Intel’s new Broadwell chips have a lot of hopes pinned upon them. They are supposed to be bring energy efficiency and graphics performance to new levels. I suspect Apple is relying on Broadwell to make the fabled 12″ Retina MacBook Air-ish computer into reality. If…
Continue reading →Presentations Field Guide, Sample Materials Available
Starting today you can download 51 sample pages from the new Presentations Field Guide. The book ended up weighing in at 432 pages, 44 screencasts (over 2 hours), and lots of other interactive gizmos. Everything is on track for the July 21 release date but…
Continue reading →MPU 201: Mac at Home, PC at Work
MPU 201 includes our recurring guest, Gabe Weatherhead, as we dive deep on the best tools and workflows for living a double life: Mac at home, PC at work. ∞
Listen & read notes →Macworld Article on Photos Challenges
This morning Macworld published a piece I wrote about why I think we need to move to cloud-based photo management and and the two biggest hurdles Photos will need to overcome to succeed. ∞
Continue reading →Lego Fusion
First you build a tower from LEGO bricks. Then it magically appears in an iOS app and you defend the tower you built, brick-by-brick in the real world, from invaders in the virtual iOS world. Sign me up.
Continue reading →New MacSparky Field Guide: Presentations
I’m pleased to announce the newest MacSparky Field Guide, Presentations. Most presentations are terrible. That, however, does not need to be the case for your presentations. This book explains how to create your own exceptional presentation. This Presentations Field Guide explains how to plan…
Continue reading →MPU 200: The Story So Far …
Episode 200 of the Mac Power Users is now available. That’s 200 shows. That’s approximately 300 hours of talking about how to turn average and beginner users into power users. That’s 300 hours of the best work of my life. This show is a…
Listen & read notes →MILOFest Early Bird Registration
Today is the last day for early bird registration for the annual Macs in Law Offices conference at Disneyworld this October. If you are practicing law with a Mac, this one is just for you. As an added bonus, this year, my pal KatieFloyd will…
Continue reading →Sanebox Advanced Filtering
If you’re a Sanebox subscriber (or thinking about becoming a Sanebox subscriber), you’ll want to check out their new Advanced Filtering options. Sanebox still doesn’t read the contents of your email but you can do a lot with a subject line. With advanced filtering,…
Continue reading →OmniOutliner 4.1
The Omni Group just updated OmniOutliner 4.1 with several useful new features: Row padding control has been added to the standard feature set. There is a new set of colored toolbar icons. (Purists can switch to Graphite appearance in System Preferences to use monochrome versions of those icons.) The Pro…
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