I try not to get sucked into unreleased product hype but when I saw the initial demo of the Leap Motion product, a box that sits in front of your Mac and reads your hand gestures Minority Report style, I bought one. The product…
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Mac Case Shoulder Pad
I’ve had several emails from listeners about my comment in this week’s Mac Power Users about my guitar shoulder strap on my bag. I use this one. It makes carrying around my 15″ rMBP, iPad, and other gear much easier.
Continue reading →OmniFocus Background Sync? Yes, Thank You.
There’s a new update for iPhone OmniFocus today (version 1.16) that adds Background Sync. So what does that mean? Start by enabling Background Sync in the application settings. Tell OmniFocus to Add Current Location for your home, work, school, and favorite bar. (You have…
Continue reading →MPU 146: Our Gear
In perhaps our most narcissistic episode yet, Katie and I talk about our favorite tech gear (and I talk about my glasses).
Listen & read notes →Yahoo Fought Back Against PRISM
Sam Glover at The Lawyerist reports that Yahoo fought against the government’s PRISM initiative. The court, in a hearing which itself was classified, upheld the government’s right to read private mail. Good on Yahoo for fighting. Yahoo is now petitioning to unseal the rest…
Continue reading →App Camp for Girls
The Sparks family just contributed for a second time to Jean MacDonald’s App Camp for Girls project. There are only five days left on the Indiegogo project and they are almost at their $100,000 expanded goal. I got to watch Jean talk to 3,000…
Continue reading →IFTTT iPhone App
I’ve been fiddling with If This Then That (IFTTT)’s new iPhone app and I like it. They just didn’t bring the web experience to an app but added some functionality including the ability to link to some of your iCloud data and notify you…
Continue reading →MPU 145: Keyboard Maestro Turns 6
In the latest episode of MPU, Katie and I go back and look at Keyboard Maestro, which is growing a big place in my heart following some of its recent updates. If you’ve ever been curious about Keyboard Maestro, this one’s for you. ∞
Listen & read notes →Self-inflicted Wounds
Aisha Tyler was simply one of the best workflow guests we ever had on MPU. Her new book, Self-inflicted Wounds, is releasing tomorrow and I’m really looking forward to reading it. In it, she talks about many of her own mistakes and embarrassing moments.…
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There is this ongoing thing on Merlin Mann and Dan Benjamin’s Back to Work podcast where one of the hosts (usually Merlin) explains how the listeners hate it when they talk about their kids and then they proceed to talk about their kids for forty-five…
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