During the MPU iPad at Work show, I unexpectedly blundered into discussing my “No Journal” (time 63:35). Eddie Smith posted on it last week. I didn’t spend much time explaining the No Journal during the podcast, frankly, because it felt like my own personal…
Continue reading →MPU 60 – The Case for Evernote
Mac Power Users Episode 60, The Case for Evernote, is available for download. Our guest, Brett Kelly, talks about how useful Evernote is and addresses some of my complaints with the service. Get the episode over at 5by5. Also, I hear that people who…
Continue reading →Speaking Gig – BlogWorld 2011
I’m speaking this year at the BlogWorld & New Media Expo November 3-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. I’m participating in a panel session, Finding Sponsors for Your Podcast and Keeping Them, along with Dave Hamilton, Jean MacDonald, and Mark Fuccio. We’ve spent…
Continue reading →Standard Response to New Apple Technologies
Now that Siri is in the public conscious, the standard response from Apple competitors is in full swing: First, they mock it. In about 6 months, they’ll copy it. After that (usually about a year), they’ll pretend they invented it. Stay tuned.
Continue reading →MultiMarkdown Composer
MultiMarkdown is an extension of Markdown that adds several additional tools for exporting Markdown syntax for technical writing, created by Fletcher Penny. Fletcher is a full time physician who also created MultiMarkdown and also is now a Mac App developer. MultiMarkdown Composer gives you…
Continue reading →Siri is Lazy
Moving Spaces
In addition to giving us iCloud, 10.7.2 added the ability to click and drag spaces in mission control view. Very handy.
Continue reading →MCE iFuture Keynote
While at the Petaluma MCE event, I was privileged to sit on the Keynote panel with Jason Snell (Macworld), Adam Christianson (MacCast), Jeff Gamet (Mac Observer), and Jean MacDonald (Smile) where we talked about the future of Apple. While I generally try to stay…
Continue reading →Macworld Article – Auto Save
Today Macworld ran my article about the nuances of Mac OS X Lion’s new Auto Save feature and how to use the new Duplicate command to replace your old friend, Save As.
Continue reading →Home Screens – Sven Fechner
If you are an OmniFocus nerd (and a surprising number of MacSparky readers are), you really owe it to yourself to subscribe to Sven Fechner’s (Twitter) blog, SimplicityIsBliss, where Sven posts amazing tips and advice and getting the best out of OmniFocus and other…
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