Take Control Books

Other than, you know, the dramatic erosion of basic human rights in the United States, the major news this week is the release of a new book about Apple’s FaceTime, Messages, and Phone apps.

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We’re just days away from releasing a new book by Glenn Fleishman on Apple’s FaceTime, Messages, and Phone apps (for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Watch). I’ll have more to say about that next week.

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Apple announced new versions of macOS, iOS, iPadOS, and watchOS, plus the M2 chip and some groovy new Macs. As usual, we’re working through our list of books to figure out what updates will be needed.

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We released an updated version of Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac this week, and as always, more new and updated books are in the works! Next week is WWDC…can’t wait!

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We updated one of our books this week, and another update is imminent. These are merely drops in the gigantic backlog bucket, but progress is progress! More to come next week.

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This was one of those weeks when a lot of behind-the-scenes things happened but I have essentially nothing to show for it publicly. I’ll be back next week with more substantive updates.

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We released two minor updates this week. Other than that, nothing much to report, except a planned outing to an actual movie theater for the first time in years. Weird.

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It was an eventful week! We finished a gigantic sale, Amazon announced support for EPUB (and the end of MOBI support) on Kindle, and 1Password 8 for Mac shipped.

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May 1 marks the fifth anniversary of alt concepts (Joe Kissell and Morgen Jahnke) running Take Control Books. Joe reflects on the experience, looks to the future, and announces a big sale!

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Of all the planets I’ve visited, Earth is definitely among my favorites. Top 10, easily, though if it weren’t for all the humans, it might break into the top 5. Happy Earth Day.

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