I would like to thank Bowers & Wilkins for sponsoring another month at MacSparky.com. They make outstanding iPhone and iPod speakers and are most certainly click-worthy.
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Heading to Blogworld
I’ll be driving to Las Vegas tomorrow to meet up with some podcasting friends at the Blogworld and New Media Expo. I’m also looking forward to checking out the expo hall on Saturday. It will be interesting to see how it all comes together. I will report back.
Continue readingMac Power Users 12: Troubleshooting
Mac Power Users Episode 12 on Troubleshooting has published. You can download it right here. In it, Katie and I talk about common troubleshooting tasks, techniques, and tools for your Mac.
Our next episode will be a comparison of OmniFocus and Things. I’m also finally going to get cracking on my OmniFocus screencast so stay tuned.
iPhone Tethering … 2010?
My decision to get a Verizon MiFI card just keeps looking better and better.
Continue readingOmniFocus GTD
The links between the OmniGroup and the David Allen Company have been getting stronger. In a recent podcast interview, David Allen (a PC user) admitted to playing with a MacBook and OmniFocus. Regardless, for those of you who like both GTD and OmniFocus, there is a white paper for you.
Continue readingMacWorld Attendance Booming
Yesterday IDG announced it already has over 28,000 registered attendees. That is pretty amazing considering we are still four months away. I know it was popular to predict the end of Macworld with Apple pulling out but the re-engineering of the event (and moving it to February) may prove to make it bigger than ever. If you decide to go to Macworld this year, make sure to check out one of my sessions.
Continue readingMail Tags 3 and Snow Leopard Compatibility
MailTags now has a Snow Leopard friendly release. Perhaps even more interesting is the promised version 3 with a redesigned interface and other new features. I thought Indev’s other product Mail Act-On made a lot of nice improvements with its last major release (review here) and I look forward to see where they go with MailTags 3.
Continue readingMac at Work Presentation in Orange County
This Saturday I’ll be giving a version of my Mac at Work presentation to an excellent local Mac User Group. If you are in the neighborhood, stop by. I’m going to be doing a several public speaking events on the Mac over the next few months to work out the kinks before Macworld.
Continue readingPDF Pen Gets Better OCR
PDFPen and PDFPen Pro, my favorite OS X PDF applications, recently updated to incorporate the OmniPage OCR engine. I’ve been testing it the last few days and there is a noticeable improvement in both accuracy and speed. The justification for paying Adobe a king’s ransom for Acrobat just gets smaller and smaller as Smile On My Mac continues to improve PDF Pen.
Continue readingAnalyst Predicts Expanded Apple Cloud
I don’t know if it is true but it makes a lot of sense, especially in light of these server farm deals.
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