Reading Time: < 1 minute If you’re interested in buying a Keychron mechanical keyboard or other parts, Keychron is having a site-wide 20% off sale now through Monday, March 7th. Keychron makes a number of mechanical keyboards that are very popular with Mac users. A few months ago I purchased a Keychron Q1 QMK Custom Mechanical Keyboard. I got a …
Reading Time: 6 minutes As they say, “There’s an app for everything.” If you need help in establishing and continuing a morning routine, you might find apps helpful. They can remind you what activities you intend to complete and keep you on track by making them easily available. Give it a try and see if it works for you.
Reading Time: < 1 minute Early this morning, around 6:30 am, I read the posts collected on my RSS reader, Feedly. There were at least two articles from major Apple news blogs stating that there would not be an Apple event next week as many expected. The articles expressed disappointment. A few hours later, I visited the MacSparky website to …
Reading Time: 4 minutes This week has been a busy one for me. I decided to learn how to screencast. Screencasting, or screen recording, is producing a video file (or live streaming) that contains an image of what is on your computer screen (in my case a Mac, iPad, or iPhone), along with vocal narration.
Reading Time: 2 minutes I like being surprised, amazed, and delighted by what Apple announces at events. If I read the articles and the speculation is correct, it’s almost anticlimactic when the actual announcements are made. That takes a lot of the fun out of Apple events for me.
Reading Time: 2 minutes The motivation for our practice comes from our seeing a need, a problem. We seek to solve that problem or need with our personal contribution by teaching, blogging, podcasting, writing. Godin calls this a “generous practice” because at heart its genesis is our desire to help others.
Reading Time: 4 minutes I enjoy typing on a mechanical keyboard in a way I didn’t with the quiet standard Apple Keyboards. I like the clicky, more mechanical feel of the keyboard. It makes me feel like I’m typing on a “big boy” keyboard, and sets me in the proper mode to write. I look forward to typing on it.
Reading Time: 2 minutes This past week Flexibits, the publisher of the calendar app Fantastical, released version 3.6 with several new and enhanced features.
Reading Time: 3 minutes When the new AirPods 3 came out, I read that they had a different design. Some reviewers indicated that they might be a better fit for some people. I decided to order a pair and see how they fit. Since Apple has a 14-day return policy, I could always return them if they didn’t fit better than my old ones.
Reading Time: 2 minutes My reason for starting this blog is to make my unique contribution to the blogging communities that I have learned so much from in the past years. I’m the kind of person who enjoys learning about new things, simplifying and structuring them, then creating projects to communicate my learning to others.