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…
Continue reading →Sponsor – OmniPlan: Power and Simplicity
Project planning is the stuff of legend. Go to any big company and you will find somebody in a room somwhere 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 →MPU 361 – Hidden iOS Features
View fullsize This week Clayton Morris joined us to talk about some of our favorite hidden and unused features in iOS. Topics include Messages, Safari, Apple Mail, 3D Touch, and gestures. I bet you’ll get something good out of this one.
Listen & read notes →PDF Troubles
I am receiving a lot of email lately from readers encountering PDF problems on the Mac. If that’s you, you’re not alone. Apparently with the release of macOS Sierra, Apple rewrote many of the PDFKit frameworks used in Preview and several other third party…
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