I’ve been playing with Samir Ghobril’s new contacts app, Mingle (website)(iTunes). The application breaks the usual “tap to view” paradigm of a contacts app. Instead, you swipe a contact and it gives you several options, including email, Twitter, call, and chat. This is not…
Continue reading →MPU 190: Workflows with John August
John August is an impressive guy. He writes movies, develops apps, and podcasts all with an eye to attention and detail that is to be admired. This week we interviewed John on the Mac Power Users to find out what tools he uses to…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users Live, May 3 at 10am PST
Things have been nuts for me lately on several fronts. I spent some time this afternoon feeling sorry for myself until I realized I have the perfect cure in a live podcast about spectacularly geeky things planned for tomorrow. That’s right. The Mac Power…
Listen & read notes →Scrivener Half Off Today at MacUpdate
Scrivener is my favorite app for serious writing projects. I’ve written nearly all my books in it and today I’m writing a complicated legal brief in it. We did a Mac Power Users episode on it a long time ago (that probably needs updating). Today…
Continue reading →Launch Center Pro Tutorial
I keep trying to get into using Launch Center Pro on my iPhone and iPad. I took to Drafts like a duck to water but for some reason LCP just isn’t sticking. Today Alex Guyot published the mother of all Launch Center Pro tutorials over…
Continue reading →MPU 189: The Server Show
It took us nearly five years but we’ve finally published a show on setting up your own Mac server. Todd Olthoff (website) joined us and walked through the how and why of small business and home server setups. ∞
Listen & read notes →Jazz Friday: Clifford Brown’s Joy Spring
I was working in the garden a few days ago listening to Clifford Brown’s Joy Spring which seems appropriate for this time of year. Clifford Brown isn’t as well known as some of the other jazz legends of the bebop era because he died so young.…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Josh Centers
This year at Macworld, I made a new friend in Josh Centers (website)(Twitter). Josh is one of those guys that you immediately like upon meeting. He currently writes for TidBITS and recently published a book about the AppleTV. So Josh, show us your home screen. What are…
Continue reading →The Future of the Aqua User Interface
As WWDC approaches, I’m increasingly interested in the future “look” of the Mac’s operating system. Stephen Hacket posted an excellent historical summary of the Mac user interface and speculates about its future at 512pixels. This is the best thing I read on the Internet today. ∞
Continue reading →The Next Thing and Low Hanging Fruit
I read this Wall Street Journal article where Tim Cook explained that Apple is approaching releasing a product in a new category. There is one line in the story that explains “Cook knows that’s the biggest question hanging over the company: whether it can repeat the…
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