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Katie and David sit down with John Gruber of Daring Fireball to discuss the origins of his site, how he finds and publishes the news and how he uses his Mac and iOS.
Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!
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Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games and the very first sports arcade video game.
The Texas Instruments TI-99/4A was an early home computer, released in June 1981, originally at a price of US$525.
The Atari 2600 is a home video game console released in September 1977 by Atari, Inc.
QuarkXPress is a computer application for creating and editing complex page layouts in a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) environment.
The Gopher protocol is a TCP/IP application layer protocol designed for distributing, searching, and retrieving documents over the Internet.
Myriad is a humanist sans-serif typeface designed by Robert Slimbach and Carol Twombly for Adobe Systems.
For the last 12 years, John Gruber’s tracked the modern era of Apple on Daring Fireball, his personal web site turned full-time job. Bootstrapped with reader contributions and shirt sales, John’s thoughtful approach to sponsorship allowed him to remain fiercely independent, while working on projects like Markdown, The Talk Show, and Vesper, his minimalist note-taking app.
Textile is a lightweight markup language originally developed by Dean Allen for use in the Textpattern CMS and billed as a "humane web text generator".
Special guest David Sparks joins the show for the first time. Topics include “power users”, Markdown, Apple Watch, the new MacBook, iCloud Photo Syncing and the new Photos for Mac, WWDC, and wearing slippers as “work” shoes.
Monaco is a monospaced sans-serif typeface designed by Susan Kare and Kris Holmes. It ships with OS X and was already present with all previous versions of the Mac operating system.
Psychiatrist, musician, geek, and author Kourosh Dini guests to explain why managing tasks is so hard and, with that knowledge, how to use technology to get work done.
Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!
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Kourosh Dini
Kourosh Dini, physician and author of "Creating Flow with OmniFocus", joins David.
David comes to us from WWDC to recap the announcements of the next generation for OS X, iOS, watchOS and Apple's new Music Service as well as discuss community events around the developer conference.
Smile:
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El Capitan is a vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park, located on the north side of Yosemite Valley, near its western end.
ARM is a family of instruction set architectures for computer processors developed by British company ARM Holdings, based on a reduced instruction set computing (RISC) architecture.
to have developed a product and just started shipping it, only to have Apple come along and provide exactly the same functionality in a system update. It happened to Karelia Software twice. Once with Sherlock and again with iWeb.
Recorded in front of a live audience at Mezzanine in San Francisco, John Gruber is joined by Phil Schiller to discuss the news from WWDC: OS X 10.11 El Capitan, iOS 9, the new native app SDK for Apple Watch, Apple Music, and the 2004 American League Championship series.
iTunes Ping, also known simply as Ping, was a software-based, music-oriented social networking and recommender system service developed and operated by Apple Inc.
Introducing the first music streaming service that connects artists with fans through the best High Fidelity sound quality, High Quality music videos and expertly Curated Editorial.
Jeff Richardson of iPhone JD joins David and Katie to chat about the Apple Watch, we follow-up on Dropbox,Photos.app and photo workflows meal planning, DevonThink, DevonThink, storing items locally without sacrificing drive space and travel tips.
The Omni Group We're passionate about productivity for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Squarespace Everything you need to create an amazing website.
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Jean MacDonald, founder of App Camp For Girls joins Katie and David to talk about her experiences creating a nonprofit. Jean discusses the genesis of App Camp, generating community support, the logistics of running, funding and marketing.
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Colleen Wainwright from Communicatrix.com joins Katie and David to talk about how she gets ahead with Apple technologies.
Katie and David are joined by Jean MacDonald, who explains how she goes about marketing and running a small software company with Apple technology, Jean's budding education as an App developer, and her new project, App Camp for Girls.
Katie and David sit down with Christa Mrgan to talk about creating user interfaces, getting started in design, music and the upcoming Layers conference.
Our exclusive sponsor for this episode: Smile:
With productivity boosters like the PDFpen Family and TextExpander, Smile makes you a Mac Power User.
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Details on the Mac Power Users matching fund offer and how to participate.
We've had our Apple Watches for a couple of weeks now. Katie and David discuss how they're using the watch and how it fits into their workflow so far.
Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!
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Fracture
This episode was recorded the day before the 1.0.1 software update for Apple Watch was released. (Of course!) We'll share our thoughts on the fixes/improvements in 1.0.1 on the next MPU Live
Yes. David takes notes in the shower.
Merlin Mann returns for his annual visit to Mac Power Users. We discuss hardware and software updates and if it's necessary to keep up the latest and greatest, Merlin's growing use of iOS over Mac OS, and kids and technology use.
Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!
Smile Typing more with less effort using TextExpander on OS X and iOS makes you a Mac Power User.
The Omni Group We're passionate about productivity for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
lynda.com Learn software, business and creative skills.
Automatic Drive smarter and safer with the Automatic car adapter – get 20% off, exclusive for listeners. Use coupon code: MACPOWER.
Merlin Mann
In our first "Workflows" episode we talk with Merlin Mann, or as David calls him, the "Hero of Nerds." Merlin discussed how he uses his Mac for his work and the applications he uses to be more productive. This extra long episode is packed with geeky goodness.
David and Katie sit down again with Merlin Mann. Merlin updates us on his workflows and his latest projects.
Merlin Mann joins Katie and David for the 2012 version of Merlin's workflow interviews. This year, Merlin explains some of his favorite iOS apps, Mac apps, and web services.
Returning for his annual appearance, Merlin Mann joins Katie and David to talk Evernote, GTD, iPad, Podcasting and his favorite Apps.
Merlin Mann returns to Mac Power Users for his annual visit. This year we dive deep into Merlin's new obsession with home automation and talk about what makes some apps stick while others never do.
David and Katie dive deep into the new Workflow.app and discuss how it's a game changer for iOS Automation and provide sample workflows.
David and Katie discuss the use of technology in education including apps and workflows for both the student and teacher.
This episode is packed with listener feedback and tips. We talk with Deron Bos about the benefits of digital meal planning, follow-up on DEVONThink workflows, discuss our RSS feeds, managing small SSDs, resources for a new iPhone user, better fonts for iOS and David discusses his new MacBook.
Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!
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David and Katie chat with NASA Scientist Skip Owens about how he uses his Mac to put rovers on Mars.
David and Katie dive deep on Apple's new Photos.app for the Mac and discuss how this changes workflows for photo management.
Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!
The Omni Group We're passionate about productivity for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Squarespace Everything you need to create an amazing website.
lynda.com Learn software, business and creative skills.
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