In relation to my OmniFocus talks and screencasts, I often get questions and e-mails about how I incorporate my calendar events. I don’t. In my mind, calendar events and task items are two separate and distinct things. Put simply, tasks are things I need…

As a California resident, I, along with my remaining golden staters, got summarily kicked to the curb yesterday by the Amazon Affiliate program. I don’t blame Amazon for this. California is broke and trying to collect more taxes, which may or may not work.…

I’ve spent a lot of money on really stupid things in my life. Spending 27 bucks to get painless clone back-ups of my Mac most certainly was not among them. Today SuperDuper developer Dave Nanian announced that: 1. he is about to ride in…

I’m probably at risk of being called a corporate shill since 1Password sponsors the podcast but there really is nothing better. Eddie Smith posted some amazing statistics today. In the Sony breach, 92 percent of the users had the same password for different logins.…

Mac Power Users Episode 52 is available for download. Katie and I cover the best practices for getting your Mac ready for the new cat. You can get it on iTunes here or on the web right here. If you haven’t already, why not…

My post after the iCloud announcement got a lot of comments. Today Apple answered the question in their MobileMe transition FAQ post. If I use different accounts for iTunes and MobileMe, can I merge them into a single account and use it with iCloud?…

Although iCloud is going to be great for syncing data between multiple platforms with the same app, it doesn’t solve the problem of moving compatible file types between different iPad apps. Last week iThoughtsHD cracked it. A recent iThoughtsHD for iPad update added an…

The news that Dropbox managed to run for four hours yesterday with all of its shields down is shocking. Everyone watching cloud computing is waiting for The Big One, that catastrophic data compromise that causes even non-geeks to say holy shit. While it hasn’t…