Mac Power Users Episode 43 is our backup talk recorded live on Macworld Expo show floor. It is not as long as our normal episode as a result, but a good overview. It was a lot of fun engaging with the audience. You can…
Listen & read notes →Secure Data in Your Pocket?
The not-so-surprising news this week is that if someone gets physical possession of your stuff, there is a really good chance they’ll get the electronic bits too. Remember to get a separate secured database on those mobile devices (like 1Password secure notes) so there…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Brett Terpstra
Brett Terpstra (twitter) is my kind of nerd. He is an ingenious programmer that makes useful stuff all day (like nvALT and InstapaperBeyond). In my mind, Brett is like some benevolent mad scientist who takes things I love (like TextExpander and Notational Velocity) and…
Continue reading →The Joy of Text
Why I Love Text Files Over the last few years I’ve woken up to the problem of how I store my digital words. Up until recently, I just wrote in whatever word processor was the flavor of the month. As a result my digital…
Continue reading →The OmniFocus Screencasts
I’m now officially in production on the mother-of-all-OmniFocus screencasts. Note the plural. My initial idea of doing it as one big show isn’t going to work, too long. I’ve got an outline and most of the recording done for the first episode, Capture. It…
Continue reading →Supercharge TextExpander
Brett Terpstra has coded some remarkable TextExpander snippets including: the ability to auto hyphenate the clipboard encode e-mail addresses paste markdown referenced auto generate markdown references from your clipboard create lorum ipsum text using text from word lists from Dune, Foundation, Ringworld, Harry Potter,…
Continue reading →Mac Roundtable at Macworld
Macworld has kindly posted the video of the Mac Roundtable talk about the future of the Mac OS and iOS from the Macworld show floor. Enjoy! Sadly there was a problem with the video for the Mac Power Users live show so that episode…
Continue reading →Talking to iOS
At Macworld last week, Nuance, makers of DragonDictate for Mac and iOS announced the release of their own software development kit to embed Dragon’s voice recognition technologies in iOS apps. I think this is a big deal. Third party app developers should now be…
Continue reading →Do Stuff
The above is one of my favorite slides from my OmniFocus presentation at Macworld. A little known secret about me is that in addition to being a computer nerd, I also enjoy woodworking. Several years ago a friend gave me an amazing Japanese pull…
Continue reading →Eddie Joins the Club …
And curates a nice list of OmniFocus links including a few by yours truly.
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