About every six months I buy something dumb on KickStarter or Indiegogo. A few days ago, I got sucked in on the GOkey. It is a keychain dongle that includes a small battery for a brief charge, a Lightening cable for connecting your iPhone…
Continue reading →Beats Music
A few months ago I sat in the speaker room at MacWorld Expo talked at length with Chris Breen about music streaming services. Chris is a musician and firm believer in streaming your music instead of buying it. I explained how I tried a…
Continue reading →Jazz Friday: Mercy, Mercy, Mercy
Cannonball Adderley (Wikipedia) is one of best alto saxophonists from the hard bop era. As a sideman, he played with Miles Davis including the Kind of Blue album. After he left Miles Davis, Cannonball started his own successful quintet. Cannonball viewed himself as a…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Tom Merritt
This week’s home screen features Tom Merritt (Twitter) (Website). Tom is one of the premier tech broadcasters. Tom currently produces The Daily Tech News Show. I also enjoy Tom’s Sword & Laser podcast where he and Veronica Belmont covers fantasy and science fiction books.…
Continue reading →In Support of Net Neutrality
I generally avoid politics here but today’s FCC vote (3-2) that would allow Internet providers to charge for premium access is a bad thing. Innovation starts in a garage, not in 50-story buildings. Ending net neutrality puts future up-and-comers at risk and feels, ultimately, like…
Continue reading →Notebook Version 4
Circus Ponies’ Notebook is one of the most mature productivity apps on the Mac. Its developer, Jayson Adams, is a stand-up guy that has been pouring himself into this application for a long time. Over the past several years, Jayson and his team have…
Continue reading →iThoughts for iOS Update, New and On Sale
For nine months, Craig Scott, has been hard at work with a ground-up redesign of iThoughts for iOS. The new version is universal (working on both iPad and iPhone) and looks great in its iOS 7-ified brilliance. There are quite a few new features…
Continue reading →New Sonos App
Sonos released it’s updated iOS app and having spent some time with it, I approve. We continue to see repercussions from the iOS 7 redesign with companies not only giving their apps an iOS 7 coat of paint, but also rethinking how their apps…
Continue reading →Efficiency vs. Delight
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the role of delight in application design and how it relates to (and sometimes trumps) efficiency. I wrote a small piece about this and Macworld published it today. ∞
Continue reading →MPU 192: iOS Picks
In Mac Power Users episode 192, Katie Floyd and I share some of our favorite iOS application picks. In the midst of it all, we had an interesting conversation relating to read it later services and the sometimes-fallacy of “efficient” software. Enjoy. ∞
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