Back when I was doing traditional print books, it made me nuts that something would change a week after my book shipped and there was nothing I could do about it. One of the things I love about publishing my books through the iBookstore is…
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Captain Picard: “Let it Snow”
How could I resist posting this? Make it so.
Continue reading →1Password Sale
My favorite password management application got a “Best of 2013” award from Apple. To celebrate, the app is 30% off in the App Store. If you haven’t already, now would be an excellent time to buy 1Password for your Mac.
Continue reading →My Dulcet Tones
This week I showed up in not one, but two podcasts: MPU 168 We often collect topics that aren’t worth getting their own show but at the same time bigger than a few minutes of feedback. We did this in episode 168 with a variety…
Listen & read notes →20 Years A Lawyer
Twenty years ago, I stood as a freshly shaven 25-year-old, raised my right hand, and got sworn in to the California State Bar with absolutely no clue what I was getting myself into. I thought on this anniversary, I’d share a bit how I…
Continue reading →Sponsor: Doo Document Management
I’d like to thank Doo.net for sponsoring MacSparky.com this week. Doo offers a soup to nuts paperless document solution with applications for all of the major platforms (iOS, OS X, Windows, and Android) that lets you manage your paperless documents locally or in the cloud.…
Continue reading →Tuning Touch ID
A few weeks ago Dr. Drang wrote about the deteriorating accuracy of TouchID on his iPhone 5s. I wasn’t experiencing the problem but, because I am thick, I decided to retrain TouchID on my phone anyway. Now, touch ID is slow for me and…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Thomas Borowski
This week I’m featuring my friend Thomas Borowski (Twitter). Tom lives in Bavaria where he makes and sells the GroovBoard and, appropriately, produces the ThinkMakeSell podcast. So Tom, show us your home screen. What are some of your favorite apps? Reeder I switched to Feedly back when Google Reader…
Continue reading →TechnoLawyer – Top 25 Products of 2013
One of the finer corners of the Internet is the TechnoLawyer Network. It does a great job of bringing technology news to busy lawyers and I’m a subscriber. Today they announced their top 25 products of 2013 and if you are a lawyer (or other professional) this…
Continue reading →Eroding Privacy
Imagine the outrage if 50 years ago we discovered the government was making a copy of every letter we sent. Maybe they’d say they weren’t actually reading the copies but instead just keeping them in a safe place (perhaps in that box behind the ark of…
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