Don McAllister is one of my heroes. He built a business where no one said a business could exist. He’s been creating amazing screencasts for years and managed to turn it into a full-time gig. Now Don has started publishing his own magazine through…

In 1978, I learned to program on a TRS-80. It went something like this. 10 Get on orange Schwinn 10-speed bike 20 Ride to Radio Shack 30 Progam many lines of basic including one seriously kick ass text adventure 40 Ride back home when…

One company’s investigation showed 80% of their Facebook ad clicks were bots. What worries me about Facebook is that the only way for them to earn the bucket loads of cash everyone thinks they should is a frontal assault on the privacy rights of…

My thanks to the Theme Foundry for sponsoring this week’s RSS feed. The Theme Foundry has been building handcrafted premium WordPress themes since 2008. Earlier this month they released Avid — a responsive, retina-optimized WordPress theme for photographers. Visit the live demo of Avid…

Today Readdle turns 5 and you get 70% off their apps. My favorite is Scanner Pro. ∞

So I guess the Apple-AT&T marriage is firmly heading towards the seven year itch. It probably serves Apple right for cheating with every other carrier in town. ∞

Mac Power Users Episode 96, Web Automation Tools, is up. Katie an I put our propeller beanie caps on and talk about Yahoo Pipes and IFTTT. Get the episode over at 5by5. Also, don’t forget to subscribe in iTunes. ∞

There are two firehose-type websites that I like, The Verge and Ars Technica. While I don’t have time to read everything these sites publish, I do like to check them when time allows. The trouble is that they cover some subjects for which I…

Brett’s got some great TextExpander libraries for download. I’m not sure how I missed it before, but I really like the Characters library. ∞