At first I was a skeptic about Hey. Why would I want to toss aside all other email apps? Why would I want to pay for email when Gmail is free? Then I started using it and I was impressed, but still skeptical. It was good, but $99/year good?
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This is the first year that I've had a serious YouTube presence, so I moved my annual concept/wishlist for the new version of watchOS over there this time. Check out the video below, but if you wanted a summary, here's what I cover: Always-on screen improvmentsControl Center complicationsBetter recent
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When you add up house work, dog walking, and some busy work during my day job, I have quite a bit of time to devote to audio entertainment, and my time is split between podcasts and audiobooks. If you ask me what of those two mediums I get more value
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Here's what I expect Apple to do in 2021 with the: MaciPadiPhoneApple WatchHomePodApple TVI also put some hopes out there that may not happen, but I would be over the moon if any of them come true. Check it out below!
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Welcome to 2021! 2020 was a terrible year for so many reasons, and I know all of us are anxious to start what feels like it's going to be a truly different year. So before you go off and start looking for new things to buy, first consider what problems
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We’re almost to the new year, and I wanted to do a quick overview of how my numerous side projects are going, and what I plan to do in the new year. Think of it as a state of the union for BirchTree and all its related things. BirchTreeThis
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The Theme System is a cool idea from Myke Hurley and CGP Gray (co-hosts of the excellent Cortex podcast) and it's an alternative way to approach something like a New Year's resolution if New Year's resolutions don't work for you. This video goes over the problems with resolutions, what The
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I've talked about this before in numerous videos, so I wanted to make a single, focused video on the basics of why ScreenFlow's animation system is so freaking easy to use compared to what I'm used to doing in other video editing apps. Enjoy!
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Check out the first issue over there (#46 total) and you can subscribe there if you have not already. As a refresher for those who don't follow along, Birch Bark is a weekly newsletter (delivered every Friday morning), aimed at giving you my favorite things I found on the web
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Every other year I set up a quike survey for myself to take every night to track a few things in my life. These are things I'm either interested in improving, while others are just general curiosities. I'm publishing this on Christmas Eve, so I'm missing the last week of
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