Mac Power Users

509: Brent Simmons, Man of Many Hats

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Stephen and David are joined by Brent Simmons, who works in marketing at The Omni Group. They talk about the tools of the trade, including social media and content creation before shifting gears to discuss Brent's RSS reader, NetNewsWire and where the Mac could be heading.

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    Links and Show Notes: Support Mac Power Users with a Relay FM Membership Brent Simmons (@brentsimmons) / Twitter inessential: weblog MPU Talk: Gift Guide Thread Keyboard Shortcuts for Navigating & Selecting Text on the Mac Working Copy, Git on iOS The Omni Show Blog - The Omni Group RT — Best Practical Solutions BBEdit 13 Drafts Grammarly Byword Automators #34: Getting Cozy with Regular Expressions - Relay FM OmniOutliner for Mac Mattermost: Open Source, Self-hosted Slack Alternative Saying goodbye to Flash in Chrome - Google Thoughts on Flash - Apple Twitterrific MarsEdit 4 Micro.blog iA Writer NetNewsWire: Open Source RSS Reader for Mac UserLand Software - Wikipedia NetNewsWire on GitHub Apple Extended Keyboard II Acorn 6 Flume
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