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…
Continue reading →MPU 218: MPU Live, A Festival of Skeuomorphism
This month’s live show is ready for download. We’re joined by Luke Soules of iFixit to talk about iPhone 6 repairability and follow-up on our own experiences with the iPhone and iOS 8. We also discuss security concerns and FileVault, review listener feedback and workflows…
Listen & read notes →Clips for iOS
Today Clean Shaven Apps (the same developers behind Dispatch) released Clips, a wicked useful iOS app that leverages the iOS 8 extension frameworks to give you a clipboard manager on your iPad and iPhone. If you spend any time writing in iOS, you know how…
Continue reading →Picking Between the 6 and 6 Plus
Until a few months ago, as an iPhone user getting the new iPhone has been pretty easy. There’s only been one. This year Apple, for the first time, released two different iPhones in the same cycle. (I’m not forgetting the 5C. That just doesn’t count.) Now…
Continue reading →MPU 217: iOS Automation with Federico Viticci
This week’s Mac Power Users episode is a good one. Federico Viticci (from MacStories) joins us and we talk about the state of automation in iOS with the latest iOS 8 release. We talk about things that got easier and lament problems that still exist. ∞
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