Today Katie Floyd and I joined Jason Snell and Dan Moren on the Clockwise podcast. We talked about home automation, the hypothetical new Apple TV remote, and some obscure new doohickey you are supposed to wear on your wrist. ∞
Continue reading →The Reserve Strap for the Apple Watch
There is a lot of digital ink being spilled today over the Reserve Strap for the Apple Watch. They came up with a clever design that plugs into the watch’s diagnostic port and makes the strap a lot sleeker. Setting aside my concerns about…
Continue reading →MPU 254: David Allen and GTD
This week David Allen comes back to the Mac Power Users to talk about the new release of his updated Getting Things Done book. In the episode, we talk about the philosophy and science behind GTD. This is the first show released on Relay.fm. If…
Continue reading →Talking Apple Watch on the Maccast
This week I joined Adam Christianson and some other smart geeks on the Maccast to talk about the Apple Watch. The guests include Ken Ray (Mac OS Ken), Allison Sheridan (Nosillacast), Veronica Belmont (Sword & Laser, Vaginal Fantasy), Erfon Elijah (Cultcast, Cult of Mac), and me. It’s a…
Continue reading →Pixelmator Update With Photos Support and Spooky-Good Repair Tool
I’ve been fiddling with the latest Pixelmator update. It’s pretty great. Even though Apple doesn’t support external editors with Photos on the Mac (at least yet), Pixelmator can now access your full Photos library from inside the Pixelmator with its Photo Browser. They also…
Continue reading →Needs Versus Wants
John Gruber had an excellent post yesterday about the Apple Watch. “… Of course you don’t need it. No one, not one person on the face of the earth, needs any $400 watch, Apple Watch or otherwise.3 The right question is simply “Do you want…
Continue reading →The New MacBook Review
For the last week and a half, I’ve been doing a lot of my work on the new MacBook. I bought this computer as an experiment with the intention to return it unless I felt it was good enough to replace my existing 15″…
Continue reading →App Camp for Girls Quiz App
Jean MacDonald was at WWDC a few years back and looked around to see almost no women in the room. So she left her company, started a non-profit called App Camp For Girls and, over the past few years, started making her very own…
Continue reading →Watch App Screen: X Marks the Spot
I’m having trouble with the app launcher screen on the Apple Watch. (I’m intentionally not calling it the home screen.) The touch targets are small. You can zoom in with the digital crown, but doing so makes it easy to get lost in exactly where you are…
Continue reading →MPU 253: Life on Mars and Relay.fm
This week we are joined by Dr. Ross Lockwood about the workflows he used while spending four months as part of a NASA-funded simulation studying what it would be like for humans to live on Mars. There’s some great stuff in there. We also announce…
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