If you’ve been reading my Jazz Friday posts over the years, you’ll know that the majority of featured jazz artists are Black Americans. That isn’t a coincidence. Black America is the reason that jazz (and nearly every other pop music of the last 100…
Continue reading →Automators 51: Ken Case and Omni Automation
In this episode of Automators, Ken Case, CEO of the Omni Group, joins Rosemary and me to talk about adding automation in the form of Shortcuts and JavaScript scripting to the Omni Group apps, as well as his first and favorite automations. This episode…
Listen & read notes →The Elusive Green Ring
When I first got my Apple Watch, I’d been using a FitBit for years and was very proud of my daily 10,000 steps. Immediately, however, I discovered that despite much walking, the green ring on my fancy new Apple Watch barely moved. Not only…
Continue reading →Education and Computing
Last week Bradley Chambers wrote an interesting article at 9to5 Mac about how Covid-19 demonstrated how much better Google products are for the classroom than Apple’s iTunes U. For years now, it seems like Apple has throttled back its efforts on education, which seems…
Continue reading →Dropbox vs. iCloud
Now that Apple can share files and folders, I’m sorely tempted to let my Dropbox subscription expire. I’m generally not a fan of apps that embed themselves in the underlying operating system the way that Dropbox does on the Mac. Indeed on my laptop,…
Continue reading →Working from Home Check-In
It has now been a few months since I first wrote about working from home and the opportunities to create new habits. How are you doing? Do you like the version of you that your habits from Monday and Tuesday reflect? If not, it’s okay.…
Continue reading →SaneBox: Working AI for Your Email (Sponsor)
Everybody talks about adding artificial intelligence to their software, but this week’s sponsor, SaneBox, is artificial intelligence for your email. Imagine for a moment that instead of waking up to 200 items in your inbox, you wake up to five, and those five are the…
Continue reading →The Very Slow Roll Out of HomeKit Secure Video
A year ago, Apple announced a new HomeKit feature, dubbed Secure Video, where Apple would agree to store your security camera video on its servers for you without an additional fee. I like this idea. Not only do I not want to pay someone…
Continue reading →Pixel vs. iPhone Speech Recognition
I hope this video lights a fire under the Apple speech recognition team. So much is made out of the fact that Apple’s A-series chips are so much faster than anything on Android, yet Android’s speech recognition is clearly more accurate (and faster!) than…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 538: I Predate the Home Computer, with James Thomson
PCalc developer James Thomson joins Stephen and me on this week’s Mac Power Users to talk about his background with the Mac, and what it takes to build and maintain the same application over multiple decades. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: SaneBox:…
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