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…
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…
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