I couldn’t help myself and installed the iOS 14 beta on my iPhone. There are a lot of nice new features, but one obscure one is Back Tap. This new accessibility feature lets you trigger Accessibility functions by tapping the back of your phone…
Continue reading →Focused 102: Analog Productivity with Brad Dowdy
The Pen Addict Brad Dowdy joins Mike and me on this week’s episode of Focused to explain how he struggles to stay focused and discovers that he is a time blocker. We also get very nerdy about pens and paper toward the end. This…
Continue reading →Some Initial Thoughts on the 2020 WWDC Keynote
It’s Keynote day, and Apple had more announcements than I expected during a global pandemic. So here are a few thoughts following the 2020 WWDC Keynote: It was dense. There was a lot of information pushed out in those two hours. There were no…
Continue reading →WWDC Coverage
Buckle up, gang. It’s WWDC day, and starting today at 10 AM Pacific Apple is going to be showing off its latest changes for the Mac, iPad, iPhone, and all of its other hardware. I particularly like WWDC because I think Apple needs to…
Continue reading →Automators 52: Charty with Rodrigo Araujo
Charty developer Rodrigo Araujo joins Rosemary and me on this week’s episode of Automators to talk about using Charty with Shortcuts. He also shares some of his favorite personal automations. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: PDFpen, from Smile: The ultimate tool for editing PDFs…
Listen & read notes →Guesting on In a Few Minutes
I spent the last week guesting on Ken Ray’s In a Few Minutes podcast. It was a lot of fun and topics covered range from iBooks Author to my five-song jazz playlist. Enjoy.
Listen & read notes →Stand Out with Hoban Cards (Sponsor)
Your business card says a lot about you. To me, it tells me how much you care about the little things, and that, in turn, tells me how you care about the big things. I recently had a lawyer give me his card. It…
Continue reading →Grammarly Gets Better on iPad
Yesterday Grammarly, my online grammar checker of choice, released a new version of their iPad app. Historically, the Grammarly app was just this side of garbage. There was no app, per se, but a keyboard that would grammar check your document. In theory, this…
Continue reading →The ElevationHub
ElevationLab is one of my favorite makers of tech gizmos, and I own many of their products. Today I pre-ordered their latest addition, the ElevationHub. It is a small gizmo that plugs into the Apple USB-C laptop chargers and includes a pass-through USB-C, an additional…
Continue reading →Fantastical 3.1 Releases and New Videos
Today Flexibits released a major update to Fantastical with version 3.1. This is the “working from home” update with a bunch of new features aimed at people surprised to find themselves working from home: Time-Based Calendar Sets Calendar sets have always been a cool…
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