Publications & Publicity

• Take Control Live: Working with Your iPad (on sale November 29, 2012; first presentation December 6, 2012)

• Take Control of Dropbox (Version: 1.0, April 25, 2013)
• Take Control of Upgrading to Mountain Lion (Version: 1.2.1, April 4, 2013; originally published July 5, 2012)
• Take Control of Your Passwords (Version: 1.0, February 26, 2013)
• Take Control of Mail on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch (Version: 4.0, November 9, 2012; originally published May 8, 2010; updates and replaces Take Control of Mail on the iPhone and iPod touch)
• Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal (Version: 1.1, September 19, 2012; originally published March 25, 2009)
• Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac (Version: 1.2, September 19, 2012; originally published May 26, 2011)
• Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac (Version: 2.2, September 19, 2012; originally published June 7, 2007)
• Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac (Version: 2.3, August 24, 2012; originally published March 9, 2006)
• Take Control of Apple Mail in Mountain Lion (Version: 1.1, August 24, 2012; originally published July 25, 2012)
• Take Control of iCloud (Version: 1.3, August 8, 2012; originally published October 20, 2011)
• Take Control of Apple Mail in Lion (Version: 1.0, June 6, 2012)
• Take Control of CrashPlan Backups (Version: 1.0, March 28, 2012)
• Take Control of Getting Started with DEVONthink 2 (Version: 2.0, March 20, 2012; originally published March 24, 2010)
• Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac (Version: 1.0, September 28, 2011; replaces Take Control of Mac OS X Backups and Take Control of Easy Mac Backups)
• Take Control of Upgrading to Lion (Version: 1.1, July 20, 2011; version 1.0 released on June 30, 2011)
• Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac (Version: 5.0, March 4, 2011; originally published May 26, 2006; Pre-Order version released on May 8, 2006)
• Take Control of Easy Mac Backups (Version: 1.1, February 25, 2011; originally published January 7, 2010; replaces Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard)
• Take Control of Working with Your iPad (Version: 2.0, February 11, 2011; Originally published June 2, 2010)
• Take Control of Mac OS X Backups (Version: 5.0, January 11, 2011; originally published December 2, 2004); French translation available as of June 21, 2011
• Take Control of Your Paperless Office (Version: 1.0, November 16, 2010)
• Take Control of MobileMe (Version: 2.0, October 27, 2010; originally published October 23, 2008). Also available as an iPhone app
• Take Control of Passwords in Mac OS X (Version: 2.1, October 21, 2010; originally published October 30, 2006)
• Take Control of Mail on the iPhone and iPod touch, iOS 4 Edition (Version: 1.0, September 30, 2010; essentially an interim edition of Take Control of Mail on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch until iOS 4.2 is released)
• Take Control of Apple Mail in Snow Leopard (Version: 1.0, May 6, 2010)
• Take Control of VMware Fusion 3 (Version: 1.0, October 27, 2009)
• Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard (Version: 1.1, September 4, 2009; originally published August 27, 2009)
• Take Control of VMware Fusion 2 (Version: 1.0, November 13, 2008)
• Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard (Version: 1.1.1, June 27, 2008; version 1.0 published December 14, 2007; Preview Edition originally released on November 30, 2007)
• Take Control of .Mac (Version: 2.0, May 29, 2008; originally published December 15, 2005)
• Take Control of Apple Mail in Leopard (Version: 1.0, May 14, 2008)
• Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail (Version: 1.4, May 14, 2008; originally published May 18, 2004)
• Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard (Version: 1.0, October 26, 2007; Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard: Early-Bird Edition was published on October 16, 2007)
• Take Control of Apple Mail in Tiger (Version: 1.1, September 21, 2007; originally published November 29, 2005); also translated into Dutch
• Take Control of Now Up-to-Date & Contact (Version: 1.0, August 8, 2005)
• Take Control of Upgrading to Tiger (Version: 1.0.1, May 11, 2005; originally published April 29, 2005)
• Take Control of Email with Apple Mail (Version: 1.1.1, February 10, 2005; originally published July 29, 2004)
• Take Control of Upgrading to Panther (Version: 1.2.1, March 29, 2004; originally published October 24, 2003)—also translated into Japanese, German, and Dutch

• Mac Security Bible (Wiley, January 2010—but shipping a couple of weeks earlier)
• Real World Mac Maintenance and Backups (Peachpit, October 2006)
• Take Control of Tiger (Peachpit, June 2005), a compilation of the first four Take Control ebooks on Tiger, including my Take Control of Upgrading to Tiger
• Take Control of Apple Mail (Peachpit, October 2004), consisting of my first two Apple Mail ebooks (the Panther versions) in a single printed volume
• Take Control of Panther: Volume 1 (Peachpit, September 2004), a compilation of the first four Take Control ebooks, including my Take Control of Upgrading to Panther
• 50 Fast Mac OS X Techniques (Wiley, 2003)
• Cyberdog: Live Objects on the Internet (with David McKee; MIS:Press, 1997) was the best and shortest-lived book on OpenDoc ever written!
• You can find the entire text of my first book, The Nisus Way (MIS:Press, 1996), online in convenient HTML format.

• FlippedBITS: Java, JavaScript, and You (May 2, 2013)
• FlippedBITS: IMAP Misconceptions (April 14, 2013)
• FlippedBITS: Four Password Myths (March 21, 2013)
• FlippedBITS: Booting Your Mac from a Duplicate (March 13, 2013)
• Introducing Our New FlippedBITS Column (March 13, 2013)
• The iOS App Alphabet (March 7, 2013)
• It’s Not Email That’s Broken, It’s You (February 23, 2013)
• Mountain Lion Mail Perturbs Sending Behavior (7 August 2012)
• Keeping Your MobileMe Email Address without iCloud (14 May 2012)
• An Alarming Abundance of Alerts (14 May 2012)
• CrashPlan Mobile Lets You Take Your Backups with You (26 September 2011)
• Mac Virtualization Update: VMware, Parallels, and VirtualBox (19 September 2011)
• Nisus Writer Pro 2.0: The Review (2011-06-08)
• The Ebook Shredder: A Recap (2011-04-22)
• Joe Kissell Shreds an Ebook into Twitter (2011-03-21)
• MozyHome Increases Pricing, Drops Unlimited Storage (2011-02-01)
• CrashPlan+ 3.0 Adds Features, Changes Pricing (2010-12-07)
• TidBITS Gift Guide 2010 (2010-12-06, contributor)
• Taking DEVONthink To Go for a Spin (2010-11-23)
• Find My iPhone Now Free for Owners of Newest iOS Devices (with Glenn Fleishman; 2010-11-22)
• Data Robotics Ships Drobo S with USB 3.0 (2010-11-16)
• Two Portable Document Scanners (2010-07-24)
• PGP Whole Disk Encryption and PGP Desktop 10.0 (2010-05-14)
• TidBITS Staffers Recall How They Got Their Starts (2010-04-19, contributor)
• An Introduction to File Encryption in Mac OS X (2010-04-11)
• Apple Updates Boot Camp for Windows 7 (2010-01-25)
• Solving the Photoshop Elements Color Shift Problem (2009-12-19)
• Clicking the Right Button (2009-12-18)
• Apple Opens First Retail Store in France (2009-11-07)
• Parallels Desktop 5 (2009-11-04)
• Backblaze for Business Offers Flat-Rate Online Backups (2009-11-04)
• Examining Snow Leopard Installer Changes (2009-08-27)
• Apple Releases MobileMe iDisk app for iPhone and iPod touch (2009-07-30)
• Achieving Email Bliss with IMAP, Gmail, and Apple Mail (2009-05-02)
• Backblaze Publicly Launches Online Backup Service for Macs (2009-04-19)
• AirPort Utility 5.4.1 Update May Be Problematic (2009-03-05)
• Apple Adds iDisk Sharing Feature to MobileMe (2009-02-13)
• Log In to Me (2009-01-14)
• Backblaze Launches Mac Beta of Online Backup Service (2008-12-09)
• CrashPlan and Mozy Modify Pro Options (2008-12-09)
• Parallels Releases Parallels Desktop 4.0 (2008-11-11)
• Securing Your Disks with PGP Whole Disk Encryption (2008-10-31)
• Mail Act-On 2 Supercharges Mail Rules (2008-10-19)
• EMC Releases MozyPro Backup for Business (2008-10-08)
• The iPhone Game Review Conundrum (2008-09-30)
• Confessions of an iPhone Convert (2008-09-17)
• VMware Fusion 2.0 Released (2008-09-16)
• Monster List of Backup Software Updated (2008-09-14)
• Searching for the iPhone 3G Case of My Dreams (2008-08-30)
• SugarSync Sweetens Online Syncing (2008-08-30)
• Totally an iPhone 3G Owner (2008-07-17)
• Very Nearly an iPhone 3G Owner (2008-07-17)
• The Hole in My Backup Plan (2008-06-30)
• Discovering Sparse Bundle Disk Images (2008-06-27)
• MobileMe Oh My (or, Apple Breaks Record in Making My Book Obsolete) (2008-06-09)
• The Evolving World of Mac Backup Software (2008-05-31)
• Updated .Mac Book About to Require Major Find-and-Replace? (2008-05-30)
• The Broadband Service of My Dreams (2008-05-29)
• How to Pronounce Myanmar (2008-05-07)
• First Look: The Linux-Based Paragon Rescue Kit for Mac OS X Lite (2008-05-01)
• MozyHome for Mac Online Backup Service Reaches Version 1.0 (2008-05-01)
• Getting to Know the Nabaztag Internet Rabbit (2008-04-27)
• Solve More Word 2008 Problems with AppleScript (links to Macworld articles; 2008-04-22)
• A Trio of Articles about iCal Collaboration (links to Macworld articles; 2008-04-10)
• Instant Messaging for Introverts (2008-04-04)
• Time Machine Support Added to iPhone and iPod Touch (2008-04-01—April Fool’s Day)
• Web Browser Reviews at Macworld (links to Macworld articles; 2008-03-31)
• SmartSleep Solves Safe Sleep Situation (2008-03-15)
• Updated Paste Plain Text AppleScript for Word 2008 (2008-03-15)
• CheckUp 1.0: A Beautiful but Unripe Maintenance Utility (2008-02-29)
• SuperDuper 2.5 Released with Leopard Compatibility (2008-02-21)
• A Pair of Time Machine Articles (links to Macworld articles; 2008-02-21)
• Using iChat Theater for Remote Presentations (2008-02-20)
• Looking Video Chat Problems in the Eye (2008-01-31)
• Microsoft Relaxes Licensing for Virtualized Vista (2008-01-28)
• Word 2008 and the Paste Plain Text Dance (2008-01-19)
• MacBook Air Introduced as World’s Thinnest Notebook (contributor; 2008-01-15)
• Parallels Server Brings Virtualization to Leopard Server (2008-01-10)
• Scanning My Way to a Paperless Office (link to Macworld article; 2008-01-03)
• More Ways to Pep Up a Slow Mac (link to Macworld article; 2008-01-03)
• Boot Camp and Tiger: One Last Warning (2007-12-09)
• NTFS Options for Mac Expand (2007-12-09)
• VMware Releases Fusion 1.1 Update, VMware Importer (2007-11-11)
• Time Machine: The Good, the Bad, and the Missing Features (2007-10-28)
• Evaluating the Leopard Installation Process (2007-10-28)
• Apple Goes with Orange (2007-10-17)
• It’s Official: Leopard Ships on October 26th, 2007 (2007-10-16)
• Parallels and VMware Continue Rivalry; World Peace Remains Elusive (2007-10-07)
• Apple Expo Paris 2007 Impressions (2007-10-01)
• Take Control Updates A-Plenty (2007-09-21)
• New iPods: The Worst Ever! (2007-09-06)
• NBC Universal, the iTunes Store, and Poor Me (2007-09-06)
• Safe Sleep Revisited (2007-08-20)
• VMware Announces Fusion 1.0 Release (2007-08-06)
• Stewing Over Safe Sleep (2007-07-30)
• Choosing Mac-Compatible Skype Hardware (2007-07-23)
• FileMaker Pro 9.0 Released (2007-07-23)
• VMware Posts Fusion Release Candidate, Announces Final Pricing (2007-07-09)
• Nisus Writer Pro Restores Classic Features (2007-07-09)
• 1Passwd Eases Password Pain (2007-06-18)
• VM2Go Manages Parallels Virtual Machines (2007-06-18)
• Apple Announces iPhone Changes (2007-06-18)
• A Trio of Windows-on-Mac Announcements (2007-06-08)
• Virtualization Options Expand (2007-04-30)
• Two Online Backup Services Announce Public Betas (2007-04-30)
• Coda Plays Web Developers a New Tune (2007-04-30)
• Online Backup Options Expand (2007-04-09)
• Google Desktop Comes to the Mac (2007-04-09)
• VMware Fusion Beta 3 Draws New Parallels (2007-04-09)
• Apple Sends Vista to Boot Camp (2007-04-02)
• Parallels Desktop 2.0 Ships (2007-03-02)
• CrashPlan: Backups Revisited (2007-02-26)
• Microsoft Releases Office 2004 11.3.4 Update (2007-02-19)
• VMware Releases Fusion Beta (2007-01-08)
• Parallels Desktop Ups the Ante (2006-12-04)
• 1Passwd Updated to Version 2.0 (2006-11-13)
• Understanding Mac OS X’s Login Passwords (2006-10-30)
• .Mac Webmail Gets a Makeover (2006-10-30)
• Parallels Ships Desktop Update (2006-10-23)
• Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard Previewed at WWDC 2006 (contributor; 2006-08-07)
• StickyBrain Replaced with SOHO Notes (2006-07-10)
• Microsoft Releases Office 2004 Update (2006-06-19)
• FileMaker Mobile 8 and the Future of PDAs (2006-06-05)
• Appeals Court Sides with Mac News Sites over Apple (2006-05-29)
• Four iLife Apps Receive Updates (2006-05-15)
• Comparing Business Card Design Software (2006-04-03)
• Take Control of Your Daily Life (an April Fool’s spoof; 2006-04-01)
• Microsoft Entourage Gets Spotlight and Sync (with Matt Neuburg; 2006-03-20)
• Apple Releases Intel-Based Mac Mini (2006-03-06)
• Apple Introduces iPod Hi-Fi (2006-03-06)
• Evaluating the Tiger Installation Process (2005-05-02)
• The Evolution of Scrolling: Reinventing the Wheel (2004-12-13)
• Choosing Backup Software (2004-12-06)
• Working with Outgoing Attachments in Apple Mail (2004-08-02)
• Getting to Know Apple Mail’s Spam Filter (2004-05-24)
• Revisiting Panther’s FireWire Data Loss Problem (2004-03-15)
• Salling Clicker in Action (2003-08-25)

Macworld Articles

• Switch to Mac: Transfer your files from a PC to a Mac (April 29, 2013)
• Editing PowerPoint Documents on an iPad (April 3, 2013)
• Do You Need a Third-Party Disk Utility? (March 12, 2013)
• How to Think Like a Mac Geek (March 11, 2013)
• Mac Troubleshooting: What to Do When You Can’t Connect to the Internet (February 25, 2013; also appears as “Troubleshooting: Can’t Get Online” in the May 2013 issue, pp. 48–50)
• Mac Troubleshooting: What to Do When Your Computer Won’t Turn On (February 18, 2013; also appears as “Troubleshooting: Mac Won’t Turn On” in the May 2013 issue, p. 46)
• Mac Troubleshooting: How to Handle Freezes and Crashes (February 13, 2013; also appears as “Troubleshooting: Crashing Apps” in the May 2013 issue, pp. 38–39)
• How to Troubleshoot a Kernel Panic (February 6, 2013; also appears as “Troubleshooting: Kernel Panics” in the May 2013 issue, pp. 44–45)
• Mac Troubleshooting: What to Do When the Trash Won’t Empty (January 22, 2013; also appears as “Troubleshooting: Trash Won’t Empty” in the May 2013 issue, p. 52)
• What the End of Google Sync Means to You (December 21, 2012)
• When Password Security Questions Aren’t Secure (November 29, 2012)
• How to Remember Passwords (and Which Ones You Should) (November 28, 2012)
• What You Don’t Know about Passwords Might Hurt You (November 27, 2012)
• How to Restore Your Data from the Cloud (November 14, 2012)
• Bulletproof Backups (November 7, 2012)
• Backup Basics (November 6, 2012)
• Editing Excel Files on an iPad (September 5, 2012)
• Editing Word Documents on an iPad (August 19, 2012)
• Presenting with the iPad (June 18, 2012)
• Office on the iPad (July 2012 issue, pp. 36–38)
• Switch Your iWeb Site to a Mac-Friendly Web Host (May 2, 2012; in the July 2012 issue as “How to Choose a New Webhost when MobileMe Expires,” pp. 54–56)
• When and Why to Use Group Email Services (April 4, 2012)
• “Sync Your Data” (part of “12 Things Every iPhone & iPad User Should Know”), April 2012 issue, pp. 38–39
• Macworld Buying Guide: Document Scanners (December 13, 2011)
• Solve Mail Search Problems (October 26, 2011)
• How to Find Mail Messages in Lion (October 24, 2011; March 2012 issue, pp. 62–63)
• Tame Lion’s Mail (August 9, 2011)
• How to Print from an iPad (July 14, 2011)
• How to Back Up Your Gmail (July 7, 2011; appears in October 2011 issue on pp. 58–59 as “Back Up Your Gmail”)
• How to Edit Spreadsheets on an iPad (May 24, 2011)
• Presenting with the iPad (May 10, 2011)
• The Paperless (Post) Office (April 7, 2011)
• How to Make Your Office Paperless (April 5, 2011; appeared in the August 2011 issue, pp. 52–53, as “Say Farewell to Paper”)
• A dozen or so tips in 100 Things Every Mac User Should Know (April 2011 issue, pp. 33–100)
• Getting Things Done: The best ways to edit Office documents and PDFs on the iPad (March 2011 issue, pp. 34–42)
• Office apps showdown: Presentations (December 20, 2010)
• Why Time Machine isn’t enough for backup (November 4, 2010)
• Make a smooth switch to Outlook 2011—plus an Outlook 2011 keyboard shortcut cheat sheet (November 1, 2010; in March 2011 issue on pp. 58–59 as “Outlook 2011: How to Make the Switch”)
• Stay in Sync: Other sync options (October 18, 2010; in March 2011 issue in very abbreviated form as a sidebar on p. 49)
• Stay in Sync: Sync data using MobileMe or Google (October 18, 2010; in March 2011 issue on pp. 46–56 as “The Syncing System”)
• Stay in Sync: Choosing between MobileMe and Google (October 18, 2010; in March 2011 issue as sidebar on p. 54)
• Office 2011: Who needs a suite? (October 13, 2010)
• Essential Mail Shortcuts (August 4, 2010)
• Five Things to Do Before Leaving for Vacation (June 24, 2010)
• Mac Utilities: Do Uninstallers Work? (May 25, 2010; abbreviated version in July 2010 issue, p. 35)
• Editing Word Documents on an iPad (May 24, 2010)
• Presenting with the iPad (May 20, 2010)
• Sync Data with Macs, iPhones Using Google (March 3, 2010; May 2010 issue, pp. 44–46, as “Calendars and Contacts in the Cloud”)
• Protect Data with Encrypted Hard Drives (February 19, 2010)
• Unclutter Your Hard Drive (February 10, 2010)
• Migrate a Time Machine Backup (February 5, 2010; in June 2010 issue as “When You Outgrow Your Backup Disk,” pp. 52–53)
• Treat a Misbehaving Time Capsule (January 13, 2010)
• Working with Multiple Browsers (December 31, 2009)
• Five Jobs Other Browsers Do Better (December 30, 2009)
• Eight Reasons to Choose Safari or Firefox (December 29, 2009)
• Five Reasons to Partition a Disk (November 25, 2009; appears in March 2010 issue, p. 57, as “When to Partition a Disk”)
• When to Use Twitter Instead of E-mail (October 21, 2009)
• Four Reasons to Switch to IMAP (October 12, 2009; appears in February 2010 issue as “Reduce E-mail Aggravation with IMAP,” pp. 64–65)
• Find and Merge Address Book Duplicates (October 7, 2009)
• Prune Your Contacts (October 5, 2009; an abbreviated version appears in the February 2010 issue, p. 63)
• Three Ways to Improve Gmail (September 23, 2009; one of these appears in the January 2010 issue, p. 57)
• The Seven Most Underused Mail Features (September 21, 2009; January 2010 issue, pp. 56–57)
• Web Workflows: Don’t Waste Time (September 9, 2009)
• Six Reasons Desktop E-mail Still Rules (September 2, 2009; December 2009 issue, pp. 74–75)
• Five Favorite Entourage Tips (August 19, 2009; two of these appear in the December 2009 issue, p. 75)
• A three-part series on passwords: Intro at Top Password Tips; part 1: Create Stronger Passwords (July 6, 2009); part 2: Manage Your Passwords (July 7, 2009); and part 3: Remember Your Passwords (July 8, 2009).
• Two tips in Launching Apps: Beyond the Dock (June 5, 2009)
• One tip in Your Mac, Your Way: The Workspace (June 3, 2009)
• Keep Working When You’re Not Online (March 9, 2009; May 2009 issue, pp. 74–76)
• Streamline E-mail with Gmail (March 5, 2009)
• Categorize E-mail for Better Searching (March 2, 2009)
• Find E-mail Easily with Flags (February 25, 2009)
• Search the Web without a Browser (February 18, 2009; May 2009 issue, pp. 65–66)
• Go Beyond Google Searches (February 16, 2009; May 2009 issue, pp. 65–66)
• Improve Your Google Searches (February 12, 2009; May 2009 issue, pp. 64–65)
• Alternatives to MobileMe (January 29, 2009; March 2009 issue, pp. 78–80)
• Working with MobileMe and iLife, an excerpt from Take Control of MobileMe (December 18, 2008)
• Keep on Track with Digital Reminders (December 10, 2008)
• Update: The Paperless Office (November 28, 2008)
• Mac Security: Privacy (October 8, 2008)
• Five Tips for Better Browsing (July 28, 2008)
• Sync Your iTunes Libraries (July 3, 2008)
• Sync Your E-mail Messages (July 2, 2008)
• Sync Your Personal Data (July 2, 2008)
• Set Up File Sharing (July 1, 2008)
• Solve .Mac Problems (June 30, 2008)
• Sync Your Files (June 30, 2008)
• Read RSS Feeds in Leopard Mail, an excerpt from Take Control of Apple Mail in Leopard (June 27, 2008)
• Clean Out Old E-mail Messages—Empty Your Inbox: Day 3 (June 25, 2008)
• Master Mail’s Reminders (June 24, 2008)
• Speed Up E-mail Replies (June 24, 2008)
• The Fast Way to File Your E-mail—Empty Your Inbox: Day 2 (June 24, 2008)
• Turn Down the Volume on Your E-mail—Empty Your Inbox: Day 1 (June 23, 2008)
• Automating Word 2008 - Additional AppleScripts (April 22, 2008)
• Automating Word with AppleScript (April 22, 2008)
• Corral Group Calendars (April 10, 2008)
• Set Up Your OS X Calendar Server (April 4, 2008)
• Set Up a Free CalDAV Server (April 1, 2008—online only)
• The Browser Bunch, a round-up of 10 Web browsers (March 31, 2008)
• I contributed several tips to the Spaces, Exposé, Dashboard portion of the Leopard Survival Guide (March 12, 2008).
• Time Machine Tips and Troubleshooting (February 18, 2008)
• Is Time Machine All You Need? (February 15, 2008)
• Fitting Your Files on a MacBook Air (February 1, 2008)
• Fix Mac Slowdowns (December 31, 2007; February 2008 issue, pp. 100–104)
• Easy Online Backups (November 6, 2007; December 2007 issue)
• First Look: Google Presentations (November 2, 2007)
• Lock It Up!, which includes I will be smarter about how I handle e-mail, I will behave cautiously online, I will be careful when using a wireless network, I will use good passwords, and I will keep my Mac safe from other users (October 12, 2007; November 2007 issue, pp. 50–61)
• The Real Paperless Office (October 9, 2007; November 2007 issue, pp. 86–87)
• A few items in Software Treats (July 27, 2007; August 2007 issue)
• The Google Office (July 10, 2007; August 2007 issue, pp. 60–69); includes Anywhere Wordsmith, Number Cruncher, and Mighty Messenger
• Fix Password Glitches (July 10, 2007; August 2007 issue)
• Stop Today’s Spam (March 12, 2007; April 2007 issue, pp. 72–74)
• “Clear Away the Clutter,” including Finesse Your Files, Wrangle your snippets, and Stem e-mail overload (February 20, 2007; March 2007 issue, pp. 62–70)
• Reclaim Hard-Drive Space (February 6, 2007; March 2007 issue, pp. 80–81)
• Easy Mac Backups (January 3, 2007; February 2007 issue, pp. 80–81)
• Your Apps in Your Pocket (October 4, 2006; November 2006 issue, pp. 84–85)
• Get More from Mail (October 3, 2006; November 2006 issue, pp. 72–73)
• A bunch of tips in “Your Mac’s Secrets Revealed!“ (October 2006 issue, pp. 64–73)—#14 (p. 67); #16–23, 25, 27, and 28 (pp. 68–69); and #43 (p. 71)
• Firefox Extensions for Geeks (September 1, 2006; October 2006 issue, pp. 86–87)
• Mobile Backup Tips (July 10, 2006; August 2006 issue, pp. 70–71)
• Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac, an excerpt from the ebook of the same name (June 16, 2006)
• The IMAP Advantage (June 7, 2006; July 2006 issue, pp. 75–77)
• Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac, an excerpt from the ebook of the same name (May 10, 2006)
• Keeping your Macs in Sync (April 10, 2006; May 2006 issue, pp. 80–81)
• 34 Software Speedups, part of “The Ultimate Mac Tune-Up” feature (February 21, 2006; March 2006 issue, pp. 52–56)
• Big File, Slow Connection (February 13, 2006; March 2006 issue, pp. 78–79)
• Launch Your Mac, an introduction to using launchd in Tiger (January 9, 2006; February 2006 issue, pp. 100–101)
• Cut Though the Clutter, an article about using the Finder’s Smart Folders (January 9, 2006; February 2006 issue, pp. 82–85)
• The Power User’s Guide to Firefox, part of the “Spinning a Better Web” feature (October 14, 2005; November 2005 issue, pp. 58–60)
• Use Mail’s Smarts (September 12, 2005; October 2005 issue, pp. 76–79)
• Turn Your Old Mac into a Backup Server (August 11, 2005; September 2005 issue, pp. 62–65)
• Make Your Photos Last (July 7, 2005; August 2005 issue, pp. 67–70)
• An excerpt from Take Control of Upgrading to Tiger (April 29, 2005)
• Several tips in Hit the Road, Mac (April 4, 2005; May 2005 issue, pp. 54–61)
• A two-part excerpt from Take Control of Mac OS X Backups (Part 1, Part 2; February 10, 2005)
• Win the Spam War (October 13, 2004; October 2004 issue, pp. 72–75)

Macworld Reviews

• DevonAgent Pro 3.5 (May 16, 2013)
• ChronoSync 4.3.5 (October 9, 2012)
• Token 1.3.1 (July 11, 2012)
• Clusters 1.5.6 (June 28, 2012)
• Apple MobileMe (2010) (December 3, 2010)
• BusyMac BusyCal 1.0 (October 26, 2009)
• Spanning Sync 1.2.1 (September 8, 2008)
• BusySync 2.1.6 (September 5, 2008)
• IPNetSentryX 1.6.5 (July 22, 2008)
• Internet Cleanup 5.0 (July 21, 2008)
• ChronoSync 3.6 (June 10, 2008)
• Folders Synchronizer X 3.6 (June 10, 2008)
• Safari 3.1 (March 26, 2008)
• Opera 9.25 (March 13, 2008)
• iCab 4.0.1 (March 6, 2008)
• OmniWeb 5.6 (February 27, 2008)
• DEVONagent 2.3 (February 26, 2008)
• ScanSnap S510M document scanner (December 28, 2007)
• LifeAgent 2.1 (December 24, 2007; February 2008 issue, p. 56)
• “Backing It Up,” a round-up of reviews covering the following backup applications: Backup 3.1 (Apple); Data Backup 2.1 (Prosoft); Personal Backup X4 10.4 (Intego); Retrospect Desktop 6.1 (EMC Insignia); and Tri-Backup 4.0 (Tri-Edre) (December 22–29, 2006; February 2007 issue, pp. 38–46). Also reviewed, but appearing only on the Web due to space constraints: BounceBack Pro 7.1 (CMS) (December 13, 2006). I summarized the best options in Backing it up (January 4, 2007).
• VisiStat 4 (September 27, 2006)
• SnapMail 5.0 (September 19, 2006)
• Advanced Web Ranking Professional (February 3, 2006; April 2006 issue)
• Braxton’s Link Tester (BLT) (January 6, 2006; March 2006 issue)
• Three FTP Clients (July 8, 2005; September, 2005 issue)
• MailSteward 2.2 (November 14, 2004; December 2004 issue, p. 34)

MacTech Articles

• “Creating a Backup Policy” (August 2008, pp. 44–54)

• Review: iPhone 3G (July 24, 2008)
• Mac Security Software Roundup (May 27, 2008)
• 15 Reasons to Use Virtualization Software on a Mac (January 21, 2008)
• The 20 Best New Leopard Features (November 5, 2007)
• My Top 50 Mac Applications (August 13, 2007)
• Top 10 Mac Productivity Enhancements (April 13, 2007)
• Spam Filters for your Mac: Six Choices (April 3, 2007)

• I wrote a four-part case study for Code 42 Software’s blog called “Against All Elements.” It chronicled mastering engineer Drew Lavyne’s data loss and recovery as a result of Hurricane Sandy. (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4; March 8–29, 2013)

• David Acklam of MyMac.com reviewed Take Control of Your Passwords, with a 10 out of 10 score! (May 8, 2013)
• Victoria L. Herring posted a lengthy and enthusiastic review of Take Control of Your Passwords on her HerringLaw blog: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 (also appeared on the Des Moines Mac User Group site)
• Hartley Jim Jackson of the Northern Vermont Macintosh Users Group reviewed Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac (April 3, 2012)
• Ray Bowler of MyMac.com reviewed Take Control of Backing Up Your Mac, with a 10 out of 10 score! (December 13, 2011)
• Victoria L. Herring of Des Moines Mac User Group reviewed Take Control of Upgrading to Lion. (September 2011)
• Ray Bowler of Des Moines Mac User Group reviewed Take Control of Mac OS X Backups. (September 2011)
• Ray Bowler of Des Moines Mac User Group reviewed Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac. (September 2011)
• Thomas Briant of the MacValley blog reviewed Take Control of Your Paperless Office (August 14, 2011)
• Elisa Pacelli of MyMac.com reviewed Take Control of Upgrading to Lion, with a 9 out of 10 rating! (July 25, 2011)
• Miraz Jordan of MacTips reviewed Take Control of Upgrading to Lion along with Matt Neuburg’s Take Control of Using Lion (July 24, 2011)
• Miraz Jordan reviewed Take Control of Speeding Up Your Mac for MacTips. (12 June 2011)
• Hartley Jim Jackson of the Northern Vermont Macintosh Users Group (NVMUG) reviewed Take Control of Your Paperless Office and Take Control of Working with Your iPad (May 11, 2011)
• Not quite a review, but a few complimentary mentions and quotes from Take Control of Your Paperless Office in “A paperless life relieves a leafy burden” by Allan Hoffman in the New Jersey Star-Ledger (January 7, 2011)
• Scott Willsey reviewed Take Control of Apple Mail in Snow Leopard for MyMac.com, with a 9 out of 10 rating! (August 30, 2010)
• Kathy Matsumoto reviewed Take Control of Apple Mail in Snow Leopard for the Alaskan Apple Users Group Blog, with a 5/5 rating! (August 29, 2010)
• Steve Welsh of the Oregon MacPioneers User Group (OMUG) reviewed Mac Security Bible, with a 4.5-out-of-5 salmon rating! (August 14, 2010)
• Review of Take Control of Mail on the iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch by Elisa Pacelli at MyMac.com, with a 10 out of 10 rating!
• Review of Take Control of Getting Started with DEVONthink 2 by Michael Baranowski of the Alaskan Apple Users Group, with a 5 out of 5 rating!
• A nice mention (“read and prosper”): Revised book has Mac backup strategy by Mark Kellner in The Washington Times (January 8, 2010)
• Review of Take Control of Mac OS X Backups, 4th Edition by Rich Lefko of MyMac, with a 10 out of 10 rating! (December 2, 2009)
• Review of Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard (PDF, p. 29) by Marcel Dufresne in MaUsE DoubleClick (November, 2009)
• Review of Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard by Ilene Hoffman at MacNN with a 5-star rating (November 10, 2009)
• Review of Take Control of Upgrading to Snow Leopard by Steve Aufrecht of AAUG with a rather left-handed 4 out of 5 rating (October 11, 2009)
• Review of Take Control of Passwords in Mac OS X, 2nd Edition by Lewis Butler (July 31, 2009)
• Review of Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac, 3rd Edition by Richard Orlin at Electric Pi (July 8, 2009)
• Review of Take Control of Maintaining Your Mac and Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac by Mark Webster at Mac.nz, with a 4.5 out of 5 rating (June 29, 2009)
• Review of Take Control of the Mac Command Line with Terminal by John Martellaro at the Mac Observer, with an “Outstanding” rating (March 27, 2009)
• Review of Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac by Mike Burns at AAUG, with a 4 out of 5 rating (March 2, 2009)
• Review of Take Control of Mac OS X Backups and Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard by Edward Marczak in the August 2008 issue of MacTech
• Review of Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard by David Weeks at MyMac.com, with a 5 out of 5 rating (March 11, 2008)
• Review of Take Control of Easy Backups in Leopard by Russ Walkowich at MyMac.com, with a 4.5 out of 5 rating (February 13, 2008)
• Review of Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard by Alan Wheatley at Bonzer! Book Reviews, with a five-star rating (December 3, 2007)
• Review of Take Control of Upgrading to Leopard: Early-Bird Edition by Russ Walkowich at MyMac.com, with a 5 out of 5 rating (October 31, 2007)
• Review of Take Control of Troubleshooting Your Mac by Mark Webster at Mac.NZ, with a 5-star rating (September 11, 2007)
• Review of the second edition of Take Control of Running Windows on a Mac by David Cohen at MyMac.com, with a 4.5 out of 5 rating (March 13, 2007)
• Review of Take Control of Apple Mail in Tiger by Jack A. Fiske on the Alaskan Apple Users Group Web site (December 6, 2006)
• Review of Take Control of Passwords in Mac OS X by David Teare (co-author of 1Passwd) on his Switcher’s Blog (November 2, 2006)
• Review of Take Control of .Mac by audio(f)ile titled Take Control of .Mac fills in the gaps in The Cherry Creek News (February 20, 2006)
• Review of Take Control of Upgrading to Tiger by Tony Brown of the Mac Guild, with a grade of B+ (September 27, 2005)
• Review of Take Control of Tiger (the printed version from Peachpit) at OSXGuide.com (September 5, 2005)
• Mark Kellner mentioned me and the Take Control series in his article “Books come to rescue of Macs” in The Washington Times on Tuesday, May 10, 2005 (also syndicated in about 100 other newspapers).
• Review of Take Control of Panther, Volume 1 (PDF; page 61) by Harry Babad in the January, 2005 edition of macCompanion
• Review of Take Control of Panther, Volume 1 by David Weeks at MyMac.com, with a 5 out of 5 rating (December 2, 2004)
• Review of Take Control of Email with Apple Mail by Brian Schilling on the Alaskan Apple Users Group Web site, with a 4 out of 5 moose rating (October 2004)
• Review of Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail by Brian Schilling on the Alaskan Apple Users Group Web site, with a 4 out of 5 moose rating (October 2004)
• Review of Take Control of Email with Apple Mail by Earl J. Kletsky in the The AppleTree, the Monthly Journal of the Syracuse Macintosh Users Group (September 2004; article no longer available online)
• Review of Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail by Ralph Vahue in the The AppleTree, the Monthly Journal of the Syracuse Macintosh Users Group (August 2004; article no longer available online)
• Review of Take Control of Spam with Apple Mail by Dale Mead of the Mac Guild, with a grade of A (July 16, 2004)
• Review of Take Control of Upgrading to Panther by Bob Thomas on the Alaskan Apple Users Group Web site, with a 4 out of 5 moose rating (March 2004)
• Review of Take Control of Mac OS X Backups by Tony Brown of the Mac Guild, with a grade of A (February 15, 2004)
• Review of Take Control of Upgrading to Panther by Elsa Travisano in the Newsbreak newsletter of MUG ONE, the Macintosh User Group of Oneonta, New York (November 2003)

• I appeared on the Macworld Podcast (April 10, 2013) with Chris Breen, Serenity Caldwell, Scholle McFarland, and Dan Moren to discuss The iPad Office, a new ebook to which I was a contributor.
• Lon Keller interviewed me about Take Control of Your Passwords on Sundog: The Podcast 051 - Securing Your Digital Life (March 27, 2013)
• I appeared on the MacBreak Weekly video podcast to discuss passwords, the Evernote security breach, and more with Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie (March 5, 2013).
• Protecting Your Digital Life (August 22, 2012)
• Upgrading to and Using Mountain Lion (August 1, 2012)
• Adieu, MobileMe (June 16, 2012)
• I joined Mark Greentree on Not Another Mac Podcast to discuss Unitasking in the Apple Ecosystem (March 3, 2012)
• I did a webcast about iCloud for O’Reilly Media (February 3, 2012)
• At Macworld | iWorld 2012 (January 28, 2012), I participated in a Macworld Live panel discussion called Take Control and E-publishing (YouTube video link) with Adam Engst, Tonya Engst, Glenn Fleishman, Jeff Carlson, and Michael Cohen, and moderated by Macworld’s Chris Breen.
• Mac McCarthy posted an article titled “MacWorld 2012: Top Tips and Tricks for Apple’s Siri“ about my Macworld | iWorld 2012 talk about/with Siri. (January 31, 2012)
• I did a live video presentation on MobileMe for NEOAC, the Northeast Ohio Apple Corps Macintosh User Group, on January 22, 2011. You can view a recording of the entire presentation online.
• John Finnan and Tim Chaten interviewed me on the iPad Possibilities Podcast about working with your iPad (August 12, 2010).
• Eolake Stobblehouse interviewed me about Take Control of Working with Your iPad on his blog on June 4, 2010.
• I was interviewed for an article by David Sanderson in the Winnipeg Free Press titled “Stiz on Warriages” (February 24, 2007). The article was about portmanteau, which I discussed on Interesting Thing of the Day; the title is derived from “Read our ST-ory, then take our qu-IZ on unlikely W-ord m-ARRIAGES.”
• John Nemerovski interviewed me about Real World Mac Maintenance and Backups for a MyMac.com podcast on December 1, 2006. My segment runs from 37:27–46:10, near the end.
• The article “Apple’s Appeal” by Nathan Halverson in The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California) on Monday, October 2, 2006 (pages D1 and D8), included a few quotes from me about running Windows on a Mac.
• Adam Engst wrote Joe Kissell Leaving TidBITS (an April Fool’s spoof; 2006-04-01).
• Adam Engst announced my new job at TidBITS in Joe Kissell Joins TidBITS as Senior Editor (2006-03-20).
• Talking Mail.app: Joe Kissell—interview (by email) with Tim Gadenabout Apple Mail on his Hawk Wings blog (February 9, 2006)
• Net Publishing Made Profitable in Wired News—interview in article by Leander Kahney (August 13, 2004).

• Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner ebook (Version: 1.1, September 27, 2007; originally published September 22, 2006)
• An excerpt from Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner appeared on Wired News: Deal With Turkey Day Disasters (November 20, 2006).
• I contributed Thanksgiving Cooking Gadgets to the Wired Gear Factor blog on Sunday, November 19, 2006.
• I appeared (briefly!) on a live broadcast of CBS-5’s “Eye on the Bay” TV show on November 14, 2006. Go to this URL. You have to watch the commercial, and then wait for the whole thing to buffer, and then move the slider ahead about 4/5 of the way through the show to see my unexciting little segment.
• An article in the Tompkins Weekly, a paper from Ithaca, New York, discussed Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner and featured a photo of Adam and Tonya Engst. The article “Techies Talk Turkey in Latest E-Book” by Danielle Klock was in the November 13, 2006 issue (PDF, page 5).