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TidBITS#1267/06-Apr-2015

Settle in for a practical, privacy-focused issue of TidBITS! Josh Centers brings us two how-tos on maintaining your privacy, explaining how to opt out of Verizon Wireless’s “supercookie” and how to make your Twitter history vanish before an ill-considered tweet comes back to haunt you. Then, for TidBITS members, we have the penultimate chapter of Joe Kissell’s “Take Control of Security for Mac Users,” in which Joe explains OS X’s privacy settings. Outside of the privacy realm, Michael Cohen compares the latest Steve Jobs biography, “Becoming Steve Jobs,” to the Jobs-authorized “Steve Jobs.” Julio Ojeda-Zapata joins us again this week to examine Bushel, a device-management service for small businesses. Last but not least, you can get an early look at the forthcoming Photos for Mac with Jason Snell’s ebook, “Photos for Mac: A Take Control Crash Course.” Notable software releases this week include Evernote 6.0.8, iFlicks 2.2, Fantastical 2.0.2, TweetDeck 3.9.482, LaunchBar 6.2, and ChronoSync 4.6 and ChronoAgent 1.5.1.

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The Books of Jobs

It is being billed as the epic battle of the books, with the winner defining how Steve Jobs will be remembered, but Schlender and Tetzeli’s “Becoming Steve Jobs” and Walter Isaacson’s “Steve Jobs” are not really at war.

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ExtraBITS for 6 April 2015

In this week’s collection of external links, Adam Engst sits in on MacBreak Weekly, Comcast Internet speeds are about to see a big boost, Apple’s Lisa Jackson discusses the company’s environmental efforts, we find out how a stolen iPhone changed a man’s life for the better, and we get a look at the making of the Apple Watch.