Chuck Joiner of [MacVoices][1] and [MacVoicesTV][2] captured Take Control author, Joe Kissell, for a lively interview in which they discussed his foray into live streaming video with the first entry in the new Take Control Live series, Take Control Live: Working with Your iPad. Listen, or watch, to find out how this new series came…
Category: Book Blog
Michael E. Cohen, the Back Story
Although many Mac writers could have written Take Control of iBooks Author, Michael was my first pick because of his extensive experience with the digital book genre. TUAW has published an interview with Michael in which he talks about his prior experiences at the Voyager Company and brings them into context by looking at what…
Joe Kissell at Macworld Expo on MacVoices TV
Wondering what author Joe Kissell is like in real life? Joe gave 11 presentations at Macworld Expo last month, so some of you surely met him in person then, but if you didn’t, or for whatever reason, you can see him now on MacVoicesTV. Chuck Joiner from MacVoices caught up with Joe at Macworld Expo.…
In Which Michael and Chuck Discuss Ebooks, Education, and iBooks Author
Getting the Book Invented Properly
Coincidentally, the day after Take Control of iBooks Author was released, [The Literary Platform][1], a site that showcases projects experimenting with literature and technology, announced the winner of its Douglas Adams Animation competition. Entries in that [competition][2] had to provide animation for an audio track that Douglas Adams recorded in the early 1990s to promote…
Take Control of TextExpander on MacVoices
Chuck Joiner’s popular podcast features an interview with Michael E. Cohen, the author of Take Control of TextExpander this week. You can enjoy the dulcet tones of Michael’s voice in the audio version of the podcast at http://www.macvoices.com/wordpress/macvoices-1175-michael-e-cohen-takes-control-of-textexpander/. Or, if you wish to gaze at his striking visage as well, go to the video version…
Listen to Joe Talk about DEVONthink
In MacVoices #1066, Joe decompresses from his many months of writing work to complete Take Control of Getting Started with DEVONthink 2 and chats with host Chuck Joiner about some unique aspects of the DEVONthink ebook project. He talks what DEVONthink is, describing it as “a centralized-storage-place, seach-tool, indexing, document-management everything, for just about any…
Joe Kissell Talks Turkey about His Thanksgiving Ebook
Get the scoop on Joe’s favorite ebook, Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner. In the MacVoices #9120 podcast episode, Joe and host Chuck Joiner talk about choosing a turkey, baking a moist turkey, making various side dishes, handling logistics, and more. Also, if you know what a turkey “giblet” is, but have always wondered which “giblet”…