This week on MPU, David and I got nerdy about Finder and some Mac applications that can enhance it, or even replace it:
At the heart of the macOS experience is Finder, which is part file manager, part search tool and a whole lot more. Its smiling blue icon boasts many features, and third-party developers have written tools to make it even more powerful for those users who need more.
Stephen returns order to the podcast after two weeks away, Myke reads some Hex color codes and Federico turns on his hype machine.
We also talk about the death of Aperture, Overcast’s new sharing feature and Reeder 4.
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This week on Mac Power Users, Michael Hyatt joins David and I this week in an interview that ranges from how to get your life together and find a little focus to nerdy Keyboard Maestro scripts.
It was a lot of fun to talk to Michael about being a nerd who runs a growing business organization. My thanks to these sponsors:
The newest version of Overcast has a really nifty new feature, as explained by Marco Arment:
With today’s 2019.4 update, you can now share audio or video clips, up to a minute each, from any public podcast. Simply tap the share button in the upper-right corner.
You can generate an audio clip, or portrait, landscape, or square video, using your current Overcast theme setting.
Somewhat embarrassingly, I seem to have accidentally inspired this feature in an interview on Unco. Marco just popped up in a Slack private message with some screenshots, and I was really impressed at how well thought-out this feature is. It’s going to be a great addition to Overcast, and a really nice way to make podcasts more shareable.
Stephen and Jason talk the news, from blackholes to Beresheet, and spacesuits to backronyms. Then, a bit about the Crew Dragon anomaly.
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This week on MPU, David and I interviewed Rene Ritchie:
Over a year ago, long-time Apple blogger Rene Ritchie launched Vector, a daily YouTube show covering the world of Apple and tech beyond. This week, David and Stephen catch up with Rene, talking about his video workflows, YouTube as a platform and the future of the Mac and iOS.
Rene is one of the hardest-working people in our industry, and it was a lot of fun to hear more about he gets it all done.
Started as a terrible codename by some high school friends in the early 1970s, 420 is now a worldwide phenomenon.
This episode’s sponsor was a complete coincidence:
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— Backblaze (@backblaze) April 20, 2019
I didn’t make Connected this week, but the young men I record with did a great job talking about changes that may be coming to the iPad with iOS 13:
This week, in the absence of adult supervision, Myke and Federico discuss their new favorite time zone app and consider some recent iOS 13 rumors before Ticci talks about what arrived in his mailbox.
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This week marks the 10th anniversary of MacStories, and John asked me to write a column to help mark the occasion. His entire pitch to me was: “You’ve known Federico the longer than anyone else who writes on MacStories,” so I opted to write a bit about the history of Connected and its forerunner The Prompt:
“I think we should talk to Federico about joining the show.”
With that, my podcasting career – and life – got a lot better.
This week on MPU, David and I dive into the excellent journaling app Day One:
Journaling can be an excellent way to collect your thoughts and reflect on the events of the day, and Day One makes it easy to do so with your Mac, iPhone, iPad and more.
I was afraid that David was going to go all California on me here, but I think I ended up being the bigger hipper on this episode.
I wish I had thought of this draft idea.
This week on Connected, we cover a lot of ground:
Federico has discovered something terrible about his childhood, Stephen had an accident and Myke wants a new TV. After all of that is taken care of, the trio talk about a new iPad case that uses the Magic Keyboard and using macOS as an iPad app.
I’m not sure what is more shattered, Federico’s innocence or my Apple Watch.
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