On average, according to Midroll’s data, podcast listeners are making it through about 90 percent of a given episode, and relatively few are skipping through ads.
This matches my behavior. My only worry concerns what happens whenever big companies sense money can be made somewhere. They take the place over, and what made it great in the first place is threatened (see: The Internet).
Ken Case writing for the Omni Blog:
For all our customers in that situation, I have good news to share: we’re building OmniFocus for the Web. It will be greatly simplified from the OmniFocus you know: it won’t have custom perspectives or notifications or maps. It won’t have Review. It won’t let you set up new repeating tasks (though it will correctly handle repeating tasks that are already set up). Its capabilities will be a lot more like what we shipped in our very first iPhone app: you’ll be able to see the lists of tasks in your Inbox, Projects, and Tags, with their associated notes and due dates. You’ll be able to edit basic information about those tasks (checking them off, assigning a due date, changing a title or note) and of course you’ll be able to add new tasks.
This blog post by the head of the Omni Group is filled to the brim with information on what the company plans for 2018, including a new version of OmniOutliner for iOS, and a new version of OmniFocus. The introduction (finally) of tags would have been big news on its own, but the announcement of OmniFocus for the Web might be even bigger if you need to use Windows.
Charlie Sorrel, writing for Cult of Mac:
This one may already be enabled on your Mac. Try it now. Just place your thumb and fingers onto your trackpad, and spread them out. It’s as if you’re pushing away all those windows with your fingers, and that’s exactly what happens. The windows fly off to the sides of the screen, revealing your desktop.
If you’re minimizing apps to get to your desktop, or swiping to an empty space, there’s a quicker way. The shortcut keyboard combination described in the Cult of Mac article was new to me, and I always forget about the trackpad gesture. Not mentioned in the article is that if you have a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar, you can also set up a virtual key to take you to your desktop.
Romain Dillet, writing for TechCrunch:
And the numbers are quite impressive after just a year. Over 200,000 people tried Setapp and 15,000 are paying. It represents around $1.5 million in annual recurring revenue (even though a large portion of this revenue goes back to app developers). Setapp could represent a breath of fresh air for many independent Mac developers. Instead of relying of [sic] big income spikes around major releases, they could get some money every month from Setapp users.
If you’re on the fence about Setapp, I recommend trying it for a few months. The big advantage if you’re someone who already owns many of the apps the service offers: discovery and use of apps you might not even try.
I had actually gone through the trial of Setapp, and then dropped the service for several months because I already owned many of the apps. But when an app I owned came out with an update, I decided to give Setapp another try instead. As it turns out, I’m now using several apps that I wouldn’t have otherwise even tried. This was a surprise to me.
Mark C. Palmer writing for Attorney at Work:
While the ABA may liken a “passive” review of potential jurors’ social media to “driving by,” it is not always so simple. The distinction comes when the researcher must log in, or take some affirmative identifying step before accessing the information.
The ethics rules on using social media to investigate jurors differ from state to state, so you’ll have to do some homework in your jurisdiction. In some places, the notification email a service like Twitter sends when you follow someone can by itself be an ethics violation.
