MacVoices #1174: Joe Kissell Takes Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac for the Second Time
Joe Kissell is back to cover another in his trilogy of Mac performance books, this time covering the newest revision to Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac. Things keep getting more complex, so your troubleshooting skills have to match. Joe discusses how his own experiences drove this revision, how he selects what topics to cover, [...]
MacVoices #1173: Joe Kissell Takes Control of Speeding Up Your Mac
In what turns out is the third book in a trilogy of Mac performance information, Joe Kissell has released Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac. While it didn’t start out as a series, this book joins Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac and Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac to help you get and [...]
MacVoices #1168: Kirk McElhearn Takes Control of Scrivener 2
If you do lots of writing, or are planning to, Kirk McElhearn can help you do it better and easier with Scrivener 2. In his new book, Take Control of Scrivener 2, Kirk explains why Scrivener is better than a standard word processor because of its advanced features, and the difference that makes to the [...]
MacVoices #1167: Jeff Tolbert Takes Control of Making Music and Recording in Garageband ’11
Jeff Tolbert, the author of Take Control of Making Music with GarageBand ’11 and Take Control of Recording with GarageBand ’11, talks about what’s new in the latest version of Apple’s consumer-level music program. Newly updated with features like Groove Matching and Flex Time, GarageBand continues to evolve. Jeff explains how these new features draw [...]
MacVoices #1166 – Jeff Carlson on Taking Control of iPad Media
Jeff Carlson has been busy updating his Take Control of iPad Media to the second edition, and talks about the changes iOS 4.3, Airplay and the iPad 2 have brought to Apple’s tablet. If you want to get the most from your iPad 1 or iPad 2, find out how new and optimized tools for [...]
MacVoices #1165: Steve Sande Takes Control of iWeb ’09 Updates and Enhancements
Steve Sande has updated his Take Control of iWeb ’09 to version 1.1 to reflect the changes and additions to Apple’s web publishing program, even though it didn’t get a full update in iLife ’11. Steve talks about where iWeb is and where it is going. Even if you don’t plan to use it as [...]
MacVoices #1163: Joe Kissell Takes Control of Big and Easy Backups in Mac OS X
Mac expert Joe Kissell has been busy, this time updating not one but two of his most important books, Take Control of Easy Mac Backups and Take Control of Mac OS X Backups, Fifth Edition. You’ve got a backup strategy, so you’re done, right? Wrong. Joe discusses his three-prong approach to backups and why it [...]
MacVoices #10134: Tonya Engst Takes Control of the iPad with iOS4
Tonya Engst has updated her book, Take Control of iPad Basics, to v1.2. Why a .1 upgrade and what does it mean? Tonya explains before digging into some iPad basic tips for every level of user. The iPad is #1 on everyone’s holiday gift list for giving or getting, and Tonya’s book assures the new [...]
MacVoices #10129: Joe Kissell Finally Takes Control of Your Paperless Office
After writing books and articles that touched on the topic, Mac expert Joe Kissell has released Take Control of Your Paperless Office, a handbook to accomplish the task. Blending a high-level approach to going paperless with some very practical and self-developed techniques, Joe talks about what scanners to buy, what software you need to help [...]
MacVoices #10127: Sharon Zardetto Takes Control of Safari 5
Sharon Zardetto‘s latest release is Take Control of Safari 5, and she joins us to talk about the new features, big and small in this version of Apple’s web browser. Leading the pack in the “big” category is Reader, a function that makes web page content more legible and accessible by changing it to a [...]
