A few years ago, John Gruber wrote a piece about Apple for Macworld that made a lot of sense. Put simply, he argued that Apple makes a revolutionary product and then innovates the snot out of it gradually making it better and better. Chris…
Continue reading →MPU 166: Siri and Dictation
In episode 166, Katie and I cover how to effectively use Siri on iOS and dictation tools on the Mac. I also summarize my accuracy tests in the Mavericks Dictate vs. Dragon Dictate shootout and how I find both tools of use.
Listen & read notes →Secure a Network for Some Turkey
If you are going to be on the road this Thanksgiving visiting your muggle relatives, that would be an excellent time to do them a favor and enable OpenDNS. It is ridiculously easy and I’d bet your hosts will be really thankful if you can…
Continue reading →TextExpander and iOS Data Sharing
From the first time TextExpander touch showed up it always seemed kind magical that data could get shared … on iOS. Over the years, Smile has always found a way to keep this working. This past week, Smile faced a new setback when Apple…
Continue reading →Drobo 5N on Amazon Today for $429
That’s $170 off the usual price. If you’ve been thinking about a Drobo 5N, today is an excellent day to buy one. With multiple computer users in my house, we’re using the 5N for our family NAS drive and it’s working splendidly. I’ll be…
Continue reading →MindNode for iOS, Version 3
There’s an update out for the MindNode for iOS today and it’s a doozy. I first started buying this mind mapping application when it was just on the Mac. Actually, that was before there was an iPad. View fullsize The thing that always attracted…
Continue reading →Counters
Occasionally, I need to count series of items. I’ve played with iOS apps for this purpose in the past but they were all such a carnival of ugly that I couldn’t take it. Instead I reverted to notecards, tick marks, and pencils. I just…
Continue reading →MPU 165: Geek Gift Guide – 2013 Edition
Looking for something geeky for your friends or even perhaps yourself? Katie and I had a lot of fun recording this show sharing some of our favorite geek gifts. Well … most of it was fun. I think Katie fell asleep when I started…
Listen & read notes →Take Control of Thanksgiving Dinner
Did you know that Joe Kissell wrote a book about cooking your turkey? It takes a lot of moxie for a tech publisher to go after Thanksgiving dinner but Take Control Books did just that. If you need a little help going into the…
Continue reading →Logitech K760 Keyboard for Thirty Bucks
I paid full price ($70) for this keyboard a year ago and love it. It has solar charger so I never need batteries and it pairs with three separate bluetooth devices. I use it with my iMac, iPad, and iPhone. The keyboard feels like…
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