming and it is difficult to tell the difference between the wheat and weeds; not because the weeds try to blend in with the wheat but because the wheat envies the tares. Are we not made a new creature in the likeness of Christ? How is it that we who are made righteous defile ourselves with base, unholy, and unrighteous deeds. It is not enough to be a Christian in name, Christ is coming back and He knows the sheep from the goats.
Detective Nick McCallister investigates a rash of suicides three on the south end and three on the west end, his own son Justin among them. Something evil is happening in the city. McCallister comes face to face with that evil when Satan's personal assistant Nathan appears in his living room late one night and asks if he's ready for the truth. While an escape from reality is actually what he wants, McCallister knows Nathan must be stopped but he has no idea how to proceed. McCallister is already being sucked downward by the emotional undercurrent from a failing marriage, Justin's suicide, and the investigation of his own police force over the grim murder of a local African American civil rights activist. He's drawn into the ugliest corners of a truth he never could have imagined, a world where the myths of civilization are exposed, the Inquisition analyzed, and the Holy Bible rewritten. McCallister is challenged to determine what is truly good and what is truly evil after he realizes his son and his wife have made their own informed and untimely decisions.
Young NSA analyst Pip Palmer is the most prolific computer hacker in all the three letter government agencies. From behind his elite work station dubbed The Key, he uncovers secrets as a voyeur to the outside world. On another continent, the most wanted terrorist in the world, Falby is back with a vengeance. Having escaped the CIA’s secret prison system, he focuses his reprisal on the American presidency. When the former presidents are assassinated and Pip intercepts crucial information, the very people he should trust may be the ones behind it all. He’s forced on the run with an unlikely partner, and together they try to save each other and unravel the truth. In No Safe Place, Michael Hilliard weaves another tale of suspense and intrigue; with the fulfilling characterization, plot twists, and description that have become his signature.
“Zimmer demonstrates why he’s one of the more interesting voices in Western fiction.” —Booklist “I've got something I want to say right up front,” says Boone McCallister, as he speaks into an Edison Dictaphone in 1937, “and that is that I did not feed David Klee to an alligator. That damned rumor has hounded me my whole life.” Back in 1864, with his father gone to fight for the South, young Boone embarks on a cattle drive with the McCallister’s Flat Iron Ranch in pioneer Florida, sending a herd of cattle to the Gulf port south of Tampa. Besides navigating dangerous cattle country, the headstrong, naïve Boone encounters vengeful Yankees, orders a hanging, braves alligators, and comes into contact with a group of swamp outlaws, the Klees, which begins a costly feud between the two families. When the Klees pillage and set fire to the Flat Iron Ranch, they also kidnap a comely slave girl, Lena. Against the odds, Boone must lead an operation to get her back, leading to a showdown in the middle of unfamiliar and unsettled outlaw territory that would one day become Miami. Skyhorse Publishing is proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in fiction that takes place in the old West. Westerns—books about outlaws, sheriffs, chiefs and warriors, cowboys and Indians—are a genre in which we publish regularly. Our list includes international bestselling authors like Zane Gray and Louis L’Amour, and many more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.
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