If you’re a Relay Member, I recorded a bonus episode you might enjoy. It’s called “Intentional MPU, with Focus: A Productivity Tool Draft,” and it’s exactly what it sounds like. The hosts from Mac Power Users, Focused, and Intentional AI got in a room…
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Mac Power Users 857: Sparmerica
Stephen showed up wearing Meta glasses this week, and before he said a word I wanted to know if I was being indexed somewhere. That’s roughly the energy of this whole feedback episode. We work through iOS 27 beta 3’s Siri indexing (every device…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 855: Shortcuts with Viticci
I just spent an hour and a half talking Shortcuts with Federico Viticci, which means I walked away with about six new projects and zero free time. Federico runs MacStories and knows more about Shortcuts than just about anyone, so he was the person…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 853: WWDC Reactions
Stephen Robles spent the week of WWDC 2026 at Apple Park, and I spent it running betas on a slightly scratched iPhone Air I grabbed off eBay. He sat two rows behind Tim Cook during Craig Federighi’s post-keynote tech talk. I sat at my…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 851: Feedback
It’s a feedback episode, which means Stephen and I finally crack open the mailbag that’s been piling up. I went hard at Apple Home since we last talked. I nuked my twelve-year-old setup, ran Ethernet cable around the house for Aqara cameras, and put…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 850: Overcast Transcripts and 48 Mac minis with Marco Arment
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I sit down with Marco Arment to talk about what happens when a podcast app developer accidentally builds a data center. Overcast now transcribes podcasts on demand, and the hardware behind that feature is 48…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 849: Managing Photos
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I dig into the wide and messy world of Apple photo management. We talk about pruning enormous libraries, what’s worth keeping, and the cleanup apps we trust to help. We also get into iCloud Shared…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 848: Jason Snell on E-Readers
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I welcome back Jason Snell to talk about e-readers in 2026. Jason’s our resident e-reader guy at Six Colors, and he reads about a book a week, so he’s earned the chair. We get into…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 847: Actually Useful A.I.
This week, Stephen and I made an episode about AI. I know. We tried to just talk about what’s working for each of us right now. We get into dictation, AI browsers, MCP, what Apple Intelligence might become, and the smaller weirder projects we…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 846: Apple Watch
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I go deep on the Apple Watch. We cover watch faces and share our current favorites, talk bands, dig into the best apps for getting things done from your wrist, and explore how the health…
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