Every time Brett Terpstra joins us on Mac Power Users, we have fun and spew out a lot of great productivity tips. This year’s edition is no different.

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This week on Mac Power Users, Katie and I tackle the state of current keyboard launchers for the Mac including LaunchBar, Alfred, Spotlight, and Quicksilver. The show covers relative merits of the applications and some nice usage tips.

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Austin Mann is an acclaimed photographer with his work appearing all over the place, including National Geographic. He’s also one of best authorities on how to take great pictures with an iPhone. This week he joins us to talk about gear, shooting techniques, and taking better pictures with your iPhone.

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We just published this week’s MPU live. Mark Metzger joined us to chat about File Maker. We also talked about cleaning up iOS, follow-up on Office 365 accounts and Google Docs, discuss Mac/PC hybrid setups, hear from a virtual assistant, share listener tips and tricks and Katie shares her experiences with the iPad Air 2.

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Dictation and Siri have evolved a lot over the last few years. Katie and I spent some time on the latest Mac Power Users looking at available tools for dicatation. We also unloaded with all our latest Siri tips.

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A lot of people still use word processors and print out documents in 2015. In this episode, Katie and I tackle the strengths and weaknesses of Word, Pages, Google Docs and several third party alternatives.

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This week’s Mac Power Users episode focuses on the new features in IOS 9, which will be downloading to your device in just a couple days. Katie and I assembled a nice list of interesting new features and improvements that you’ll want to hear about.

At the end of the episode we talked at some length about last week’s Apple announcements and the new hardware coming our way. This is a really fun episode.

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Matt Alexander grows successful businesses using Apple Technology. He was nice enough to join us on Mac Power Users this week and talk about how he pulls it off.

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One of the most frequent questions we get in the Mac Power Users mail bag is about upgrades. This week’s episode covers every kind of upgrade you may contemplate between your Macs, iOS devices, and software. Enjoy.

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This week’s Mac Power Users features Song-A-Day’s Jonathan Mann. Jonathan is a talented musician that can write a song in about the same time it takes me to get my keyboard turned on and find my sheet music. Jonathan does all of this with Apple technology and he explains the whole workflow. Jonathan also made jingles for our sponsors that we included in the show. My favorite was the TextExpander one.

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