The latest episode of Free Agents is available for download. Unicorn Sidekick Kathy Campbell joins us to discuss how she ended up becoming a Free Agent while behind a desk at her “real job,” when having her new career discovered her.
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iPhone X Supply Constraints
Last week we heard even more rumors about supply constraints for the iPhone X. Yet today the rumors say things may be a little better than we first thought. I think this is going to be the most difficult to find Apple product in a…
Continue reading →The New Amazing Stories
As one of its first big television content deals, Apple has announced it’s going to be working with Steven Spielberg to produce a new series of Amazing Stories. I was all in the first time Spielberg made the Amazing Stories television series. That was…
Continue reading →Timing Makes Time-Tracking Easy (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Timing, my tool for tracking time on my Mac. Knowing how you spend your time is one of the most useful bits of knowledge you can have when deciding on new (and old) commitments. I’ve gone deep down…
Continue reading →App Camp 2020
App Camp is an outstanding program working to fix the gender imbalance in technology and giving the campers (and volunteers) a lifetime of memories. My wife and I helped out with the recent App Camp in Orange County, and we’re thrilled to see them…
Continue reading →BBEdit 12
Today marks the release of BBEdit 12.0. There is a long list of new and improved features. There are plenty of minimal text editors out there but only one BBEdit power tool. Using BBEdit, you can do nearly anything to a text file. This…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Peter Lewis
This week’s home screen feature Peter Lewis, maker of Keyboard Maestro, which recently got a nice update, one of my favorite productivity apps on the Mac. Peter not only shared his home screen but also some of his favorite apps on both iOS and…
Continue reading →iCloud Text Replacement
There has been a lot of press the last few weeks over iCloud’s lackluster text replacement feature. Brian Stucki wrote an excellent post documenting just how bad the service is. I have to admit that I forgot iCloud even provided text replacement services. For…
Continue reading →10 Years of MacSparky
This year I’m celebrating 10 years of MacSparky.com. It’s hard to believe that a decade has gone by with me writing to the internet. In some ways, it feels like much less time. In other ways, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t…
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I recently spent some time in the Apple Store looking at the iPhone 8. There’s a lot to like about the new iPhone. It’s substantially better than its predecessor, and the glass back makes more of a difference than I thought it would. It’s…
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