I’m looking forward to giving a warm-up of my “Mac at Work” presentation on December 16 at the Irvine Spectrum Apple Store at 8:00 a.m. Yes, I know it’s early but at least the store will be quiet and free of shoppers. See…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users – Scrivener
Episode 15 of the Mac Power Users is up. In it we spent over an hour on how to squeeze the most out of Scrivener. Skype did not play nicely and the recording could be better but the content is still good, particularly for…
Continue reading →Apple Bends, Slightly
Reports are coming out that Apple has softened its stance toward third party iPhone application developers. It has begun to approve video streaming applications (bet I’m not the only one waiting for Qik) and Macworld reports Apple is even letting applications with private API…
Continue reading →TechShow 2010 Speaking
I will be speaking again at the American Bar Association’s TechShow in Chicago March 25-27, 2010. For any tech-minded attorneys or legal professionals, this conference is ground zero. Every year they assemble a fantastic group of speakers and vendors that help you find out…
Continue reading →Dragon Voice Dictation on iPhone
I am a big fan of the voice recognition software. I use Nuance’s Dragon Dictate on the PC and MacSpeech Dictate on my Mac. I was very pleased to see that Nuance, the developer of the Dragon engine, has released a Dragon Dictate iPhone app.…
Continue reading →BusyCal Update
BusyMac recently released version 1.1 of BusyCal. I really like this release. In addition to ironing out the wrinkles, BusyMac added 64 bit support, a mini-month calendar and three finger scrolling. The three finger scrolling in iCal (try it sometime) quickly became second…
Continue reading →Dexim BluePack S3 External Battery
Dexim, who also makes the Richard Solo iPhone batteries has expanded its line to include the new BluePack S3. This device is different from the earlier iPhone specific offerings in that it does not have a built in iPhone dock connector but…
Continue reading →Macworld Warm-Ups
I have agreed to do a few public speaking gigs in preparation of my Macworld sessions. They should be a lot of fun in a geeky, propeller beanie sort of way. If you are in southern California and interested, you can get the details…
Continue reading →Free iPhone Games – Appvent Calendar
There is a popular iPhone game promotion this holiday season at appventcalendar.com. Every day they unveil a new (normally paid) iPhone game that is marked down to free for one day. Thus far, all of the games have been good and it is…
Continue reading →TextExpander Learns New Tricks
Today TextExpander released a particularly tasty update. For Gmail jockeys, there is now support for rich text and image expansion in web-based tools. I’ve already shown how to do this in Apple Mail. My favorite new feature allows you designate a portion of your…
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