On Saturday, Katie and I recorded episode 150 of the Mac Power Users. It was so much fun having a live audience and talking to listeners about their kick-ass workflows. Make sure to catch this week’s episode. Also, we had some downtime during the…
Listen & read notes →Air Turn for iPad Sheet Music
I’ve digitized all my sheet music and I display it on my iPad via forScore. I only have two complaints. The music is a little smaller on the iPad so I have to pay a little bit closer attention when reading it. I recently purchased…
Continue reading →Voice Dream for Instapaper and Pocket Text to Speech
On the heels of our recent Read it Later show, I received an email from listener David Ianni concerning an app I’d never heard of before, Voic Dream ($10). If you’ve ever wanted to have your iPhone read out loud entries from your Instapaper or Pocket…
Continue reading →Helping Alice Verpoorten
Tim Verpoorten was the first person that ever put me “on the air” and a helluva nice guy. We all knew Tim was sick but his sudden death threw us all, including his wife Alice. Tim left a lot of Apple gear and Allison…
Continue reading →So Three Nerds Walk into a Bar …
At least that is what it felt like last night when I sat down to talk to Adam Christianson and Ken Ray for today’s MacCast episode. We talked about Apple, Google, the baffling world of book sales, and I lifted my self-imposed ban to…
Continue reading →Delight is in the Details
Shawn Blanc is a tech blogger but also much more. Shawn frequently inspires me with his posts about motivation and finishing a project. Shawn just released a new book, Delight is in the Details. As Shawn explains, the subject of the book is how to…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users Show 150 Live this Saturday
Can you believe the Mac Power Users are about to record show 150? Katie and I will be broadcasting live this Saturday at 10am PST in a very special Mac Power Users where I confront my growing Sonos addition and some of our smartest…
Listen & read notes →MPU 149: Read it Later
In episode 149 of the Mac Power Users, Katie and I tackle the growing list of read it later services covering what we like (and dislike) about each of them along with a discussion of unconventional alternatives for all of you rebels out there. …
Listen & read notes →Chatology – Improving Mac Messaging
I wrote a few months ago about the troubles I have with messages. At the time, I decided my solution was to start deleting all messages that didn’t require action. That strategy lasted about a month. It was just too much work deleting messages and it…
Continue reading →ScanSnap iX500 now Scans Wireless to Your Mac
This week Fujitsu released a software and firmware update for the ScanSnap iX500 that lets you scan to you Mac (or PC) without a USB cable. I updated my scanner last night and it works great. Now I’m rethinking the location of my scanner. I…
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