On this episode of Focused, I’m reflecting on 18 months of freedom, Mike is reporting back from Craft + Commerce, and we’re both sharing our best advice for teaching kids how to focus. Join us. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next…
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Mike Schmitz Opens Obsidian University
Mike Schmitz recently went indie, and we are already seeing the dividends of that. He’s getting ready to start Obsidian University on June 12. It’s a 4-week cohort-style course with eight 60-minute sessions to get you going with Obsidian. Mike is a great teacher,…
Continue reading →Text Navigation with the Keyboard (MacSparky Labs)
You really don’t need your mouse when working with text. The trick is to just get a few, simple keyboard shortcuts under your fingers. Here’s how…This is a post for MacSparky Labs Level 3 (Early Access) Members only. <a href=”https://www.macsparky.com/join/”>Care to join?</a> Or perhaps <a href=”https://www.macsparky.com/?memberful_endpoint=auth”>do you need to sign in?</a>
The May Meetup (MacSparky Labs)
It’s time for another monthly meetup. This one’s set for May 11 at 10:00 AM Pacific. I’d love to see you there…
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Capture Text Anywhere on Your Mac with TextSniper (Sponsor)
My thanks to TextSniper for sponsoring MacSparky.com this week. This is an app that I use … often. Just a few examples from the last week: I got the serial number from a picture of a tool I pulled text off of a donation receipt for…
Continue reading →Screencasting Deep Dive (MacSparky Labs)
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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April 2023 Meetup (MacSparky Labs)
Here’s the video from the MacSparky Labs April Meetup. Topics include WWDC, new Apple hardware, and artificial intelligence…
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Jazz Friday: Wayne Shorter’s Jazz Impressionism
I wrote about Wayne Shorter a few weeks ago after his passing. Since then I stumbled on to Adam Neely’s excellent video taking apart Wayne’s song, Infant Eyes. If you have any interest in music, this is worth your time.
Continue reading →The Looming Threat of AI-Generated Voice
I read this post by John Gruber, and I couldn’t agree more about the shenanigans that will come from AI-generated deepfakes. The computers are so good at duplicating your voice at this point that a determined jackass could “produce” a tape of you saying…
Continue reading →Using HazeOver (MacSparky Labs)
A lot of folks have been asking me about HazeOver since I recently talked about it on the Mac Power Users. Here’s a walkthrough on how the app works and how I use it…
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