This week MacSparky is sponsored by MailButler, your personal assistant for Apple Mail. One of the best features of Apple Mail is the plugin architecture, letting you customize the application to suit your needs and the grand-daddy of Apple Mail plugins is this week’s…
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Star Wars Episode VIII – The Trailer, The Poster, and the Show Floor
Today was the Episode VIII panel at Star Wars Celebration and it was pretty great. The corker was a 2 minute teaser that LucasFilm is calling a “trailer”. I don’t see how you can call this a trailer though. It’s just the barest of…
Continue reading →A Long Sunset for Workflow
MacRumors reports that the Workflow team has confirmed in a recent customer support email there will be no further features but imply they’ll do maintenance updates. Specifically, they wrote: “But just so you know, we have no further planned updates for Workflow. That being…
Continue reading →PDFpen Version 9
Smile just released a new version of PDFpen for Mac. The new version adds several features including better annotations, linked files, better export options, a new “search and highlight” feature, line numbering, a new hand tool, better table of contents editing, and Asian OCR.…
Continue reading →Packing the Laptop
I’m about to take a little trip. Packing for me is usually pretty easy. If I can get by on a trip with one pair of shoes, it makes my entire day. I can, however, get hung up when it comes to technology. My…
Continue reading →TestFlight Improvements and the Developer Climate
Yesterday Apple released an update for the TestFlight app. TestFlight is a tool that allows developers to release beta iPhone and iPad software to testers. At any one time I’m running several beta applications on my iPhone and and iPad via TestFlight. When I…
Continue reading →Star Wars Celebration
I remember being a teenager and talking to one of the older gents in my neighborhood. At the time I thought he was ancient but looking back I’m pretty sure he was younger than I am now. Anyway, he told me that the older…
Continue reading →Sponsor: The New OmniOutliner 5
This week MacSparky is sponsored by the brand new OmniOutliner, Version 5. The new version adds several new useful features: Saved FiltersNow you can filter rows based on different criteria: column values, status, note content, and more. You can save each filter to reference…
Continue reading →MPU 372 – Workflows with Dr. Drang
This week our favorite snowman returns to the Mac Power Users. We discuss the evolving definition of “pro” and “power user” as well as new workflows for managing text, creative uses for Keyboard maestro, managing Apple Mail and the Doc dives into the iPad.…
Listen & read notes →JD Powers Tablet Survey
in the most recent JD Powers survey, the Microsoft Surface edges out the iPad. This is not entirely surprising to me. I’ve been paying a lot attention lately as I go out into the public and work with my iPad about what other devices…
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