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MacVoices #26142: NAB – Mapcreator Makes Maps Fast, Animated, and Newsroom-Friendly

May 12, 2026 | NAB

In the Mapcreator booth at NAB in Las Vegas, Julia Schellekens provides an update on their service that delivers detailed maps for news and other organizations who want to clearly show what is happening where. With a wide array of export and animation capabilities to help drive home the information, it is almost certain that you have seen their product in use no matter where in the world you are.

MacVoices #25192: Joe Kissell Takes Control of DEVONthink 4 (2)

Jul 15, 2025 | Take Control

In the second part of our conversation with Joe Kissell about Take Control of DEVONthink 4, Joe focuses on its updated inspector system, subtle interface improvements, and a powerful suite of new AI features. He discusses how large language model integration—from ChatGPT to Claude—enhances document sorting, summarizing, and research. Joe also shares concerns about AI, how DevonThink addresses them, and how the app balances automation with control.

MacVoices #25120: Live! – Tim Cook’s Influence, Apple’s Sports App, Meta’s Redaction Fail

Apr 25, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

The panel of Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Brian Flanigan-Arthurs, Marty Jencius, and Eric Bolden discuss Tim Cook’s strategic influence in securing tariff exemptions, highlighting his low-key leadership style focused on Apple’s interests. They explore updates to Apple’s Sports app, praising its clean interface and new sharing features. The conversation shifts to Meta’s redaction failure in a legal case, questioning whether it was incompetence or intentional, and emphasizing the importance of proper document security.

MacVoices #25033: Live! – Redacting PDF Warnings and An Inside The Box Apple TV+ Promotion

Jan 28, 2025 | MacVoices Live!

The MacVoices Live! crew addresses a potential security issue if you redact PDFs and are expecting the information to be actually gone. Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Web Bixby, Jeff Gamet, Jim Rea, and Marty Jencius also look at some unusual Apple TV+ promotions for the long-awaited second season of Severance.

MacVoices #23007: MacVoices Live! – The Future of PDFpen as Nitro Gets Acquired (1)

Jan 10, 2023 | Business, Developer, MacVoices Live!, Software

In a catch-up MacVoices Live! session, the panel of Chuck Joiner, David Ginsburg, Eric Bolden, Jeff Gamet, Jim Rea, Brittany Smith, Mark Fuccio, and Web Bixby discuss the purchase of Nitro Software by KKR and what it could mean for the future of PDFpen. How viable the...

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MacVoices #20099: Glenn Fleishman Takes Control of Working From Home Temporarily (Part 1)

Mar 19, 2020 | Productivity, Take Control

Glenn Fleishman has a brand new, very timely, and absolutely free title from Take Control Books, Take Control of Working from Home Temporarily. He taps his experience as a work-from-home freelancer, as well as tips from others in the same situation, to help you adjust...

MacVoices #20012: CES Unveiled – FindOut Searches Your Documents on your Computer and Across Your Organization

Jan 13, 2020 | Events, Productivity, Software

At CES Unveiled in Las Vegas, Nawfal Sikal, the CTO of FindOut, explains how their service not only can search and identify information on your computer, but also across all the computers in your organization. Using OCR, information can be found in PDF files, images,...

MacVoices #19110: NAB – Libsyn Makes Your Podcast Available Everywhere

Apr 17, 2019 | Audio/Music, Events, Video, Web

From NAB in Las Vegas, Libsyn Vice President of Podcaster Relations Rob Walsh profiles their podcasting service that can host audio, video, and PDFs, provide everything you need to get out to all the podcast outlets, and even deliver a custom app for your show. This...

MacVoices #19091: Adam Engst and Josh Centers Take Control of Apple’s Preview

Mar 8, 2019 | Author, Graphics/Photos, Productivity, Software

Adam Engst and Josh Centers have updated Take Control of Preview to version 1.1 to cover some of the changes, both positive and negative, to Apple’s super useful utility. While recent updates have introduced a couple bugs, it remains a tool that every Mac user should...

MacVoices #17161: Michael E. Cohen Takes Control of PDFpen 9

Jul 13, 2017 | Author, Business, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Productivity, Software, Take Control

Want to get more out of one of your favorite utilities? Michael E. Cohen and Take Control Books have released Take Control of PDFpen 9, a free book that covers the latest edition of PDFpen and PDFpen Pro from Smile. Michael discusses a few of the many feature updates...

MacVoices #17094: Smile’s Greg Scown on the New PDFpen 9 and a TextExpander Anniversary

Apr 12, 2017 | Business, Developer, iOS, Productivity, Security/Privacy, Software

Greg Scown of Smile celebrates the first anniversary of TextExpander in the Cloud by reviewing what has been accomplished since the move…the capabilities realized, the use cases, and the number of updates they have delivered for users exercising that option. Not...

MacVoices #17086: Joe Kissell Takes Control of Your Paperless Office Again

Mar 27, 2017 | Business, Hardware, iPhone, Productivity, Security/Privacy, Software, Take Control

The latest effort from Joe Kissell is the 3.0 version of Take Control of Your Paperless Office. Joe talks about the changes and advances that making ditching paper easier than ever. Joe talks about some of the new scanners that make quick work of stacks of documents,...

MacVoices #16141: Michael E. Cohen Takes Control of PDFpen 8

Jun 20, 2016 | Author, Business, iOS, Productivity, Take Control

Michael E. Cohen has a brand new book to help you get more out of a powerful program. In Take Control of PDFpen 8, Michael examines and educates on the latest version of Smile's PDF utility, including audio notations, file attachments, and portfolios, In this...

MacVoices #15067: Michael E. Cohen Takes Control of PDFpen 7

Mar 2, 2015 | Author, Business, iOS, iPad, iPhone, Productivity, Software, Take Control

Michael E. Cohen just finished Take Control of PDFpen 7 to help you get up and running on the latest and greatest edition of Smile's PDF utility. From the new features to the new interface, Michael gives you a guided tour of PDFpen 7, provides some examples of how...

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