The Joe On Tech Mac Fitness Bundle
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Keep your Mac running smoothly with this four-book collection
Prevent, solve, and recover from problems while improving your Mac’s performance! This bundle of four popular Joe On Tech titles is your complete guide to Mac fitness.
All four books have been updated to cover macOS 10.12 Sierra, and also support OS X 10.9 Mavericks, 10.10 Yosemite, and 10.11 El Capitan.
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Purchased separately, these books would cost $60,
but you can buy all four for the special bundle price of $39.99.
Here’s what you’ll get:
- Backing Up Your Mac: The data on every Mac should be backed up to protect against theft, hardware failure, user error, and other catastrophes. This book helps you design a sensible backup strategy, choose and configure the best backup hardware and software for your needs, and understand how to make your backups as painless as possible. You’ll learn the hows and whys of backing up your Mac, understand the benefits and limitations of Time Machine (as well as alternatives to it), and see how bootable clones and cloud storage may factor into your plan. You’ll also discover how to deal with unusual backup needs and restore your data in an emergency.
- Maintaining Your Mac: Like all machines, Macs are prone to break down eventually—in either a physical sense (a component going bad) or a logical sense (files becoming corrupted, apps misbehaving). You can reduce the risk of such problems, and minimize the damage when they do occur, with a regular maintenance regimen. You’ll start on the right foot by addressing common maintenance issues, and then perform simple tasks periodically to keep your Mac in top shape. The book also helps you discover useful utilities for automating parts of the process and dispels common misconceptions about maintenance.
- Troubleshooting Your Mac: Even if you’ve carefully maintained your Mac, things can and will go wrong. Apps crash, network connections go wonky, error messages pop up, and sometimes your Mac might even refuse to turn on. In this essential guide, you’ll learn key troubleshooting skills that will help you address the most common and frustrating Mac irritations. You’ll also learn what to do when you encounter a problem for which you can’t find a ready-made solution. (Step one: Don’t panic!) This book contains the calm, friendly advice you need to find a solution to a wide variety of problems.
- Speeding Up Your Mac: If your Mac seems a lot slower now than when you first bought it, it’s not your imagination. Over time, a wide variety of issues can lead to slow performance. With expert advice and a little detective work, you can find and fix these problems—returning your Mac to its original, peppy self. In this book you’ll learn how to find and address the exact causes of slow behavior. You’ll discover how to optimize CPU and RAM usage, eliminate disk bottlenecks, improve network performance (including web browsing and email), speed up peripherals, perform strategic software and hardware upgrades, and much more.
Ebook bundle includes PDF, EPUB, and Kindle versions.
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Backing Up Your Mac • Maintaining Your Mac • Troubleshooting Your Mac • Speeding Up Your Mac
Free Bonus Materials!
If you want to teach someone else—say, a friend, your company, or a user group—about keeping their Mac in top shape, you’ll benefit from free downloadable training materials based on each of these books, including PDF “cheat sheets” with the essential points from the book, plus simplified PDF-based presentations. (Editable, brandable Keynote slides can be licensed for an additional fee.)
Reader Comments on Joe’s Books
Tens of thousands of readers have used Joe’s books to solve problems and enhance their skills. Here’s what a few of them have to say…
Joe’s top-notch instructional guides are among the absolute best in the field. His comprehensive, yet accessible, books on specific software titles and subjects like productivity, efficiency, and security will benefit users of all levels, from beginners to advanced power users. Whether you want to learn something brand new or update your already finely honed skills, Joe Kissell is an excellent resource.
Joe Kissell’s books are great references for beginners and the technically proficient alike. Well organized, and written with direct knowledge of the computer user’s needs.
I’m addicted to the computer education books by Joe Kissell! And it has proven to be an extremely helpful as well as enjoyable and educational addiction. Over the years, I’ve gone paperless with Joe’s help, my wife and I have had many pain-free upgrades to a new Mac OS and I always am indebted to Joe’s books for all the advice on how to maintain essential and efficient backups.
Joe Kissell has guided me through numerous OS updates, taught me about backups, FileVault, 1Password and many other topics that are ESSENTIAL to my day-to-day Mac use.
As Joe has done in his earlier 50+ ebooks for another imprint, he doesn’t just tell you ‘do this, do that’, he takes the view that you also want to know some of the ‘why’ of the topics he writes about. He helps you decide what’s right for you, which is way cool. Joe’s friendly style makes the pages go by in a breeze, it’s more like listening to a sage than reading a textbook.
I think [Backing Up Your Mac] is a really great book. You are really expert in these matters, the book is very well structured and very well and written and very pleasant to read. Your guidance in this 'mine field' was very informative and well argued and has helped me tremendously to set up a good backup plan. Worth every penny.
Ebook bundle includes PDF, EPUB, and Kindle versions.
Orders fulfilled by FastSpring.
Backing Up Your Mac • Maintaining Your Mac • Troubleshooting Your Mac • Speeding Up Your Mac
About the Author
Joe Kissell has been using Macs since 1991, and writing about them since 1995. He is the author of more than 50 books on technology, including The Nisus Way, Take Control of iCloud, Take Control of Your Online Privacy, and Mac Security Bible. He is also a contributing editor to TidBITS and a senior contributor to Macworld, was the winner of a 2009 Neal award for Best How-to Article, and has appeared on the MacTech 25 list (the 25 people voted most influential in the Macintosh community) since 2007. Joe is the eponym and instigator of Joe On Tech, a website and ebook series that helps people improve their relationship with technology. He can neither confirm nor deny that he wears a mask and fights crime in his spare time. Joe lives in San Diego with his wife, their two sons, and their cat.
About Joe On Tech Guides
Joe On Tech guides provide practical advice on tech topics. Suitable for beginners and experienced users alike, they explain technology in a straightforward and friendly way. Joe On Tech guides offer:
- Expert advice from an author with 20+ years of experience
- Professional editing and technical review
- PDF, EPUB, and Kindle ebook formats
- Bookmarks and cross-references for easy navigation
- Free minor updates
- 100% Money-Back Guarantee
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- When you buy books from Joe On Tech, all the proceeds (after transaction fees) go to me; when you buy it elsewhere, the distributor takes a hefty cut first.
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- When you purchase a book directly from me, I’m able to contact you about free updates, corrections, and new editions, but when you buy from another distributor, you become their customer, not mine, and I can’t reach you.
Ebook bundle includes PDF, EPUB, and Kindle versions.
Orders fulfilled by FastSpring.
Backing Up Your Mac • Maintaining Your Mac • Troubleshooting Your Mac • Speeding Up Your Mac
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