We have big news! It is with great pleasure that Tonya and I want to tell you that, after nearly 14 years of publishing, we’re selling Take Control Books — lock, stock, and bit barrel — to Joe Kissell and his wife, Morgen Jahnke.
Author: Adam Engst
Print to PDF Not Useful for Redactions
On page 142 and again on page 157, the book says that printing to PDF removes the text layer of a PDF and suggests this could be a useful way to redact information from a PDF. Unfortunately, this doesn’t appear to be true; the text layer is retained and can be searched, selected, and copied.…
Tip: Control Object Layering in Preview
When you add text boxes and shapes to an image, they’re added in layers corresponding to the order in which you created them. For example, a rectangle created after a text box will obscure the text if you position it over the text, which may not be desirable. Other graphics apps tend to have Bring…
Download First Edition for 2nd- and 3rd-Generation Apple TVs
Take Control of Apple TV, Section Edition focuses on the fourth-generation Apple TV, but if you still have one of Apple’s second- or third-generation models, you can download the first edition of the book. Download version 1.0 of Take Control of Apple TV in the following formats: PDF EPUB * Mobipocket (Kindle)
A Useful Hack for Throttling iCloud Photo Library Uploads
Over at TidBITS, we’ve written an article that offers a potential solution to the problem of Photos overwhelming your Internet connection with uploads to iCloud Photo Library. It’s not for everyone, but it might help you. See [How to Throttle iCloud Photo Library Uploads][]. []: http://tidbits.com/article/15679
Mavericks Server Version of “Take Control of OS X Server”
Thanks to Apple’s massive releases of OS X 10.10 Yosemite and iOS 8 in September and October last year, we were unable to finish Take Control of OS X Server before Yosemite Server shipped. Rather than hold the book until we could update it, we opted to for a quiet release late in November 2014.…
Take Control and eSellerate Unaffected by Heartbleed Bug
For anyone who is wondering, neither the Take Control Web site nor the eSellerate ecommerce site that we use for purchases were ever vulnerable to the Heartbleed bug, so you don’t need to worry about the security of your Take Control transactions or account information. There’s no reason to change your Take Control password either,…
Download “Take Control of Passwords in Mac OS X”
Take Control of Passwords in Mac OS X is now largely obsolete, but there are some parts that remain useful, such as the chapter about Keychain Access. Since you own Take Control of Your Passwords, you’re welcome to [download the older title][]. []: https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/purchaser-downloads/CFU+983943/TCoPasswordsinMacOSX-2.1-pdf.zip
Show #1 on Thursday, December 6th, at 1 PM Eastern
Your season pass has the link to watch the first show—just click the Play button on the blue ticket on page 8.