My thanks to TextSniper for sponsoring MacSparky.com this week. This is an app that I use … often. TextSniper is a Mac OCR app that can extract text anywhere on your Mac’s screen and automatically save it to your clipboard so that you can paste it…
Continue reading →Eleven Years of 5 GB
Image courtesy of 9to5 Mac Apple first announced 5 GB of free iCloud storage in June 2011. Steve Jobs announced it. It has been eleven years, and a lot has changed. Our iPhone cameras have got a lot better and now take images that are much…
Continue reading →Focused 152: Mental Models
Join Mike and me on this episode of Focused as we share some of our favorite mental models and how to use them for better sensemaking. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Kolide: Endpoint Security Powered by People. Try Kolide for 14 days free; no…
Listen & read notes →Fastmail Improvements
I continue to be delighted with my recent switch to Fastmail. I’ve been using it for about eight months, and I’ve experienced no downtime. It’s been rock-solid and … well … fast. A few things I didn’t expect when I signed up is how good…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 641: Catching up with Federico Viticci
MacStories boss Federico Viticci returns to Mac Power Users to talk about the iPad’s apparent stagnation and how the Mac has grown over the last few years. The guys also talk about Raycast, Shortcuts, Apple silicon, and more. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored…
Listen & read notes →Automators 102: Automating DEVONThink
Rose and I dig deep on all of Automator’s varied automation tools on the latest episode of Automators. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: Kolide: Endpoint Security Powered by People. Try Kolide for 14 days free; no credit card required.LinkedIn Jobs: Post a job for…
Listen & read notes →Home Screens — Joe Moyer
Joe Moyer is writing some great stuff over at his blog, 24 Letters. That name comes from an Athenodorus quote, “Whenever you feel yourself getting angry, Caesar, don’t say or do anything until you’ve repeated the 24 letters of the alphabet to yourself.” Of…
Continue reading →DEVONthink, the Ultimate Database Tool (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by DEVONthink. There are a lot of ways to manage a database on your mac, but in my opinion, there is no better tool than DEVONthink. Just a few of the things I use DEVONthink for include: A reliable repository…
Continue reading →The Lab Report – May 20, 2022
One of the benefits of being a member of The MacSparky Labs is access to the weekly Lab Report podcast, where I summarize Apple news and other items I find interesting in about 10 minutes. If you are a labs member, you should have…
Continue reading →Keyboard Maestro 10.1
This week we got another nice update from Keyboard Maestro. This update includes a ton of new support for Shortcuts integration on the Mac. I’m so happy to see Keyboard Maestro setting itself up to be a platform where you can use it’s already…
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