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Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal
Release 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 in Terminal, and provides numerous “recipes” for performing useful tasks.
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Take Control of iCloud
Apple’s iCloud service is useful but can also create headaches for the average user. In this book, Joe Kissell explains how to avoid frustrations and make iCloud work for you across all your devices.
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Take Control of DEVONthink 4
Free!DEVONthink 4 offers a slew of features for defeating information overload, but mastering its power is easier with real-world advice from DEVONthink power user Joe Kissell. He helps you understand the best ways to put information into DEVONthink and how to organize it so you can find it later. He also covers syncing DEVONthink databases among your Apple devices and using DEVONthink To Go for iPhone and iPad.
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Take Control of iOS 18 and iPadOS 18
iOS 18 and iPadOS 18 overhaul your iPhone and iPad with major new features and interface changes. These include Apple Intelligence, which will continue to gain features and affect many aspects of how you use your device. In this book, Josh Centers shows you what’s new, plus what you have to look forward to in future updates.
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iPhone and iPad Basics
iPhones and iPads were intended to be easy to use, but over the years, a lot of complexity has crept in. As a result, most of us—even those who have been using these devices for years—jump through unnecessary hoops to perform basic tasks and overlook helpful but less-than-obvious features. This book walks you through everything you need to know to navigate your device with ease.
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Take Control of iOS 26 and iPadOS 26
Discover all the changes in iOS 26 and iPadOS 26, which breathe new life into your iPhone and iPad with major new features and interface changes. In this book, renowned technology author Glenn Fleishman shows you what’s new and how to upgrade.
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Take Control of Solving Mac Problems
Macs are generally quite reliable computers, but things still can and do go wrong. When you encounter an error message, an ornery app, or other unwanted behavior, don’t panic. Take a deep breath and turn to the expert advice in Take Control of Solving Mac Problems.
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Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac
Joe Kissell provides the advice you need to create a Mac backup strategy that protects your data and enables quick recovery. He compares backup software, services, and media to help you make the best choices. You’ll learn to set up, test, and maintain backups, plus how to restore files after a calamity!
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Mac Basics
This book is a thorough, friendly guide to using a Mac, starting from scratch. It covers both the Mac hardware and macOS, as well as Apple’s built-in apps. Whether you’re a new to Macs or someone who has been struggling because no one ever taught you the ins and outs, you’ll learn how to become a confident Mac user.
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Take Control Premium
$14.99Take Control Premium is an optional, paid discount program that lets members save 50% on all ebook purchases (even upgrades and crossgrades) for an entire year. Inspired by Amazon Prime, this program helps you save money on future purchases, and even on the books you order at the same time as Premium.
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Keep Safe Using Mobile Tech
The digital and “real” worlds can both be scary places. The smartphone (and often smartwatch) you already carry with you can help reduce risks, deter theft, and mitigate violence. This book teaches you to secure your hardware, block abuse, automatically call emergency services, connect with others to ensure you arrive where and when you intended, detect stalking by compact trackers, and keep your ecosystem accounts from Apple, Google, and Microsoft secure.
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Take Control of Tahoe
Apple has given Macs a new look and feel with macOS 26 Tahoe. But it’s not just a pretty face. Tahoe adds impressive features that will save you time and effort while enabling you to customize your Mac like never before. This book is your complete guide to what’s new in Tahoe and how to upgrade.
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Take Control of Apple Watch
Get to know your Apple Watch and customize it to help you focus on what you care about most. Tech expert Jeff Carlson helps you understand the watch mindset, pick the watch model that’s right for you, set up and share its faces and their complications, get the notifications you want, take advantage of the health and fitness features, handle communications, and learn how the controls and core apps work.
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Take Control of Apple Media Apps
Are you bewildered with the apps that replaced iTunes on your Apple devices? Befuddled by Apple Music? Confused about whether or how to sync your media to the cloud? Wondering how to view movies and TV shows on each of your devices? Wishing for a way to organize your podcasts? In this book, Kirk McElhearn explains not only how Apple’s media apps work, but also how normal people can make the Music, TV, Podcasts, and Books apps do just what they want.
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Take Control of Apple Screen and File Sharing
Do you need to access a Mac across the room—or around the globe? Or share files securely with a relative or colleague? Want to know about Apple’s latest, much-improved screen sharing among iPhones, iPads, and Macs, and what’s missing in them? This book is a friendly but comprehensive guide to screen sharing, screen mirroring, network file sharing, and cloud file sharing using Apple devices.
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Take Control of MailMaven
Free!Discover MailMaven, a powerful new email app for Mac. This book shows you the app’s inner workings and how you can use its unique tools to manage your email more quickly and efficiently. You’ll improve your organization, automate numerous email actions, find messages quickly, and express yourself more clearly. Any Mac user who relies heavily on email but feels limited by other email apps will benefit from MailMaven and this book!
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Take Control of Apple TV
Whether you’re considering an Apple TV, already own one, or have a smart TV or streaming device that supports AirPlay and/or the Apple TV app, you can more fully enjoy Apple’s ecosystem with this ultimate guide. You’ll learn about the best TVs and sound equipment to buy, how to maximize your Apple TV’s picture quality, get the most out of the Apple TV app, control your media with AirPlay, and so much more!
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Take Control of Notes
This book tells you everything you need to know about Apple’s Notes app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and the web, from basic features like formatting text and creating lists to advanced features like scanning documents, protecting notes with passwords, making sketches, and managing attachments.
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Take Control of Find My and AirTags
This book takes you inside Apple’s Find My ecosystem, a robust, privacy-protecting way to track your things, share your location (and see others’ with their permission), and aid in recovery lost and stolen devices. Find My lets you and someone else arrange to meet and see your live, updated ETA; figure out where you left your iPad (was it on a flight?!), and know that your bicycle remains firmly in place where you locked it.
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Take Control of FaceTime and Messages
Dig into FaceTime, Messages, and Phone from the basics through the most advanced and interesting features available, including screen sharing, group calls, and sending rich messages in Take Control of FaceTime and Messages. This comprehensive book will answer every question and reveal useful features you never knew existed.
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Take Control of Securing Your Apple Devices
Secure your Mac, iPhone, or iPad against attacks from the internet, physical intrusion, and more with the greatest of ease. Glenn Fleishman guides you through protecting yourself from phishing, email, and other exploits, as well as network-based invasive behavior. Learn about built-in privacy settings, the Secure Enclave, FileVault, hardware encryption keys, sandboxing, privacy settings, Advanced Data Protection, Lockdown Mode, resetting your password when all hope seems lost, and much more.
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Take Control of Photos
This book introduces you to the many features of Apple’s Photos app on Mac, iPad, and iPhone, with advice on navigating the interface, editing your images, searching your library, syncing with iCloud Photos, sharing photos with others, and creating photo books.
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Take Control of Your Apple Account
The center of the Apple world is your Apple Account. This identifier ties up your access to iCloud; to purchased and streaming music, TV, and movies; and to all your devices. While an Apple Account is essential, Apple has made it difficult to navigate the many features associated with it—and particularly to troubleshoot and resolve problems that crop up. This book answers dozens of questions and guides you through solutions. It also explains how to use security, recovery, and other features tied to your Apple Account.
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Take Control of Your Digital Storage
This book demystifies Mac storage, from mechanical hard drives to solid-state disks, and covering topics such as network-attached storage (NAS), cloud storage, repairing and managing disks, encryption, filesystems (like APFS), and managing data. It also covers using external storage on an iPhone or iPad.
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Take Control of Scrivener 3
Compose a masterpiece with Literature & Latte’s Scrivener. Whether you’re writing science fiction, a historical novel, or a zombie travelogue, learn how Scrivener’s powerful tools can take your work to the next level. Kirk McElhearn shows you how to collect notes, organize your work, arrange and rearrange sections, and more. Covers Mac, Windows, and iPhone/iPad versions!
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Take Control of Apple Mail
Use Apple Mail more effectively! Email expert Joe Kissell explains what’s new with Mail for Mac, iPhone, and iPad, and how to best set up your Gmail, iCloud, IMAP, and Exchange accounts. He then shows you how to take Mail to the next level with plugins and automation, manage your incoming email, customize Mail, and solve common problems.
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Take Control of Sequoia
macOS 15 Sequoia is one of Apple’s most ambitious updates in years. Along with the usual range of new features, it introduces Apple Intelligence, which permeates many parts of the system and fundamentally changes the sorts of things you can do with your Mac and how you do them. This book is your complete guide to what’s new in Sequoia.
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Take Control of Siri
When it comes to using your Apple devices, Siri is the hands-free, time-saving, and fun technology that ties everything together. Whether you want to ask a question, make a call, find your iPhone, or set a timer, not only can Siri do it, but it usually offers the fastest way. This book explores how to get the most out of Siri on your iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and HomePod.
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Take Control of iPhone Photography
Would you like to unlock the powerful features of your iPhone’s cameras and create better photos and videos? This book is the friendly, step-by-step guide to capturing great photos using the iPhone, the camera that’s always with you, taught by an author and professional photographer who has been taking mobile photos on iPhones since the first model.
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Take Control of Your Online Privacy
Nearly everything you do say or do online can be recorded and scrutinized by advertisers, data brokers, and a long list of other people and organizations—often without your knowledge or consent. When your personal data falls into the wrong hands, you risk theft, embarrassment, and worse. But you can take steps to greatly improve your online privacy without sacrificing all your convenience.
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Take Control of Automating Your Mac
Ever wondered if automation could make your life easier? In Take Control of Automating Your Mac, Fifth Edition, Mac expert Joe Kissell shows you how to save time and aggravation by using numerous built-in macOS tools, as well as helpful third-party apps, to automate routine tasks and procedures.
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Take Control of Your Passwords
Password overload has driven many of us to take dangerous shortcuts. If you think ZombieCat12 is a secure password, that you can safely reuse a password, or that no one would try to steal your password, think again! Overcome password frustration with expert advice from Joe Kissell!
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Take Control of Untangling Connections
Frustrated with your peripheral cables? Tangled up in standards and compatibility? Glenn Fleishman figuratively cuts through the mess of ports, cables, and protocols. The book answers hundreds of questions and helps you troubleshoot common problems, such as identifying cable capabilities. You get all the answers on how to connect USB, Thunderbolt, Ethernet, DisplayPort, HDMI, and audio at the fastest, best, or highest-fidelity method available.
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Take Control of Calendar and Reminders
Learn how to unlock the full potential of Apple’s Calendar and Reminders! This book helps you get the most out of these two apps, showing you how to customize them, sync data across devices, and share meeting invitations and reminder lists. You’ll also learn how to use Siri as a shortcut and how to fix common problems.
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Take Control of Podcasting
Start podcasting or take your podcast to the next level with start-to-finish guidance from Andy Affleck. You’ll learn tricks of the trade as you assemble your hardware and software, make recordings, edit and mix the audio, and encode and publish your shows. This book covers all the steps needed to make a podcast using a Mac, iPhone, or iPad.
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Take Control of Sonoma
macOS 14 Sonoma makes your Mac more secure and easier to use, with a wide array of new and improved features. Learn how to upgrade your Mac from an earlier version of macOS, find your way around Sonoma, use new features, and discover extensive changes to built-in apps such as Safari and Messages.
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Take Control of 1Password
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 Kissell shows you how to generate and enter secure passwords, speed up your online shopping, and share and sync web logins and other confidential data.
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Take Control of Your Digital Legacy
How do you want to be remembered? A will takes care of your physical possessions, but what about your digital life—photos, email, files,
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Take Control of Your Paperless Office
The paperless office doesn’t have to be a myth! Turn paper into usable digital files, reducing clutter and increasing convenience. This book helps you assess your situation, develop a strategy, and learn clever techniques for keeping more paper at bay—with detailed discussion of the hardware, software, and processes needed to get the job done.
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Take Control of Wi-Fi Networking and Security
Setting up and securing a Wi-Fi network can be complicated and confusing. This book helps you over every hurdle involved in picking gateways, setting up a network, adding devices, and securing the network and connected phones, tablets, and computers. It’s useful for those who have set up networks in the past and want to replace them with new gear, as well as people who have never built a Wi-Fi network before.
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Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner
$7.49Joe Kissell trades his trackpad for a whisk and brings his knack for breaking complex topics into simple steps to the task of preparing a full-bore Thanksgiving dinner. With Joe’s help and extensively tested recipes, cooking a complete Thanksgiving feast can be both delicious and stress-free!
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Take Control of Pages
Discover how to make the most out of Pages! In this fully revised fourth edition, Michael E. Cohen digs deep into Pages, unearthing the nuggets of knowledge you need to make your work shine. Create complex documents of all sorts on your Mac or iPad, sync them via iCloud, and share them with other people.
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Take Control of Your Digital Photos
This book gives you the information you need to build and maintain a digital photo workflow that makes it easy to import, rate, tag, and store photos to find them quickly and easily later. It helps you spend more time on the enjoyable aspects of photography—capturing and viewing your photos—and less on the mundane but essential task of managing all your photos. It also puts you in the best position to quickly find and edit your most promising photos.
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Take Control of Preview
Apple’s Preview app is bundled with every Mac and yet many Mac users have only a shallow understanding of what it’s capable of. Mac experts Adam Engst and Josh Centers have plumbed Preview’s depths to create a cheerful, colorful book that explains dozens of techniques for importing, viewing, editing, and converting images in Preview. It also puts you in control of reading, annotating, manipulating, and encrypting PDFs.
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Take Control of Managing Your Files
Your Apple devices contain an overwhelming number of files and folders, and as these items accumulate, they create more work for you. Does your file management system involve throwing everything on the desktop and then pawing through it laboriously when you need to find something? Do you even have a system? There’s a better way. This book helps you organize, search, and clean up the files on your Mac, iPhone, and iPad, providing practical steps and realistic strategies to save time, reduce clutter, and decrease stress.
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Take Control of Shortcuts
Automation is no longer just for advanced computer users! Apple’s Shortcuts app lets anyone with an iPhone, iPad, or Mac automate day-to-day tasks, from the simple to the complex. This book is a complete introduction to Shortcuts, covering every aspect of building, installing, debugging, running, syncing, and sharing shortcuts. It also includes step-by-step recipes for creating numerous useful shortcuts yourself.
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Take Control of Audio Hijack
In this 143-page book, you’ll learn how to use version 4 of Rogue Amoeba’s Audio Hijack to capture and enhance any audio coming out of your Mac, whether it’s your own voice via a microphone, a streaming radio show in Safari, or audio from a DVD. Audio expert Kirk McElhearn covers a variety of scenarios—including recording Zoom calls, digitizing LPs, and making podcasts—and provides a bonus chapter about editing your recordings in Rogue Amoeba’s Fission audio editor.
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Take Control of PDFpen
Free!Polish your PDFs with Smile’s PDFpen, for a fraction of what Adobe Acrobat costs! Michael E. Cohen explains how you can create, combine, edit, annotate, and protect PDFs. Also learn how to perform and edit OCR, fill out forms, sign forms digitally, make interactive forms, and much more. Covers Mac and iOS/iPadOS versions!
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Apple Interface Mysteries
Apple devices are supposed to be easy to use, and they generally are—at least for basic things. But over the years, as features have multiplied exponentially and hardware has changed dramatically, the user interfaces of Macs, iPhones, and iPads (among other Apple products) have become increasingly inscrutable. This book explores the mysteries of how and why things are the way they are now—and shows you how you can solve your own Apple usability puzzles.
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Take Control of Your Productivity
Simple to-do lists and calendars are no match for today’s complex productivity needs. Productivity expert Jeff Porten walks you step by step through a system that helps you manage personal and business tasks fluidly, without having to worry that something might fall through the cracks.
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