Last week at WWDC, I went to John Gruber’s live taping of The Talk Show. I expected to see some entertaining talk from folks like Merlin Mann and Adam Lisagor. What I didn’t expect was Apple’s Senior Vice President of Marketing Phil Schiller to…
Continue reading →A Few Thoughts on iOS 9
After spending a few days roaming the streets nearby WWDC and drinking interesting beverages with developer friends, I’ve got a few thoughts on iOS 9. I’m not going to summarize the new features since Apple does a dandy job of explaining it right here. I’ve…
Continue reading →Automatically Add Recipient’s Name to Email with TextExpander
I occasionally have need of a TextExpander snippet to automatically add the first name of an email recipient to the body of an email. Over the years, I’ve made lots of snippets that have a fill-in field asking me to type in the recipient’s name…
Continue reading →Initial Impressions of Mac OS 10.11 El Capitan
Today was the first time I’ve ever watched an Apple WWDC keynote in a room full of developers. I did not get a press pass to the actual event itself but instead attended a remote viewing down the street. There’s definitely a different dynamic…
Continue reading →WWDC Bound
One of the advantages of being self-employed is having more control over my schedule. This week I’ll be in San Francisco partaking in the World Wide Developer Conference. While there I’ll be meeting with some of my developer and IT focussed legal clients (I…
Continue reading →Tweetbot for Mac 2.0
Yesterday saw the release of Tweetbot for Mac 2.0. (App Store)(Website) Hallelujah. This new version features a Yosem-ified interface that was sorely needed. Like its iPad sibling, Tweetbot on the Mac was looking very old. Things are now bit flatter, a bit cleaner, and…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Rogier Willems
This week’s home screen post features Rogier Williams (Website)(Twitter). I first met Rogier years ago at Macworld. Rogier is a Mac IT expert that started in the bay area and has recently moved to to Southern California. So Rogier, show us your home screen.…
Continue reading →Fantastical on My Wrist
Today was meeting day. I drove all over southern California meeting with clients. As it turns out, today was also Fantastical for Apple Watch day. Flexibits just recently updated Fantastical (App Store)(Website) for iPhone including Apple Watch support and in my travels today I…
Continue reading →Clockwise 90
Yesterday I participated in the Clockwise podcast where we talked about WWDC, privacy, and the future of television. All tied up in a 30 minute package. ∞
Continue reading →MindNode for Mac 2.0
The gang over at MindNode has been busy re-writing MindNode for Mac and today we get to see the final product with the release of MindNode 2.0 (App Store) (Website). Having used the beta for a month, I heartily recommend the new version (which…
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