Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard

Michael Cohen’s new edition of Take Control of Syncing Data in Leopard is out. You can buy and download the .pdf book from the Take Control site here. These are absolutely the best designed .pdfs of any sort I’ve every seen, and this particular book is a lucid easy to follow step by step guide […]

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Take Control Ebooks is having a sale!

MacWorld TakeControl PodCast

Macworld has published a podcast of a session from the Macworld Expo with authors of Take Control eBooks from TidBits Electronic Publishing.
Moderator (and Macworld Contributing Editor) Adam C. Engst is joined by Take Control authors Glenn Fleishman, Steve Sande, Michael Cohen, Scott Knaster, Karen Anderson, and Jeff Carlson as well as editor-in-chief Tonya Engst. They […]

Take Control of Syncing Update and Podcast

Take Control books has released an updated edition of Michael Cohen’s Take Control of Syncing in Tiger, covering some of the new issues and abilities related to syncing an iPod with iTunes 7. The update deals with questions like “How does iTunes decide how to categorize a video file?” and “Why was my half-played podcast […]

A Briefing on Syncing

O’Reilly has published a excerpt from Take Control of Syncing in Tiger that explains, quite nicely, what syncing is, what actually happens under the hood on a Mac when you sync, and how syncing and backups differ from each other. Go read A Briefing on Syncing.

The Missing Sync

I’ve been using a Palm PDA, an IIIxe with all of 8 megs of memory, since 2000. Mostly I used it to read e-books., though I did use it to sync with Outlook at work. The Palm is very convenient when I’m traveling since even my “ancient” Palm could easily hold eight or nine […]

New E-Book: Take Control of Syncing

Michael E. Cohen’s latest book,
Take Control of Syncing in Tiger is out; this time it’s a Take Control ebook, from Tidbits publishers Adam and Tonya Engst.
Take Control of Syncing in Tiger covers:
syncing phone numbers between a Mac and a mobile phone, iPod, or PDA; syncing files between desktop and laptop Macs; and syncing Safari bookmarks, […]

Blessings Upon the Mysterious Ways of Apple: Or,

Maybe Steve Jobs is the boss of me.
As my faithful readers (all six of ‘em!) know, I’ve been somewhat distressed over Apple’s decision to remove Wiley books from all Apple stores. Mostly, I’ve been distressed because the book The Spouse, Michael Cohen, wrote with his brother Dennis Cohen, The Mac Xcode 2 Book came out […]

Xcode 2 Blog

The Spouse, also known as Michael E. Cohen, has started a new blog IDE of the Tiger. Michael’s been writing code since the days of punch cards, and using Macs since they were Lisas. I suspect, given his professional interests in multimedia, QuickTime, and instructional software, that there will be some overlap between our blogs. […]

The Mac Xcode 2 Book Web Site

You can now read All About Dennis and Michael Cohen’s The Mac Xcode 2 Book here. Show Steve Jobs he’s not the boss of you, and buy a copy.

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