Bartender 6 is out, and if you have a MacBook with a notch, the headline feature is Top Shelf. The idea: that camera notch at the top of your MacBook display is real estate that Apple has never done much with. Bartender Pro turns…
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Mac Power Users 850: Overcast Transcripts and 48 Mac minis with Marco Arment
On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I sit down with Marco Arment to talk about what happens when a podcast app developer accidentally builds a data center. Overcast now transcribes podcasts on demand, and the hardware behind that feature is 48…
Continue reading →The Silent Film Era of AI
The first movies were shot from a theater seat. The camera sat where the audience would have sat. The actors moved across the frame like they were on a stage, and the shot didn’t change for the whole picture. You were watching a play…
Continue reading →FotoMagico, Revisited
FotoMagico just hit 6.9. Boinx has been quietly shipping updates all year, which is a good excuse to revisit an app I suspect most of you have forgotten about. For years, I was the designated slideshow person in my family. Weddings, memorials, graduation parties.…
Continue reading →The Lab Report for May 22, 2026
The Lab Report for May 22, 2026. WWDC26 invites are out and the keynote is locked for June 8…
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The Productivity Apps That Don’t Speak Agent Will Lose
Spark Mail shipped a Mac CLI and agent skill hooks last week. Read-only email access is free. Write actions (send, move, archive) are behind the Pro subscription. Readdle also published open-source automation recipes and persona hooks for anyone building on top of it. I…
Continue reading →Mike Schmitz’s New Ideal Week Builder
Mike Schmitz shipped a free web tool for designing an ideal week template, and it is pretty clever. The interface is a calendar grid. You drag blocks for your work hours, deep work, family time, exercise, whatever modes matter to you. You color them.…
Continue reading →Still on Kagi, Still Happy
John Gruber wrote about Kagi again this week, which is a good excuse for me to update my own take. I’ve been a paying subscriber for a couple of years now, and I have no plans to stop. My search results are better. They…
Continue reading →Focused 256: Time Architecture
On this episode of Focused, Mike and I pick up where we left off in episode 250 and dig into the part of weekly planning that breaks for most people. Mike argues you should build your week around modes and roles, not triage tasks…
Continue reading →PowerPhotos: The Apple Photos Power Tools You’re Missing (Sponsor)
I’m happy to welcome back PowerPhotos as a MacSparky sponsor. If you spend any real time inside Apple Photos, you know what’s missing. PowerPhotos fills those gaps, and has been doing it for years. Apple Photos was built on the idea that you have…
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