It’s time for an update on Mac at Work, the Book. The writing is done and the whole pile of 90,000 words is out of my hands. The book is now going through the printing process which, as best as I can tell, either…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Fletcher Penney
I’ve always admired Fletcher Penney and the work he did developing MultiMarkdown. Recently, I convinced Fletcher to join us on the Mac Power Users Markdown/MultiMarkdown episode and was delighted to find what a nice person Fletcher is. Anyway, Fletcher loves his iPad and agreed…
Continue reading →BusyCal 1.5 Releases
BusyCal 1.5 is now out officially supporting MobileMe’s CalDav protocol letting users once again use BusyCal with their MobileMe calendars. I’ve been using the beta for several months and approve. Some would argue BusyCal’s utility is diminished with MobileMe now including calendar sharing. I…
Continue reading →Win the Smile Productivity Suite
The Mac Power Users and Smile are sponsoring a contest where you can win a free copy of Smile’s Productivity Suite including PDFpen Pro, TextExpander, DiscLabel and PageSender – a $129 value. In order to enter, download Smile’s DiscLabel and make some labels. Send…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 38: iTunes Intensive
Mac Power Users Episode 38 is live. Katie and I cover media management and iTunes including playlists, media storage, and other iTunes power tips. You can get it on iTunes here or on the web right here. Enjoy.
Listen & read notes →SSD Performance Degradation
Allan Morris ran an interesting series of benchmarks on his Crucial SSD when it was new and then later after use and found performance remained largely the same. I’m curious to see if the MacBook Air’s SSD holds up as well.
Continue reading →iPad Keynote, Still No Remote
In addition to releasing the 4.2 iPad update this week, Apple also updated Keynote for iPad. The update solves several shortcomings with the prior version including an overhaul of the presenter display. You can now see your presenter notes or the next slide on…
Continue reading →The New MacBook Air
I suddenly find myself driving a shiny new MacBook Air and am scratching my head as to how I ended up here, again. So here I am to share my impressions of this bit of squashed genius and how it fits in the Apple…
Continue reading →Symbolic Link Service
Creating an Alias in Mac OS X is easy. Hold down the Option + Command keys and drag a file to some new location. Just like that you’ve got an Alias, which is, essentially, a pointer to the original file. The truth is, however,…
Continue reading →More on Facebook
Ben Brooks is spot on about Facebook. The only thing I’d add is a rant about the devious way Facebook hides privacy settings for its users. I recently helped my 14 year old get a Facebook account (I know!). After we had the long…
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