At the end of this week’s Upgrade podcast, Jason, Myke, and Greg Knauss talk about their experiences with quitting the day job. Everyone had insightful points to make. As someone that continues to have a day job and a night job, I find this…
Continue reading →Turkey Day App Sale
With Black Friday (Wikipedia) tomorrow, a lot of my favorite apps are on sale. While digesting Turkey today, you may want to pick up a few. Productivity Clarify 2 (For Mac) Clarify makes creating simple tutorials about how to get work done on your…
Continue reading →Law Podcasting Podcast
I recently guested on the Law Podcasting Podcast. I know there seems to be a lot of podcasting about podcasting lately, but I tried to keep this one practical with a few tips I’ve picked up over the years. ∞
Continue reading →Monument Valley, Ida’s (Red) Dream
I seem to be writing a lot about Monument Valley lately, but I really love this game. The puzzles are just hard enough and the way each level unfolds delights me. I’ve finished the recent Forgotten Shores expansion and assumed I’d have to wait awhile before…
Continue reading →“Organizational Issues”
MacRumors reports on an article about iCloud suffering from “Deep Organizational Issues”. I’ve had my own set of problems with iCloud as of late but based on everything I’ve experienced with Apple, including just a tiny bit of the inside, I don’t think the iCloud…
Continue reading →MPU 226: Workflows with Manton Reece
Programmer, podcaster, and man-about-town Manton Reece joins us this week to talk about creating Mac and iOS apps, Twitter and App.net, collaborating with others and more. ∞
Listen & read notes →1Password Emergency Kit, V3
Charles Hammons amped up Mike Vardy’s 1Password Emergency Kit and now Mike has the new version available for download. If you are a 1Password user, consider using this. Mine is a PDF file saved in … of course … my wife’s 1Password vault. (I also…
Continue reading →Jazz Friday: Buddy Rich’s Channel One Suite
Buddy Rich (Wikipedia) got started playing drums on Vaudeville when he was 18 months old. They called him “Traps the Drum Wonder”. Buddy Rich was an amazing drummer. To this day many drummers of all genres cite to Buddy as one of their primary influences. Buddy…
Continue reading →In Defense of iWork
The general consensus since the 2013 update to the iWork suite for Mac (Pages, Numbers, and Keynote) is that it’s useless, or nearly so. I’ve heard this from a lot of geek friends. Nevertheless, I keep using the suite to get work done. As…
Continue reading →Lume Cube
A few years ago I made a rule that I don’t back anything on Kickstarter that includes electronics of any form. However, I’ve thought a lot lately about getting some simple lighting I can use with my phone and camera. This Lume Cube might…
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