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Mac Power Users

53: Workflows with Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.71.5K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2011

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

This workflow episode features Bob “Dr. Mac” LeVitus. Bob is a computer columnist for the Houston Chronicle, a complete and total Mac geek, and the author of 50 books, most of which are aimed at Mac OS X and iOS.

Transcript

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0:00.0

MacPowers, episode 53.

0:02.6

Workflows with Bob, Dr. Mac Levitis. Welcome back to another episode of the Mac Power Users Podcast. I'm Katie Floyd alongside with David Sparks. How are you David? I'm doing very well. Thank you Katie.

0:28.0

You're surviving the grueling crunch time here?

0:33.0

Yes, late June and July is the crunch on the new iPad book.

0:38.0

So I'm keeping pretty busy right now.

0:40.0

Well, I think we have someone here who can maybe sympathize with you a little bit and you've got some catch-up to do.

0:45.6

Yeah, so we've got with us today Dr. Mac Bob Lovitis, who's one of my favorite Mac writers and a really nice guy and a super guitarist.

0:55.0

Welcome Bob.

0:57.0

Oh, that's funny.

0:58.0

Thanks.

0:59.0

Thanks for having me.

1:00.0

You know, I listen to your show regularly.

1:03.5

I have a million things in my menu bar,

1:05.4

if you ever want to do one of those.

1:07.0

I'm a minimalist with the dock.

1:08.8

I don't put anything in the dock that isn't running,

1:12.0

and I hide it and I'd love to write a movie and I'd love to use

1:18.4

the script. There you go. And I'd love to learn mark down or markup or whatever it's called.

1:25.0

I'd love to do all these things if I ever get time.

1:29.0

Unfortunately, we're going to talk about this, but I stuck with word it doesn't matter what I want

1:34.9

Because if I had what I wanted I would use something else

1:39.2

Let's get that out of the way right up front. I would be happy to use Scrivener or oh gosh just about

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