In our recent Mac Power Users episode on macOS Sierra, both Katie and I bemoaned the fact that you can’t verbally trigger Siri on the Mac. It seems a no brainer to me as someone with an iMac on my desk sitting there waiting…

Siri’s original developers, Dag Kittlaus and Adam Cheyer, left Apple in 2011 and took a bunch of their team with them. Since then, they’ve been working on a new artificial intelligence system, Viv, that is going to get it’s first public demonstration Monday. Right…

This week, John Gruber wrote a post about how Siri is becoming more useful to him. I think John’s right, Siri is a lot better. Although I am definitely looking at this from the vantage point of a Siri fanboy. I liked it from the beginning.…

I’ve talked about my simple (yet essential!) Siri task to help me not screw up tea on the Mac Power Users. (“Set a Timer for 4 minutes.”) Listener Bob White, wrote in to explain that he sets these timers as alarms. Specifically, you can…

Dr. Drang, that consummate multi-tasker, one-upped me today showing how to set multiple timers with Siri. Even though I rarely run multiple timers, Dr. Drang’s method of using reminders is better than mine so I’m going to try it out. It is interesting to…

Lex Friedman’s got an article at Macworld demonstrating useful Siri phrases. With respect to Reminders, I’d add lists. I’ve got several, such as “Groceries”, “Home Depot”, and (of course) “Apple Store”. I can say “Add spicy carrots to my grocery list” and Siri does…

Maybe it’s a lawyer thing but I quite frequently need to calculate dates. For instance, I need to figure out what day is 30 days after I serve documents on somebody or how many days elapsed between date X and date Y.  I was…