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:…
Listen & read notes →Star Wars Fans Should Watch the Disney Gallery
If you are a Star Wars fan and have a Disney+ subscription, you really should be watching Disney Gallery: The Mandalorian. This ongoing show is a series of interviews with The Mandalorian creators and showrunners Jon Favreau and Dave Filoni, along with the directors, actors, and…
Continue reading →Start Automating Text with TextExpander (SPonsor)
One of the best ways to get started with automation is with this week’s sponsor, TextExpander. Copy and paste is an inefficient way to keep track of the things you type again and again. TextExpander makes you more productive by taking care of all…
Continue reading →The New Perspective Icons from MacStories
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…
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