All this talk of bit rot is starting to get to me. For years I have been burning the family videos to DVD and collecting commercial DVDs. While I only own a few DVDs for my use, we have stacks of the things for…
Continue reading →Mac Roundtable Live at Macworld
Thanks to Chuck Joiner for putting this together. I didn’t contribute a lot to this group because I knew I was going to speak later with the Mac Power Users and wanted to give everyone else a chance. A little known bit of trivia…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users Live at Macworld
Katie and I had the privilege of podcasting live from the show floor at Macworld Expo 2010. The show is now available for download. In it we discussed our observations from the conference, show floor, and the iPad. Long live Macworld.
Listen & read notes →Nuance Purchases MacSpeech
Today Nuance (maker of the PC DragonDictate application) announced its purchase of MacSpeech, publishers of MacSpeech Dictate. This is not a huge surprise in light of the fact MacSpeech has been licensing the Nuance speech recognition engine for several years now. My two cents…
Continue reading →SmileOnMyMac Discount
There are just a few weeks left on the SmileOnMyMac 20% discount. Now that the lid is off TextExpander 3, the SmileOnMyMac gang informs me that if you buy Text Expander 2 on the discount page now, your upgrade to version 3 will be…
Continue reading →Macworld Reboot
My yearly pilgrimage to Macworld is now complete. This year it was special for several reasons. While I had great plans to report more regularly while in San Francisco, I was having way too much fun to stop and write. Regardless, I’m now back…
Continue reading →Sponsor – Nectar Apple Store Points
Thanks to this month’s feed sponsor, Nectar, that earns you points when shopping in the UK Apple Store. Google tells me there are a lot of UK readers so check it out.
Continue reading →Macworld Conference – Day 1
Today was day 1 of the Macworld conference. My Numbers Lab session had a full room and went well. I also was able to spend several hours learning Applescript from Sal Soghoian who did a great job demystifying several topics. Finally, I got the…
Continue reading →MPU 19 – 1Password
The Mac Power Users 1Password episode is live. 1Password is the premiere password management application on the Mac platform. They are also giving a 20% discount to MPU listeners here. You can subscribe to the Mac Power Users podcast in iTunes. Also, if you…
Listen & read notes →MacSparky on MacVoices
I had the privilege of recording an episode of MacVoices where I discussed my Macworld sessions and Macworld in general. It was lots of fun and now available for download. Get it while it is hot.
Continue reading →