Alfred is a powerful, extensible launcher and Spotlight-replacement for OS X. Pinboard is an excellent, no-nonsense online bookmarking system.
Through the use of some simple workflows, Alfred can be used to search Pinboard quickly. While this does require Alfred’s Powerpack, you probably should already be using it, as it’s awesome.
While there are some excellent workflows out there for Alfred and Pinboard out there, I really just want the ability to search the site from anywhere on OS X.
This week, Jason Snell puts on his best Italian accent and joins Stephen and Myke to talk about online collaboration, keyboards and the third rail of 5by5 podcasting — comic books.
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Microsoft’s released a product that the Apple fanboy in your life will love for Christmas.
Rusty Ross has written the definitive guide to VPN Server on Mavericks. If you’re thinking about upgrading, or have and are seeing issues, this article is for you.
Let’s be honest: the iOS experience is really all about the third-party apps.
Let’s be honest about something else: the difference between good apps and bad apps can be huge.
Let’s be honest about one last thing: discovery in the App Store kinda sucks.
Now that group therapy is over, I’d like to tell you about something I like: Shawn Blanc’s new site, The Sweet Setup. It sets out to become a catalogue of the best apps (iOS and otherwise) out there. Not the newest; the best.
Peter Kafka:
Apple has signed on more video providers for its Apple TV box: Yahoo is now offering its Yahoo Screen service on the Web video gadget, and PBS has created an app that lets users watch some, but not all, of its shows.
Neither channel requires users to authenticate as cable subscribers, which is great. More content providers should be doing this.
Time Machine Server can be great. With enough storage, it’s easy to backup multiple Macs to a single location, leaving the worry about USB drives being stolen or Thunderbolt drives not being plugged in behind. With Mavericks Server OS X Server 3, Apple has improved the service with better disk space controls (as long as all clients are running Mavericks as well) in addition to an easy-to-use dashboard to see what clients are backing up when and how much space the backups are using.
Katie Fehrenbacher at Gigaom breaks down the massive solar farm Apple’s built in North Carolina. This made me chuckle:
Apple manages the grass under the panels in a variety of ways, but one of those is a little more unusual. Apple works with a company that ropes in sheep that eat the grass on a portion of the solar farm; when the sheep finish grazing on one spot, they’re moved to the next.
Voila is the most powerful screen capturing software available for your Mac. Voila lets you capture and record content and then easily share it with friends and co-workers or upload it to the web.
Voila is the perfect screen recorder for your Mac. You can easily make high-quality product demos, DIY app simulations, and tutorials. Create interactive content by recording your Mac screen along with audio and all your click streams. Then complete your screencast by annotating your screenshots with professional tools and features. Record like a pro and publish your final project to FTP/SFTP, Tumblr, Dropbox, Evernote, and YouTube with Voila.
Bryan Cranston explains the link between Malcom in the Middle and Breaking Bad with a little scene from the Wilkerson bedroom.
I’m no stranger to the iPad. I’ve had the original, the iPad 2, the iPad with Retina display and the iPad mini.
Over the years and through the generational changes, I’ve used my iPads for the same core set of tasks:
When the iPad mini came out last year, I jumped on it, excited to be able to do these things with something I could put in a coat pocket. In fact, I closed my iPad mini review this way:
It’s nice to see Apple taking action here, but how is the company just now adding printer support? I know the service is in beta, but even that label seems a touch generous.
Update: Over on Twitter, Dave Chartier writes:
FWIW, I think Apple subscribes to the traditional definition of “beta.” Things are busted, features are missing.
That’s a great point. Before Gmail’s five years of beta, the term was used for something that was rough and incomplete. The word has lost its meaning, perhaps leaving iWork for iCloud stuck with a check it can’t cash quite yet.