I’m starting a five-part webinar series this Friday for the Shortcuts for Mac Field Guide, Plus Edition customers. If you signed up for that course you should have received an email with a sign-up link. I’ve also added the sign-up link to the course…
Continue reading →MacSparky RSS Feeds
I’ve been working on the RSS Feeds. Now there are three of them. The Main RSS Feed This feed gets you everything. It includes the MacSparky Labs posts as well, but you’ll only see content in those posts matching up with your membership level.…
Continue reading →M2 Macs
Mark Gurman recently reported there are four M2 Macs in the works. an M2 Mac mini.an M2 Pro Mac mini.M2 Pro and M2 Max 14-inch and 16-inch MacBook Pros.the M2 Ultra and M2 Extreme Mac Pro. These are all rumors, but to play along,…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 646: Vibing with Tony Miceli
Tony Miceli is a world-renowned jazz vibraphonist. This week on Mac Power Users, he joins Stephen and me to talk about how music and technology have become more intertwined over his career, and how he built an online community of vibraphonists. This episode of Mac…
Listen & read notes →Mid-Year Reflection and Planning
As we are about to leave June and enter July, we’re hitting the halfway point for 2022. It’s hard to believe we are halfway through 2022. This is particularly true for me with so much change in my life. I’ve now been a full-time…
Continue reading →The Newton and What Could Have Been
Image from 9to5 Mac All of us nerds are enjoying the appearance of the alternate timeline Apple Newton in season 3 of For All Mankind. Filipe Espósito chased down the details at 9to5 Mac. It turns out they just made a Newton-ish case to…
Continue reading →iWork Updates
We got some nice updates to the iWork suite this week: Mailing Lists are back in Pages after a nine-year hiatus.New templates were added for event invitations and student certificates.Keynote now has dynamic backgrounds that move subtly underneath your slides.Keynote now lets you skip…
Continue reading →SaneBox (Sponsor)
This week, summer officially began with the summer solstice (I live in the Northern Hemisphere). It’s the longest day of the year, or at least the day with the longest period of sunlight. Will you be stuck inside all summer dealing with your email?…
Continue reading →Focused 154: Building a Second Brain, with Tiago Forte
Tiago Forte joins Mike and me on this episode of Focused to talk about his new book, building knowledge assets, and flipping the switch from consumer to creator. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Indeed: Get a free $75 credit to upgrade your job post.Timing:…
Listen & read notes →Sabbaticals, Long and Short
Sabbaticals have been a frequent topic on the Focused podcast. However, I use the term sabbatical pretty loosely here. I’m not referencing the structured academic sabbatical that we see in higher education, but something more in line with the Internet worker concept of sabbatical…
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