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Michael E. Cohen

Michael E. Cohen

Michael E. Cohen has worked as a teacher, a programmer, a Web designer, a multimedia producer, and a certified usability analyst. One of the developers of the first commercial ebooks, Michael is the author of several such works, including the compendious Take Control of Pages.

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Fixing Find My Mac

Find My Mac was unavailable on Michael Cohen’s iMac ever since the feature was first introduced — until he found the easy fix.

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Installing ScanSnap Not a Snap

The Fujitsu ScanSnap S1100 your author got at Macworld | iWorld does the job, but the hour-long installation process almost made him snap.

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Q1 2012 Marks Yet Another Record Quarter for Apple

Apple blew past analysts’ estimates once again to post record-breaking numbers, with revenues of $46.33 billion and profits of $13.06 billion.

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Why iBooks Author is a Big Deal

Although there are some issues in regard to licensing and open standards, the introduction of Apple’s iBooks Author is a good thing.

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MacJury Deliberates about iBooks Author EULA

Just hours after Apple’s education announcements on 19 January 2012, the Internet began to vibrate with discussion, much of it dismayed, about some of the terms in the end-user license agreement (EULA) that accompanies Apple’s iBooks Author application. Take Control Books editor-in-chief Tonya Engst was empaneled with other concerned netizens by Chuck Joiner at MacJury to deliberate about how the EULA, even more than the iBooks format itself, might affect the publishing community.

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New Take Control Book Unveils the Magic of Screen Sharing

Glenn Fleishman has updated his essential guide to Mac screen sharing for Mac OS X 10.7 Lion, all while still including help for users of 10.5 Leopard and 10.6 Snow Leopard, plus details on how to control a Mac from an iOS device.

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Snapseed Displays Innovative Touch Techniques

An impulse purchase of Snapseed, an iOS photo-enhancement app, shows Michael Cohen some new twists on the touch interface.

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Photo Stream and Multiple iPhoto Libraries

iCloud’s Photo Stream can share your recent photos with all of your devices, including with multiple Macs. But not with multiple iPhoto libraries in the same account.

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Apple TV 4.4.2 Update May Cause Reset Upset

Apple’s recently released Apple TV update 4.4.2 fixes issues with versions 4.4.1 and 4.4, but may have early adopters reaching for the antacid along with their Apple Remotes.

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Apple Reports $6.62 Billion Profit for Q4 2011

Though not quite meeting overblown analyst expectations, Apple announced another quarter of record-breaking revenues and profits for the last fiscal quarter of 2011.

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BusyCal 1.6 and the iCloud Transition

For those BusyCal users making the move to iCloud, BusyMac has a free upgrade and some essential advice on how to proceed.

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iPhone 4S: A Very Palpable Hit

A number of reviewers have now wrapped their hands around the latest of Apple’s iPhones (without, it should be noted, causing antenna reception problems), and the consensus is that the iPhone 4S is a worthy update. Ask Siri if you should be surprised.

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How Take Control Makes EPUBs in Pages

An inside look at how Take Control books are made into EPUBs, and what we had to do to get there.

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Moving to a New Mac: Lessons Learned

It’s really easy to move from an old Mac to a new one if you plan ahead. But you have to know what to plan.

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Follow-up to Finding a Replacement for Quicken

We’ve compiled our questions and yours about features and capabilities and sent them to the developers of various personal finance packages. Here’s what they said.