Previous Articles

Below is every article published on shawnblanc.net. Specifically, however, some features of this site are the Reviews, Sweet Mac Setups, and Interviews.

In Praise of Pixels May 15, 2012

Sweet App: Visual, an iOS Timer May 14, 2012

Why the iPad Is My New Laptop Apr 30, 2012

A Mighty Bloodless Substitute for Work Apr 26, 2012

Clicky Keyboards Apr 23, 2012

Fixing the AirPrint Conundrum Apr 3, 2012

What Are You Working on Today? Apr 2, 2012

Diary of an iPad (3) Owner Mar 29, 2012

Using Dropbox, Email, and AppleScript to Get Files and Email Messages Into Yojimbo From the iPad or iPhone Mar 27, 2012

Last Call for the 2012 Membership Drive Giveaway Mar 23, 2012

Retina Web Clip Icons and Reeder for iPad Mar 22, 2012

Byword Mar 14, 2012

Update on the Membership Drive and Giveaway Mar 12, 2012

Regarding Benjamin Franklin’s Daily Schedule Mar 12, 2012

AT&T, 4G, and the New iPad Mar 9, 2012

Sweet App: Favs Mar 9, 2012

Thoughts and Observations Regarding Yesterday’s iPad Event Mar 8, 2012

The iPad 3 Liveblogs Mar 7, 2012

Membership Drive and Giveaway Mar 6, 2012

Membership Drive 2012 Mar 5, 2012

The Newest Blanc Feb 29, 2012

Why a New iOS Home Screen is a Big Deal Feb 24, 2012

Dan Frommer’s Sweet Mac Setup Feb 17, 2012

Apple in 2012 Feb 16, 2012

The Kindle Touch: 90 Days Later Feb 16, 2012

A Clear Review Feb 14, 2012

True Fans Instead Feb 13, 2012

Sweet App: QuickShot Feb 9, 2012

Tweetbot for iPad Review Feb 8, 2012

Is It or Isn’t It? Feb 6, 2012

Macworld 2012 Jan 31, 2012

The Value of a Handshake Jan 25, 2012

An SDK for Writers Jan 19, 2012

How I Test Ideas (Or: Discerning Good From Great) Jan 18, 2012

It’s Just Stuff Jan 12, 2012

Companies who Spam Their Best Customers Jan 11, 2012

Baby Software Jan 9, 2012

Brian Stucki and Macminicolo’s Sweet Mac Setups Jan 6, 2012

Fun With Predictions Jan 3, 2012

The Best ______ of 2011 Dec 30, 2011

A Long-Time Apple Nerd’s Review of the Galaxy Nexus and First Experience With Android Dec 22, 2011

iPhone Coffee Apps Dec 19, 2011

24 Hours with a Galaxy Nexus: First Impressions Dec 16, 2011

Social Apps Dec 13, 2011

A Few Thoughts on the New, New Twitter Dec 9, 2011

A Review of the Doxie Go Dec 2, 2011

Sweet App: DropVox Nov 30, 2011

A Hack to Get Back “Save As” Nov 29, 2011

Simple Social Networks Nov 28, 2011

A Few Things I am Grateful For Nov 23, 2011

The Kindle Touch Nov 17, 2011

Jawbone UP Review Nov 15, 2011

Scalability and Maintenance Nov 11, 2011

Andrew Pepperrell’s Sweet Mac Setup Nov 4, 2011

Thoughts on Apple’s Cards App and Service Nov 3, 2011

Thoughts on Siri and Devices the Size of an iPod nano Oct 26, 2011

Regarding the Condition of a 17-Month Old, Well-Used, iPhone 4 Oct 24, 2011

Duncan Davidson’s Sweet Mac Setup Oct 21, 2011

Using Siri to Add Reminders to a Shared List Oct 20, 2011

iPhone 4S Review Oct 17, 2011

Exciting and Ambitious Oct 12, 2011

Apple’s Fourth Interface Oct 12, 2011

Sans-Qwikster Oct 10, 2011

3rd-Party Family Oct 6, 2011

Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish Oct 5, 2011

Geek Dad Oct 4, 2011

Why There Are More Than Two Kindle Models Sep 28, 2011

The Kindle Fire Sep 28, 2011

Fantastic 4 Sep 26, 2011

Pat Dryburgh’s Sweet Mac Setup Sep 23, 2011

A Quick Guide to Common Miscapitalizations of Tech Names Sep 22, 2011

You Can’t Buy Word of Mouth Sep 20, 2011

Federico Viticci’s Sweet Mac Setup Sep 16, 2011

Sweet App: Goodfoot for iPhone Sep 14, 2011

Regarding T-Shirt Shipments Sep 12, 2011

Apple’s Four-Year Product Rollout Sep 9, 2011

Sweet App: Airfoil for Mac Sep 7, 2011

Leapfrogs Sep 6, 2011

Garrett Murray’s Sweet Mac Setup Sep 2, 2011

August Recap Sep 1, 2011

The Future of Technology Sep 1, 2011

Sweet App: Hues for Mac Aug 31, 2011

Equal Parts Art and Logic Aug 30, 2011

The Amazon Tablet Aug 29, 2011

Daniel Bogan’s Sweet Mac Setup Aug 26, 2011

Culture Aug 25, 2011

“Consuming Content” Aug 24, 2011

Thomas Brand’s Sweet Newton Setup Aug 19, 2011

What to do With 245,000 TouchPads Aug 18, 2011

The Morning of the Week Aug 15, 2011

T-Shirts Now Available Aug 12, 2011

Thoughts on the iPhone 5 Mockups Aug 10, 2011

Big News Aug 8, 2011

Rogie King’s Sweet Mac Setup Aug 5, 2011

Guts and Glory: A Review of the MacBook Air Aug 3, 2011

We Just Want to Read Aug 1, 2011

Diary of a TouchPad Owner Jul 25, 2011

The Difference Between the Dual-Core i5 and i7 MacBook Air Jul 21, 2011

OS X Lion Jul 20, 2011

Reading on the iPad Jul 18, 2011

Everything Requires Maintenance Jul 11, 2011

The HP TouchPad 1.0 Jul 6, 2011

Likability Jun 30, 2011

OopsieFocus Script Jun 28, 2011

AeroPress Jun 23, 2011

Apple’s Mac App Store Lineup Jun 21, 2011

A Tale of Two Inboxes: RSS and Twitter Jun 20, 2011

The Right Price Jun 16, 2011

Off-Site Backups Jun 15, 2011

My Trip to WWDC 2011 Jun 13, 2011

The WWDC 2011 Keynote Jun 7, 2011

Dialvetica Jun 2, 2011

Q&A with Chad Sellers, One of the Few Indie Mac Devs in the Amazon Mac Downloads Store May 28, 2011

Answering Reader’s Questions About Writing shawnblanc.net Full Time May 27, 2011

Balancing Think and Feel May 26, 2011

Writing a Weblog Full-Time May 25, 2011

An Average Day at shawnblanc.net HQ May 24, 2011

An Ode to Software May 23, 2011

A Week-Long, In-Depth Look at How Writing This Site Full-Time is Going May 22, 2011

Cloudy With a Chance of Music May 19, 2011

My Next Mac Will Be… May 18, 2011

Standing at My Desk May 16, 2011

The Three Reasons I Use OmniFocus May 14, 2011

Previous Entries May 11, 2011

Voice May 10, 2011

The Phonetic Field May 9, 2011

Fantastical Preview May 5, 2011

iCloud Predictions May 2, 2011

Using the iPhone As My Only Camera Apr 28, 2011

News.me: The Amalgamation of Two Rising Trends Apr 21, 2011

App Emails Apr 20, 2011

Tweetbot’s Got Personality Apr 13, 2011

Is Your Site Missing its Custom WebClip Icon? Apr 12, 2011

Austin Kleon on “Farming” Apr 7, 2011

Membership Update Apr 5, 2011

Great Expectations Apr 4, 2011

Instacast Mar 30, 2011

The Value of Twitter Mar 28, 2011

My Growing To-Do List for shawnblanc.net Beginning April 4 Mar 22, 2011

Steve Offutt’s Sweet Mac Setup Mar 18, 2011

Getting the Best Use Out of the iPad’s Side Switch Mar 16, 2011

What Makes a Great Tech Writer Mar 14, 2011

Pre-Launch iPad 2 Miscellany Mar 9, 2011

So, How’s the Membership Thing Going So Far? Mar 8, 2011

A Quick Way to Get Back on Focus Mar 7, 2011

My iPad 2 Prediction Mar 2, 2011

The Story Behind the Shawn Today Broadcast Feb 28, 2011

Membership Drive and Giveaway Feb 23, 2011

A Quick Update Feb 22, 2011

Beginning Feb 22, 2011

Fanatics Feb 15, 2011

Henri Nouwen on Writing Feb 8, 2011

More on Writing (or: A Case Against Editing) Feb 8, 2011

Writing vs. Writing Feb 7, 2011

Ideas that Spread, Win Feb 2, 2011

Supporting the Independents Feb 1, 2011

Rising Early Jan 31, 2011

Idea: OmniFocus Aid: A Capture Utility for the Mac Jan 29, 2011

My Sister is Getting Married Jan 25, 2011

More Ideas Than Time, but More Time Than Focus Jan 24, 2011

That Was Fun Jan 20, 2011

Blast from the Past Link Day Jan 19, 2011

What’s Better Than Productivity in the Office? Jan 19, 2011

Trusted Advisors Jan 17, 2011

How to Pronounce “Blanc” Jan 13, 2011

Verizon’s iPhone Jan 11, 2011

The Mac App Store and the Increasing Simplification of OS X Jan 7, 2011

The Best New Mac and iOS Software of 2010 Jan 5, 2011

iPhone’s Group Messaging in iOS 4 Dec 28, 2010

A Few Apps You May Want to Get for That New iPod or iPad of Yours Dec 25, 2010

Making a Great Cup of French Press Coffee Dec 7, 2010

Shawn Blanc’s 2010 Professional Gift Guide for That Nerdy, Design-Savvy, Coffee-Loving Writer in Your Life Dec 4, 2010

Reeder and the Keyboard Dec 3, 2010

A Charlie Brown Christmas Station Nov 19, 2010

Jorge Quinteros’ Sweet Mac Setup Nov 12, 2010

A Sledgehammer Called OmniFocus Oct 25, 2010

Aaron Mahnke’s Sweet Mac Setup Oct 22, 2010

Sponsorship Opportunities Oct 16, 2010

Nicholas Felton’s Sweet Mac Setup Oct 15, 2010

Announcing RSS Feed Sponsorships Oct 11, 2010

Iain Broome’s Sweet Mac Setup Oct 8, 2010

Briefly on OmniFocus Oct 6, 2010

The Potential of MobileMe Oct 4, 2010

Dave Caolo’s Sweet Mac Setup Oct 1, 2010

(dv) Sep 27, 2010

Brett Kelly’s Sweet Mac Setup Sep 24, 2010

How I Write an Article Sep 21, 2010

Recipe for Banana Wonderful Sep 19, 2010

Mike Rundle’s Sweet Mac Setup Sep 17, 2010

Inbox Zero Sep 15, 2010

Content Distribution, Metrics of Impact, and Advertising Sep 13, 2010

Justin Blanton’s Sweet Mac Setup Sep 10, 2010

An iPad Buyer’s Guide and Other FAQs Sep 7, 2010

David Chartier’s Sweet Mac Setup Sep 3, 2010

All You Need is Simplenote Aug 30, 2010

Jonathan Christopher’s Sweet Mac Setup Aug 27, 2010

What Most Writers Do at Their Beginnings Aug 26, 2010

Keeping Mint’s Unique Referrers List Clean and Useful Aug 24, 2010

An Interview with Neven Mrgan Aug 23, 2010

Leo Babauta’s Sweet Mac Setup Aug 20, 2010

ttttask Aug 18, 2010

John Carey’s Sweet Mac Setup Aug 13, 2010

Phil Coffman’s Sweet Mac Setup Aug 6, 2010

Regarding 1Password, Yojimbo, Things, and Apps That Do Not Sync via the Cloud Aug 3, 2010

Go Gowalla Aug 2, 2010

Happy Birthday, Nate Jul 31, 2010

How I Order an Americano Jul 30, 2010

What’s in my Back Pack Jul 12, 2010

Being Awesome or Being Professional Jul 8, 2010

Life at Home Without Wi-Fi Jul 6, 2010

July 2nd Jul 1, 2010

From Five Bars to Four, to Three, to Two, to One Jun 25, 2010

A Brief Review of iOS 4 Jun 21, 2010

The Linked List is the Comments Jun 16, 2010

Which Device for Which Task? Jun 13, 2010

iPhone 4 Miscellany Jun 10, 2010

My AT&T Wireless Data Usage Jun 2, 2010

MarsEdit Icon Evolution May 4, 2010

Diary of an iPad Owner Apr 11, 2010

Network Speed Tests on my Three Devices Apr 5, 2010

An Initial Miscellany of the iPad Apr 4, 2010

Mr. Hines and the Unpublished, Unfinished Interviews Mar 25, 2010

Attention, Trust, and Advertising Mar 6, 2010

Purposeful Mentorship Mar 5, 2010

iPhone’s Missing Feed Reader Mar 1, 2010

The Typewriter and the Shotgun Feb 26, 2010

First Thoughts on Dropbox After 24 Hours of Use By a Guy Who Doesn’t Need to Share Files Between Multiple Computers Feb 24, 2010

Regarding Dropbox, Backups, SSDs, Remote Storage, and my MacBook Pro’s Clicking HDD Feb 23, 2010

Share This Post on Twitter Feb 22, 2010

The Self-Proclaimed Lame Mac Setup of Sean Sperte, but I Think It’s Pretty Sweet Feb 12, 2010

A Job Should Also Be an Education Feb 8, 2010

Reader’s Setup: Tyler Galpin Feb 5, 2010

How to Disable FeedBurner From Uglifying Your Clean URLs In Order to Track Clicks as a Traffic Source in Google Analytics Feb 4, 2010

Reader’s Setup: Sherród Faulks Jan 15, 2010

An Amalgamation of Predictions and Questions Regarding the Apple Tablet Jan 13, 2010

Jailbreak Addendum Jan 5, 2010

Jailbreak Jan 4, 2010

Pastebot: A Copy and Paste Playground Dec 15, 2009

Reader’s Setup: John Rust Dec 13, 2009

What to Get for That Nerdy, Design-Savvy, Coffee-Loving, Snowboarding, Person in Your Life Dec 6, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Adrian Hanft Dec 5, 2009

Magic Mouse Miscellany Dec 3, 2009

Building a New Desk Is So Much More Fun (And Inexpensive) Than Buying One Nov 29, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Justin Pennington Nov 27, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Stephen Hackett Oct 26, 2009

Frequently Used Keyboard Shortcuts From My Day Oct 21, 2009

Good Morning Oct 7, 2009

A Pretty Good Script for Creating a Yojimbo Bookmark From Safari, With Tags, Comments, and Growl Support Oct 6, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Patrick Rhone Oct 1, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Grant Blakeman Sep 25, 2009

The Omega Karate Student Creed Sep 20, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Michael Bester Sep 18, 2009

Yojimbo, and The Case for Anything Buckets Sep 13, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Toby Leftly Sep 11, 2009

The Software Sweet Spot Sep 7, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Ryan Gonzalez Sep 4, 2009

Relocating and Resizing the LaunchBar Bar Sep 3, 2009

A Better One-on-One Form Sep 2, 2009

Snow Leopard Miscellany Aug 31, 2009

Ordinary and Uncomfortable Aug 29, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Chris Bowler Aug 28, 2009

USS Midway in San Diego Circa 2008 Aug 24, 2009

MailToYojimbo Script, With Tags Input and Growl Notification Aug 22, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Josh Farmer Aug 21, 2009

The Link Post Aug 17, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Ian P. Hines Aug 15, 2009

Testing a New Design for Link Posts in the shawnblanc.net Feed Aug 8, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Adam Keys Aug 6, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Jeff Nouwen Jul 30, 2009

My Dock Jul 28, 2009

Reader’s Setup: Jay Torres Jul 27, 2009

Reader Setup: Gordon Barr Jul 25, 2009

Reader Setup: Tim Van Damme Jul 21, 2009

Building ‘For an iPhone, By an iPhone’ Jul 19, 2009

Reader Setup: Julian Schrader Jul 8, 2009

Reader Setup: David Appleyard Jul 6, 2009

Reader Setup: Kevin Rodgers Jun 29, 2009

An Invitation for Reader’s Mac Setups Jun 24, 2009

Sweet Mac Setup: Sebastiaan de With Jun 21, 2009

Fever Really is That Hot Jun 17, 2009

Sweet Mac Setup: Shaun Inman Jun 12, 2009

Sweet Mac Setup: Jon Hicks Jun 10, 2009

Sweet Mac Setup: Scott McNulty Jun 3, 2009

Sweet Mac Setup: Christina Warren Jun 2, 2009

The Sweet Mac Setup Series: Mark Jardine May 31, 2009

Suggested Reading May 28, 2009

The Ideal iPhone May 28, 2009

Josephine May 27, 2009

A Broad Array of iPhone Keyboards May 18, 2009

A Brief Comparison of Font and Background Colors Rendered Across Major Browsers in Mac OS X May 4, 2009

A Shave and a Haircut Apr 7, 2009

A Very Tall Header Apr 6, 2009

Happy Monday Mar 9, 2009

Daring Serif Style for NetNewsWire Mar 7, 2009

iPhone’s Misplaced Decline Button? Mar 1, 2009

Doubt is Torture Feb 24, 2009

Twitter Plugins for WordPress Jan 30, 2009

A Review of Two Things: One For the Mac and One For iPhone Jan 28, 2009

Slight Updates Jan 24, 2009

It’s No Totebag Jan 14, 2009

RSS Feed Subscription Drive Jan 13, 2009

Thingsday Jan 8, 2009

Regarding Feedback Jan 7, 2009

Champ Dec 5, 2008

Stocking Stuffer 2.2 Nov 23, 2008

The iTunes Genius Nov 9, 2008

Ads Powered by Fusion Nov 5, 2008

My Own Archives Sep 13, 2008

What Happens When You Let a Complete Stranger Hold Your iPhone Sep 11, 2008

Thank You Merlin Mann Sep 10, 2008

Leading an In-House Design Team Aug 3, 2008

iPhone 2.0 OS Addendum Jul 17, 2008

Marketing Shoes Jul 13, 2008

iPhone App Store and 2.0 OS Initial Miscellany Jul 11, 2008

Why Wait? Jul 10, 2008

The Task Notebook Jul 2, 2008

Refreshing the iPhone Tips & Tutorials Page Jun 8, 2008

WWDC Predictions Jun 7, 2008

(mt) May 16, 2008

Perpetual Devotion Apr 29, 2008

Linkage Apr 9, 2008

News Mar 26, 2008

Three Generations of Macs (Unofficially) Benchmarked Mar 13, 2008

Quicksilver and Spaces Mar 12, 2008

Pro Portable: A Review of the New MacBook Pro Mar 10, 2008

I Bought a MacBook Pro Mar 7, 2008

The Daniel Jalkut Interview Mar 3, 2008

Via Thumbs Feb 28, 2008

The Journey Feb 22, 2008

John Gruber: A Mix of the Technical, the Artful, the Thoughtful, and the Absurd Feb 18, 2008

Results From the Short Shawnblanc.net Survey Feb 15, 2008

SuperDuper, Time Machine, and Bulletproof Backups Feb 10, 2008

A Response to An Open Letter to the Blogosphere Feb 10, 2008

Interview with Cameron “i/o” Hunt Feb 6, 2008

MarsEdit: Helping the Personal Publishing Revolution Jan 31, 2008

Dear Readers, Jan 25, 2008

Coda: The One-Window Wonder Jan 21, 2008

Writing a Great Review Jan 15, 2008

Behind the Scenes of ShawnBlanc.net Jan 11, 2008

The NNW Sites Drawer Jan 10, 2008

More Realigning on sbnet Jan 7, 2008

Briefly on Flow and its Icon Jan 4, 2008

Transmit Jan 2, 2008

Why We Began Blogging Dec 26, 2007

5 Things to Do In Colorado While On Christmas Vacation Dec 20, 2007

The Full Mint-y Dec 16, 2007

Refreshed Dec 14, 2007

Dear Readers, Dec 13, 2007

NetNewsWire: Just What You Wanted Dec 9, 2007

A Series of Reviews: Some of The Greatest Software Available For Your Mac Dec 9, 2007

Creative Design Poverty Dec 4, 2007

iPhone Christmas Wallpapers Nov 26, 2007

Every Freelancer Ought to Publish a Weblog Nov 16, 2007

Other Time Machine Names Nov 14, 2007

Really Simple Nov 13, 2007

Tours in Repose Nov 12, 2007

How to Repair the Empty Keychain Passwords in Leopard Nov 11, 2007

Elements of Style: My Office Nov 6, 2007

Slightly on Substantive Content Nov 5, 2007

Out of the States Nov 2, 2007

The Preemptive Switch to Dock-on-the-Left Oct 23, 2007

IKEA Galant Series Oct 21, 2007

After One Week With an iPhone Oct 1, 2007

My Unique iPhone Update Experience Sep 28, 2007

Aqua Wallpapers for iPhone Sep 26, 2007

Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations Sep 22, 2007

The Sort of Impact I Want to Make Through Design Sep 18, 2007

The Dan Pitts Interview Sep 17, 2007

Why I have an un-activated iPhone sitting on my desk Sep 14, 2007

The September 5th Tweets (and the Words ‘iPhone’ and ‘iPod’ Thrown Into the Title for Good Measure) Sep 5, 2007

Content Please Sep 2, 2007

Welcome Aug 28, 2007

The Brent Simmons Interview Aug 22, 2007

The Glenn Wolsey Interview Aug 20, 2007

Organization, Roll Top Desks, and Basketball Aug 17, 2007

Blog Comments Are Like Cash Aug 14, 2007

The Greg Storey Interview Aug 12, 2007

The Ideal .Mac Service, or: If I Were in Charge of .Mac Aug 9, 2007

Personally Reinventing the Weblog Publishing Stereotype Aug 9, 2007

Apple’s New Wireless Keyboard Aug 8, 2007

Post Announcement Aug 7, 2007

Apple’s 08-07-07 Announcement Aug 7, 2007

The “To Watch” Folder Aug 7, 2007

Slimming Down my Feed Subscriptions (or RSS: Richard Simmons Style) Aug 6, 2007

Freelancing 101: Attention to Detail Aug 3, 2007

A Problem and A Solution: shawnblanc.net moves to MediaTemple Aug 1, 2007

Freelancing 101: How to Get Hired Jul 31, 2007

Freelancing 101 Jul 30, 2007

Random Screenshots From My Day Jul 27, 2007

Be a Better Designer Jul 27, 2007

How To: Fix the little legs on your PowerBook Power Supply Jul 24, 2007

iPhone Tips & Tutorials: A semi-comprehensive link list Jul 21, 2007

Thirty Months with a 12-inch PowerBook G4 Jul 19, 2007

Why Apple Will Never Make a 12-inch MacBook Pro Jul 17, 2007

My Five Favorite Apps as a Multi-Mac User Jul 16, 2007

Email Jul 13, 2007

The Sean Sperte Interview Jul 12, 2007

Backup Jul 11, 2007

Seven Weblogs too well Designed to Read via RSS Jul 9, 2007

Pixelated Ecstasy and Breakneck Processors – My Mac Pro Workstation Jul 6, 2007

Why Daring Fireball is Comment Free Jul 4, 2007

10 Awesome Hi-Resolution Desktop Wallpapers Jul 3, 2007

Thank You Jul 3, 2007

Grand Opening Jul 2, 2007

The Truth About Good Leaders Jul 1, 2007

The Mullet Jun 29, 2007

The Unfamiliar Jun 29, 2007

Paint Jun 29, 2007

Comments (a lack-thereof) Jun 28, 2007

Hello world! Jun 28, 2007