Yesterday all the early reviews dropped on the Apple Watch Series 7. My favorites were from TechCrunch, John Gruber, and Marques Brownlee. One theme that seems to run throughout is that the Apple Watch Hardware is to a point where the changes are more…
Continue reading →The Focused 2022 Calendar
It’s that time of year again and the Focused Podcast is once again selling the Focused Year planning calendar in collaboration with the amazing folks at NeuYear. This is the third iteration of the Focused calendar and this one is the best yet. The…
Listen & read notes →Focused 136: Social Focus, with Taylor Jacobson
Taylor Jacobson joins Mike and me on this episode of Focused to talk about groundedness, vulnerability, and accountability on his journey to founding Focusmate. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Indeed: Get a free $75 credit to upgrade your job post. Novo: Powerfully simple business…
Continue reading →Unleashed
Today Apple announced its “Unleashed” event for next week on October 18 at 10AM Pacific. This is a rare Monday event. The artwork looks like it was shot from the cockpit of the Millennium Falcon. I’ll be shocked if this not the M1X MacBook…
Continue reading →The Fastmail Switcheroo
Years ago, when I first set up the domain for MacSparky, I made the decision to forego Gmail in exchange for my own IMAP email service. So I trudged along with Hover’s reliable, yet basic, IMAP service for over ten years. For some time…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 609: Sir, Get Out of My E-Waste
In this feedback episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I discuss recent updates to iWork, more on various editions of DEVONthink, and go through some listener feedback. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: 1Password: Have you ever forgotten a password? You don’t…
Continue reading →The Imminent TextExpander 7 (Sponsor)
I’m excited that this week’s sponsor, TextExpander, is about to release version 7. I’ve written and talked a lot about TextExpander. It instantly insert snippets of text that you’ve saved as abbreviations in order to streamline and speed up everything you type. What’s new…
Continue reading →Automators 86: Micro-Automations
Micro-automations! They’re those tiny little automations that can make your life easy. We’ve been building them, and today we’re sharing them on this episode of Automators. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: Privacy: Smarter payments. Get $5 to spend on your first purchase. TextExpander, from…
Continue reading →The Relay St. Jude Fund Raiser
This year the Relay Network raised over $700,000 for the fight against childhood cancer. I only get the slightest peek at all the work Stephen Hackett and gang do behind the scenes for this every year and it is remarkable. My congratulations and thanks…
Continue reading →Celebrating Steve
Apple made an inspirational video commemorating the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death. Over the years I’ve talked to several people that had direct experience working with Steve while at Apple and the one thing they all tell me is that the popular narrative,…
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