This week, after what seems like an endless amount of writing, I finally wrapped up revisions to Take Control of Your Online Privacy and sent the manuscript off my editor. It has been five years since the book’s last update, and the revisions were extensive—possibly the most changes I’ve ever made to a new edition. So, I’m very very glad to have that off my plate, at least until I get the edits back. I don’t know how long that will take, but I have every expectation that the book will be out by the end of the month.
I’ve also wasted no time getting started on my next gigantic project, a new book that both updates and consolidates Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac, Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac, and Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac into a single volume. Those books were also last updated in 2019, and they’re just outrageously, embarrassingly outdated. (Remember when it seemed like reasonable advice to add more RAM to your Mac, or replace a slower hard drive with a faster one? Good times.) I also continue to work on testing MailMaven, which is inching ever closer to a public beta.
I ordered myself a new iPad Pro, which should be delivered next Wednesday. I got the 13-inch model plus a Magic Keyboard and Pencil Pro. My current iPad is a 10.5-inch iPad Pro from 2017, so…this is going to be a gigantic (and much-needed) leap forward. I’ve been planning to write a book about using an iPad as a primary computing device since way back in 2017, when I bought the last one! It’s going to happen this year. I plan to call it Becoming an iPad Pro. Yes, really!
Saskatchewan is not normally the most exciting place news-wise, but this week we learned that a farmer found wreckage in his field that may or may not have been an alien spacecraft. (OK, it wasn’t an alien spacecraft, but still…)