I’ve made no secret that iThoughtsHD is my “go to” mind mapping application. The developer also has a version for the iPhone that shares many of the shortcuts and cloud syncing features that makes its iPad big brother so great. iThoughts for the iPhone…

MPU listener Marvin wrote in about how he created playlist folders for each family member to help avoid trashing each other’s playlists using iCloud and iTunes Match. I promptly copied this trick and now we have playlist bliss. Nifty. MacSparky.com is sponsored by Bee…

Do you have a collection of external hard drives sitting around and an overwhelming sense of confusion about what is stored where? Mike Yenco’s Archive 7 indexes your hard drives and lets you search all of them, even when offline. Moreover, the latest version…

BeeDocs has a holiday sale on for Easy Timeline. For just five bucks you can drastically improve your timeline game. I’ve written of this app before. If you ever find yourself in the position of trying to convey time related data to anyone, you…

Here is a pretty amazing video Christmas card created by some of my friends. Not only is this creative and hilarious, every viewing gets a nickel donated to charity.

My friend George Starcher recently turned me on to youhavedownloaded.com, a privately ran site (read: not subject to government restrictions) that tracks torrent download sites and every IPN number that plugs in. If you think someone on your network has been downloading illegal torrents…

In tomorrow’s MPU, Katie and I dive deep on iTunes Match. I spent several minutes in the show talking about the various ways to deal with duplicate songs in iTunes, including third party solutions. What I didn’t know at the time was that if…

Here is a nice bit of AppleScript from Hunter Hillegas to automate importing OmniFocus tasks from e-mail using flag status. Kind of ingenious.

Several years ago, my young daughter asked me what exactly a lawyer does. After some thinking, I explained that I help people with really big problems. Ever since then, that has become my “go to” job description. Every time I get around any serious…