On this week’s Mac Power Users episode, Brett Terpstra joins us to talk about how he gets so much done. We also strayed into tagging in light of the new support in Mavericks. Brett is a smart guy and this is a great episode.
Listen & read notes →Apple and Indie Publishers
Today the Wall Street Journal did a piece about how the government has been screwing with Apple over the iBooks store. Even though I’m a lawyer, I’ve never practiced anti-trust law and I’m baffled by what is going on. However, I do have some observations…
Continue reading →Technical Difficulties Podcast
Gabe and Erik recently re-jiggered the Generational podcast into the “Technical Difficulties” podcast. I really like the new format and this one is worth listening. If that isn’t enough to tempt you, they just did a great interview with Merlin Mann. It looks like…
Continue reading →Drummer Boy
I’ve never liked the Drummer Boy Christmas carol. I remember playing it as a kid and thinking about how much it made me sleepy. Last year I decided to do my own cover of Drummer Boy so I cooked this up with Garage Band…
Continue reading →Fiddling with Ulysses III
I’ve been working on a bigger-than-usual writing project in Ulysses III the last few weeks and there is a lot to like about this app. It looks amazing. There clearly was a lot of thought put into design. It renders text beautifully and embraces…
Continue reading →My Fancy-Pants Camera After a Year
Shawn Blanc wrote about the nerd vision-quest he took that ended up in him buying a mirrorless Olympus E-PL5 camera last years. I followed this quite closely since I was also in the market. At the time I had one of the early Canon Digital…
Continue reading →Apple Innovation and Iteration
A few years ago, John Gruber wrote a piece about Apple for Macworld that made a lot of sense. Put simply, he argued that Apple makes a revolutionary product and then innovates the snot out of it gradually making it better and better. Chris…
Continue reading →MPU 166: Siri and Dictation
In episode 166, Katie and I cover how to effectively use Siri on iOS and dictation tools on the Mac. I also summarize my accuracy tests in the Mavericks Dictate vs. Dragon Dictate shootout and how I find both tools of use.
Listen & read notes →Secure a Network for Some Turkey
If you are going to be on the road this Thanksgiving visiting your muggle relatives, that would be an excellent time to do them a favor and enable OpenDNS. It is ridiculously easy and I’d bet your hosts will be really thankful if you can…
Continue reading →TextExpander and iOS Data Sharing
From the first time TextExpander touch showed up it always seemed kind magical that data could get shared … on iOS. Over the years, Smile has always found a way to keep this working. This past week, Smile faced a new setback when Apple…
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