I’ve made no secret of my dissatisfaction with the Apple Watch faces. As someone who wears an Apple Watch every day, I can tell you things I don’t like about every available watch face. I’m not alone in the sentiment. Zac Hall wrote an article…
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Capture Any Text on Your Mac with TextSniper (Sponsor)
My thanks to TextSniper for sponsoring MacSparky.com this week. TextSniper is a Mac OCR app that can extract text anywhere on your Mac’s screen and automatically save it to your clipboard so you can paste it anywhere you need it. It can even read the text…
Continue reading →The Old “Pad of Paper Under the Laptop” Trick
I’m setting up my desk and trying it without a shelf. Why am I ditching the shelf? Partly so for the always-on iPhone, but also just to leave things a little cleaner looking. One of my favorite features of having a shelf on my…
Continue reading →Become the Boss of Your Email With SaneBox (Sponsor)
Did you know that the snooze button isn’t only for your alarm clock? With SaneSnooze, you can snooze on your emails as well. SaneBox, this week’s sponsor at MacSparky, helps me prioritize my email with the SaneSnooze feature. There are emails that you don’t…
Continue reading →“Far Out” Apple Event
Today Apple made it official. The new iPhone event is September 7. Mark your calendar. Check your wallets. We’ll definitely get the new iPhones and likely Apple Watches. Things that I am curious about: Rumors are the iPhone Pro camera will take a leap.…
Continue reading →iPadOS 16 Delay
Today Apple confirmed to Tech Crunch that the iPadOS 16 will get pushed back to later in the fall and officially get released at version 16.1.As the iPadOS creeps away from iOS, I don’t think this should be a surprise. Indeed, I could see…
Continue reading →Shortcuts for Mac Webinar Series
We just wrapped up the Shortcuts for Mac Field Guide initial webinar series. All the recordings and shortcuts are now uploaded and available in the course curriculum. That’s another five-and-a-half hours of content and 31 new shortcuts. I plan to continue with more Shortcuts…
Continue reading →My Mac App Store Feature
Apple recently asked me to share some of my favorite productivity-inspired Shortcuts for Mac. That resulted in today’s feature in the Mac App Store. I thought it came out great. If you dig this, there’s a whole lot more in the Shortcuts for Mac…
Continue reading →The Utility of Lock Screen Widgets
As the iOS 16 betas have continued to march out of Cupertino, I increasingly see third-party app betas add support for the new feature. While I don’t want to disclose anyone’s secret betas, I can tell you that adding third-party widgets is a level-up…
Continue reading →Take Your Business Out Of The Dark With Daylite (Sponsor)
For small businesses, it can be difficult to stay on top of clients, leads, and projects that are evolving every day. Here’s how Daylite can help supercharge your team to shine brighter, handle more clients, close more deals, and execute more projects. Designed for Mac, iPhone,…
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