It’s time for the latest Lab Report from MacSparky, covering this week’s Apple news and updates…This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
The Apple Game Porting Toolkit
With the focus on Vision Pro at WWDC, the Apple Game Porting Toolkit is also an interesting new technology from Apple. It allows game developers to quickly get their games developed for other platforms (primarily Microsoft Windows) ported to the Mac. Game enthusiasts are playing with the new tools (that’s already been updated once since WWDC). Andrew Tsai has been publishing examples of this on YouTube with actual game footage and it is impressive.
The bigger question is whether or not Apple shortcutting the translation process will be enough to convince game developers to port their games to the Mac. To me, this comes down to Apple silicon. The M1 MacBook Air has to be the baseline, and if a developer can get good enough performance on that platform, I think several will make the attempt. There are a lot of M1 Macs going off to college and in teenagers’ rooms. This could be a bigger deal for Mac gaming than people think.
Q3 Planning with Sparky (MacSparky Labs)
Here’s the recording from the Third Quarter 2023 Planning call for Early Access members. We’ve all got a lot on deck for the next quarter.… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
Focused 181: Walking Your Own Path, with Justin Moore
Sponsorship coach Justin Moore joins Mike and me on this episode of Focused to talk about his journey from medical devices to Creator Wizard founder, avoiding the comparison trap, and finding your niche.
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Setting Up and Using Downie (MacSparky Labs)
I’ve had several listeners write in asking for further explanation of how to use Downie to download online videos for offline viewing. So I made a short video for you explaining how it works.… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
The OS Betas Deep Dive (MacSparky Labs)
In this Early Access Deep Dive for June, we went spelunking into the various Apple Betas and discovered a few things.… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
June 2023 in the MacSparky Labs
Here’s all the content I produced and sent out to our Labs members last month:
- 2023-06-30 – The Lab Report – 30 June 2023 (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-29 – Sparky’s New Mac (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-27 – Looking at Stage Manager (Again)(Levels 2-3)
- 2023-06-26 – Sign-Up – Q3 Planning with Sparky (Levels 3)
- 2023-06-26 – The New Social Media Strategy (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-23 – The Lab Report – 23 June 2023 (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-22 – What’s New in Reminders (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-21 – June Deep Dive Signup Link (Levels 3)
- 2023-06-20 – Let’s Build a Shortcut – Project Planning with Reminders (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-19 – Sparky Did a Thing (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-16 – The Lab Report – 16 June 2023 (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-15 – Deep Dive on Shortcuts-based Setups (Level 3)
- 2023-06-14 – Voice to Text – 2023 Edition (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-12 – Post WWDC Notes and Spatial Computing (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-09 – The Lab Report – 9 June 2023 (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-08 – Trying Out Portal (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-07 – My Last Day in Cupertino (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-05 – Initial Thoughts from Apple Park after the WWDC Keynote (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-04 – Reporting in on WWDC-Eve (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-02 – An Update to the MacSparky Labs WWDC Coverage (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-02 – The Lab Report – 2 June 2023 (Levels 1-3)
- 2023-06-01 – Some Hard Truths About My Keyboard(s) (Levels 1-3)
If you’d like to be a part of the MacSparky Labs, I would love for you to join me.
Mac Power Users 699: Catching Up with TJ Luoma
On this episode of Mac Power Users, everyone’s favorite nerdy pastor TJ Luoma rejoins the show to update Stephen and me on his tech, how he’s learned to take time away from work, and some of his new favorite apps and services.
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A Stream Deck Intervention (MacSparky Labs)
Elgato has made some nice improvements to the function and pricing of the Stream Deck software. In this video, I explain how it works and answer the question of whether or not I need a Stream Deck intervention.… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
Automators 31: Recharging the Beta Batteries
Rosemary and I have been testing the latest Apple betas on all of our devices. Despite going off the grid, things seem to be going well—and the latest beta has added more automation possibilities! Check out what’s going on this episode of Automators.