If you are a TextExpander user, you’ll want to check out their virtual summit on June 14. They’ll have two tracks, individual and business, and it will be full of tricks for getting better at using TextExpander. I’ll be speaking in the individual track.
Continue reading →Focused 177: The Care and Feeding of Technology, with Mike Rohde
Mike Rohde is back on Focused to talk about the role of analog and digital tools in maintaining creative focus. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Indeed: Join more than three million businesses worldwide using Indeed to hire great talent fast. Zocdoc: Find the right…
Listen & read notes →500 Ways to End a Letter
Shaun Usher, at Letters of Note, has been playing with ChatGPT and asked it to come up with unique ways to end a letter. The result is 500 valedictions. The angry ones tickled me the most. From the end of my rope,David
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 691: Workflows with David Rosenthal
David Rosenthal is a world-renowned keyboardist, musical director, synthesizer programmer, and composer. At the heart of his work is the Mac, and on this episode of Mac Power Users, we talk about his background, career, gear, and more. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored…
Listen & read notes →Automators 127: Feedback!
It’s time for some automation feedback. Topics on this Automators episode include task-inbox processing, automated check-ins, dumping automation confirmations with Shortcuts, home automation, and time tracking. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: Network to Code: Your Network Automation Strategy Begins with Data. Explore Nautobot now.…
Listen & read notes →GrammarlyGO Brings in More AI
A recent update to Grammarly adds even more artificial intelligence: it’s called GrammarlyGO. I say “more AI” because Grammarly has always been an AI-based grammar-checking service. (There have never been humans there proofreading your work.) GrammarlyGO brings it up a notch with the ability…
Continue reading →Happy May the Fourth, Everybody
The idea of a Star Wars day probably makes George Lucas cringe, but it sure makes me happy. If I can get my work done, I’ll be heading up to Batuu at Disneyland this evening to celebrate properly. If you’re wondering why a middle-aged…
Continue reading →Drafts Gets Mail Drop (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Drafts, my favorite text tool. Drafts is a text capture app. You open the app, and you’ve got a blinking cursor. Anytime I need to write down something on my phone. I tap the Drafts icon and get…
Continue reading →Addressing Unwanted Tracking
I’ve been playing with Bluetooth trackers since long before the AirTag showed up. There’s always been two schools of thought around these things: 1. Let Me Track Anything A lot of the initial trackers had no limitations attached to them. If someone steals your…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 690: Better Touch Tool with Andreas Hegenberg
BetterTouchTool developer Andreas Hegenberg does his first-ever podcast interview on this episode of Mac Power Users about how he wanted to learn to make iPhone apps and stumbled into making one of our favorite Mac utilities, how the app has grown over the years,…
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