Why I Love Text Files Over the last few years I’ve woken up to the problem of how I store my digital words. Up until recently, I just wrote in whatever word processor was the flavor of the month. As a result my digital…
Continue reading →The OmniFocus Screencasts
I’m now officially in production on the mother-of-all-OmniFocus screencasts. Note the plural. My initial idea of doing it as one big show isn’t going to work, too long. I’ve got an outline and most of the recording done for the first episode, Capture. It…
Continue reading →Supercharge TextExpander
Brett Terpstra has coded some remarkable TextExpander snippets including: the ability to auto hyphenate the clipboard encode e-mail addresses paste markdown referenced auto generate markdown references from your clipboard create lorum ipsum text using text from word lists from Dune, Foundation, Ringworld, Harry Potter,…
Continue reading →Mac Roundtable at Macworld
Macworld has kindly posted the video of the Mac Roundtable talk about the future of the Mac OS and iOS from the Macworld show floor. Enjoy! Sadly there was a problem with the video for the Mac Power Users live show so that episode…
Continue reading →Talking to iOS
At Macworld last week, Nuance, makers of DragonDictate for Mac and iOS announced the release of their own software development kit to embed Dragon’s voice recognition technologies in iOS apps. I think this is a big deal. Third party app developers should now be…
Continue reading →Do Stuff
The above is one of my favorite slides from my OmniFocus presentation at Macworld. A little known secret about me is that in addition to being a computer nerd, I also enjoy woodworking. Several years ago a friend gave me an amazing Japanese pull…
Continue reading →Eddie Joins the Club …
And curates a nice list of OmniFocus links including a few by yours truly.
Continue reading →Mac at Work – E-Mail Sample Chapter
Until recently, the only sample chapter available for Mac at Work was Chapter 1 (found in the Kindle and iBookstore versions), which covers some basics about how to choose and operate a Mac. It really isn’t representative of the rest of the book. Thankfully,…
Continue reading →Macworld 2011 Wrap Up
So another Macworld has come and gone and it’s time for a wrap up: The Exposition This year the entire conference was in Moscone West (and I’m told it will be the same next year). This was perfect. It allowed you to attend conference…
Continue reading →Getting Social at Macworld 2011
Macworld really is the place to break out of your shell. For a few days, everybody around you is a fellow nerd and completely gets it when you start talking about Automator scripts and terminal hacks. If you are going to be exploring the…
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