There is some interesting news lately about iPad marketshare. Earlier this year, reports surfaced that Android tablet marketshare was between 20 and 30 percent. Here is an example. The problem is, these numbers appear funny. It looks like people are comparing the number of…
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TextExpander Touch Dropbox Sync
Last night I did a little talk to the Silicon Valley MUG and was just itching to share this but I managed to keep mum. Today Smile released a new version of TextExpander Touch that includes Dropbox snippet syncing. This means all those snippets…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Gabe Weatherhead
This week’s home screen post features everyone’s favorite MacDrifter, Gabe Weatherhead (Twitter). In addition to being a PhD chemist, Gabe also has some serious IT and Mac chops. The MacDrifter is a prime example of a one-man blog with great Apple related content. Don’t…
Continue reading →OmniFocus iPhone Update
If you use start dates to manage tasks in OmniFocus, you are going to like the most recent iPhone app update. You now can view tasks by start date in the forecast view. This matches the feature currently available on the iPad version and…
Continue reading →Macworld Article on Text
When Macworld asked me to write for them, my answer wasn’t just yes but hell yes. Today my first Macworld article published. I’ve always considered Macworld to be the gold standard for Apple related journalism and am thrilled to contribute. Expect more.
Continue reading →LonelySandwich on FastCompany
Here is a nice piece on Adam Lisagor at FastCompany. Adam is this weekend’s Mac Power Users workflow guest and absolutely endearing. I’m thrilled for him.
Continue reading →The Most Valuable Public Company on Earth
Who would have thought this 10 years ago? Nutty.
Continue reading →Backing up iTunes
Kirk McElhearn explains how-to. This is one of the most frequent problems I hear about from readers and friends. It goes something like this: Big iTunes library goes on external drive (Not Time Machine); External drive goes up in smoke; Tears. Once you put…
Continue reading →Lion FileVault? Yes Please.
I’m starting to notice benchmarks concerning the impact of Lion FileVault on portable Macs. I don’t think benchmarks are the right context for this discussion. You either need encryption or you don’t. If the thought of someone, who just stole your laptop, rifling through…
Continue reading →1Password Gets Lion Friendly
When I first started running the Lion betas, there was no 1Password extension for Safari and it felt like someone hacked off one of my arms. I knew the 1Password team was hard at work but not this hard. The new 1Password Safari/Lion extension…
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