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Lab Report — April 10, 2026

posted in backstage, early access, lab report, macsparky labs, supporter, video on April 10, 2026

This week the Studio Display XDR became the first Apple display cleared by the FDA for diagnostic radiology — a genuinely big deal in the medical world.

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Testing Day One’s New AI Feature

posted in backstage, early access, macsparky labs, video on April 9, 2026

Day One just launched an AI journaling feature. The privacy story is solid….

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A Look at Dropzone 5

posted in backstage, early access, macsparky labs, supporter, video on April 7, 2026

Dropzone, one of my favorite Mac utilities, just got a big update to version 5. If you’re not familiar with it, Dropzone lives in your menu bar and gives you a spot to temporarily park files, folders, and media while you work…

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Lab Report — April 3, 2026

posted in backstage, early access, lab report, macsparky labs, supporter, video on April 3, 2026

Apple turned 50 this week, and there’s a lot to talk about. Tim Cook rang the NASDAQ bell, shared rare prototypes with the Wall Street Journal, and Paul McCartney played Apple Park…

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Apple Maps Tricks

posted in backstage, early access, macsparky labs, supporter, video on April 2, 2026

Apple Maps has been quietly accumulating useful features over the last few years and most people are only using a fraction of what’s there…

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Fantastical Urgent Alarms

posted in backstage, early access, macsparky labs, video on April 1, 2026

Fantastical now supports Apple’s AlarmKit, the persistent alarm feature that arrived with iOS 26. You can set urgent alarms on individual calendar events, and they’ll ring through even when your iPhone is silenced or in a Focus mode…

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Sparky’s Robot Sample

posted in backstage, early access, macsparky labs, supporter, video on March 25, 2026

A lot of Labs members who aren’t interested in the Robot Assistant Field Guide are still curious about exactly what I’m doing with it…

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The J-K-L Window Trick: Keyboard Maestro on Two Displays

posted in backstage, early access, macsparky labs, video on March 24, 2026

When I added a second display for my robot assistant, I needed a fast way to throw windows between screens. Keyboard Maestro’s conflict palettes made it surprisingly simple…

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MacSparky Q&A – March 2026

posted in backstage, early access, macsparky labs, supporter, video on March 19, 2026

Sparky’s quarterly Q&A is back, this time filmed outside in the yard with a puppy cameo and a bonsai tour to close it out…

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Deep Dive – Sparky’s Robot Assistant

posted in deep dive, early access, macsparky labs, video on March 18, 2026

David demonstrates his Claude Cowork robot assistant system to Labs members, showing how skills, methods, and MCP connectors work together with Obsidian and Chrome to automate content publishing, email processing, task management, and more…

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