Today Flexibits released Fantastical 2.5 for the Mac. There are several notable new features with the new version including Meetup.com integration and support for sending and receiving time proposals for meetings via Exchange, Google, and iCloud. I run Fantastical on my 27″ iMac in its…
Continue reading →Tame Winmail.dat Files with Letter Opener – Sponsor
Do you ever receive emails with winmail.dat files on your Mac? Windows users send them to me all the time. These files are windows formatted Microsoft Outlook email attachments and one of the rare file formats that your Mac has no idea how to…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 439: On Our Desks …
Katie and I share our home office setups on this week’s MPU+ episode. We discuss all the gadgets in, on, and under our desks; what’s connected to our Macs; and how we get work done. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: TextExpander from…
Listen & read notes →Good Times in London
I had a lot of fun this week meeting with about 50 readers and listeners in London. As usual, I found most of the people in attendance are smarter than I am with Ph.D’s, Scientists, Attorneys, Doctors, and generally smart people of all ages.…
Continue reading →Get Automating with TextExpander
I’ve heard a lot about automation this week as the Automators podcast gets launched. One of the easiest ways to get started with automation is by getting TextExpander installed on your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. TextExpander is a text replacement tool and so much…
Continue reading →Free Agents 51: Freedom Frogs
On this week’s episode of Free Agents, Mike and I talk about why “eating your frog” is an important free agent survival skill. I talk through a pivot in my approach to book publishing, and Mike shares his struggles with “Imposter Syndrome” and how…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 438: Workflows with Matt Gemmell
Matt Gemmell joins us on this week’s MPU+ episode to discuss life as a software engineer-turned-writer, his evolution from Mac to iOS, his passion for fitness, and being an independent worker. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Enter…
Listen & read notes →Home Screens – Zac Hall
This weeks home screen features Zac Hall (Twitter)(Website). Zac is the lead editor and one of the prolific gang of writers over at 9to5 Mac. Zac and I recently met for the first time and found ourselves in a mutual admiration society. So Zac,…
Continue reading →Automators 1 Feedback
There is some great feedback and suggestions for calendar automation on the Automators Discourse forum, including a post from Sal Soghioan with a custom AppleScript he wrote to help automate Fantastical.
Continue reading →London Meetup Today
If you’re in London today, we’re having an MPU meet up in London on July 9th, at 6PM London time at the Wetherspoons just outside of Victoria station 5. Weatherspoons is a basic pub where we can walk around and converse. There’s no dress…
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