NICECAST LISTEN ON IPHONE UPDATE
NICECAST LISTEN ON IPHONE SOFTWARE

I use Numbers to make pretty charts and graphs when I need to. I make most of my presentations in Keynote when I can. I have Microsoft Office but only really use it when I need to exchange files with someone else at my company who speaks Excel or Word or PowerPoint. I keep track of my podcasts in a Google Sheet, and when I’m collaborating with colleagues on a story we’ll use a Google Doc for that. I started my first novel in BBEdit and OmniOutliner, and that worked okay, but Scrivener combines the way I used both of those apps, and the combination works for me, so I’ve adopted it now.įor shared projects and collaborations, I use Google Docs. If I’m writing something more than about 5,000 words long, I will switch to Scrivener so I can use its organizational tools, which allow me to switch between written segments and an outliner. I’ve written three (unpublished and in need of rewriting) novels, and did most of those in Scrivener, which is an excellent tool for longer work. I’m also a big user of regular expressions (“grep”), and BBEdit’s got powerful grep support, so I use that a lot to transmogrify text. I mostly write in Markdown these days, not because I don’t know HTML but because I find Markdown a bit easier to type and harder to make typos in, so the HTML I generate from Markdown tends to be cleaner than the HTML I’d type by hand. As a result, all the trappings of the Microsoft Words of the world really just get in my way.

I’m not creating business documents that are going to a laser printer - I’m writing words that will get poured into a CMS or perhaps printed on dead trees. I do most of my writing in BBEdit, which I’ve been using since the early 1990s, I believe. The usual, boring stuff is Apple Mail, iTunes, Calendar, Reminders, Messages, and the official Twitter app (because I am addicted to the Connect tab).

NICECAST LISTEN ON IPHONE SOFTWARE

(I realize we’re talking Mac here, but just as an aside, my mobile devices of choice are an iPhone 5S, an iPad mini with Retina display, and a Kindle Paperwhite.) What software do you use and for what do you use it? (You can snag my wallpaper here, straight from NASA.) I’ve got a Twelve South BookArc, Logitech keyboard, and Apple Magic Trackpad in both places: At work it’s hooked up to an Apple Thunderbolt Display, and if I’m in my office at home it’s hooked up to a 24-inch Dell monitor via a Belkin Thunderbolt dock. I carry it back and forth from home to work every day, and it’s only a laptop when I want it to be.

NICECAST LISTEN ON IPHONE UPDATE

It’s the “maxed out” system we used in our testing for these models, which I then snagged as an update for my prior laptop, which was a 2011-model 11” MacBook Air. My one and only Mac is an 11-inch MacBook Air (mid 2013), with a 1.7GHz Core i7 processor, 8GB of memory, and a 500GB SSD. The house (which we’ve had since 1999) is small, but you can’t beat the location. We’re just north of the Golden Gate Bridge. I live in Mill Valley, California, with my wife and two kids. In my spare time I also do The Incomparable, a weekly podcast about geeky pop culture that has somehow turned into a podcast network of its own. I’m the editorial director at IDG Consumer, so I manage the editorial group that runs Macworld, PCWorld, TechHive, and Greenbot. New setup interviews are posted every Monday follow us on RSS or Twitter to stay up to date. We do these interviews because not only are they fun, but a glimpse into what tools someone uses and how they use those tools can spark our imagination and give us an idea or insight into how we can do things better. Every week we try to post a new interview with someone about what software they use on their Mac, iPhone, or iPad.

Nicecast listen on iphone