There has always been an interesting dichotomy between Apple and Mac Users over history. As users, we relish in little trips down memory lane about the original control panel or how bleak things were in the 90s. It has been a journey for us all and…

A few years ago I wrote about doing optical character recognition with AppleScript and PDFpen. Remarkably, it still works. Katie Floyd had a great idea of incorporating that script into a Hazel rule that looks for PDFs without OCR and performing the OCR automagically. She…

This week’s Mac Power Users episode is ready for download full of great Mac and iOS tips from Federico Viticci from Mac Stories. We had a lot of fun recording this episode and it came out great. ∞

For years Ken Ray has delivered the daily dose of Mac news with his Mac OS Ken podcast. If podcast listening isn’t your thing, Ken now puts out the same content with a magazine, the EYE Chart. Ken is one of the good guys…

I recently appeared on Erik FIsher’s Beyond the To-Do List podcast where I talked about coping with email and getting work done. While I acknowledge how boring that sounds, I promise I made it absolutely riveting. ∞

I’ve had an on-again-off-again relationship with Launch Center Pro (Website)(iTunes). At a certain level this app really speaks to me. It has this remarkable ability to make iPhone apps do cool automation-style things despite the fact Apple has never been to sweet on the…

I’ve been using a Fitbit for a few years now. My previous device was the the original clip-on Fitbit. I liked it because I could drop it in my pocket and keep track of my steps everyday. I’m geeky enough to know that stat…

I’ve been fiddling a lot lately with the resolution settings on my 15″ Retina MacBook Pro. As it ships the machine is set at a virtualized 1440 x 900. The native screen resolution is actually double that at 2880 x 1800 so where before…