For so long, photo management between our Macs and iOS devices has felt like the mythical white whale. We are all taking more pictures than ever and at the same time using multiple devices, making photo management a nightmare. It didn’t help that iPhoto and…
Continue reading →Yosemi-fied Tweetbot
Today Tapbots teased the pending release of Tweetbot 2 for Mac, which will be a free upgrade for existing users. For a long time, Tweetbot was my Twitter app of choice but I spend a significant amount of my Twitter time on the iPad…
Continue reading →Sonos: Blue Note Edition
Oh boy. This one will be hard to resist. ∞
Continue reading →MPU 238: 10 Mac Apps. 10 Mac Utilities
Katie and I frequently get asked to share our favorite apps for setting up a new Mac. This week’s Mac Power Users episode answers this question as we explain our 10 favorite apps and 10 favorite utilities. We also take time to stop and…
Listen & read notes →Condense, OCR on the Fly
Have you ever had an image of some text on your screen that you wanted to quickly turn into actual text? I seem to bump into that issue often and have a complicated workflow involving screenshots, conversion to PDF, and other steps. At least…
Continue reading →Productivity App Sale
There are quite a few good iOS and Mac productivity apps on sale right now. Here are the ones I’d buy: Fantastical 2 For iPad, $9.99 reduced to $4.99 For iPhone, $4.99 reduced to $1.99 For Mac, $19.99 reduced to $9.99 Fantastical is in my…
Continue reading →Apple Watch in April
Today Apple had its financial call where Tim Cook and the gang explained they’d sold 74 million iPhones and earned $18B in profit during the last quarter, which by any generally accepted accounting principle just seems crazy. More interesting to me was this little nugget Tim dropped…
Continue reading →MPU 237: Workflows with John Siracusa
In this weeks Mac Power Users episode, John Siracusa joins us to talk about his J-O-B job, his new iPhone and the pesky problem of iTunes. ∞
Listen & read notes →Visiting NAMM
Every year the National Association of Music Merchants rolls into Anaheim for a four day party/concert/trade show. The last time I attended was 1985 so when a friend gave me an excuse to head over this year, I jumped on it. NAMM is one of…
Continue reading →Home Screens: John Siracusa
This week’s home screen post features John Siracusa. (Podcast)(Website)(Twitter) John, who writes those amazing OS X reviews for Ars Technica, famously stuck with his flip phone until a few months ago when he got a shiny new iPhone 6. (John is also our workflow guest on…
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