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 →Using the Stream Deck with Apple Mail (MacSparky Labs)
I’ve heard from several members asking how I’m using the Stream Deck with Apple Mail. Here’s an explanation, along with downloadable links to referenced scripts. Can someone actually fill up a 32-button Stream Deck with Apple Mail? Yep…
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TextExpander Intervention Webinar Announcement (MacSparky Labs)
Let’s all get better at TextExpander together. In this webinar-style session, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite TextExpander snippets and tricks and I’ll be joined by Josh Centers from TextExpander with his own bag of tricks…
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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,…
Listen & read notes →The Monday Brief (MacSparky Labs)
Happy Monday! I had a great weekend. I took Saturday off for some family time, and yesterday I worked on my project management workflow. That may sound boring, but that’s the kind of thing that I love…
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Capture Text Anywhere on Your Mac with TextSniper (Sponsor)
My thanks to TextSniper for sponsoring MacSparky.com this week. This is an app that I use … often. Just a few examples from the last week: I got the serial number from a picture of a tool I pulled text off of a donation receipt for…
Continue reading →Jazz Friday – Yayennings, Vol. 2
There are some remarkable contemporary jazz artists making traditional bebop jazz these days. One of my favorites is the Yayennings Quartet. It’s an interesting instrument composition with trumpet, tenor sax, bass, and drums. There is no traditional comping instrument (like a piano or guitar).…
Continue reading →The Lab Report Podcast (MacSparky Labs)
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 Perils of Shoulder Surfing (MacSparky Labs)
Several MacSparky Labs members have asked about my thoughts on Apple devices and the risks of shoulder surfing, where someone looks over your shoulder and steals your passcode. I do, indeed, have thoughts. Here you go…
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