I’m speaking this year at the BlogWorld & New Media Expo November 3-5 at the Los Angeles Convention Center. I’m participating in a panel session, Finding Sponsors for Your Podcast and Keeping Them, along with Dave Hamilton, Jean MacDonald, and Mark Fuccio. We’ve spent…
Continue reading →Standard Response to New Apple Technologies
Now that Siri is in the public conscious, the standard response from Apple competitors is in full swing: First, they mock it. In about 6 months, they’ll copy it. After that (usually about a year), they’ll pretend they invented it. Stay tuned.
Continue reading →MultiMarkdown Composer
MultiMarkdown is an extension of Markdown that adds several additional tools for exporting Markdown syntax for technical writing, created by Fletcher Penny. Fletcher is a full time physician who also created MultiMarkdown and also is now a Mac App developer. MultiMarkdown Composer gives you…
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Moving Spaces
In addition to giving us iCloud, 10.7.2 added the ability to click and drag spaces in mission control view. Very handy.
Continue reading →MCE iFuture Keynote
While at the Petaluma MCE event, I was privileged to sit on the Keynote panel with Jason Snell (Macworld), Adam Christianson (MacCast), Jeff Gamet (Mac Observer), and Jean MacDonald (Smile) where we talked about the future of Apple. While I generally try to stay…
Continue reading →Macworld Article – Auto Save
Today Macworld ran my article about the nuances of Mac OS X Lion’s new Auto Save feature and how to use the new Duplicate command to replace your old friend, Save As.
Continue reading →Home Screens – Sven Fechner
If you are an OmniFocus nerd (and a surprising number of MacSparky readers are), you really owe it to yourself to subscribe to Sven Fechner’s (Twitter) blog, SimplicityIsBliss, where Sven posts amazing tips and advice and getting the best out of OmniFocus and other…
Continue reading →Six Mostly Irrelevant iOS Changes that Make Me Smile
My friends at Macworld are killing the iOS 5 coverage with some of the more amazing new features. I, instead, will focus on some of the small (and mostly irrelevant) things that make me smile. 1. Turn off e-mail badge Hallelujah. No longer will…
Continue reading →Jason Snell Demonstrates Siri
The more I see of Siri, the more my nerd alarm bells are going off. My favorite part of the video: “We have milk.”
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