This week’s Home Screen post features Dan Benjamin (Twitter). Dan has quietly built a podcasting empire at 5by5 Studios with numerous quality shows. While I’ve not had the opportunity to meet Dan in person, he guested on the Mac Power Users and I’ve listened…
Continue reading →Tom Bihn Ristretto for 13″ MacBook Air Review
Over the past year, I’ve changed up my mobile gear. I got my beloved iPad and sold my once mighty MacBook Pro in exchange for an underpowered 13” MacBook Air, which I adore. Leading up to Macworld, I decided I was going to spoil…
Continue reading →Text Expander Snippet Repository? Yes Please.
Awhile back, I wrote about how nice it would be if we put together a web site to share TextExpander Snippets. Reader Alexander took the idea and ran with it. Opening its doors yesterday te-snippets.com is going to become the promised land for TextExpander…
Continue reading →Bento 4 Released Today
Today FileMaker released Bento 4. I’ve been kicking the tires for the last week and I like it. This upgrade addresses many past user requests including label printing, exporting/importing datasets, and making it much easier to share your templates with others. The label printing…
Continue reading →Notational Velocity Naming Conventions
In last weekend’s episode of the Mac Power Users, I spoke at some length about how I name files in Notational Velocity. So how do I name files? I preface the note name with some pre-designed codes (which I hesitate to call “tags”). The…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 45: Finding Files with Brett
Mac Power Users Episode 45 is available for download. Katie and I are joined by Mac mad scientist, Brett Terpstra, and cover finding files on your Mac along with some advice about tagging and file naming conventions. You can get it on iTunes here…
Listen & read notes →Japan Relief through iTunes
When I went to pick up an iPad 2 and was too late, I didn’t care. I’d spent the day watching the tragedies in Japan and realized (again) the importance of perspective. I’m receiving e-mails now from readers and listeners who still haven’t been…
Continue reading →Service Sunday – Text to iTunes Audio
One of my very favorite web services is Instapaper. It allows you to clip any webpage for later reading. The trouble is, Instapaper makes it so easy to mark articles for later reading that I tend to mark many more articles than I can…
Continue reading →Ping Pong and Secure Dropbox Delivery
Two of my favorite writers, Eddie and Merlin, trade notes on secure Dropbox delivery. The part about the Hazel rule warmed the cockles of my heart.
Continue reading →Home Screens: Shawn Blanc
Shawn Blanc (twitter) is one of the premier Mac bloggers and recently made the ballsy move of turning his blog, ShawnBlanc.net, into his full time gig. I am a fan. I asked Shawn to share his iPad screen today, on iPad 2 launch day,…
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