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…

As Macworld | iWorld approaches, I’m struck by the value in the new iFan Pass. Now you can get into the conference for a fraction of the price it used to be. There are some really great tech talks at the conference this year,…

A well-deserved accolade for Brett Terpstra and his excellent Markdown/MultiMarkdown preview app. If you spend any time in Markdown, you really should check out Marked.

The next time you are feeling an itchy trigger finger for some new Apple hardware, check out Mac Rumors’s Apple Buyer’s Guide where Arnold Kim and his legions track Apple product timelines and rumors.

I’m pretty sure that up until last month, the last time I used a mechanical pencil was 1987 as I switched majors from engineering to the arts. Since then, I’ve always used pens. Last month I purchased my first mechanical pencil in a very…