
I often think that I must be unbearable to my developer friends. Sometimes I get the bit between my teeth on some pet feature and I just won’t shut up about it.
But then again, sometimes that pays off.
I often think that I must be unbearable to my developer friends. Sometimes I get the bit between my teeth on some pet feature and I just won’t shut up about it.
But then again, sometimes that pays off.
There are a lot of angles to AI and productivity emerging right now. One I’ve come to appreciate is AI-based smarter autocomplete. My tool of choice for this is Cotypist. It’s made by a trusted Mac developer, it’s fast, and it takes privacy seriously.
Unlike many AI writing tools that require you to work within their specific interface, Cotypist works in virtually any text field across your Mac. Whether you’re drafting an email, writing in your favorite text editor, or filling out a form, Cotypist is there to help speed up your writing.
The app’s latest version (.9) brings notable improvements to both performance and completion qualityand new AI models that give even better completions. It even respects your Mac’s Smart Quotes preferences – a small but meaningful touch that shows attention to detail.
With Cotypist turned on, it offers inline completions that appear in real time. Then you’ve got a few options:
At first, the constant suggestions may feel distracting, but once I adapted to it, I can’t imagine going back.
Cotypist generates all completions locally on your Mac. No cloud services, no data sharing – just your Mac’s processing power working to speed up your writing.
Like I said, Cotypist represents an interesting take on AI and is worth checking out.
Folks have been asking for a low bandwidth menu-bar manager. I’ve found one, Hidden Bar. In this video I share how it works.…
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Despite the name of his blog, Hypercritical, I’ve always appreciated the measured tone John Siracusa takes when it comes to criticizing Apple. From the outside, it’s always easy to oversimplify analysis of what’s going on in a trillion-dollar company, and John doesn’t do that.
That’s why his recent post, Apple Turnover, stands out for me, in that John makes a simple argument that Apple has lost its North Star and needs a management change. It’s hard to argue with his logic.
Known as an app launcher and Spotlight replacement, Alfred can supercharge a wide range of tasks across macOS. On this episode of Mac Power Users, Mike and I discuss my new Field Guide covering the app and our use of the application.
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The Opal C1 Webcam is meant to be the webcam everybody actually wants to use. It\’s got tons of software features and a better lens system than anything you\’d find in most (all?) other webcams. It\’s time for me to kick the tires…
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In this very first MacSparky Labs Jam Session, several Labs members and I got together to discuss running a local AI model and how it’s going. There were lots of interesting takes and tips on how that is working in 2025.
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In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: Get ready to become and Alfred ninja (new Field Guide is out!), NotebookLM now on iPhone, and I come to the rumored iPhone Air’s defense.
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There’s a lot to like about Apple’s Reminders. However “quick capture” is not one of those things.
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