This week’s home screen features Chase Reeves (website) (Twitter). Chase is a designer and educator. Chase has a great sense of humor that helps get his message across. So Chase, show us your home screen. What are some of favorite apps? Drafts Everyday I…
Continue reading →Jokey-Jokey Bang-Bang
I recently was a guest on the Giant Size podcast, about comics. I waited until I was in my 40s to start reading comics because that is how I roll. This is also the show where I finally got to admit I totally get Kate…
Continue reading →Save 100 Bucks on a Macworld/iWorld Pass
Macworld/iWorld is just a month away and I am speaking this year. As a result, I’ve been given this handy link that will get you $100 off the conference pass. That means you can get three full days of excellent speakers and content for…
Continue reading →Unclutter To the Rescue
Unclutter (App Store)(Website) is a handy little utility from the same developers that brought us DaisyDisk. A few days ago Macworld posted a generally favorable review of the app. I’ve been using Unclutter for some time. (Disclosure: DaisyDisk is a sometimes-sponsor of MPU). Unclutter installs a drawer…
Continue reading →MPU 178: Contacts
This week’s MPU episode features Katie and I spilling our guts on how we manage contacts in OS X and iOS. In it, I got to talk at some length about how I use the often-forgotten Notes Field and how I’ve been using Cobook…
Continue reading →Game Recommendation: Tengami
Over the weekend I was searching for a diversion and discovered a new iPad/iPhone game, Tengami. (iOS App Store) (website) Tengami is an adventure game that takes place in a digitally-built papercraft world. I’ve really enjoyed it so far. It is beautiful on a…
Continue reading →Tags or Folders?
Aleh Cherp at the Macademic has a post on how he uses tags and folders with file management. I’m still figuring this out myself but Aleh’s idea of tags for reference files and folders for project files is very similar to the way I’ve been…
Continue reading →The Mysterious Character Viewer
As part of my little Automator screencast I did earlier this week, I used a special symbol in the file name. The character viewer opened during the screencast and I received several emails/tweets asking about how I did that. A lot of people don’t even realize…
Continue reading →My Very Own Technical Difficulties
I recently guested on the Technical Difficulties podcast where we talked about important things, like iBooks Author and Star Wars. If you haven’t yet, you should really check out the show notes. Outstanding. ∞
Listen & read notes →Fleksy and Alternative Keyboards
The Fleksy iPhone alternative keyboard. On the heels of yesterday’s post about alternative text selection, how about alternative keyboards? Where this type of utility was verboten on iOS for so long, Apple appears to no longer have a problem. The early leader for alternative keyboards is…
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