It’s easy to be cynical these days. So at WWDC when Apple announced app autofill, an API that will fill in usernames and passwords in applications the same way it does in websites, I naturally assumed this would be a feature for Apple’s own…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 448: iOS 12 and the September 12th Event
On this week’s episode of Mac Power Users, Katie and I run through our favorite new features for iOS 12 and watchOS 5, and we’ve got thoughts on the September 12th announcements. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move.…
Listen & read notes →Announcing the Siri Shortcuts Field Guide
Buy Today I am happy to announce the release of the new Siri Shortcuts Field Guide. This is an all video field guide with over 3 hours of screencasts and 40 videos. It starts out basic and gets progressively advanced. You can stream the videos or…
Continue reading →10 Years of 512 Pixels and Josiah’s Fundraiser
Stephen Hackett is celebrating ten years of 512 Pixels this week, and I wanted to take a moment to thank him for all his hard work in our nerdy community. I’ve dealt with Stephen as a colleague and friend for years, and he is…
Continue reading →The Gather Round Event
Tomorrow is Apple’s annual new iPhone event, this year dubbed “Gather round.” While the rumor sites are now getting a steady stream of spoiler-heavy information out, I am always curious to see exactly what story Apple tells around the new products. (Usually, they also…
Continue reading →Project Planning for Everyone with OmniPlan – Sponsor
For a lot of power users, project planning remains the undiscovered country. The trouble is that project planning software has this terrible (and well-earned) reputation for being difficult to use. This week’s sponsor, OmniPlan is the exception. The fact that it’s easy to pick up OmniPlan…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 447: Workflows with Zac Hall
Zac Hall joins us on this week’s episode of Mac Power Users to talk about how he stays on top of Apple news at 9to5Mac and his work as an online publisher. We also talk about 9to5’s recent discovery of the new iPhone and Apple…
Listen & read notes →Home Screens – Marina Epelman
Marina Epelman is a professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, specializing in theory and applications of mathematical optimization (professional twitter), homepage. In her copious spare time, she eagerly follows Apple and the Boston Red Sox (personal twitter). I’ve got…
Continue reading →Automators 5 – Project Templates
Automators, episode 5 is out, and this one is all about automating project templates. I think this is one bit of automation that is underutilized. Not many people automate project creation, but a lot of people could benefit from it. Rose and I explain…
Continue reading →CleanMyMac X
Today MacPaw releases CleanMyMac X. CleanMyMac has always been my safe choice for disk maintenance and management. The app does a great job of getting cruft off your SSD and finding big, unwanted files. Over the years they’ve added most of the standard maintenance…
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