Having built a lot of LEGO sets over the years, I had given very little thought to their user experience (UX) design until I read this by George Cave. Regardless of your feelings about LEGO panels, this article will teach you a lot more about…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 548: Jumping into Markdown
From jotting quick notes to writing for the web, Markdown has become a very popular choice for formatting plain text. Its syntax is human-readable and easy to learn. On this week’s episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I teach Markdown 101, covering the…
Listen & read notes →Artificial Intelligence Performance … “Also” Security
Samual Axon at Arts Technica published an interview with Apple’s artificial intelligence (AI) chief John Giannandrea concerning the state of AI at Apple. If you go back enough years, you can see plenty of articles and hear podcasts where I bemoaned Apple’s ability to…
Continue reading →Mac OS 8 on macOS 10
View fullsize Wow, are you feeling nostalgic for your old Mac? The macintosh.js project just released a JavaScript emulator that runs Mac OS 8 emulated on a 1991 Macintosh Quadra. It works! I had several minutes of nostalgia—followed by several minutes of realizing things are a…
Continue reading →Day One, Version 5
Yesterday marked the release of Day One, version 5. There are several new features of note: The Today View Previously called the Activity Feed, the new Today View ties in other data available to Day One, like location data, calendar events, and daily photos.…
Continue reading →20 Macs for 2020
Jason Snell started a series at Six Colors where he’ll be reviewing 20 Macs for 2020. Jason has so much historical knowledge of the platform that I’m looking forward to seeing what he picks. Jason is a pro—unless he leaves out the Mac SE/30, then he’s…
Continue reading →SaneBox — Rescuing Treasure from Spam (Sponsor)
Spam folders are great—until they are not. If your email client/service decides to start throwing important email into the spam folder, then you’ve got trouble. I had that happen with some customer support emails a few months ago. So I went looking for way…
Continue reading →Fujitsu Supports Older Hardware with Recent Software Update
As a frequent ScanSnap customer, I was pretty unhappy about their decision not to support older hardware when they switched the software to 64-bit. There is good news, though. The newest version of ScanSnap Manager, version 7, adds support for older hardware. Amen.
Continue reading →Focused 105: Living the Multipotentialite Life, with Jay Miller
Jay Miller joins Mike and me on this week’s Focused to talk about balancing many interests, transferring your focus as you switch between them, and what it means to live the multipotentialite lifestyle. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Enter…
Continue reading →Exiting Basecamp (Sort of)
A few years ago, I was looking to solve a problem that, in hindsight, didn’t need solving. Specifically, I wanted to have a system in place for legal clients to have easy access to their digital documents. After some research and trials (why are…
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