Friday Report: Febliary 23, 2024
This week we released version 1.8 of Kirk McElhearn’s Take Control of macOS Media Apps, plus a tiny bug-fix update of my book Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac. I also did our monthly bookkeeping,...
View ArticleFriday Report: March 1, 2024
This week I finished revisions to Take Control of 1Password and sent it off to my editor. Next on my list of updates is Take Control of Your Passwords, and I’ll probably wait to release both of those...
View ArticleFriday Report: March 8, 2024
Last weekend we had a near-record snowfall here in Saskatoon of something like 40 cm (about 16 inches). That was on top of the snow we had gotten from a storm earlier in the week. And then temperatures...
View ArticleFriday Report: March 15, 2024
This week we had a quickie Pi Day sale. Thanks very much to everyone who participated, and enjoy your books! Revisions to my books Take Control of Your Passwords and Take Control of 1Passwords are...
View ArticleFriday Report: March 22, 2024
This week we released updates to three of my books: Take Control of 1Password, version 6.2 Take Control of Your Passwords, version 4.1 (followed a day later by 4.1.1) Take Control of Sonoma, version...
View ArticleFriday Report: March 29, 2024
I hope you all had a good…Friday. Jeff Carlson has been burning the midnight oil working on a new book, and it’s, like, really close. We’ll see how quickly we can get that wrapped up and out the door....
View ArticleFriday Report: April 5, 2024
This week we released Jeff Carlson’s long-awaited Take Control of iPhone Photography! Early customers have had good things to say about it, and I think this is going to be an extremely popular title....
View ArticleFriday Report: April 12, 2024
This week we released a minor update to Kirk McElhearn’s Take Control of macOS Media Apps book to address a few changes in macOS 14.4. Meanwhile, Jeff Carlson’s new Take Control of iPhone Photography...
View ArticleWe’ve Relocated Our Servers
Yesterday I took the site offline for a few hours to move it to a new server. As one might expect, there were a few small glitches, but as far as I can tell, everything is running smoothly now. And the...
View ArticleFriday Report: April 19, 2024
Yesterday I wrote about how we successfully relocated our servers this week after months of prep work. Today I realized…that’s really all the news I have for this week. As long as you’re here, though,...
View ArticleIn Memory of Charles Edge
As Adam Engst reported yesterday at TidBITS, former Take Control author Charles Edge has died. We’re very sorry to hear this news. I have no details about what happened beyond what Adam said, but...
View ArticleFriday Report: April 26, 2014
Apart from the sad news about Charles Edge I shared earlier this week, I have nothing new to report. I spent much of this week doing administrative tasks, such as running royalties for our authors and...
View ArticleFriday Report: May 3, 2024
May the fourth be…um, tomorrow! This week I did a great deal of work on the new edition of Take Control of Your Online Privacy. There’s still much to do, but I’m making excellent progress and I think...
View ArticleFriday Report: May 10, 2024
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...
View ArticleFriday Report: May 17, 2024
While I wait for my editor to hand the new edition of Take Control of Your Online Privacy back to me, I continue to work on the successor to Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac, Take Control of...
View ArticleFriday Report: May 24, 2024
This week Morgen and Soren returned from their trip to Germany. They had a fantastic time, and Devin and I are very grateful to have them home again. As predicted, I was quite unproductive while they...
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Friday Report: May 31, 2024
This week, after five years, we finally published the fifth edition of my book Take Control of Your Online Privacy, which has been thoroughly updated with over 30 pages of new material and much, much...
View ArticleFriday Report: June 7, 2024
There’s not much to report this week. I continued working on my next book, tentatively titled Take Control of Solving Mac Problems, and progress is occurring. I also appeared on MacVoices to talk about...
View ArticleFriday Report: June 14, 2024
I have been doing almost nothing this week except work on Take Control of Solving Mac Problems, and I am this →‖← close. A few more hours of work, tops. Barring something truly catastrophic, I’ll have...
View ArticleFriday Report: June 21, 2024
Folks, I have to keep this very brief today. For the past several days I have been working from early in the morning until late at night trying to repair some corrupted databases on our server. I’m...
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