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Star Wars Fans Should Watch the Disney Gallery

posted in Uncategorized on June 1, 2020

If you are a Star Wars fan and have a Disney+ subscription, you really should be watching Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian. This ongoing show is a series of interviews with The Mandalorian creators and showrunners Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, along with the directors, actors, and…

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Start Automating Text with TextExpander (SPonsor)

posted in Uncategorized on May 30, 2020

One of the best ways to get started with automation is with this week’s sponsor, TextExpander. Copy and paste is an inefficient way to keep track of the things you type again and again. TextExpander makes you more productive by taking care of all…

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The New Perspective Icons from MacStories

posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2020

Today MacStories released a fresh new batch of perspective icons for OmniFocus. This group includes 400 different glyphs in 25 different colors in both glyph and square form. When you do the math, that comes out to 20,000 icons. Yikes! In addition to upgrading…

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Drafts is Now a Wiki

posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2020

We talk about Drafts a lot on the Mac Power Users because it just continues to innovate. Greg Pierce recently released version 20. (Version 20!) The new version adds a wiki-like feature where if you wrap the title of a draft in double brackets…

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Focused 100: Staying Focused with Episode 100

posted in Uncategorized on May 27, 2020

It’s Focused’s 100th episode! Mike and I are looking back and looking forward in terms of focus.  This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs or a site transaction fails.…

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Taking Smart Notes with DEVONthink

posted in Uncategorized on May 26, 2020

Kourosh Dini has a new book, Taking Smart Notes with DEVONthink, that covers the basics of DEVONthink in the context of building your own Zettelkasten (or Slip-Note) note-taking database. I’ve heard the term Zettelkasten thrown around a lot as of late and I’m eager…

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Mac Power Users 537: The Photos Field Guide and Apple Photos

posted in Uncategorized on May 25, 2020

From the early days of iPhoto to now, with the Photos app and iCloud, Apple has offered increasingly robust photo management tools for its users. On this week’s episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I walk you through the features and tools you…

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Upgrade Your Coffee Ritual with the Kinu M47 Series Hand Grinders (Sponsor)

posted in Uncategorized on May 23, 2020

If you are one of those people who can’t get through the day without coffee, you might understand the importance of having great coffee. Each cup of coffee should be supreme and you should enjoy each sip you take during the day. After all,…

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Automators 50: Some Favorite Automations

posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2020

Rosemary and I celebrate Automators’ 50th episode by looking at the different flavors of automation and sharing some of our favorite automations for Shortcurts and Keyboard Maestro. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: TextExpander, from Smile: Unlock your productivity with TextExpander. Get 20% off with…

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Hulu Updates Its Apple TV Interface

posted in Uncategorized on May 22, 2020

Hulu updated its Apple TV interface this week. (9to5 Mac has all the details.) This is only newsworthy because the prior interface was so terrible for occasional Hulu viewers such as myself. Every time I tried to find Brooklyn 99 in the Hulu app…

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