Things have been nuts for me lately on several fronts. I spent some time this afternoon feeling sorry for myself until I realized I have the perfect cure in a live podcast about spectacularly geeky things planned for tomorrow. That’s right. The Mac Power…
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Scrivener Half Off Today at MacUpdate
Scrivener is my favorite app for serious writing projects. I’ve written nearly all my books in it and today I’m writing a complicated legal brief in it. We did a Mac Power Users episode on it a long time ago (that probably needs updating). Today…
Continue reading →Launch Center Pro Tutorial
I keep trying to get into using Launch Center Pro on my iPhone and iPad. I took to Drafts like a duck to water but for some reason LCP just isn’t sticking. Today Alex Guyot published the mother of all Launch Center Pro tutorials over…
Continue reading →MPU 189: The Server Show
It took us nearly five years but we’ve finally published a show on setting up your own Mac server. Todd Olthoff (website) joined us and walked through the how and why of small business and home server setups. ∞
Listen & read notes →Jazz Friday: Clifford Brown’s Joy Spring
I was working in the garden a few days ago listening to Clifford Brown’s Joy Spring which seems appropriate for this time of year. Clifford Brown isn’t as well known as some of the other jazz legends of the bebop era because he died so young.…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Josh Centers
This year at Macworld, I made a new friend in Josh Centers (website)(Twitter). Josh is one of those guys that you immediately like upon meeting. He currently writes for TidBITS and recently published a book about the AppleTV. So Josh, show us your home screen. What are…
Continue reading →The Future of the Aqua User Interface
As WWDC approaches, I’m increasingly interested in the future “look” of the Mac’s operating system. Stephen Hacket posted an excellent historical summary of the Mac user interface and speculates about its future at 512pixels. This is the best thing I read on the Internet today. ∞
Continue reading →The Next Thing and Low Hanging Fruit
I read this Wall Street Journal article where Tim Cook explained that Apple is approaching releasing a product in a new category. There is one line in the story that explains “Cook knows that’s the biggest question hanging over the company: whether it can repeat the…
Continue reading →App Camp Video and Seattle Session
App Camp for Girls was a big success at Macworld this year. Below is a video my daughter, Samantha, produced. I think the video is great. Samantha thinks it’s terrible. (She didn’t have media badge and had to ditch her tripod to avoid getting booted…
Continue reading →The OS X Beta Seed Program
Yesterday Apple announced its beta seed program, where non-developers can get in on early builds of OS X updates. I think it is simultaneously surprising and a great idea. It is surprising because … well … it’s Apple and they just don’t do things…
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