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Real World Mac Maintenance and Backups
Author Joe Kissell
Are you making reliable backups and performing regular maintenance on your Mac? Too few Mac users take the time to do so, and they regret it when something goes wrong. That's where Macintosh expert Joe Kissell can help. You'll learn how to keep your Mac running sm....
Release Date 2006/10 -
Author Joe Kissell
MobileMe provides oodles of features, but are you making the most of your $99-per-year membership? MobileMe has become a Swiss-army knife of online services, offering not only a whizzy "push" data syncing service for tracking calendar, contact, and bookmark info on ....
Release Date 2009/07 -
Take Control of Upgrading to Mountain Lion
Author Joe Kissell
Best-selling author Joe Kissell guides you through every step in the process of upgrading to Mountain Lion. You'll begin with a compatibility check, learn to make a suitable pre-upgrade backup, and then follow assorted pre-upgrade advice, including managing your Ap....
Release Date 2013/04 -
Take Control of Mac OS X Backups
Author Joe Kissell
Set up a rock-solid backup strategy so that you can restore quickly and completely, no matter what catastrophe arises. In this comprehensive book, backup guru Joe Kissell helps you pick the best backup strategy for your needs and understand the whys and hows of what....
Release Date 2009/04 -
Author Joe Kissell
Just as a single “flipped bit” in a piece of computer code can bring an otherwise reliable app crashing to a halt, a single misconception in your understanding of personal computing technology can cause all manner of problems — including lost data, wasted time, and....
Release Date 2016/04 -
Take Control of Parallels Desktop 12
Author Joe Kissell
Take advantage of the full virtualization power of Parallels Desktop!Updated November 13, 2016If you need to run Windows alongside your Mac apps or test macOS 10.12 Sierra while booting safely from 10.11 El Capitan, your solution is at hand with Parallels Desktop 1....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal, 2nd Edition
Author Joe Kissell
If you’ve ever thought you should learn to use the Unix command line that underlies Mac OS X, or felt at sea when typing commands into Terminal, Joe Kissell is here to help! With this 167-page ebook, you’ll become comfortable working on the Mac’s command line, star....
Release Date 2016/02 -
Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal, 2nd Edition
Author Joe Kissell
Learn how to unleash your inner Unix geek!Updated Feb 2, 2016If you've ever thought you should learn to use the Unix command line that underlies Mac OS X, or felt at sea when typing commands into Terminal, Joe Kissell is here to help! With this 167-page ebook, you....
Release Date 2016/02 -
Author Joe Kissell
Give better presentations with this handy guide covering Keynote for the Mac!Need to give a presentation, but worried about how you'll do? Steve Jobs relied on Keynote for his famous keynote presentations, and while using Keynote won't guarantee Jobs-level success....
Release Date 2015/08 -
Take Control of Upgrading to Sierra
Author Joe Kissell
Avoid anxiety and enjoy an easy upgrade!Upgrade with confidence as you follow Mac guru Joe Kissell's essential advice. You'll ensure that your hardware and software are ready for Sierra, prevent problems by making a bootable duplicate of your main drive, and decid....
Release Date 2016/09 -
Take Control of Working with Your iPad
Author Joe Kissell
Want to get some real work done on your iPad? Joe Kissell helps you find and use the best productivity apps and techniques. Whether you'd like to run your office from an easy chair, take meeting notes on your iPad, or edit and create documents, spreadsheets, presen....
Release Date 2010/06 -
Digital Sharing for Apple Users: A Take Control Crash Course
Author Joe Kissell
Learn the best ways to share your data, documents, and devices!Updated December 17, 2015Beyond keeping track of what's new in the latest operating system is the larger problem facing most of us—how to work effectively in today's ecosystem of devices, servers, and ....
Release Date 2015/12 -
Take Control of Your Digital Legacy
Author Joe Kissell
How do you want to be remembered by future generations? You can make a will to handle your physical possessions, but what about your digital life—photos, videos, email, documents, and the like? This ebook, written by tech expert Joe Kissell, covers many aspects of ....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Take Control of 1Password, 6th Edition
Author Joe Kissell
Easily create and enter secure passwords on all your devices! Version 6.1, updated June 20, 2023 Annoyed by having to type hard-to-remember passwords? Let 1Password do the heavy lifting. With coverage of 1Password version 8 for Mac, Windows, Linux, iOS/iPadOS, Android, and Apple Watch, author Joe....
Release Date 2023/06 -
Take Control of Dropbox, 2nd Edition
Author Joe Kissell
Sync, link, and share your files!Because Dropbox is so simple to use for basic file syncing, it's easy to forget that you can do far more with it than just sync files between two computers. If that's all you're doing, you're missing out!Author Joe Kissell expla....
Release Date 2016/02 -
Take Control of Your Digital Legacy
Author Joe Kissell
How do you want to be remembered by future generations? You can make a will to handle your physical possessions, but what about your digital life—photos, videos, email, documents, and the like? This ebook, written by tech expert Joe Kissell, covers many aspects of ....
Release Date 2017/01 -
Take Control of Apple Mail, 3rd Edition
Author Joe Kissell
Master Mail in El Capitan and iOS 9!You can work more effectively in Apple Mail with expert advice from Joe Kissell. You'll learn how to make Mail serve your needs with essential setup, usage, and troubleshooting instructions, whether you use Gmail, iCloud, Exchan....
Release Date 2015/10 -
Take Control of Upgrading to Catalina
Author Joe Kissell
macOS 10.15 Catalina makes your Mac more powerful, safer, and easier to use. But upgrading from an older version of macOS can sometimes be a confusing and frustrating experience—especially if you're currently running a much older operating system, or if you encoun....
Release Date 2019/10 -
Take Control of 1Password, 3rd Edition
Author Joe Kissell
Easily create and enter secure passwords on all your devices!Wrangling your web passwords can be easy and secure, thanks to 1Password, the popular password manager from AgileBits. In this book, Joe Kissell brings years of real-world 1Password experience into play t....
Release Date 2018/01 -
Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac, 2nd Edition
Author Joe Kissell
If your Mac seems a lot slower now than when you first bought it, it’s not your imagination. Over time, your Mac can become bogged down with extra background tasks, run out of free RAM and disk space, and encounter a wide variety of other issues that lead to slow p....
Release Date 2019/01 -
Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac, 3rd Edition
Author Joe Kissell
Macs, like all machines, are prone to break down eventually—in either a physical sense (a component going bad) or a logical sense (files becoming corrupted, apps misbehaving). You can reduce the risk of such problems, and minimize the damage when they do occur, wit....
Release Date 2019/01 -
Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal, 3rd Edition
Author Joe Kissell
Learn how to unleash your inner Unix geek!Version 3.0.1, updated 03/21/2020Release your inner geek and harness the power of the Unix underpinnings of macOS! This book from Joe Kissell explains everything you need to know to become comfortable working on the command line i....
Release Date 2020/03 -
Take Control of Upgrading to Mojave
Author Joe Kissell
macOS 10.14 Mojave improves performance, fixes bugs, and adds new features. But upgrading from an older version of macOS can sometimes be a confusing and frustrating experience—especially if you're currently running a much older operating system, or if you encount....
Release Date 2018/10 -
Take Control of Upgrading to High Sierra
Author Joe Kissell
Manage your upgrade to High Sierra with ease!Although Apple has made upgrading to each new operating system easier and safer, there is still room for things to go wrong. In Take Control of Upgrading to High Sierra, Mac expert Joe Kissell outlines a process that wil....
Release Date 2017/09 -
Take Control of the Cloud, 2nd Edition
Author Joe Kissell
To some people, the Cloud is a hard concept to grasp; what does it mean exactly? For others, it’s the sheer complexity of the Cloud that is confusing; how to choose among the ever-increasing number of options. And for yet others, it’s the security of the Cloud that....
Release Date 2017/07 -
Take Control of Getting Started with DEVONthink 2, 3rd Edition
Author Joe Kissell
Take control of all your information with DEVONthink and Joe Kissell's advice!With the information-management program DEVONthink 2, you no longer have to swim in a sea of Web bookmarks, email receipts, RSS feeds, scanned memos, and downloaded bank statements. DEVO....
Release Date 2016/11 -
Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner
Author Joe Kissell
If you'd like your Thanksgiving preparations to go smoothly (and who wouldn't?), turn to experienced tech writer and foodie Joe Kissell for help. At least half the battle is a good plan, and Joe provides you with a customizable plan that gets you organized, helps ....
Release Date 2012/11 -
Take Control of iCloud, 6th Edition
Author Joe Kissell
iCloud is a simple idea in theory—access to all your data on all your devices, via the cloud—that can become complicated when put into practice. Instead of wasting time fiddling with iCloud, when there are many other more important things to be done with the infor....
Release Date 2018/12 -
Take Control of Your Online Privacy, 4th Edition
Author Joe Kissell
Nowadays, it can be difficult to complete ordinary activities without placing your personal data online, but having your data online puts you at risk for theft, embarrassment, and all manner of trouble. In this book, Joe Kissell helps you to develop a sensible onli....
Release Date 2019/04 -
Take Control of Your Online Privacy, 4th Edition
Author Joe Kissell
Nowadays, it can be difficult to complete ordinary activities without placing your personal data online, but having your data online puts you at risk for theft, embarrassment, and all manner of trouble. In this book, Joe Kissell helps you to develop a sensible online priv....
Release Date 2019/04