Take Control Books
Running out of space on your Mac’s internal SSD, hard disk, or Fusion drive? In the market for an external hard drive, a RAID, a NAS, or cloud storage? Confused by multiple disk formats, filesystems, and partition schemes? Take Control of Your Digital Storage by Jeff Carlson offers straightforward explanations of how storage works, what your options are, and how to make your storage devices work the way you need them to.
Simple to do lists and calendars are no match for today’s complex productivity needs. In Take Control of Your Productivity, productivity expert Jeff Porten walks you step by step through a powerful yet flexible system that helps you manage personal and business tasks fluidly, without having to worry that something might fall through the cracks.
Setting up and securing a Wi-Fi network can be complicated and confusing. Take Control of Wi-Fi Networking and Security helps you over every hurdle involved in picking gateways, setting up a network, adding devices, and securing the network and connected phones, tablets, and computers. It’s useful for those who have set up networks in the past and want to replace them with new gear, as well as people who have never built a Wi-Fi network before.
Apple Mail is the default email client on macOS and iOS, used by tens of millions of people every day. It’s surprisingly powerful, but most users only scratch the surface of its capabilities, and needlessly endure frustrations that can be solved with the right guidance. Joe Kissell has been writing about various versions of Mail since 2004, and this latest version of his comprehensive guide tells you everything you need to know to master this essential tool.
Apple’s HomeKit platform makes home automation simple enough for a novice, while providing enough power and flexibility to satisfy sophisticated users. Learn everything you need to know to get started with HomeKit in this outstanding, step-by-step guide written by Josh Centers. You can start with a simple, inexpensive product like a smart lightbulb and work your way up to a more advanced and interactive setup.
Overwhelmed by your photo collection? Take Control of Your Digital Photos by digital photo expert Jeff Carlson gives photographers using Mac or Windows computers the information they need to build and maintain a digital photo workflow that makes it easy to import, tag, rate, and store photos to find them quickly and easily later. It helps you spend more time on the enjoyable aspects of photography—shooting and viewing your photos—and less on the mundane but essential task of managing all your photos.
