Let’s say you get 50–100 emails a day. Are all of them important? Of course not. So are you spending or wasting your precious time filtering through your emails to get to the important ones? SaneBox, this week’s MacSparky sponsor, will save you time. …
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This Morning Someone Tried to Phish Me …
Here’s a short video breaking down how this morning I dealt with a Phishing attempt combined with an iCloud outage. That’s exactly the kind of combination that can get people in trouble. Here’s my short video explainer. I made this a public link so you…
Continue reading →WinterFest 2023
WinterFest is back. Every winter, a group of the best indie Mac developers come together for a 25% off sale. These apps are what my kids would call “bangers”. Take a look and collect them all.
Continue reading →DEVONthink, The Best Database Solution (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by DEVONthink. There are a lot of ways to manage a database on your Mac, but in my opinion, there is no better tool than DEVONthink. Just a few of the things I use DEVONthink for include: A reliable…
Continue reading →AirTag Battery Replacements and Remotes
It seems that time for early adopters concerning their AirTag batteries. I’ve been slowly replacing them as I get the battery alerts. Ben Lovejoy suggests biting the bullet and replacing them all when the first warning appears. I wish I’d done that. Changing the batteries is…
Continue reading →Craft Adds Artificial Intelligence
I was surprised to see the latest update from Craft added an AI writing assistant. The idea behind its inclusion (they are using the GPT-3 engine) is not so much to write for you (although it can do that rather poorly), but instead to help you…
Continue reading →Make an Impression with Hoban Cards (Sponsor)
Do you want to make an impression on every colleague you meet? You can do that with a thoughtful calling card. I’m not talking about the junk that gets “printed” at the office supply store or the things that come off your printer. I’m…
Continue reading →I Didn’t Know We Couldn’t Do It, So We Did It
I was watching one of my favorite YouTube woodworkers, Paul Sellers, recently and he explained how his son wanted a cello, so the two of them built one together. Later, after he had finished it, he was told it was one of the hardest…
Continue reading →Experimenting with DiffusionBee
There’s a lot of talk lately about AI-generated art. If you want to explore it, I’d recommend checking out DiffusionBee, which has a free Mac App. That said, I took a few shots at getting it to draw a picture of a bonsai tree…
Continue reading →Obsidian 1.0
Obsidian, the personal management and idea connector that we have all been losing our collective minds over, is now officially out of beta with their release of version 1.0. Congratulations to the small Obsidian development team that made a very big app. While I…
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