Matt Neuburg
Matt Neuburg has been writing for TidBITS since 1991, concentrating on issues surrounding word processing, databases and text organization programs, scripting and innovative programming systems, and a variety of utilities. He has written some popular freeware programs, such as MemoryStick and NotLight. He has created the online documentation for a number of applications, such as Script Debugger and Opal. He has written books about programming Frontier, REALbasic, and AppleScript, and is the author of various Take Control ebooks.
The Mac App Store has a gazillion apps. Which ones are interesting to you? Which ones are on sale? Apple’s own App Store application won’t tell you. The new Appalicious from ProVUE will.
A little-known new feature of Lion is that an application can be told to quit automatically while you’re not using it. Is this really a good idea?
Three favorite utilities that seemed to be headed for the PowerPC graveyard under Lion have been rewritten by their developers. Happy days are here again!
With each new major Mac OS X revision, we eagerly look forward to reading John Siracusa’s in-depth discussion in Ars Technica, and this time is no exception. The description is full, the opinions are spot-on, and the technical information is fascinating.
Matt Neuburg and Chuck Joiner talk you through Lion’s new features in this MacVoices podcast. The takeaway message: remain calm.
Lion is coming. What will it be like? Apple has given us some major indications already; let’s analyze them so you'll have a sense of how to think about the features Apple shows off at next week's Worldwide Developers Conference.
Following on from his TidBITS article about finding your PowerPC applications in case Lion won’t run them, Matt Neuburg talks to Chuck Joiner on MacVoices about the possible loss of Rosetta in its historical context, and what it might mean for users.
The speculation is that Mac OS X Lion will lack Rosetta, meaning that PowerPC-only applications won’t run. How might this affect you if you upgrade? Here’s how to find out.
Chuck Joiner hosts a wide-ranging MacJury discussion, surveying the iPad’s past and considering its future, with a panel including TidBITS’s own Matt Neuburg.
Matt Neuburg has been writing a book about iOS programming, entirely in good old-fashioned unformatted plain text — and loving it. He describes his workflow in this short essay.
We’ve released a new version of the TidBITS News app that allows background audio to continue playing, pausing it only if the user starts listening to one of our article podcasts. While this isn’t a major feature, it’s an indication of how hard multitasking is to do right in iOS.
ProVUE’s Panorama, the wonderful database program, recently revised to version 6, now boasts a much less expensive sibling, Panorama Sheets, which will easily suffice for many users. Harness the power of Panorama without the learning curve!
Our hero is trapped in Outlook 2011 with no Export command! Can he blast his way to freedom with only the few tools he has at hand? (Hint: Yes.)
Is there a color "rosy-bleak"? There should be. Office 2011's Microsoft Outlook brings improvements in speed and storage over its predecessor, Entourage; but whole features are missing, the interface is clunky, and scriptability is a mess.
A Web browser that can be automated through scripts that you create without writing any code - how cool is that? It's plenty cool (and plenty easy), and you may have lots of uses for it; you just don't realize it because the idea is so revolutionary.