Joe Kissell
Joe Kissell became a TidBITS contributing editor in 2006 and now lives in San Diego after more than five years in Paris. He has written more than four dozen Take Control books, including the best-selling Take Control of iCloud, and numerous print books about Mac OS X. He is also a Senior Contributor to Macworld and the creator of Interesting Thing of the Day. (December 2012)
Joe Kissell joined Leo Laporte, Andy Ihnatko, and Rene Ritchie on MacBreak Weekly to discuss password security (particularly in light of the recent Evernote security breach), iCloud email filtering, and a variety of other topics.
Feeling overwhelmed with email? That’s a genuine and common problem, but Joe Kissell takes umbrage with those who complain about email as a medium or look to a new email app to be a magic bullet.
ioSafe hard drives may be the safest destination for local backups, but Joe Kissell thinks you can get equally good security for a much lower price.
Apple Mail in Mountain Lion uses a different internal logic to determine which From account new messages and replies should use. The undocumented and seemingly irrational changes have left users angry and confused.
If you don’t have a Mac or PC that’s iCloud-compatible but want to hang onto your me.com or mac.com email address when Apple turns off MobileMe, there’s now a solution.
Multi-device calendar syncing is great, except when it means every alert produces beeps and pop-ups all over your house. Apple needs a more intelligent system for alerting you to upcoming events.
This new iOS app lets you access backups from any computer that you’ve stored on CrashPlan Central, using your favorite iOS device.
The latest versions of Parallels Desktop, VMware Fusion, and VirtualBox bring Mac users ever closer to virtualization nirvana. Joe Kissell offers an overview of the current offerings and ponders the present and future of running Windows on a Mac.
Adds full-screen support in Lion for main windows, offers Quick Look previews of attachments and links in rich text documents, improves Address Book importing, and includes several other changes and bug fixes. (All updates are free. DEVONthink Pro Office, $149.95 new; DEVONthink Professional, $79.95 new; DEVONthink Personal, $49.95 new; DEVONnote, $24.95 new)
Major new release adds more than 90 features, notably Lion integration (including support for running Lion in a virtual machine), significantly increased performance, and an improved user interface. ($49.99 new or upgrade, 399 MB)
Mac App Store-only (and Lion-only) release with notable new features, plus a smaller update for the stand-alone version. (Half-off $19.99 sale price for version 3.9, free update to 3.8.5, 9 MB)
The surprise news that Steve Jobs had resigned as CEO of Apple doesn’t change the company’s approach or future. But it’s still the end of a remarkable era guided by a singular vision.
Adobe has released an update to Flash Player that both fixes an important security vulnerability and provides automatic update notification for the future.
RoaringApps is maintaining a wiki listing hundreds of Mac applications and what is currently known about their compatibility with Lion. Anyone can add entries to the list or modify existing information. Although the information is preliminary (and not all of it comes from official sources), it can serve as a useful guide for people preparing their disks for an upgrade to Lion next month.
After years of lagging behind its Classic predecessor, Nisus Writer Pro is back with a vengeance. Joe Kissell puts version 2.0 through its paces and makes some surprising discoveries.