Change Default Sync Times of OmniFocus For Mac and iOS In my post about OmniFocus and flagged Mail.app messages , I wrote that there's no way to tell the app to sync every few minutes. I was wrong. As reader Bill Pallmer told me, there are two settings to change the default sync behavior of…

New: Evernote: My Database of Knowledge http://t.co/oDldI3UV

Back in 2009, my setup was featured on Shawn Blanc’s website. Back then, I was running an Apple-Authorized Service Provider, only had one kid and used a desk I didn’t build with my own hands. In the last three years, my computing needs at home and at work have changed, I’ve changed jobs, had a…

I’ve written before about the interesting symbiosis that exists between militant atheism and religious fundamentalism — the way the Richard Dawkinses of the world are always eager to insist that a cartoonish figure like Pat Robertson represents the truest form of Christian faith, and that any…

[explainlikeimfive] "Obamacare" explained very well. submitted 5 years ago by under50dollars

(I am pushing this past the paywall, because I believe this to be one of the bigger news items we will see for a while and thus very important.) The changes Twitter made to their API ( as broken down in this post by Marco Arment ) are both predictable, significant, and dumb-foundingly stupid.…

OmniFocus by the Omni Group, Todo by Appigo, and Things by Cultured Code aren't simple todo list apps like the built-in Reminders. They're full on task managers with powerful features and work flows that help you get stuff done on time, and as efficiently as possible. Since your iPhone is almost…

July 14, 2012 Requiem For A Digg To me, the most interesting aspect of the Digg story is just how much of a central role the service has played in the larger story of our current tech scene. It was a key catalyst in the era of social that we now live in. And the company’s diaspora has seeded many of…

New: Part-Time Gig; Full-Time Frustration http://t.co/3HIs6X5v

Trolls, feel free to skip to the bottom of this column and post your comments immediately without reading a word. Actually, who are we kidding — you didn’t make it this far. Everyone else, brace yourselves. You may want small children to leave the room. I’m about to do something I don’t do often —…

Anybody who follows Apple with any sort of regularity knows that two things: The company is tight-lipped about plans and products. Bloggers will go crazy trying to report rumors about anything Apple may do. That’s two incredibly simple facts that most any Apple watcher/lover knows. Hell most avid…

I started writing this long before anyone knew about this change — in fact only a handful of people know about this change as I write this sentence. The change I am making today, has a huge potential to fail and this, I accept. Simply put: I hate the business model of this blog, well actually I…

Last week marked the 5-year anniversary of shawnblanc.net. Writing this site has been and continues to be a lot of work and a lot of fun. Thanks to all of you who have stopped by at some point over the past five years and stuck around to continue reading. And thanks to all the members who make it…

In a 5–4 decision, the Supreme Court today voted to uphold “Obamacare,” a set of laws concerning Americans’ access to healthcare. [1] (The actual name is the “Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.” ) Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the majority opinion, citing Congress’s power to tax as being…

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A few years ago, I came to the rather life-changing conclusion that God doesn’t exist. In the past couple of years, my friends and family have noticed me becoming more vocal about my skepticism of theism and my pointed disdain for religion. Many people in my family are fervently religious, and I…

The Sketchnoter - a new short video from @bartka about me and my sketchnotes - https://t.co/B4Y1zukh

In 2009, reading news on the iPhone was different. The App Store was only one year old ; Twitter wasn’t the information network adopted by mass media and millions of users we interact with today; there was no iPad, no universal apps, and no Flipboard . In 2009, reading news on an iPhone meant having…

My 3,500-word review of Reeder 3 for iPhone: http://t.co/xHLyYCaz

Spoiler Alert! Avoid reading this post if you haven’t seen The Avengers. No really, look away! O.k., let’s talk about The Avengers, the highest grossing movie so far this year, and the movie on track to potentially unseat James Cameron’s Avatar as highest grossing movie of all time. Specifically, I…

Over at iMore, Rene Ritchie has a post about the how and why of Apple revamping the way multi-tasking works in iOS 6. He has a lot of examples and some great thoughts. There is one major problem though: multi-tasking in iOS doesn’t need to be revamped. Apple needed to add multi-tasking, but they…

A look at the history of mobile multitasking and how Apple could implement better fast app switching in iOS 6 At Macworld 2007 Steve Jobs showed off mobile Safari's Page switching interface, but despite the operating system as a whole crying out for similar treatment, to this day Pages haven't…

I am now, officially, opted-out of Readlists 1 and after rejoicing on Twitter, Arc90 employee and Readability lead developer, Philip Forget, responded with a series of tweets. Since so many tweets were wrapped up in the conversation let me show you the series between just me and Forget: Here’s my…

Oris Regulateur Der Meistertaucher Watch The first watchmaker to create a dive-certified regulator in 1999, Oris knows a thing or two about dive watches. That extensive knowledge is applied to the updated Aquis collection and the Regulateur Der Meistertaucher. Each timepiece has a 43.5mm case made…

Logitech's Ultrathin Keyboard Cover (US$99) has been out for a while, but TUAW didn't receive a review device until last week. After a weekend of happily pounding on the keyboard and giving this shiny new product a workout, I'm pleased to say that it's the best iPad keyboard case I've reviewed so…

“That’s when we first noticed it, with Woody.” “[Larry Cutler] was in that directory and happened to be talking about installing a fix to Woody or Woody’s hat. He looked at the directory and it had like 40 files, and he looked again and it had four files.” “Then we saw sequences start to vanish as…

I was disappointed to find that there weren’t any good packages available for Sublime Text 2 that added decent Markdown editing features. I figured it was time to learn my way around. I still haven’t dug into Python, so my script-fu in there is weak right now. I got a few things working, though, and…

I'm a little crazy about user interface design. And while I am no professional, new ideas for how software could or should work can keep me up late into the night, sketching in my Moleskine. About a week ago a really simple idea hit me as I was falling asleep: the App Switcher in iOS should be…

The Home Work Podcast has become one of my favorite new shows. It’s short, and I’ve been learning a lot. About 3 weeks ago Dave and Aaron talked about what they call The Mental Office: Working from home isn’t always about notebooks, apps and office furniture. Much of it happens in the head, between…