This week, Nuance released version 4 of Dragon Dictate for the Mac. I remember the days when dictation software on the Mac couldn’t hold a candle to that on the PC. We had applications like MacSpeech, which tried their best, but never could keep…
Continue reading →Pasting an Address in Mavericks Contacts
Did you know you can paste a single line address like this: 21 Shotgun Lane, Irvine, CA 92610 into the street address field in Mavericks Contacts and it will automatically parse the city, state, and zip code bits out and put them where they belong…
Continue reading →10 Petabytes
Today Connected Data announced there is now 10 Petabytes of data stored on Transporters throughout the world. 10 Petabytes! That is 200 million 4 drawer filing cabinets worth of information. Crazy. I remember when I bought my first hard drive. It was 20 Megabytes…
Continue reading →Book Review: Darth Plagueis
Star Wars content below. You’ve been warned. I’ll never forget the first time I discovered the fact people were writing books about Star Wars. I was sitting at a rusted bench in the break area behind the Jungle Cruise when one of my fellow…
Continue reading →Cars and Tech
Yesterday Apple announced the launch of CarPlay, a new protocol where your iOS device will power your car’s in-dash system. Because I’m a nerd, I’ve always had a fascination with in-car technology. My current car, a Ford, has the Microsoft Sync system which is nice…
Continue reading →WiFi Explorer
Lately I’ve been spending time troubleshooting the Sparks family WiFi. Specifically, I’ve been trying to tweak the placement of our various Wi-Fi paraphernalia so as to get a better signal in my daughter’s room in a far corner of the house. I needed a…
Continue reading →Sponsor: Rocket Matter Turns 6
Rocket Matter, the premier web-based law practice management application, just turned 6. Rather than sitting around and eating cake, the Rocket Matter engineers have been hard at work. Rocket Matter has just announced a seriously upgraded search, called “Galactic Interdimensional Search”, which is a…
Continue reading →MPU 179: Calendar Management
This week’s episode of the Mac Power Users is a deep dive on calendar applications and how we use them. Towards the end I explained some of the specific tricks I use to keep my calendar in check that (I think at least) are…
Listen & read notes →MPU Live on March 1 at 10am PST
I’m spending my Friday night prepping for the MPU live show on March 1 at 10am PST. If you want to join in the live chat room, here’s a link.
Listen & read notes →Flappy Hell
It looks like one of every three new game submittals is a Flappy Bird clone. Can you imagine what the app reviewers are going through right now?
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