Last week my family and I went on a road trip across southern Saskatchewan. Although I still had to handle customer calls and email, and work on some programming tasks, it was nice to be able to shift mostly out of work mode for a little while. And boy, we saw some extremely interesting stuff!| Take Control Books
Learn how to use little-known features of Apple’s Preview app to view and modify images and to manipulate PDFs.| www.takecontrolbooks.com
Josh Centers is is a Business Journalist at TextExpander, editor-in-chief of Unprepared, and founder of Apple Buying Advice. He has been featured in USA Today, Macworld, Scientific American, the Washington Post, Boing Boing, the Wirecutter, and other publications, as well as on Comedy Central, HuffPost Live, and Voice of America. Josh lives in Tennessee with his wife and children.| www.takecontrolbooks.com
This book describes how to protect your physical, psychological, and online security related to your private data, whereabouts, and health and safety with tools available from Apple and Google on mobile devices, desktop operating systems from Apple and Microsoft, and accounts in the Apple, Google, and Microsoft ecosystems.| www.takecontrolbooks.com
This book introduces you to Apple’s Photos app, with advice on navigating the Photos interface, adding metadata, creating albums, editing photos, syncing with iCloud Photos, sharing photos with others, and printing.| www.takecontrolbooks.com
Your ultimate guide to the basics of using your iPhone or iPad: what all the buttons and switches do, how the built-in apps work, and how to customize the Lock and Home screens.| www.takecontrolbooks.com
This book explores Apple’s Find My service, which lets you see the location of your iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Watch and take appropriate actions if they’re lost or stolen—as well tracking earbuds, headphones, AirTags, and third-party Find My network items. It also lets people share their location with each other for a period of time or continuously.| www.takecontrolbooks.com
Glenn Fleishman is a veteran technology writer who has contributed to dozens of publications across his career, including Macworld, Fast Company, and Increment. He has also written dozens of editions of books in the Take Control series. He spent 2019 and 2020 building 100 tiny type museums full of real printing artifacts. Glenn lives in Seattle with his wife and two children.| www.takecontrolbooks.com
Learn how to understand the capabilities of your devices’ peripherals connections for storage, video, networking, scanning, printing, and input; learn how to find the right cables, hubs, switches, docks, and adapters; and gain expertise in troubleshooting mismatched connections and performance issues.| www.takecontrolbooks.com
This book shows you how to use Shortcuts, a powerful app available on iPhones, iPads, and Macs that lets you perform sequences of tasks with just one tap or click. It covers how to run, build, install, and sync shortcuts and includes step-by-step recipes for creating many useful shortcuts yourself.| www.takecontrolbooks.com
This book teaches all the ins and outs of using Apple’s three communications apps: FaceTime, Messages, and Phone (iPhone only) from the basics all the way through advanced features, using apps, making payments, and managing shared media and documents.| www.takecontrolbooks.com