If you’ve taken the step of buying “Take Control of LaunchBar” you are well on your way to learning the utility. But, reading can take you only so far. Here’s how I became more competent with LaunchBar. I typically work in a single application window until I need to pull some other app or document…
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Ebooks, Footnotes, and Skeuomorphs, Oh my!
If you’ve been wondering about the place of traditional footnotes in a Multi-Touch book, you might find this article on TidBITS, “[Ebooks, Footnotes, and Skeuomorphs, Oh My!][],” 4 June 2013, of some interest. []: http://tidbits.com/article/13805
Joe Talks about How to Think inside the (Drop)box
Fresh from pioneering a new Take Control authoring workflow for his Dropbox book, Joe Kissell (virtually) sits down with Chuck Joiner of MacVoices to discuss some of the lesser-known benefits of using Dropbox for cloud storage and file sharing and to describe the educational extras that come with the book.
Michael in Your Pocket (Sized Podcast)
Michael chatted with Scott Willsey and Peter Nikolaidis of [Pocket Sized Podcast][psp] about iBooks Author and how best to approach using it last week, and a good time was had by all. The interview begins about 8 minutes into the show. [psp]: http://www.pocketsizedpodcast.com/2013/04/psp108/
MacVoices Talks with Michael about iBooks Author
Within hours of completing the 1.1 version of Take Control of iBooks Author, Michael virtually met up with Chuck Joiner to talk about what is new with the iBooks Author software, how Apple is progressing with its Multi-Touch textbook initiative, and where interactive text seems to be going. Hear or watch the interview on MacVoices.
iCloudy, with a Chance of Chuck and Joe
Chuck Joiner and Joe Kissell got together on MacVoices recently to talk about iCloud: the good, the bad, and the what’s-up-with-that? [Listen or watch][MacVoices]. [MacVoices]: http://www.macvoices.com/wordpress/macvoices-13100-joe-kissell-takes-control-of-icloud/
Joe Talks Passwords on MacVoices
Chuck Joiner and cartoon superhero Joe Kissell discuss Joe’s new book and the advice it offers for corralling the wild herds of passwords you’ve probably acquired over the years. Plus, you get to view Joe’s new stateside center of operations and its advanced technology (much of it cleverly disguised as shipping boxes). See the video…
Using the Keychain in Older Versions of Mac OS X
If you are using an older version of Mac OS X, such as 10.6 Snow Leopard, here is useful and still applicable information about using the Keychain, Mac OS X’s system-wide password manager, taken from Joe’s earlier Take Control of Passwords in Mac OS X, Second Edition.
Kissell Hotfoots it out of Paris Following Take Control Live Premiere
Following the premiere of the first episode his four-part video presentation, Take Control Live: Working With Your iPad, Joe Kissell packed up the remaining assets of the Take Control media complex in Paris, France, in preparation for his move to Southern California later this month. Show #1 of the series, “The Three R’s,” which was…
Joe Kissell Gives Lively Interview about Take Control Live
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…