This week’s MPU episode features a workflow interview with Dave Hamilton from The MacObserver and the Mac Geek Gab podcast. Dave is fun, entertaining, and full of great ideas for Mac users. Check it out. ∞
Listen & read notes →John Coltrane, “Ballads”
Ballads is one of my favorite jazz albums. I’ve had a lifelong relationship with this album. While John Coltrane is best known for his more frantic stuff, this album proves just how sweetly he could play ballads. No matter how much I twist myself…
Continue reading →My Favorite iOS Dictation App – Dictate + Connect
I often get asked about what app I use for dictation on my iPhone. There are lots but my favorite is, without question, Dictate+Connect. This app has a great iOS7-y look and feel and has more features than I’ve had in a handheld recorder.…
Continue reading →TextExpander Touch 2.5
Yesterday Smile released TextExpander Touch version 2.5 for iOS. This free update includes a new iOS 7-style user interface and several tools to assist snippet management from within iOS. They spent a lot of time working on the little things and it shows. Some of…
Continue reading →Fantastical 2 for iPad
Today Flexibits Released Fantastical 2 for iPad. Fantastical has taken over as my home screen calendar app on the iPhone so I guess it is only proper for it to do so on the iPad as well. I’ve been playing with it all morning and…
Continue reading →The Sweet Setup Reviews Dispatch
Robert McGinley Myers did a proper job of writing up Dispatch. There is so much to like about that app. However, I don’t use it as much as I used to because Sanebox already manages so much email for me. Another up-and-comer in the…
Continue reading →LaunchBar 6 Beta
I love that there is some healthy competition in the app launcher, phone number-finder, keyboard-master, drive-my-mac software category that is Alfred and LaunchBar. LaunchBar is about to release a new version and I’m pickled. You can sign up for the beta right here. Thanks…
Continue reading →Misty Watercolor Memories of Word 5.1
Last week at Macworld, the subject of Word 5.1 kept coming up in multiple conversations with multiple people. This was partly a result of Microsoft releasing Office for the iPad but I have to admit it is strange how much that application is universally loved…
Continue reading →MPU 184: Power User Workflows and Macworld
This week’s Mac Power Users was recorded largely in the Macworld/iWorld press room. Katie and I summarized some of the workflows we covered in our session and talked about some of the cool new gadgets found on the show floor. While we recorded, I drank…
Listen & read notes →USB to Lightning/Micro USB Combo Cable
One of my favorite finds at Macworld this year was the Skiva combo Lightning/Micro USB Cable. This doesn’t require much explanation. It is a standard USB cable on one end and the other end has a Micro USB plug with an attached adapter that…
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