As time goes on, Ulysses (website) (Mac App Store) (iOS App Store) becomes more and more important in my writing workflows. At this point I’m using it for much of my books, this blog, and extended legal writing. I like the app’s clean design.…
Continue reading →Post Visual Development in Rogue One
Alexander Gustaveson wrote a great post at ILM.com about how much digital work they did after photography ended on Rogue One. They have things to such a science now that they can even replace a live action character’s live action gun with a digital…
Continue reading →“Super Important”
There’s a small tidbit at the end of John Gruber’s post about the new Mac Pros. “I asked about scripting and automation — whether Apple still sees scripting and automation as an important part of the pro market. Federighi: “We think scriptability and automation…
Continue reading →New Mac Pros in 2018
We got some good news out of Apple today. They invited a few reporters to Cupertino where they disclosed that the Mac Pro does, indeed, live. John Gruber’s, who was in attendance, covers it nicely. Until today, it had been years since they updated…
Continue reading →MPU 371+ Feedback and Katie’s Smoking Projector
There is lots of feedback in this week’s MPU episode including listener questions, more on tin foil hats, calendar tips, maps, feedback, and how Katie’s last presentation was smoking hot.
Listen & read notes →Grabbing a Safari Link with Keyboard Maestro
Keyboard Maestro is a really powerful tool for automating work on your Mac. Here’s a simple Keyboard Maestro script I use every day. When you write for the Internet, you often include links. This little script, upon me activating the magic keyboard combination, jumps…
Continue reading →More IFTTT iOS Applets
Cloud-based automation tool, IFTTT has been taking the approach on iPhone and iPad of adding “applets”, small apps that plug into pieces of their service. Today IFTTT announced a few more of these. The new Calendar Applet lets you plug into your calendar to…
Continue reading →The Slippery Slope of Internet Privacy
The U.S. Senate has now voted to remove prior regulations prohibiting Internet Service Providers (ISPs)–the folks you pay for your home Internet pipe–from selling your browsing and Internet data to others for fun and profit. This is pretty terrible news if you care at…
Continue reading →The New APFS File System
Today’s iOS 10.3 update to the iPhone adds the brand-new Apple File System (APFS) to your iOS devices. The APFS system was announced last year WWDC. It replaces the now 30-year-old hierarchical filing system (HFS, later updated to HFS+) that, until today, was on…
Continue reading →MPU 370 – Sal Soghoian Talks Automation
This week we’re joined by long time Automation evangelist and former Apple Automation head, Sal Soghoian. This is a very special episode of the Mac Power Users where we discuss the current state of automation technologies on the Mac and iOS and where we’d…
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