Tag: ebook

Take Control 50% Off Reader Appreciation Sale
This week, take 50% of all Take Control ebooks, including my latest titles, Take Control of Your Digital Photos and Take Control of Lightroom CC! As publisher Joe Kissell writes: One thing we’ve heard loud and clear is that our customers love bargains! And we, in turn, love to make you happy, because we wouldn’t ...

New Edition of Take Control of Your Digital Photos
I've published a new edition of Take Control of Your Digital Photos, plus an updated version of Take Control of Lightroom CC.

Appreciation for Take Control of Lightroom CC
It’s been immensely gratifying to get great feedback on my newest book Take Control of Lightroom CC. Writing a book—even a nonfiction, how-to book—is a solitary endeavor, and you never really know how it will be received until after it’s released. I’m deeply appreciative for the feedback I’ve received so far, and so soon after ...

Take Control of New Apple Updates
iOS 11 was released today, with a bunch of new features (especially for iPad), some redesigned elements (like Control Center), and nifty things like a great augmented reality implementation for combining the virtual and the real worlds. And coming up next week is the release of macOS High Sierra. It seems like a lot to ...

Talking New Digital Photos Book Edition on MacVoices
I talk to Chuck Joiner at MacVoices about what's new in Take Control of Your Digital Photos on a Mac v2.1, including how the book almost didn't happen.

Version 2.1 of Take Control of Your Photos
The latest edition of my book makes managing your photo library even easier by taking advantage of new artificial-intelligence features in Apple's Photos and Google Photos.

Apple Watch: A Take Control Crash Course v1.3
The Apple Watch is now a year and a half old, and on its second hardware revision. (Technically, it’s on the third revision, since you can buy a Series 1 model that is identical to the original but with a better processor.) And watchOS 3 brings several enhancements and refinements to Apple’s wearable that show ...

Photos Crash Course for iOS 10 and macOS Sierra
Sometimes, it feels as if I’m a lone defender of Apple’s Photos app under macOS. Many people find it too different from iPhoto, or think it’s too basic (even though it’s actually quite sophisticated), or… I don’t know, they just don’t like change. Except for Aperture users who were abandoned by Apple—their discontent is understandable. ...

Photos Crash Course for macOS Sierra
Sometimes, it feels as if I’m a lone defender of Apple’s Photos app under macOS. Many people find it too different from iPhoto, or think it’s too basic (even though it’s actually quite sophisticated), or… I don’t know, they just don’t like change. Except for Aperture users who were abandoned by Apple—their discontent is understandable. ...

Take Control of Slack
[Update, January 28, 2019: The book links now point to the new edition of the book, Take Control of Slack, a single volume that covers everything.] If you’re not using Slack, there’s a good chance you will soon. Slack is a service for exchanging messages and data among groups. It’s not the first attempt at ...