In this week’s episode: My new Field Guide is out (with a 37-minute sample video!), we now have a Liquid Glass toggle option, and a new album from one of my favorite musician. I also point you to my recent CarPlay article on macsparky.com.
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De-Liquify Liquid Glass
I know some of you are not buying what liquid glass is selling. So here’s a short video explaining how to easily de-liquify your liquid glass…
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Meeting Summarizer with Shortcuts and Apple Intelligence
While Apple Intelligence isn’t on par with the frontier LLMs, it can still be useful…
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The Lab Report for October 17, 2025
In this week’s episode: The M5 chip is here, and Apple announces the first products that welcome it. I’ve got a ton of other news, share my video on the Dia browser, and I recommend an uplifting book from Victor E. Frankl.
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Initial Impressions of the Logitech MX Master 4 Mouse
Logitech released a new MX Master mouse, and I jumped in…
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Experimenting with KeyCue
This little utility from Ergonis allows you to pull up all your keyboard shortcuts on your Mac, across multiple apps. I used to use KeyCue ages ago but somewhere along the way, I stopped. Not true anymore.… This is a post for the MacSparky Labs Pathfinder and Insider members. Care to join? If you’re already a member, you can log in here.
The Lab Report for October 10, 2025
In this week’s episode: Slide Over makes a comeback, Apple on the last turn of a Formula 1 deal, and I’ve got a good book for your weekend reading.
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Automating Project Creation using MCP with OmniFocus
On a whim, I decided to have Claude review my quarterly and monthly planning documents and then automatically generate my monthly and quarterly goal projects in OmniFocus. It’s an interesting new way to automate and, surprisingly, it worked on the first go.
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Simple But Useful Window Management Trick (with special guest Moom)
Here’s a clever little trick using Moom and my extended Apple Magic Keyboard to make the most of your window sizing with very little effort.
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Building a Handwritten Text Converter with AI
Thus far in my life, my chicken scratch handwriting has defied all attempts at optical character recognition. This is one case where artificial intelligence comes to the rescue. In this video, I demonstrate how to build a custom AI engine using Claude (it would work with any major LLM) as a machine for converting my handwritten daily logs into text for importing into Day One.… This is a post for the MacSparky Labs Pathfinder and Insider members. Care to join? If you’re already a member, you can log in here.