Gordan Mah Ung at Macworld recently spent some time researching battery issues with the new MacBook Pros. He did comparative tests with different tasks and came to the conclusion that the problem is the MacBook Pro getting stuck on the discreet graphics card, which…
Continue reading →A Few Thoughts about iPad
Apple recently announced their quarterly earnings and it turns out the fruit company is doing well. The iPhone sales return to growth, the Mac is doing well, revenue from services is up. The outlier was the iPad. The iPad’s sales are down for the…
Continue reading →Fantastical for iOS 2.8
Fantastical for iPad and iPhone updated today to version 2.8. The new update includes rich notifications and and haptic feedback on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. Now in Fantastical on the iPhone 7, when you scroll dates or times, you feel a nice…
Continue reading →World’s Greatest Apple Watch Stand
Despite being an Apple Watch fan, I’d never purchased a dock for it. Laying it on its side always seemed good enough for me. That was until I saw this little beauty, which I immediately bought from Amazon for $15. This may be a generational…
Continue reading →MPU 362 – No Other Tea
In the latest episode of Mac Power Users, we answer questions on a variety of topics including sending email later, managing a 16GB iPhone, RSS workflows, and more. We follow-up on DevonThink, the iPad as a Mac replacement, task management, personal cloud and share…
Listen & read notes →Sponsor: MailButler – New Mail Templates Feature
A lot of Email is routine and too often involves repeating the same words over and over again. Writing identical text to different recipients is a waist of your time and a productivity drain. Put simply, it keeps you from important work. This week’s…
Continue reading →The MacCast Amigos
I joined Adam Christianson, Victor Cajiao, and Ken Ray on the MacCast podcast to discuss Apple’s music and media content strategy, how we think Apple did in 2016 and what we hope to see from Apple in 2017, and the future for Apple’s Siri…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Dan Fenner
Dan Fenner pays for his shoes as a data specialist. At night, he teaches English to adult immigrants. Dan is pretty passionate about travel and blogs about it at MuchoSpanish.com. Throughout it all, Dan’s relies on his trusty iPhone and iPad. He even uses…
Continue reading →Free Agents 13: Promotion Can Feel Gross
The latest edition of Free Agents is up. In it, we exorcise our own personal demons about self-promotion and give some advice how you can self-promote without feeling gross.
Continue reading →Setapp: Subscription-Based Macintosh Apps
There’s a new subscription-based app service for the Mac called Setapp. We’ve seen the subscription-based pricing gaining ground with some of the bigger players (like Microsoft and Adobe) but Setapp makes it possible for smaller developers. With Setapp, you pay $9.99 a month and…
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