Judith Newman wrote a touching piece for the New York times about her autistic son’s relationship with Siri. If you’ve previously written off Siri and iPhone dictation, you should try it again. It just keeps getting better and better. I’m dictating these words using it.…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Hay Oborn
This week’s home screen features Hay Oborn (Twitter)(Google+). Hay hails from Bournemouth, United Kingdom and routinely helps out with the Mac Power User show notes. So Hay, show us your home screen. What are some of YOUR favorite apps? Oh I have so many…
Continue reading →A Few Notes on the October 16 Apple Event
I sat down and watched the video of today’s Apple event and was left with a few thoughts: 1. No More iPad Parity I’m curious why they spent so much time talking up the new iPad Air and then talked about the iPad mini…
Continue reading →Drafts 4
Watching WWDC earlier this year and witnessing so much progress towards iOS automation, part of me wondered what that meant for the early iOS automation pioneers. In particular what would happen to those apps that were able to use the few automation breadcrumbs on…
Continue reading →Shuttering Macworld/iWorld
We received news today that IDG has shuttered Macworld/iWorld for 2015. IDG is calling it a hiatus but I can’t really see how, after they’ve shut it down, they will ever get the momentum necessary to start it again. Like many in the community, I find…
Continue reading →Geek Misogyny
The last several weeks we’ve seen a lot of attention placed on the treatment of women in the geek community. A few months ago, Brianna Wu, a game developer that happens to be female, published an opinion piece about the treatment of women in…
Continue reading →MPU 219: Getting Things Done with David Allen
David Allen, author of Getting Things Done, joins us this week to talk about GTD, creativity, and using technology. This is another good one.
Continue reading →Jazz Friday – Birdland
This week’s Jazz Friday pick is my first pick from the fusion jazz movement. In the 1970s and 80s, a lot of jazz musicians started fusing jazz to R&B, rock, and other genres of music. One of the pioneers in this form of jazz…
Continue reading →Transporter 2.7 Gets Version Histories
I’ve been real pleased with the way the Transporter software team keeps adding features to my Transporters. They’ve added an API that lets developers connect to my Transporter, introduced photo features, and most recently added version support. Because the storage is on your transporter…
Continue reading →The Super-Sized iPad
There seems to be a lot of smoke around the idea of a super-sized 13 inch iPad early next year. Rumor sites are posting that they will come in multiple colors and have high resolution screens. One rumor even claims it will run both the Mac OS…
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