I joined Chuck Joiner for a recent episode of MacVoices to talk about Macworld | iWorld. It is less than a week and my geek-senses are tingling.

I’ve been thinking about Apple’s education event today. Apple announced several initiatives relating to education and textbooks. These included a new version of iBooks that allows book publishers to create media-rich ePub books for use on the iPad, a new ePub authoring tool, and…

Lawyers complain about reviewing deposition transcripts but doing this job mindfully can make the difference between a win and a loss at the courthouse. This week a new iPad app, TranscriptPad, was released that lets legal professionals review transcripts on their iPad. Jeff Richardson…

Isn’t it odd that with all of the very serious problems we face in this nation (including campaign reform), that Congress wants to spend its time breaking the Internet in response to the actions of a few losers in their parents’ basements? While MacSparky…

Mac Power Users Episode 69, Browser Wars, is live. I’m thinking we went a little Hollywood with that title. In fact, the episode talks about the best and worst parts of Safari, Chrome, and Firefox. We also spent some time discussing alternative iOS browsers.…

This week’s RSS feed is sponsored by one of my all-time favorite apps, Scrivener. Between Mac at Work and iPad at Work, I researched and wrote some 230,000 words in Scrivener. That doesn’t include the countless articles, legal briefs, and other bits of text…

Over the weekend, my brother-in-law and I took the kids to the Santa Ana Discovery Science Center where they have (until April 15, 2012) an excellent collection of costumes, props, and models from the Star Wars franchise. See my pictures here. There were also…

There’s a lot of people talking about the mute button today. Since the rest of the Internet echo chamber seems to be weighing in, why not me too? The problem is that when you put an iPhone on mute, it’s not completely silent. Specifically,…

This whole story is pretty damning. Big companies are made up of a lot of people. Sometimes, despite the best efforts of the people in charge, bad apples get mixed in that group. This story, however, feels different. Google was scraping the database from…

Lex Friedman and Dan Moran wrote a nice article for Macworld forecasting the Apple event in New York next week. Setting aside the idea of disrupting the text book publishing business, the idea that this is the venue for Apple to release iWork ‘12…