This Apple Music radio show with Billie Eilish and her Dad is surprisingly good. music.apple.com
I hope Safari 14 on Big Sur brings better extensions. I’ve been a Safari loyalist but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to justify compared with Firefox/Edge/Chrome.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 18: grid with thanks to Black Ink by @danielpunkass 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 17: cuddly 📷 #mbaug
International Mac Nerds
Martin Feld, Jason Burk and I recorded a ‘pilot episode’ of a podcast idea we had been germinating.
Martin has been kind enough to host the episode on his site.
I have not listened to this album for a long time… but it’s still great. 🎶 music.apple.com
Setapp Audit
I’ve been a subscriber to Setapp since it launched. In fact, I participated in a pre-launch user interview to help the MacPaw team develop the offering.
I’ve been a happy customer, and I believe I may be grandfathered into an older plan because I am permitted two seats. This has traditionally been for two Macs, but with Setapp now commencing a formalised iOS offering, I suppose this now makes more sense as a Mac + iPad combination. It’s a shame that the second license doesn’t include unlimited iOS devices, but that’s their business decision to make.
Setapp is a subscription service, and good financial management suggests that one should occasionally audit subscriptions to ensure a good deal is still being attained.
To that end I have completed a quick audit of my Setapp usage.
It pretty clearly indicates that I’m still getting what I would consider reasonable value. Of course, the longer one subscribes, the more you trend towards ‘should have bought it’. But if the major applications release a major paid upgrade, then once again the subscription calculation improves.
All up, I will keep Setapp for another year. And start putting money away for the next years subscription straight away using a YNAB category!
| Software | Mac App Store Price $AU |
|---|---|
| Use Regularly | $414.90 |
| Meeter | $12.99 |
| MarsEdit | $79.99 |
| NotePlan | $46.99 |
| PDFpen | $124.99 |
| CleanMyMac X | $59.99 |
| Using Direct Licensed Versions | |
| BusyCal | |
| BusyContacts | |
| Use but Also Own | |
| iThoughts X | |
| Bartender | |
| Marked | |
| Use Sporadically | $225.98 |
| Meta | $35.00 |
| Path Finder | $36.00 |
| RapidWeaver | $129.99 |
| Dropshare | $24.99 |
| Use but Could Live Without | 89.95 |
| Receipts | $89.95 |
| AdGuard | |
| Default Folder X | |
| iStat Menus | |
| Elmedia Player | |
| Receipts | |
| Diagrams | |
| Capto | |
| Typeface | |
| Installed but Not Using | |
| Taskheat | |
| Screens | |
| Ulysses | |
| Tayasui Sketches | |
| MindNode | |
| Aqualero | |
| CleanShot X | |
| Permute | |
| Gifox | |
| SheetPlanner | |
| PDF Squeezer | |
| GlyphFinder | |
| ForkLift | |
| Sip | |
| World Clock Pro | |
| TextSoap | |
| Be Focused | |
| Photolemur | |
| CloudMounter | |
| Gemini | |
| Noizio | |
| Prizmo | |
| Squash |
14: Promoting my Other Podcast Projects
A quick audio interlude to let you know about my other current podcast projects:
- NBL Pocket Podcast
- A pilot episode with a working title of International Mac Nerds
Photoblogging Challenge Day 16: stationary 📷 #mbaug
Currently reading: Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout 📚
I had a blast recording an International Mac Nerds podcast with @martinfeld and @burk. We all met one another through micro.blog, so a big thanks to @manton and @macgenie for creating the rendezvous point.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 15: silhouette 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 14: the boy among the play equipment. 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 13: I think it’s time to clean the filter of our heater. 📷 #mbaug
Keep Practising 13: Interview with Patrick Canion
Andrew is joined by his brother, Patrick Canion to discuss his work and life, most notably how he has made the transition to living in Switzerland after spending his entire working life in Perth, Western Australia.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 12: sound 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 11: the best way to transport your turtles. 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 10: Nothing fancy today, just the windows at the front of my home. 📷 #mbaug
It might be my imagination but this Microblog Photo a Day challenge seems the best yet. Lots of interesting and high quality photos being shared. Thanks @macgenie for coordinating it all.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 9: black-and-white 📷 #mbaug
Have I only now discovered that when typing URLs in Markdown - I don’t need the //. I can type https:url.com. For how long has this been a thing?
Photoblogging Challenge Day 8: As a parent this makes for a nice view 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 7: daytripping 📷 #mbaug
How can the input levels of two USB microphones be so different? The Rode Podcaster barely registers a waveform while the Audio Technica ATR-2100x is ready to blow past the point of clipping. Both USB mics. It’s doing my head in trying to level them against one another. 🎙 🎤