Occasionally, I have sensitive things on my Mac’s screen and occasionally I leave an office, or conference room, or courtroom and forget to shut the lid on that Mac. While I’ve got my Mac set to lock itself down after a few minutes, I…
Continue reading →Markdown to .docx on iOS
Craig Scott, the developer behind my beloved iThoughtsHD has started releasing a series of iOS apps that feel, to me, a lot more like iOS Automator Actions than apps. The first app, makeDoc, takes the contents of your clipboard text (including Markdown) and spits…
Continue reading →TextExpander touch 2.0
The new version of TextExpander touch is now available for download and it’s fabulous. The big new features are rich text and fill in snippet support. Although this is a version 2.0, it is free for people who already purchased the prior version. The…
Continue reading →Fifty-Seven Bucks Per Visitor
Horace Dediu breaks down the Apple Store numbers to figure out Apple earns $57 for every warm body that walks through the door. ($12 of that is profit.) So how does the popular press turn that into a call for Tim Cook’s head?
Continue reading →MPU 138: Syncing and Sharing
After 4 years, Katie and I go back to the subject of syncing data on this week’s Mac Power Users episode. In it, we cover the relative merits of Dropbox and iCloud and also expand the discussion to syncing all sorts of data between…
Listen & read notes →Watching FoldingText
HogBay Software makes some great Mac and iOS software. (I’ve got WriteRoom on my iPad home screen right now.) So I’ve been watching the development of FoldingText with some interest over the past several months. The application is now at version 1.2.2 and available…
Continue reading →Reeder to OmniFocus Inbox with Two Taps
MPU Listener David Hall found a clever use for Reeder’s defeault address to send link setting. He put in his OmniFocus Mail Drop address and now can send an article straight into OmniFocus without leaving Reeder. I’m in. ∞
Continue reading →So Long Surfbits
When I first started thinking about putting myself out there with podcasting and blogging, one of the first people I contacted was Tim Verpoorten. Tim ran the Surfbits MacReviewCast and was always welcoming with advice, assistance, and that friendly midwestern accent. Tim’s been sick…
Continue reading →Star Wars Character Periodic Table
Since posting strange periodic tables seems to be one of my things, how could I resist this one? ∞
Continue reading →5by5 Interview
Here I am being clever with Danielle Moser.
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