“Take control of Apple TV” is a book by TidBITS managing editor Josh Centers that is said to answer every question you may have about the 4th generation Apple TV. It explains how to set it up and use it to watch movies and TV shows, play music, display your photos, and run all types of apps on the big screen.

Josh walks you through cables, ports, and setup, and explains how to use gestures and spoken commands with the Siri Remote—yes, you can talk to your TV! He helps you navigate and customize the Home screen, plus describes getting-started settings such as inputting your Apple ID and enabling parental controls.

In Take Control of Apple TV you’ll read about:

• The easy Siri Remote shortcut for sleeping your Apple TV
• Checking the battery level and charging your Siri Remote
• Three ways to rewind on the Siri Remote
• Alternatives to the Siri Remote
• Connecting your Apple TV to iCloud Photo Library, iCloud Photo Stream, iCloud Photo Sharing, or to photos stored on your local computer
• Beaming the display of your Mac or iPhone screen to your TV
• Making Mac or iOS audio play through your TV’s speakers
• Ripping DVDs and Blu-ray discs
• Running iTunes Home Sharing to play media from a local computer
• Using Plex Media Server to take your media library beyond iTunes
• Essential items to pack if you’ll be giving a presentation via an Apple TV
• What you can do with Conference Room Display mode
• How to tell if an iOS app includes a free copy of its Apple TV version
• How to reset or restore an Apple TV—useful for troubleshooting or for handing your device to a new owner

The second edition of the book includes What’s New in tvOS 9.2 that discusses the most importnat features of tvOS 9.2, like support for Bluetooth keyboards, Dictation, and the capability to display your iCloud Photo Library.

The book costs $15 and is available in PDF, EPUB and mobi formats from takecontrolbooks.com.

You can also get a free sample.

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Haven’t read “the only book about Steve recommended by the people who knew him best” yet? Hardcover edition of Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader is now on sale on Amazon for just $11.15.

A brilliantly reported, compellingly written book that overturns the conventional view of Steve Jobs—the Jobs that is frozen forever as half genius, half jerk—Becoming Steve Jobs answers the central question about the life and career of the Apple cofounder and CEO: How did a young man so reckless and arrogant that he was exiled from the company he founded become the most effective visionary business leader of our time?

Drawing on extensive interviews with Jobs’s inner circle, family members, friends, and competitors, veteran journalists Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli present a portrait of Jobs that is far more nuanced and intimate than previous biographies.

Get it now for just $11.15.

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Jony Ive – to the world he is Apple’s Senior Vice President, Design, reporting directly to Apple CEO Tim Cook. He is the leading technology innovator of the world, a whiz who has for decades been the head of the world’s best design team and whom Steve Jobs called his “spiritual partner.” However, little is known of Jonathan Ive’s true story and his rise to Apple’s chief innovator. Leander Kahney’s newest book, entitled Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products, has changed this and demystified the creative genius.

The biography, written by bestselling author of Inside Steve’s Brain, Leander Kahney, Cult of Mac editor-in-chief, captures the creative mind behind the most celebrated designer in the world quite vividly, spanning from his early childhood in the UK through his days as a student with dyslexia at an English Art school, to his journey as a technology designer whose insights have changed the entire world.

The book reveals not just the great mind that is Sir Jonathan Ive, but also some of the most guarded secrets of Apple. The unique insights that Leander Kahney has included about the ultra-secret Apple design studio are going to change every reader’s perception of the role design plays within Apple. As a matter of fact, Leander has provided the most detailed account there is of the development of the Apple products that came to be icons of modern world technology: iMac, iPod, iPhone, and iPad.

Jony Ive: The Genius Behind Apple’s Greatest Products is published by Penguin Portfolio and is available now through Amazon and Apple’s iBook Store.

Here’s the official book trailer:

Originally published on What’s On iPhone. 

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