Dropbox has announced that it is closing its Carousel photo sharing app and service, and its Mailbox mobile email service. If you have used or have planned to use either of these services, read the Dropbox’s [blog post][] that explains these closings and provides links for more information for users of either service. []: https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2015/12/saying-goodbye-to-carousel-and-mailbox/
Author: Michael E. Cohen
Dropbox Shuttering Carousel App and Service
Dropbox [has announced][1] that it is closing its Carousel picture service and app. Jeff describes his view of the matter on his personal blog in the post [Dropbox’s Carousel Jams][2]. [1]: https://blogs.dropbox.com/dropbox/2015/12/saying-goodbye-to-carousel-and-mailbox/ [2]: http://jeffcarlson.com/2015/12/07/dropboxs-carousel-stops-turning/
Notable Interview with Jason Snell is Notable
Following the release of Jason’s update to his Crash Course book, he sat down with Chuck Joiner of [MacVoices][1] to discuss what’s new in the update. Such interviews are no new thing for Jason: he has conversed with Chuck many times in the past as, among other things, a guest on Chuck’s long-lived MacNotables podcast.…
Jeff Provides a Closeup of the 2nd Edition on MacVoices
Jeff talks about the new edition of his book with Chuck Joiner of [MacVoices][*], framing the discussion with a portrait of how the digital photo landscape has changed following the replacement of Apple’s Aperture and iPhoto apps with its new Photos app. He then focuses on issues of mobile access to photos, competing online services,…
Track Changes Support Changed in Pages for iCloud
In the previous versions of Pages for iCloud, if you attempted to edit a Pages document that had tracked changes, Pages offered you two options: either accept all the tracked changes, or create a duplicate of the document with all tracked changes accepted. Now that Pages for iCloud is no longer in beta, you no…
Pages Updates for Mac, iOS, and iCloud
As Agen Schmitz noted in his TidBITS Watchlist article, “[Pages 5.6, Numbers 3.6, and Keynote 6.6 for Mac][1],” 16 October 2015, Pages has been updated on all three platforms: Mac, iOS, and iCloud. Among the many enhancements are support for Split View in El Capitan, support for Force Touch on Macs and 3D Touch on…
Scholle Talks about El Capitan with Chuck Joiner
El Capitan has marched into town, and with it Scholle’s Crash Course about it. Naturally, Chuck Joiner wants to know what both Apple and Scholle have wrought. [Watch and listen][*] as Chuck and Scholle discuss the new features in the OS, the nature of Crash Course books, and how El Capitan and iOS 9 have…
EPUB Templates Now Provide Pop-Over Support, Improved Import
iBooks Author 2.4 has been released by Apple, and it includes enhancements to its recently introduced EPUB (or, as Apple consistently insists on misspelling it, “ePub”) templates. The notable enhancement is that EPUBs produced by iBooks Author can now employ Pop-Over widgets. In addition, the release note says that EPUB templates in 2.4 also include…
Suggestions for Snippet Abbreviations
If you sometimes find yourself stymied when coming up with abbreviations for your snippets, check out [12 Great Ways To Choose TextExpander Abbreviations][] on the Smile blog to see how the experts do it. []: https://smilesoftware.com/blog/entry/choosing-textexpander-abbreviations
MyMac Review Lauds Take Control of Audio Hijack
Although we at Take Control Books are confident that we produce high quality helpful technology guides, it’s always nice to get outside validation. Such is the case with [Elisa Pacelli’s recent review][0] of Kirk’s guide to Audio Hijack Pro. In addition to writing for the venerable (20 years!) Mac-oriented site [MyMac.com][1], Pacelli is also a…