Take Control of Your BrowserAuthor: Robyn WeismanPublisher: alt concepts inc.Version: 1.0.1Price: $14.99144 pages, ebook format: PDF, Epub, Mobi If you’ve been reading MyMac.com reviews
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Take Control of Your BrowserAuthor: Robyn WeismanPublisher: alt concepts inc.Version: 1.0.1Price: $14.99144 pages, ebook format: PDF, Epub, Mobi If you’ve been reading MyMac.com reviews
Read MoreTake Control of Notes Author: Josh Centers Publisher: alt concepts inc. Price: $5.99 Formats: PDF, ePub, Mobi 51 pages If you ever owned an
Read MoreTake Control of Your Apple ID Author: Glenn Fleishman Publisher: alt concepts inc. Price: $7.99 Formats: PDF, ePub, Mobi 76 pages Apple ID. Sometimes
Read MoreTake Control of Upgrading to Mojave Author: Joe Kissell Publisher: alt concepts inc. Version 1.0 Price: $9.99 114 pages, ebook format: PDF, EPub, Mobi
Read MoreCoding iPhone Apps For Kids Authors: Gloria Winquist & Matt McCarthy no starch press 336 pages ISBN-13:978-1-59327-756-7 Ages 10+ Print and Free Ebook: $29.95
Read MoreOnce again, TidBITS hits it out of the park with their latest book, Take Control of Preview. Preview is an application that has been on the Mac since OS10 was released in 2001, but has been overlooked over the years and considered a not very useful app other than opening a PDF or viewing a photo. Josh Centers and Adam Engst wrote Take Control of Preview to change that perception.
Read MoreI’m a huge Joe Kissell fan. Ive read many of his books, and have always come away with important information and time saving tips. Maintaining Your Mac is another such book, with a qualification.
Read MoreYou’ve heard it time and time again: backup, backup, backup. Updating software? Backup first. Installing a new hard drive? Backup first. Sounds simply enough, but how many of us are really doing it, or if we are backing up, how many of us are doing it correctly? Never fear, Joe Kissell is here to help us with his latest book, Backing Up Your Mac.
Read MoreIf you’re in a hurry, here’s the one sentence review of Take Control of iCloud: if you have any confusion or questions about iCloud, buy this book.
Read MoreWhen I want to learn, really learn, about a single technology topic, I turn to Take Control books. Each book dives deep into its subject; for example Dropbox, online privacy, or 1Password. Many other readers prefer a quick overview of the topic, a get in, get out philosophy if you will.
Read MoreThe Missing Manual series, of course, aims to fill gaps that many pieces of software (may) leave by having no – or an inadequate – manual. iMovie The Missing Manual (OReilly) looks at Apples venerable movie editing software.
Read MoreBeginning to produce a podcast can be a little intimidating. Which software do I use to record? How do I choose a mic? Should I use GarageBand, Audacity, or another program for editing? Those questions, and many more, are answered in Take Control of Podcasting On The Mac.
Read MoreiPad in Education for Dummies by Sam Gliksman is a must read for any teacher that has, or plans on having a classroom full of iPads. Gliksman breaks up the book into seven parts, with several chapters within each part. Within each chapter, he has numerous subtitles, step-by-step directions on how to use a certain app, and many pictures showing you what the app looks like. The book is set up so that you don’t have to read each chapter sequentially. Look at the table of contents, find a subject you are interested in, and read about the numerous apps that the author describes how to use in great detail.
Read MoreDid you ever wonder how to set up a mobile hotspot? Maybe you don’t understand the difference between WPA2 and WEP security. What’s the big deal about having a secure password for a home WiFi network? If you ever had any of these question, Glenn Fleishman answers all these questions, and more, in his latest book, Take Control of Networking & Security in iOS 6.
Read MoreAs has become standard for titles of this weight and authority (the Apple Pro Training Series is justly widely respected), it’s divided into broad sections – nine in this case. Each has between two and five chapters, or “Lessons”. These vary in length from half a dozen pages (the “About this guide” one at the start) to 50 (two very thorough explorations of networks). Other longer lessons cover application installation, configuration and troubleshooting.
Read MoreImmediately following the death of Steve Jobs in October 2011, book publishers world wide started releasing a plethora of books about the much revered CEO we simply knew as Steve.
Read MoreAdobe recently released Photoshop Elements 11, a consumer level version of their industry-standard photo editing software, Photoshop. PSE11 can still be a little intimidating to the new user, which is why a reference like Photoshop Elements 11: The Missing Manual is so valuable.
Read MoreAuthors Susan Prosser and Stuart Gripman, both FileMaker Certified Developers, have given readers a true manual to help with learning and mastering FMP12.
Read MoreMany years ago, David Pogue was present at Macworld Expo in Boston when an attendee opened a new software box. The guy was seriously disappointed that all he got for his money was a CD. This turned out to be Pogue’s Eureka! moment. It was also the birth of the Missing Manual series that now numbers over 150 books by a diverse group of knowledgeable authors. As he says in his latest book, “It’s a good thing you’ve got a book about OS X in your hands, because the only user manual you get with it is the Help menu.”
Read MoreIt’s encouraging for the Apple community that new books on new Mac operating systems appear regularly, and in quantity, each time a new OS release appears. During Apple’s less successful periods you struggled to find more than a handful of decent explorations in print of arguably the most elegant and robust OS for any desktop computer. Now there are several dozen. Galen Gruman’s “OS X Mountain Lion Bible” is one of the best for 10.8′
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