There are a lot of geeks doing some great work in education. One such person is Mike Rogers (Twitter) (website), a school principal that started a blog about technology and education, Techedvance.com. Mike is in the trenches and has some interesting perspective. So Mike,…
Continue reading →My Little Geek Give Away
Andrew and Sarah Spear, who wrote the wonderful children’s book, My Little Geek, have a Kickstarter campaign for some new books, Nerdy Numbers and Sci-Fi Shapes. To celebrate father’s day, they are giving away a bunch of copies of My Little Geek. If you’re…
Continue reading →Vesper 1.0
Today John Gruber, Brent Simmons, and Dave Wiskus jointly released an iPhone app, Vesper. If you were assembling a dream team of people to create a new application, I can’t think of a better roster. The application is a replacement for the Apple Notes app…
Continue reading →Byword 2.0
Byword (Mac App Store) (iOS App Store) is one of my writing staples. I work in it every day. Indeed, I’m writing these very words in Byword. Yesterday MetaClassy released version 2.0, which is free to existing users and includes some nice upgrades. Byword…
Continue reading →Podcasting: MPU 140 and the MacCast
Mac Power Users 140 is live. In this week’s episode, Katie and I blow through a lot of feedback. The outline was far-reaching including security, automation, writing, and a rapidfire section that covered a variety of topics. While this sounds boring, I think there was…
Listen & read notes →Support App Camp For Girls
My friend Jean MacDonald was attending WWDC a few years ago and looked around the room. It dawned on her that she could only find three women in the room (including herself). Most people would say, “somebody should do something about that”. Jean said,…
Continue reading →60 Tips Book on Sale
It’s just a week until WWDC so Brett Terpstra and I are celebrating with a sale on our book, 60 Mountain Lion Tips. The book includes sixty of our favorite Mac tips with explanations and screencasts. It’s a great book and it can up…
Continue reading →My Luggage Can Beat Up Your Luggage
Sven Fechner, at SimplicityIsBliss, has been running a series of posts about traveling gear and tips. I contributed over the weekend with a post about my precious Pelican 1510LOC. ∞
Continue reading →OmniFocus Template Script – Bigger and Better
For the longest time I used Kurt Clifton’s OmniFocus Template. Today I stumbled into Chris Sauve’s updated OmniFocus Template script. ¡Ay, Caramba! How did I not check this out sooner? This updated template script (which pays homage to Kurt’s original template) brings it. You…
Continue reading →eyeFree Stopwatch and Young Developers
Sixteen-year-olds Connor Koehler and Max Greenwald wanted a stop watch that could start, stop, and reset without them having to look at their iPhone screens. So they built one. The app doesn’t look like a high school project. I’m hearing increasingly from young developers.…
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