Ernest Rudak (Twitter)(website), a blind Mac power user, wrote a really informative piece on using AppleScript to announce glanceable information. Of course, as someone who’s not visually impaired, there are a lot of things I take for granted or never really thought about, like…
Continue reading →Yoink
You may have heard before how I don’t like to drag-and-drop. I think there’s too much room for error when you’re moving around important files and you have to get it just right. That’s one of the reasons I really dig Yoink. Yoink has…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 604: Workflows with Jay Miller
Jay Miller, from Relay’s new Conduit podcast, joins Stephen and me on the latest episode of Mac Power Users to share some knowledge about the best workflows for video meetings, getting more out of the emerging Craft app, and even more uses for a…
Listen & read notes →TextExpander — Fuhgeddaboudit (Sponsor)
This week’s sponsor at MacSparky is TextExpander. With TextExpander, you create snippets, whether it’s a word, a phrase, a sentence or longer. Once you save that snippet with a short abbreviation, you can, with few keystrokes rather than typing your snippet out, quickly insert…
Continue reading →The New DraftTable
ElevationLab has put out a new and improved DraftTable for iPad Pro. I think a lot of iPad stands just aren’t sturdy and adjustable enough for an iPad Pro, and ElevationLab has thoughtfully engineered a stand for some of the different ways we use…
Continue reading →Focused 133: Success & Failure
This week’s Focused has Mike and me doing an audit of our productivity workflows and share what’s working (and what isn’t). This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Timing: The automatic time-tracking app for macOS. Use this link to save 10% on your purchase. Gabi: Get…
Listen & read notes →Focused on Timing
As I’ve been rethinking where the iPad fits in my life, I’ve been using a laptop a lot more for remote work lately. That sometimes surfaces new opportunities for me and one of those is improved time tracking with Timing. I’ve always run Timing…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 603: Workin’ with iWork
Starting with a pet project for Steve Jobs, all the way to a modern, web-infused set of applications across multiple platforms, iWork has expanded into a suite of tools more than capable of meeting almost anyone’s needs. This week on Mac Power Users, Stephen…
Listen & read notes →Automators 83: Home Automation 2.0
In this episode of Automators, Rosemary and I dive into Rosemary’s updates to her home automation, smart locks, Home Assistant, and even a cute little robot mop. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: ExpressVPN: High-speed, secure and anonymous VPN service. Get an extra three months…
Listen & read notes →Daylite pushes your productivity and profits to the Macs (Sponsor)
Make no mistake, Daylite isn’t just a CRM tool, it’s a Mac CRM tool. It isn’t for everyone, it’s for us. It’s for Mac people. People who ‘get’ that thinking exclusively and holistically about small business is actually thinking big. Just like a Mac,…
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