This week’s episode of the Mac Power Users is our annual gift guide. Katie and I looked high and low this year and we came up with some great picks. We also had some great ideas from the community and added those as well. The worst part of this episode (for me) is where I say confidently that I think the HomePod will ship in December. Apparently, Apple disagrees with that optimism.

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In this week’s episode of the Mac Power Users, we share our initial thoughts and impressions of the iPhone X. Also, Austin Mann, having recently finished his Guatemala trip with the iPhone X shares his thoughts on photography with the iPhone including shooting technique, photography applications, and useful accessories.

This week on the Mac Power Users app developer and business owner David “Underscore” Smith joins us to share his favorite hardware, software, and workflows. David is truly an “indie” developer and figured out some workflows that could really help anyone trying to make a go of it.

We’ve been talking off-and-on about home automation on the Mac Power Users for a few years now. This week, we invited home automation professional Robert Spivack and dug deep on home automation. There is lots of good stuff in here about the gear that works and where all of this is heading.

It’s time to clear out the big questions list again. In this episode, we cover strategy for buying an iPhone X, where we stand with AppleCare, the status of our dongles, iPhone storage options, presenting, the best voice-in-a-can solutions, and how we’re using social media.

It seems like we just recorded our first show of the Mac Power Users a few days ago yet this week we released episode 400. Crazy. This episode is all about four things. Katie and I picked four of our favorite things in multiple tech categories of hardware and software. There are some gems in there. Also, since we hit episode 400, we went back to our roots with the theme music and it sounds great.

This week, our original workflow guest, Merlin Mann, returns to the show to share how he’s getting so much work done on the iPad these days and the other bits of technology that make him happy.

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The latest episode of Mac Power Users is up. I spent a lot of time in the betas this year and this show dives deep on my favorite new features and how to put them to work for you.

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• Squarespace: Make your next move. Enter offer code MPU at checkout to get 10% off your first purchase.
• 1Password Have you ever forgotten a password? Now you don’t have to worry about that anymore. 
• Fujitsu ScanSnap ScanSnap Helps You Live a More Productive, Efficient, Paperless Life. 
• Fracture Bring your photos to life.

This week’s show includes our takeaways from the September 12 Apple event. We dive deep on the new hardware, and I give Katie a hard time about buying a new iPhone. We also start discussing the features available in iOS 11, which will ship in just a few days. I’ve spent a lot of time using this beta software and have some thoughts and ideas on what works and what doesn’t and how to get the most out of it.

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In this feedback episode, we cover listener questions, must-have iOS utilities, tagging, automation, and more feedback. Finally, we discuss the Apple iPhone event scheduled for September 12.

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• Fracture: Bring your photos to life.