The pundits (including me) are all cooking together our slants on the Mac app store. The thing is, the pundits don’t matter. The Mac app store is all about normal users who don’t know how to download software from developer web sites and don’t…

I’ve written before about about methods I use for quick digital capture. It is time for my dirty secret: there are still instances where a pen and paper work best. Most often, when I’m sitting across the table from someone, I find it much…

If you are in the Orange County area and want to see a warm-up of my Macworld Syncing session, come join the SMOG Mac User Group this Saturday.

If the most recent scuttlebutt is true, that Microsoft is planning a competitor to the Apple TV that runs a stripped-down version of Windows, this would be a smart move for Microsoft. In my opinion, it was Microsoft’s insistence that it run a full…

I’ve started preparing an outline for my Macworld synchronization session and stumbled upon GoodSync, a $30 solution for syncing files on multiple devices. GoodSync handles synchronization over multiple devices directly connected or over the Internet such as FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, and Amazon S3. There…

This week I participated in the Mac Roundtable episode 95. In it we covered Apple resources, Christmas upgrades, tagging, and our picks.

Today is the annual Comic Book Fonts sale. All of their fonts (even the ones that sometimes sell for >$400 are $20.11. Some of my favorites are Hedge Backwards (used above) and Comicrazy. So go ahead and start the new year in true nerd…

Since the very first iPhone, we have all been wondering when Apple will finally turn the switch and let us sync iCal to-do items directly to our iPhones. Indeed, an entire cottage industry of to-do applications has grown up around this void. For those…