I’ve written so often that I don’t have a single unpublished thought that now it’s become a bit. Well, that sentiment isn’t actually true. For some time I’ve kept a journal and this year I’ve really tried to ratchet it up. In January I…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 431: Mac Maintenance
Join us this week as Katie and I discuss best practices for keeping your Mac healthy, including Mac maintenance tips, diagnosing common problems, getting rid of unnecessary files, maintenance utilities, and care tips. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: PDFpen from Smile: With powerful…
Listen & read notes →Guesting on Chit Chat Lite with Allison Sheridan
This week I joined Allison Sheridan on her Chit Chat Lite podcast. In it, we talked about the iPhone Field Guide and how to create an eBook with the current Apple tools.
Continue reading →Free Agents 47: Personal Floating Holiday
There’s a lot to think about on this week’s Free Agents. I need to deal with some clients who aren’t paying me. Jason thinks about “taking a personal day” and how that’s different from going on vacation or taking a few hours off. I…
Continue reading →Sponsor – OmniPlan
Project planning is the stuff of legend. Go to any big company and you will find somebody in a room somewhere responsible for project planning that spends weeks at a time in seminars trying to learn to use their Byzantine project planning software. It…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 430: Catching Up with Marco Arment
Marco Arment returns on this week’s MPU+ episode to discuss the state of the Mac, the iMac Pro, Apple’s laptops, Overcast, privacy, digital cameras, and more. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Enter offer code MPU at checkout…
Listen & read notes →Marked 2.5
My pal Brett Terpstra recently released Marked, version 2.5. If you’re not familiar with Marked, it’s a native macOS app for previewing Markdown and other text markup languages, as well as HTML and OPML files. With Marked, you can see rendered, styled versions before…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Darren Carr
This week’s home screen features Darren Carr (Twitter). Darren blogs at The Mac Quad and podcasts at the Mac Quadcast. Darren writes, podcasts, and does Mac troubleshooting. He’s also a graduate of the London School of Economics. Darren pulls all of this off while…
Continue reading →Apple Continues to Lock Down the iPhone
9 to 5 Mac is reporting that in the latest iOS 11.4 beta, Apple’s added a feature that turns off lightning cable access to an iPhone that hasn’t been unlocked in a week. There are several rumors of black-box style security devices that can…
Continue reading →Get Your Act Together with Timing – Sponsor
One of the key first steps to figuring out how to be more efficient is to first figure out where you’re spending your time now. You may think you know, but you probably don’t actually know. I frequently track my time to get an idea…
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