Instead, I’ll be writing Take Control of Big Sur, taking over the annual macOS title from Scholle McFarland, whose work obligations prevent her from writing a big book this summer. This year, for the first time since 2003, I will not be writing a standalone Upgrading book! That’s right, there will be no Take Control of Upgrading to Big Sur.One of these will be Take Control of iCloud, Seventh Edition (by yours truly) there’ll also be Jeff Carlson’s Take Control of Your Digital Storage, Second Edition, a totally reworked version of Andy Affleck’s book on podcasting, the next quarterly update to my free DEVONthink book, and one or two other titles I can’t say more about yet. In the next couple of months, we’ll continue to release new and updated books content isn’t likely to be affected much by the fall OS updates.I’m still talking over the details with a dozen authors, but the short version thus far is: Several books that we were expecting to update this summer will have to be pushed to the fall, and other titles we usually do will have to be combined or dropped. Now that we have an approximate idea of the scope of what has to happen, it’s clear that we have to make some major changes to our publishing schedule. However, in the absence of further data, we have to assume an earlier ship date and prepare accordingly. For Apple, “fall” is usually at the very early end of the season, but technically the software could ship on December 20 and still meet that deadline. They simply said “fall,” as they always do, so it’s unclear whether (as many have speculated) the pandemic-related shutdowns will result in any shipping delays. To make matters more complicated, Apple was no more specific than usual about the timing of the new releases. It’s a daunting prospect, to say the least. But in fact, every one of our titles that covers the Mac in any way ought to be at least minimally refreshed with new screenshots and instructions. And…jeepers! So far I’ve identified at least 23 books that will need updating to cover the new operating systems these range from minor tweaks to full rewrites. As I watched the keynote and then dug into many of the details later, I made a list of all the Take Control titles that will have to be updated. I hope you’ll take advantage of these great deals! WWDC ReactionsĪpple’s Worldwide Developer Conference has been all over the news this week, with announcements of macOS 11 Big Sur new versions of iOS, iPadOS, watchOS, and tvOS and of course the long-rumored transition to Apple’s own ARM-based microprocessors for Macs. You can save 30% on all full-price Take Control books using coupon code summerfest2020, and you can also save 25–30% on numerous other “artisanal” Mac apps, such as Nisus Writer Pro, Panorama X, PDFpenPro, and SpamSieve (all of which we use constantly here). We had a good first week of SummerFest 2020, which continues through July 8. And those two keyboard shortcuts-Train as Good and Train as Spam-become second nature.It was a big week here at Take Control, and we have a lot to talk about. This app works so well that, over time, you almost forget about it. SpamSieve launches in the background when you open your email app, and you can control its main features-telling the app that given messages are spam or good email-from the keyboard, or from a menu. In fact, there is no SpamSieve window, only some settings dialogs that you can display in Mail, for example, by choosing Message > SpamSieve – Open Window. SpamSieve has blocked more than 19,000 spam emails, with 99.4 percent accuracy.Īfter you install SpamSieve-which works with Apple Mail, Outlook, Airmail, Postbox, and many other email clients-you don’t ever see the app. I still get some spam in my inbox, but no more than a couple of messages a day. SpamSieve has a whitelist of your contacts and people you have sent email to, a blacklist that automatically blocks email from senders you’ve flagged, and its Bayesian analysis makes it incredibly accurate. The SpamSieve window is a low-key dialog that lets you access preferences, a log, statistics, and more. Here are my SpamSieve statistics, since the last time I did a clean install on my Mac, about a year and a half ago: However, if spam gets through, you just select one or more messages and press a keyboard shortcut to tell SpamSieve that they are spam the app learns from that too. If you get lots of emails that contain certain words, SpamSieve learns that these are normal, and sends them to your inbox. Unlike the brute-force filters on servers, SpamSieve learns from your email. SpamSieve has been around since 2002 and is hands down the best spam filtering software for Mac. Years ago I decided that I prefer using software on my Mac to filter spam.
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