My friend, George Starcher, recently posted about using a Griffen Powermate as an oversized cough button for a podcasting rig. I must admit, since my Podcasting setup doesn’t use a board, I’ve always had a bit of cough button envy and the the MPU…
Continue reading →Reeder Sync
Macdrifter makes a great point about Reeder, it syncs really fast. I went and downloaded a few of the Google Reader apps I’d given up on in the past and sure enough, they all feel slow compared to Reeder. As much as I like…
Continue reading →Key Bindings with Mac OS X
With all of Mac OS X’s spit and polish, it is easy to forget there is a Unix computer under there. Reader Francois recently turned me on this excellent collection of Mac OS X key bindings. Take a long look. I’m sure you’ll find…
Continue reading →Join My Macworld Live Talk on May 12
Macworld Magazine is starting a new program where they feature an author for an online question and answer session. I’m going to be in San Francisco on May 12 at 11:00 a.m. PST to broadcast live and talk about Macs and iPads at work…
Continue reading →ePic Mac Picture Viewer
I’ve been playing with the ePic Picture viewer on my Mac and I like it. Even better, it is on sale for this weekend only.
Continue reading →Automating OmniFocus Task Entry
Since publishing the first screencast on capture, I’ve received several e-mails asking for a way to automate task creation based on a text list. The idea is making a task list in a text file and having your Mac convert it to tasks. While…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Wendy Cherwinski
I first met Wendy Cherwinski (twitter) in the Macworld speaker room several years ago. Wendy has this disarming, infectious smile and near encyclopedic knowledge of Keynote and presenting skills. It makes sense after all. Wendy pays her rent writing speeches and teaching people to…
Continue reading →OmniFocus Screencast Follow Up
Thanks everyone for the comments and questions about the second OmniFocus Screencast. There were a few questions in the feedback here and at MPU. I’m responding to them with this post. What no single action lists? I didn’t cover it but I do occasionally…
Continue reading →Home Screens In Depth
Mike Vardy did an interesting article about the whole home screen fixation, including a few quotes from yours truly.
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 48: Digging in on GoodReader
Mac Power Users Episode 48 is available for download. In this show, we cover GoodReader and iPad PDF Management. You can get it on iTunes here or on the web right here. Enjoy.
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