Apple on J. David Stark

Daily Gleanings: Freedom for iOS (30 September 2019)

Mon, 30 Sep 2019 16:00:48 +0000

Daily Gleanings about the return of app blocking to Freedom for iOS.

Daily Gleanings (8 May 2019)

Wed, 08 May 2019 16:00:00 +0000

De Gruyter Open has a number of volumes in classical and Ancient Near Eastern studies via open access.

Freedom continues the dialog over Apple’s added rules that effectively removed much of Freedom’s functionality for new iOS users.

Word 2016 introduction for Mac users?

Mon, 17 Jul 2017 13:00:08 +0000

The “for dummies” series has a couple good introductions to Microsoft Word ( for all and specifically “for professionals”). But, these texts seem to concentrate on Word as it appears in Windows, which is sometimes surprisingly inconsistent with how ostensibly the same version of Word appears in Mac OS.

Digital notekeeping

Mon, 20 Mar 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Michael Hyatt has a good discussion of digital notekeeping tools, a.k.a. “Evernote alternatives.” As even the nomenclature might suggest, Michael opts for Evernote.

I used Evernote for quite some time too but transitioned several months back to OneNote. I haven’t ever gotten particularly sold on Apple devices, so Apple-only alternatives were out by default.