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.
My decision to get a Verizon MiFI card just keeps looking better and better.
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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.
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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.
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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 readingThis 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.
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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 readingI 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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Yesterday I joined in the recording of Mac Roundtable #71 along with Chuck Joiner, Steve Stanger, and Victor Cajiao. I wasn’t actually planning on participating in this episode but when I saw that cast, I couldn’t resist. They are some of my very favorite podcasters. The episode is heavy on rumor and speculation but also lots of fun. Check it out. Also, thanks to Chuck for editing and turning the show around in about 12 hours. Amazing.
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Gizmodo published some interesting pieces this week about Microsoft’s new tablet, the Courier. This product appears very much rooted in Microsoft’s traditional tablet computer space with a pen but also incorporates some interesting touch features. Frankly, some of them are so close to the iPhone gestures that I wonder if there won’t be a patent fight. Regardless, I’m glad to see Microsoft getting in the space. It looks like an innovative device but I’m not sure how well hinging two screens together is going to work in the long run. I suspect Apple’s eventual entry will be quite different. Frankly, if someone brought a hinged iBook tablet thingy in Steve Jobs’ office, he would probably leave with it lodged in certain unmentionable places. The good news is there appears to be a lot of innovation around computing lately and that can only be a good thing.
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