Mac Power Users Episode 57, Power Text Editing, is available for download. I’ve been looking at TextMate and BBEdit and wondering how they fit in a writing (as opposed to coding) workflow. We had Brett Terpstra join us and explored the question in detail.…
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Paste Plain Text with TextExpander
Reader Chris sent me a great idea using Text Expander to remove formatting from text. Create a plain text snippet with nothing but the %clipboard command. When activated, it pastes sans format. Slick.
Continue reading →Home Screens – Darren Rolfe
Darren Rolfe (Twitter) is the genius behind the MacSparky and original Mac Power Users logo. I’ve known Darren for years and consider him a friend. (Darren also loves his daughter, Ella, very much.) In addition to his amazing graphic design work, Darren pens his…
Continue reading →Speaking About the Cloud
I’m speaking this weekend at the Southern California Macintosh Owner/User Group about the present and future uses of emerging cloud technologies. If you are in the Orange County, California area on Saturday morning, drop in to meet some very nice people and put your…
Continue reading →Easy Timeline from BeeDocs
(Disclosure: BeeDocs, maker of Easy Timeline is a sponsor of MacSparky.com. I’ve used (and paid for) BeeDocs’ products long before they started sponsoring the website.) I’ve always been a fan of BeeDocs Timeline 3D. As a lawyer, I find its powerful timeline tools useful…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Michael Lopp
I have this distinct memory of being in a dark place about two-thirds of the way through Mac at Work and discoverying this article by Michael Lopp (Twitter). Michael’s tips for finishing a book were critical and came at exactly the right time in…
Continue reading →The New Loop
They did a bang up job on the re-design of one of the best Apple news sites.
Continue reading →Multi-Platform is a Feature
Maybe this is obvious but as iCloud rolls out, users are going to add a new criteria to their app buying calculus. “Is it multi-platform?” Just like the way even us ‘power users’ are getting hooked on Lion’s versioning and auto-saves, even the most…
Continue reading →Why Markdown?
I’m so pleased that Brett Terpstra is writing more. Today he put up a small post that answers the question, Why Markdown? Brett is also going to be our guest on the next Mac Power Users episode, Power Text Editors.
Continue reading →Byword Daily File
With Lion’s new document versioning framework, I’ve been running a single Byword document called “Daily” for two months. I use it every day to write text for any of a number of uses ranging from contract language to blog posts. All of this text…
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