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…
Continue reading →Audio Hijack 3? Yes Please.
I just bought my license for the new Audio Hijack 3 from Rogue Amoeba. Wow. Audio Hijack has always been a stellar app. (For lesser needs, I also really like Rogue Amoeba’s Piezo.) What is really impressive about this version is the way they had…
Continue reading →First Apple Watch Game
I remember in the months leading up to the debut of the iOS App Store where every app in development would merit its own news story. Looks like those days are back, for a little while at least. ∞
Continue reading →The Cantina Band and John Williams
So this week a person that lives in my home wrote an extensive blog post about the history of the Star Wars Cantina Band and included a link to John Williams’ jazz album. That wouldn’t be shocking except for the fact the post was…
Continue reading →Who Makes a Password in “123456” in 2015?
Apparently, a lot of people do. Nutty.
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