The news that Dropbox managed to run for four hours yesterday with all of its shields down is shocking. Everyone watching cloud computing is waiting for The Big One, that catastrophic data compromise that causes even non-geeks to say holy shit. While it hasn’t…
Continue reading →iPad at Work – Crunch Time
Things are coming along nicely on the new book. I learned many lessons with the first one that are all getting incorporated into this new one. I’m also making the book even more useful for analog and digital readers alike with QR Codes and…
Continue reading →Talking Podcasts
Here is a link to my recent article for Apple Ink in which I listed some of my favorite podcasts. In picking my “don’t miss” list I looked at play counts and it turns out there are four I don’t miss: Back to Work,…
Continue reading →Home Screen – Kyle Wiens
As further evidence that one of the best reasons to attend Macworld Expo is to meet like-minded nerds, this year I had the pleasure getting to know the iFixit guys. Kyle Wiens (twitter) can take just about anything apart and put it back together.…
Continue reading →Mac Roundtable Appearance
This week I participated in the Mac Roundtable episode 102. We covered and reflected upon all of the WWDC news. Enjoy.
Continue reading →MPU 51 – Menubars, Docks, and Dashboards
Mac Power Users Episode 51 is available for download. Katie and I spent time talking about our favorite menubar, dock, and dashboard utilities. You can get it on iTunes here or on the web right here. Enjoy.
Listen & read notes →Apple Intervenes
Today news broke that Apple has filed its motion to intervene on the Lodsys matter. This is good news for developers. I once had a law school professor explain to me that an intervenor is a happy parachutist who inserts himself in litigation he…
Continue reading →Home Screen – Steve Volk
Several months ago I was on a business trip and had one of those fortuitous experiences. This guy got on the airport shuttle with me and was positively beaming. He was a complete stranger to me but I immediately knew I wanted to make…
Continue reading →OmniFocus and Windows
A lot of people ask me how I get by using OmniFocus when I spend time every day on a Windows machine. I’ve never clamored for a Web-based or Windows version of OmniFocus. I’ve always viewed the Windows computer as a device to accomplish…
Continue reading →Better iPhone Ringtones
Have you ever sat in a meeting and heard someone’s phone go off with Sonny Orlando’s “Tie a Yellow Ribbon”? Oddly enough, I have. If you want to add some subtle professional sounding ringtones to your iPhone check out Cleartones. 50 nice ringtones and…
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