Adam Christianson and I recently visited a Microsoft store and kicked the tires on the new Surface “tablet”. It felt to me a lot more like a MacBook Air than an iPad. I talked about it at some length this week on the MPU…
Continue reading →The iPad mini Dividing Line
The iPad mini has been out a few days now and it seems everybody is going bananas over it. Because I’m weak, I pre-ordered one as soon as I could. My wife received the delivery and did the initial set up for me. (iCloud…
Continue reading →Microsoft Office for iOS
This makes so much sense to me. There are (at least) 100 million iPads “out there” and Microsoft will make a killing on Office for iOS. I’m really curious to see how far down the rabbit hole they go with feature parity. It could…
Continue reading →MPU 110: Sharing a Mac
We’ve received a remarkable number of emails from people asking how to share their Mac. We finally got around to doing a show about it this week. Get it while it’s hot. ∞
Continue reading →The Best Electric Kettle
Gabe does a thorough job of reviewing some excellent electric kettles. I’ve been using the Adagio UtiliTEA for several years and absolutely love it. It’s fast and gets my temperature just right. ∞
Continue reading →Systematic 16
Want to hear Brett and me shoot the breeze about everything but the 60 Tips book? Listen to today’s Systematic. ∞
Continue reading →14 Days in Mountain Lion Calendar Week View
There used to be a really handy terminal command to open debug mode in iCal. One of my favorite settings was the ability to display two weeks in week view. Unfortunately, the command stopped working in Mountain Lion and it doesn’t appear anyone has…
Continue reading →Angry Birds Meets Star Wars
I don’t know what makes me more angry: the fact that this exists or the fact that I’ll probably buy it. ∞
Continue reading →Harry McCracken Still Loves His iPad
I’m a little late in linking this story but with the excitement about the new iPads, I thought it still relevant. Harry is a top-flight tech writer who went public about the fact that his iPad is his primary computer about a year ago.…
Continue reading →MPU 109: Speed Up Your Mac
The latest Mac Power Users episode is up. In it, Katie and I talk about our best tips for speeding up your Mac short of sending Apple a pile of money for a new one. ∞
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