My new Apple TV Remote arrived this morning, and I spent half an hour futzing with it. Here are some initial thoughts. Yes. This remote is better than the prior one in every conceivable way. I don’t hate the old one as much as…
Continue reading →Rocket for Quick Emoji on Your Mac
When I wrote about the Character Viewer a few days ago, I was remiss in not mentioning Rocket, my other tool for getting emoji on my Mac. Made by Matthew Palmer, Rocket lets you put emoji characters anywhere on your Mac by typing a…
Continue reading →What is Apple’s Take on the iPad?
Federico Viticci just issued his voluminous 10,000-word review of the new iPad Pro. It looks like there is a lot to like in the new hardware with that XDR screen and wicked fast M1 processor. The Apple hardware team continues to crush it. However,…
Continue reading →Remap Your Mac with BetterTouchTool (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by BetterTouchTool, the Mac App that gives your input devices superpowers. While Apple makes some excellent trackpads and mice, the built-in gestures are just a taste of what you could do with those devices. With BetterTouchTool, you can completely…
Continue reading →The 24” iMac Reviews
We’ve now received several reviews of the new iMacs. They all agree the new M1 24” iMac is about as speedy as the rest of the M1 Macs, which is no surprise. I’ve been working on and rendering a lot more 4K video lately,…
Continue reading →Additional Mac Symbols
You may be aware that you can see a list of available symbols on your Mac with the Control-Command-Space key combination. By default, you get a nice collection of special characters and emoji. The recent addition of a search bar also helps. View fullsize…
Continue reading →PDFpen and PDFpenPro 13
There’s a new update to PDF editing app PDFpen and PDFpenPro. The new version has a new interface and toolbar. You can still add text, images, signatures, highlights, and comments to your PDFs, and make changes, fix typos, fill out forms, and redact sensitive…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users #588: macOS Services, with Sal Soghoian
Stephen and I talk with Sal Soghoian on the history of Automator and Services on the Mac, both of which are cornerstones of automation on macOS today. On this episode of Mac Power Users, we’ll discuss how these tools came to be, and how…
Listen & read notes →DEVONthink for Superior File Management (Sponsor)
A lot of folks know that DEVONthink, this week’s MacSparky sponsor, excels at bringing artificial intelligence (A. I.) to your documents and research, but did you also know DEVONthink has a killer set of automation tools? Over the last few years, DEVONthink has added…
Continue reading →Obsidian vs. Roam
When I was first exploring notes apps, I spent quite a bit of time in the wild with Roam Research and Obsidian. I wrote about why I’m leaning Obsidian a few months ago. The thing is there isn’t one best answer to which tool…
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