Tag: TidBITS
How to Identify High-Performance GPU Apps on the MacBook Pro
Talking about the new MacBook Pro with Touch Bar on the MacJury podcast last week brought up battery life and how initially the new machines suffered from a problem where the discrete graphics processor (GPU) was running when it shouldn’t. A system update fixed that problem, but sometimes an application might be forcing the GPU ...
iPad Pro: Not a Question of If, Son, but Which One?
My esteemed colleague Julio Ojeda-Zapata knows that you should buy an iPad Pro if you’re in the market for a new tablet, but which model? The 12.9-inch model has a beautiful screen and faster performance, while the 9.7-inch model is a bit lighter and offers the True Tone display (and a wider color gamut). In ...
How Lightroom for iOS 2.4 Changes the Mobile Photo Landscape
Over at TidBITS, I write in more depth about the changes in Lightroom for iOS 2.4, and they’re doozies: Lightroom for iOS 2.4 Changes Mobile Photo Workflow. As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, adding native raw file format support to Adobe’s mobile photo editor is a big deal, especially for people who are ...
iPhone 6s, 6s Plus, and watchOS 2 Coverage at TidBITS
Today was a busy day: Apple introduced the iPad Pro, a new Apple TV, the iPhone 6s and iPhone 6s Plus, and announced release dates for iOS 9 and watchOS 2 for the Apple Watch (both September 16), and for OS X El Capitan (September 30). You can watch the keynote video here. I followed ...
New Article: MyPhotostream Review at TidBITS
Over the weekend I published a short review of MyPhotostream at TidBITS, a simple application on the Mac that lets you view your iCloud Photo Stream photos without having to open iPhoto or Aperture (the only official methods for viewing them on a Mac). I like the app’s approach, although it has some interface oddities. ...
Aperture’s Golden Hour
It seemed fitting that I heard the news that Apple is sunsetting Aperture while I was attending a photo seminar. Aperture has been largely dormant for the past three years, and as I commented to Jackie Dove in an article at The Next Web, “I have to admit, on one level I’m a bit relieved ...
Two Mac Articles to Share: Mac at 30 and OmniOutliner 4
Two Mac-related articles of mine were published this week: My latest Practical Mac column at the Seattle Times celebrates the 30th (!!) birthday of the Macintosh, looking back at the original model and how much of its appearance and influence have continued to the present: Mac is still with us, even thriving 30 years later. ...
Chapter 8 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Now Available
We’re almost there. The latest chapter of my book Take Control of Your Digital Photos is now online for TidBITS Members, and it’s an important one: “Back Up and Archive Your Photos.” Digital photography is great in that you can shoot and store so many photos, but a failed hard disk can wipe them out. ...
Chapter 7 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Now Available
If you’re a TidBITS Member, head over to read the latest chapter of my book-in-progress Take Control of Your Digital Photos, “Organize Photos into (Smart) Albums.” In this installment, I assemble all the work we’ve put into tagging and rating photos to quickly locate images. I also explain why I rarely use regular albums, opting ...
Chapter 6 of Take Control of Your Digital Photos Is Now Available
We’re getting to the end of my serialized book Take Control of Your Digital Photos, and Chapter 6 is a doozy. In this new section, “Assign Keywords and Other Data,” I take a step beyond the advice earlier about assigning metadata during import and look at ways to efficiently tag your photos with additional metadata. ...
