When Macworld asked me to write for them, my answer wasn’t just yes but hell yes. Today my first Macworld article published. I’ve always considered Macworld to be the gold standard for Apple related journalism and am thrilled to contribute. Expect more.
Continue reading →LonelySandwich on FastCompany
Here is a nice piece on Adam Lisagor at FastCompany. Adam is this weekend’s Mac Power Users workflow guest and absolutely endearing. I’m thrilled for him.
Continue reading →The Most Valuable Public Company on Earth
Who would have thought this 10 years ago? Nutty.
Continue reading →Backing up iTunes
Kirk McElhearn explains how-to. This is one of the most frequent problems I hear about from readers and friends. It goes something like this: Big iTunes library goes on external drive (Not Time Machine); External drive goes up in smoke; Tears. Once you put…
Continue reading →Lion FileVault? Yes Please.
I’m starting to notice benchmarks concerning the impact of Lion FileVault on portable Macs. I don’t think benchmarks are the right context for this discussion. You either need encryption or you don’t. If the thought of someone, who just stole your laptop, rifling through…
Continue reading →1Password Gets Lion Friendly
When I first started running the Lion betas, there was no 1Password extension for Safari and it felt like someone hacked off one of my arms. I knew the 1Password team was hard at work but not this hard. The new 1Password Safari/Lion extension…
Continue reading →A Map of Paranoia
Macdrifter explains his backup regime. Gabe is my kind of nerd.
Continue reading →Office ♡ Lion
I almost named this post “Hell Freezes Over” but that wouldn’t be fair. In truth, the Microsoft Mac Office team is as big a bunch of Apple nerds as there are. It is impressive that they can get Office, which is legendary for its…
Continue reading →Dragon Dictate 2.5 and my iPhone
In case you missed it, Dragon Dictate hit version 2.5 this week. As a long time user of the Windows version (Dragon was the only thing tying me to a Windows machine), I’m thrilled to see Nuance giving my favorite platform the love and…
Continue reading →Byword +1
Merlin talked about using Byword in the most recent Back to Work episode. I couldn’t agree more. The Byword developer was active as Apple finished up Lion and had a Lion compatible version out even before Lion released. The app works with Markdown flawlessly…
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