Oracle posted its opening statement in its infringement case against Google. I usually make a point of not commenting on legal stuff on this page but this link has me thinking two things: Oracle has some great evidence. I don’t care how much Oracle…
Continue reading →Staying Connected to Your Apple TV
This may be obvious, but it wasn’t to me. If you are using an iPad at the office connected wirelessly to an Apple TV, go into the iPad’s Settings app and turn off Auto-Lock before the meeting begins. Otherwise, your iPad will fall asleep…
Continue reading →RSS Sponsor: World War Hack Graphic Novel
Inspired by true events, World War Hack is a graphic novel that tells the story of how the U.S. Government gathers top computer hackers from around the country, under the guise of a hacking competition, to unknowingly help solve a pressing national security crisis.…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Mike Vardy
Mike Vardy (Website) (Twitter) is humorist that writes and talks about productivity. I met Mike at Macworld this year and can report he is a pretty swell guy. So Mike, show us your home screen. What are your most interesting home screen apps? Buddha…
Continue reading →Happy BB-Birthday
Jason Snell writes about 20 years of BBEdit. That is a pretty amazing accomplishment for a text editor. Moreover, I love the way BareBones never stopped innovating and pushing the envelope with BBEdit. Congratulations to Rich Siegel and the BareBones team. In related news,…
Continue reading →Bartending, Memoirs of an Apple Genius
Stephen Hackett just self-pubished a book, Bartending, Memoirs of an Apple Genius, sharing his experiences both behind and in front of the Genius Bar in Apple retail. If you’ve ever wondered what really goes on back there, this is the book for you. I…
Continue reading →The Macademic
Aleh Cherp is tearing it up lately with posts about using your Mac in an academic setting. If that is your thing, check out Macademic.org.
Continue reading →RSS Sponsor: Byword
This week’s RSS sponsor is Byword for iOS and Mac. Byword’s simple and clean interface combined with some wicked iCloud syncing makes this suite of apps my “go to” place for any serious text I’m currently cooking up. Today I’ve got a half-written Macworld…
Continue reading →Marked 1.4
As cool of a guy as John Gruber is for writing Daring Fireball, his Markdown syntax truly changed the way I interact with my computer. I write just about everything in Markdown and Brett Terpstra’s Marked app previews my Markdown text from any app…
Continue reading →Random File Names with TextExpander
Brian Hays gets two gold stars for cooking up this bit of TextExpander trickery. Using AppleScript, he made up a random file name generator for a more secure file sharing. Slick.
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