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And I thought I’d sleep through Texas, but I woke up in Illinois
And the car in the lane next to me was driven by a little boy
And he flashed a smile at me then he drove straight off the road
Smacked an overpass, I watched his car explode
And when she wakes me from my delirium
I know I’m no longer fun
For her
Ronnie Fauss does a fantastic cover of my favorite song of one of my all-time favorite bands.
(via Twang Nation)
Turned north just south of Arkansas
“Once APFS becomes available, Apple plans to make the process of switching to the new file system incredibly simple. You won’t need to back up your data and start again with a fresh OS install, thank God. Instead, there will be an option to seamlessly transition all your devices without losing any of your files.”
Cult of Mac (who I still haven’t completely forgiven for this).
Apple (and those of us who rely on its products) needs a new, modern, uniform file system. No, it’s not some sexy new feature. But it is integral to the efficiency and future of the devices we use. All we can ask is that the transition is as painless as possible. So far, it looks like it will be.
“Evernote cites ‘building the Evernote of tomorrow’ as one of the reasons for the price increase. The problem is, we as users really haven’t seen much of a change in their service. For example, using Evernote as a basic notetaker is still a fairly painful experience. Exporting and sharing documents from Evernote is not as easy as it should be. I’m all for innovation, but asking the users to pay for it before you deliver is going to be a tough sell.“
Katie Floyd, long-time Evernote user.
That’s a really good take. I’ve been a Premium Evernote user for many, many years. But even before this latest price increase, I’d cancelled my auto-renew, and moved my Notes to Apple’s Notes app. The Notes app needs a lot of work, but Apple is chipping away at it. And the fact is, I don’t really need a lot of bells and whistles on my note taking app. I need two things.
One, the ability to file, manage and find as needed pdfs and other files, as a digital file cabinet for my paperless archival system. For a long time I used Evernote for this. Over time I realized I don’t need a separate, dedicated app for archiving and accessing documents. Finder on my Mac, combined with Dropbox on all my devices, does this as well or better than Evernote. Sure, I have to pay for Dropbox, but I’m going to do that anyway, so Evernote feels like an unnecessary spend.
Two, a simple but reasonably featured note taking app to take and keep notes for quick reference and some projects-in-progress. Apple’s Notes app does this well enough. It doesn’t handle pdfs perfectly, but it handles them well enough for quick reference purposes, again with the heavy archival lifting done via Finder and Dropbox. And as bad as Notes is with pdfs, it handles them way, way better than OneNote. I tried for 2 weeks to take notes and manage project materials in OneNote. It just didn’t work for me. At all.
So my current workflow is based on my ScanSnap scanner, scanning to designated folders, viewed and managed via Finder and backed up and synced via Dropbox. With quick notes and oft-used reference cards residing in the Notes app. Oh, and Google Keep serving as a free and handy cross-platform clipboard as needed.
Before today, I figured I’d continue to use my free Evernote account for something. But the 2-device limit makes that infeasible. I’m not mad at Evernote for trying to make more money. I understand. It’s just that the price hike on the heels of so little feature advancement leads me to pass.
Good luck Evernote, we had a good ride.
I consume most of my music via Rancho Radio, my hand-curated, publicly available Spotify playlist. But sometimes I want to tune into to another source, and let it play while I’m working, or sitting on the back porch. Fortunately for me, the best radio station on the planet is just down Highway 290 a ways, in Austin.
Sun Radio, solar powered Americana. From Austin. In Texas. USA.
Fortunately for you, you can listen to this fine music from anywhere, via the magic of the internets. You can also play Sun Radio through your Sonos (search for Sun Radio via TuneIn, and look for the logo).
That no one is talking about.
I’m pretty excited about Sierra the forthcoming new and renamed macOS. I installed the developer preview on my MacBook Pro. It’s my primary machine, so that was a stupid thing to do, and I don’t recommend it.
Citrix, a company guaranteed to be behind the curve on protocol deprecations, has not released a public beta of its Citrix Receiver, so I had to install El Capitan on a USB stick to boot into when connecting to my office. My ScanSnap scanner software doesn’t work. But otherwise, things are remarkably stable for the first (of many) beta versions.
9 to 5 Mac has a good hands-on video with many of the new features.
But the best feature, however, is that at long last…
Zoom levels in Safari are sticky!!! This will, at long last, allow me to switch from Chrome to Safari. I’m very happy about that, because there are many advantages to working within the Apple environment.
Tangled, by Brent Best, formerly of Slobberbone. From the fantastic Your Dog, Champ.
And The Bird Hunters, from the Turnpike Troubadours’ self titled record.
Those of us who grew up out in the country, bird hunting with our dads, uncles and friends, behind legendary Pointers who now occupy dusty frames on our favorite walls will have a hard time not getting a little misty-eyed over the old bird dog named Jim and the Belgium-made Browning, like those many of us inherited from people we idolized.
