Mac Power Users episode 36 is now live. In it Katie and I explain how to travel with your iPad and leave the Mac at home. We talk about workflows, best software, and limitations. You can catch it on iTunes here or on the…
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Refreshing the MacBook Air
As a former MacBook Air owner, it looks like Apple solved the two most vexing problems with the original. Memory Two gigabytes wasn’t enough. Not then and certainly not now. If you are lining up to get yourself a new MacBook Air, pay the…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Dave Caolo
I’ve always enjoyed Dave Caolo’s (Twitter) writing at TUAW. When Dave started his own site, 52Tiger, it immediately went in my RSS feed. I particularly like the way Dave puts out the occasional long form piece. In addition to writing about the Mac, Dave…
Continue reading →Tools for Serious Creative Writing
Here is a nice little screencast about creative writing tools on the Mac by Yuvi Zalkow.
Continue reading →Back to the Mac? We never left.
After a long period of relative silence concerning the Mac, this week was full of news. Apple announced a special event next week to give us a peek behind the curtain on Mac OS X 10.7 (presumably called “Lion”). Furthermore, people who keep track…
Continue reading →Sparrow, Alternative Client for Gmail
It is nice to see the initial success and interest in Sparrow, a native Mac OS X application for managing Gmail. I think a lot of developers would like to compete with Mail but are worried there is no market for alternative e-mail product…
Continue reading →TotalFinder Review
Every year or two, a chorus of dissatisfaction swells over the default Mac OS X Finder. The underlying problem is that the Finder really hasn’t changed much since we were all sitting behind our shiny new Macs in 1984. When the rumors started swirling…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Eddie Smith
I’m not sure when it happened, but at some point in the last several months Eddie Smith’s (Twitter) Practically Efficient blog became required reading for me. I’ve had the pleasure of corresponding with Eddie and he is a charming person in addition to a…
Continue reading →MarkdownMail 2.0
After all my gushing this week about Markdown, it is worth noting the best Markdown iOS application, MarkdownMail, got a big update this week that includes a native iPad version.
Continue reading →Instapaper Subscription: No-Brainer
When I read that Marco added a subscription service to Instapaper, I immediately logged in and subscribed. I use the service every day. It is my own personal magazine full of articles interesting to me. It is, in my case, the killer application on…
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