Yesterday, I tweeted out that I’d give some iThoughtsX licenses away to readers that submitted interesting iThoughtsHD maps. Wow. So many great submittals. Winners were Will, Mitch, Dan, Lars, and Chris. Thanks everyone who submitted. One of my favorites came from Dan, who mapped all…
Continue reading →Writing On The iPad: Text Automation with Editorial
I think there is a collective opinion among nerds that the release of Editorial for the iPad was a watershed event. Writing on the iPad has always been about compromises and this app, in some ways, is easier to write on than my Mac.…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Victor Medina
There are some really friendly, geeky lawyers out there. One such gent is Victor Medina (website) (Twitter) from New Jersey. Victor and I have presented together at the annual ABA TechShow on the Mac Track. As a labor of love, Victor runs the only…
Continue reading →John Chandler WordPress Video Series
When we recorded MPU 121 about building a website, I wanted to bring in someone that does nothing but eat and drink WordPress. That guy was John Chandler and he delivered. John pays for his shoes building beautiful WordPress sites and now he is sharing some his knowledge…
Continue reading →iThoughtsX for the Mac
I’ve made no mystery of my love for iThoughtsHD. It is a great iPad app that finally brought home for me the utility of mind maps. It wasn’t long after I got hooked that I wrote the developer, Craig Scott, explaining how much I wanted…
Continue reading →Rating iTunes Music with an Unrated Smart Playlist
I’m increasingly relying on ratings for my iTunes playlists. Setting up smart playlists that just include four and five star music make it really easy to get your favorite music on an iTunes Match enabled iOS device. The trouble is I don’t have time…
Continue reading →ReadQuick Arrives on the iPhone
Clayton Morris’s ReadQuick (App Store) (Website) recently received a nice update. The App now works on the iPhone. We talked about ReadQuick at some length on MPU Episode 127. If you are unfamiliar with it, ReadQuick is an app that helps you speed read through…
Continue reading →MPU 153: Hardware Development with Geoff Barrall
We’ve had lots of software guys join us on the Mac Power Users but I’ve always been interested in talking with a hardware guy. Geoff Barrall describes himself as a serial entrepreneur. He’s founded several companies that got successful hardware products to market including…
Listen & read notes →iA Writer Gets Microsoft Word / Markdown Conversion
I often hear from readers asking for an easy way to jump between markdown and Microsoft Word. It’s never really been that easy. The most recent version of iA Writer takes a lot of work out of this problem. They have built in a…
Continue reading →Twitter Triggers Return to IFTTT
I’m thinking there is a pretty good story behind this that none of us will ever know. ∞
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