Hi, this is Kurt Liebezeit, also known as PDX_Kurt, bringing you a review of the Strongbox password manager system from Phoebe Software at strongboxsafe.com. I kind of fell into using Strongbox through the back door, so to speak. For about a decade, I had been using a pair of open-source password database programs, KeePassXC on […]
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Why I Upgraded to Setapp’s Power User Plan
I’ve been a Setapp subscriber for many years and I’ve found a fair number of apps through the service, but to be honest, I haven’t taken full advantage of it. The main problem was when I started living the two-Mac lifestyle with a MacBook Air and a MacBook Pro, and that caused a price increase […]
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CCATP #598 — Oleksandr Kosovan of MacPaw on Setapp
Oleksandr Kosovan CEO of Macpaw While we were at the Alt Conf in San Jose (WWDC-adjacent) I had the opportunity to interview Oleksandr Kosovan, CEO of MacPaw, creators of Setapp and Clean My Mac. Setapp is a subscription service that gets you unlimited access to around 150 different high-quality apps for $10/month. While I was […]
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There’s No Place Like Excel
I may have mentioned a few hundred times that I love Excel. I serious dislike PowerPoint, and I see no need for Word, but Excel brings me great joy. I simply love taking piles of data and turning it into information, and Excel is how I do that. There isn’t a pivot table I don’t […]
Continue readingWhy Smile is a Great Company
Last week the company Smile announced big changes to their software TextExpander that were not well received by their customer base. Smile co-founder, Greg Scown, was my guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond to talk about it. Before he came on the show, I decided to send him my outline of what I would […]
Continue readingCCATP #433 I Push Hard on Greg Scown from Smile About TextExpander 6
There’s been a lot of consternation on the Internet this week about the announcements by Smile with their new TextExpander 6 product at textexpander.com. I invited Smile founder Greg Scown onto the show to explain their thinking and to allow me to ask him some tough questions. It was hard for me to do because […]
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