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Take Control of AirPods
Learn everything there is to know about choosing, configuring, and using Apple’s AirPods in this comprehensive book by Kirk McElhearn.
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Take Control Live: Taming Big Tech
Learn More $69.99In this four-part, live video course, Take Control Books publisher Joe Kissell explains how Big Tech companies make your life worse—and shows you what you can do about it. Watch demos, ask questions, and learn practical steps to follow.
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Take Control of Focus
Cut through the buzzes, rings, banners, and general attention-grabbing chaos to win the war for your attention. This book teaches you how to silence notifications, calls, and alerts across all your Apple devices using the Focus feature by customizing Focus modes and settings. Do Not Disturb will seem serene like never before.
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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, Sixth 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 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 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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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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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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