Last week I went into the local Apple store to check out the Force Touch trackpad in the new MacBook Pro 13 inch. It was a strange experience. I walked up to the Apple-specified table and looked at the laptop and confirmed it was…
Continue reading →Physician’s Writing Workflows
Physician and educator Jeff Taekman wrote up his writing workflows and pushed a lot of my buttons in the process. I’m going to have to take a serious look at Papers 3.
Continue reading →Using Pocket to Create OmniFocus Tasks
On a recent episode of Mac Power Users, I talked about my workflow that uses IFTTT to send articles from Pocket to OmniFocus based on tags. A lot of people have asked me to explain further. Here is how you do it. The Idea…
Continue reading →The Apple Watch and Big iPhones
Like a lot of other nerds, I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about the Apple Watch. Over the last year, I’ve been wearing my Pebble watch a great deal and I’ve come to rely upon the ability to get notifications on my wrist.…
Continue reading →MPU 248: Cutting the Cord
This week, Katie and I are joined by Bradley Chambers as he and Katie explain their differing strategies for canceling cable TV. There are some good tips in this show about consuming entertainment in general for 2015. ∞
Listen & read notes →Sponsor: PopClip
This week I’m pleased to welcome back PopClip as a sponsor. PopClip brings that iOS popup menu that you love on your iPhone to your Mac. Not only can you use the the built-in PopClip tools, there is an extension system and lots of smart people…
Continue reading →Drafts Gets Friendly with Workflow
A few weeks ago, Agile Tortoise released Drafts 4.1.2. My favorite new feature is the “Run Workflow” action. That’s right. Drafts and Workflow are now like peanut butter and chocolate. Now I can fire off a Workflow from Drafts with a single tap. The action step…
Continue reading →Home Screen: Liana Lehua
This week’s home screen post features my pal Liana Lehua (Twitter)(Website). Liana just keeps doing amazing work and never ceases to amaze me. Most recently she was a co-producer and Assistant Unit Production Manager on the motion picture, BOKEH. She also is the co-founder of SignalWorx,…
Continue reading →PDFpen 7.1, Now with 100% More Deskew
PDFpen 7.1 got a nice update with some bug fixes and new features, including formatting options for page numbering and custom stamps. For me, the big new feature is the ability to auto-deskew when performing optical character recognition. Sadly, some of the people I work with aren’t…
Continue reading →Amazon Offers Unlimited Photo Storage
Amazon announced it will now store an unlimited number of photos for free for its Amazon Prime customers and $11.99 per year for non-prime members. They’ll also store an unlimited number of any files for $59.99 per year. A few years ago we hit that…
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