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:

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