Today MacStories released a fresh new batch of perspective icons for OmniFocus. This group includes 400 different glyphs in 25 different colors in both glyph and square form. When you do the math, that comes out to 20,000 icons. Yikes! In addition to upgrading…
Continue reading →Drafts is Now a Wiki
We talk about Drafts a lot on the Mac Power Users because it just continues to innovate. Greg Pierce recently released version 20. (Version 20!) The new version adds a wiki-like feature where if you wrap the title of a draft in double brackets…
Continue reading →Focused 100: Staying Focused with Episode 100
It’s Focused’s 100th episode! Mike and I are looking back and looking forward in terms of focus. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts when an outage occurs or a site transaction fails.…
Listen & read notes →Taking Smart Notes with DEVONthink
Kourosh Dini has a new book, Taking Smart Notes with DEVONthink, that covers the basics of DEVONthink in the context of building your own Zettelkasten (or Slip-Note) note-taking database. I’ve heard the term Zettelkasten thrown around a lot as of late and I’m eager…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 537: The Photos Field Guide and Apple Photos
From the early days of iPhoto to now, with the Photos app and iCloud, Apple has offered increasingly robust photo management tools for its users. On this week’s episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I walk you through the features and tools you…
Continue reading →Upgrade Your Coffee Ritual with the Kinu M47 Series Hand Grinders (Sponsor)
If you are one of those people who can’t get through the day without coffee, you might understand the importance of having great coffee. Each cup of coffee should be supreme and you should enjoy each sip you take during the day. After all,…
Continue reading →Automators 50: Some Favorite Automations
Rosemary and I celebrate Automators’ 50th episode by looking at the different flavors of automation and sharing some of our favorite automations for Shortcurts and Keyboard Maestro. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: TextExpander, from Smile: Unlock your productivity with TextExpander. Get 20% off with…
Listen & read notes →Hulu Updates Its Apple TV Interface
Hulu updated its Apple TV interface this week. (9to5 Mac has all the details.) This is only newsworthy because the prior interface was so terrible for occasional Hulu viewers such as myself. Every time I tried to find Brooklyn 99 in the Hulu app…
Continue reading →Announcing the New Photos Field Guide
I am happy to announce the release of the all new Photos Field Guide. THE SHORT VERSION 122 videos, fully streamable, plus combined versions for easier download. Nearly six hours of video tutorials. Full coverage for iPhone, iPad, and the Mac. Everything is broken up…
Continue reading →iOS 13.5: The Pandemic Release
Today Apple released iOS 13.5. I can’t help but think of this as the pandemic release with several Covid-19 related changes and features: If the phone detects you are wearing a face mask, it will go straight to passcode entry. FaceTime now has the…
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