Co-written by Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein, widely followed and highly respected twitterers, the practical information in The Twitter Book is presented in a innovative, visually rich format that's packed with clear explanations and examples of best practices that show Twitter in action, as demonstrated by the work of over 60 twitterers.

This book will help you: <ul> <li>Use Twitter to connect with colleagues, customers, family, and friends <li>Stand out on Twitter <li>Avoid common Twitter gaffes and pitfalls <li>Build a critical professional communications channel with Twitter--and use the best third-party tools that help you manage it.

If you want to know how to use Twitter like a pro, The Twitter Book will quickly get you up to speed.

About the authors:

Tim O Reilly (@timoreilly), founder and CEO of O Reilly Media, has hundreds of thousands of followers on Twitter. Sarah Milstein (@SarahM) frequently writes, speaks and teaches about Twitter; she was the 21st user of Twitter.

The authors have achieved a nearly ideal balance in the pages of this book. It's not just a collection of recipes (such collections tend to leave you hanging if you want to do something a little differently), it's not just a book of documentation (books like that have application mainly as references for people who know a lot already), and it's not just a conceptual how-to guide. Unix Power Tools is all of those things, and the overall effect is impressive indeed. If you work with any flavor of Unix, whatever your level of experience, you will benefit by having this book. --David Wall

Topics covered: How to work efficiently, elegantly, and creatively with the Unix tool suite, as well as (to a lesser extent) with Perl and Python scripts. Tips and strategies on customization, document generation, process management, and networking abound in this wisdom-rich volume.

This is a book of three parts, the first giving you a brief overview of the Windows way of working. Section two is a deeper, alphabetical reference to the various functions and features of Windows 98, complete with plenty of screen shots and instructions for getting the best out of your PC.

If you're running a network or want to get a better understanding of Windows 98 systems, you'll find the third section of the book most useful. It covers in depth the tools you need to run Windows, from the Registry to building and running batch files. However, where it really excels is in its coverage of one of Microsoft's hidden secrets--the Windows Scripting Host. Using this and the reference to the available functions in the book, you can create simple scripts to control and add extra functions to your Windows systems.

Because Windows 98 is so poorly documented, this book is the ideal desktop aid for both the beginner and the power user. Windows 98 in a Nutshell is the manual Microsoft left out of the Windows 98 box. --Simon Bisson, amazon.co.uk

Topics covered in Managing UUCP include:<ul><li>How UUCP works.<li>RS-232 cabling.<li>Talking with modems.<li>Setting up a UUCP link.<li>Security considerations.<li>UUCP administration.<li>Introduction to Usenet.<li>Installing Netnews.<li>Administering Netnews.

The tenth edition of this classic work has been revised and expanded to include descriptions of:<ul><li>How to use NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) to transfer Usenet news over TCP/IP and other high-speed networks.<li>How to get DOS versions of UUCP.<li>How to set up DOS-based laptop computers as traveling UUCP nodes.<li>How the UUCP 'g' protocol works.

Topics covered in Managing UUCP include:<ul><li>How UUCP works.<li>RS-232 cabling.<li>Talking with modems.<li>Setting up a UUCP link.<li>Security considerations.<li>UUCP administration.<li>Introduction to Usenet.<li>Installing Netnews.<li>Administering Netnews.

The tenth edition of this classic work has been revised and expanded to include descriptions of:<ul><li>How to use NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) to transfer Usenet news over TCP/IP and other high-speed networks.<li>How to get DOS versions of UUCP.<li>How to set up DOS-based laptop computers as traveling UUCP nodes.<li>How the UUCP 'g' protocol works.

Using & Managing UUCP contains up-to-date information about HoneyDanBer UUCP (officially called Basic Networking Utilities or BNU). It also contains product-specific information about the UUCP implementations of the major UNIX vendors. More important, Using & Managing UUCP covers Taylor UUCP, a new implementation that ships with Linux distributions. So this book is of special importance to the growing number of individuals running Linux on their home or office computers.

Volume 4 includes:

<ul><li>Introduction to the X Window System.<li>Building applications with widgets.<li>Constructing a bitmap editor with widgets.<li>An overview of each widget in the widget set.<li>Basic widget methods.<li>Events, translations, and accelerators.<li>Event handlers, timeouts, and work procedures.<li>Resource management and type conversion.<li>Selections and window manager interaction.<li>Geometry management.<li>Menus, gadgets, and cascaded pop-ups.<li>Miscellaneous techniques.<li>Comparison of Athena, OSF/Motif, and AT&T OPEN LOOK widgets.

This book is designed to be used with Volume 5, X Toolkit Intrinsics Reference Manual, which provides reference pages for each of the Xt functions, the widget classes defined by Xt, and the Athena widget set.

Topics covered in Managing UUCP include:<ul><li>How UUCP works.<li>RS-232 cabling.<li>Talking with modems.<li>Setting up a UUCP link.<li>Security considerations.<li>UUCP administration.<li>Introduction to Usenet.<li>Installing Netnews.<li>Administering Netnews.

The tenth edition of this classic work has been revised and expanded to include descriptions of:<ul><li>How to use NNTP (Network News Transfer Protocol) to transfer Usenet news over TCP/IP and other high-speed networks.<li>How to get DOS versions of UUCP.<li>How to set up DOS-based laptop computers as traveling UUCP nodes.<li>How the UUCP 'g' protocol works.

This popular manual is available in two editions, one for users of the MIT software, one for users of Motif. The Standard Edition uses the twm manager in most examples and illustrations. Revised and updated for X11 Release 5.

Contents include: - Starting the system and opening windows. - Using the xterm terminal emulator and window managers. - Most standard release clients, including programs for graphics, printing, font manipulation, window/display information, removing windows, as well as several "desktop" utilities. - Customizing the window manager, keyboard, display, and certain basic features of any client program. - Using and customizing the mwm window manager, for those using the OSF/Motif graphical user interface. - System administration tasks, including managing fonts, starting X automatically, and using the display manager, xdm, to run X on a single or multiple display.

New material covered in this fourth edition includes: - Overview of the X Color Management System (Xcms) - Creating your own Xcms color database - Tutorials for two "color editors": xcoloredit and xtici - Using the X font server - Tutorial for editres, a resource editor - Extensive coverage of the new implementations of bitmap and xmag - Overview of internationalization features

This popular manual is available in two editions, one for users of the MIT software, one for users of Motif. The Standard Edition uses the twm manager in most examples and illustrations. Revised and updated for X11 Release 5.

Contents include: - Starting the system and opening windows. - Using the xterm terminal emulator and window managers. - Most standard release clients, including programs for graphics, printing, font manipulation, window/display information, removing windows, as well as several "desktop" utilities. - Customizing the window manager, keyboard, display, and certain basic features of any client program. - Using and customizing the mwm window manager, for those using the OSF/Motif graphical user interface. - System administration tasks, including managing fonts, starting X automatically, and using the display manager, xdm, to run X on a single or multiple display.

New material covered in this fourth edition includes: - Overview of the X Color Management System (Xcms) - Creating your own Xcms color database - Tutorials for two "color editors": xcoloredit and xtici - Using the X font server - Tutorial for editres, a resource editor - Extensive coverage of the new implementations of bitmap and xmag - Overview of internationalization features