On this week’s Mac Power Users, Stephen and I are joined by orchestrator and composer David Metzger, whose resume includes Frozen, Muppets Most Wanted, The Avengers, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, and more. He shares his setup, which includes multiple Macs networked together,…
Listen & read notes →Stephen Touches All the Laptops
Would you like to smile this weekend? Then watch this.
Continue reading →Automators 57: Automating Meetings
In the latest episode of Automators, Rosemary and I talk about how you can automate various aspects of meetings, from invitations to notes, and more! This episode of Automators is sponsored by: The Uptake, from Microsoft: A new show on all things tech and community from…
Listen & read notes →Apple’s Troubles and MacSparky Coverage
Lately, Apple has been dealing with several percolating problems. Governments, at home and abroad, are interested in their business practices. Troubles between the United States and China are now threatening Apple’s business in one of its biggest markets. Big and small developers are now…
Continue reading →TextExpander for Teams FTW (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by TextExpander. TextExpander is my text replacement weapon of choice for so many reasons. It’s fast, it’s powerful, and it can run scripts. But did you also know you can run TextExpander with your team? With TextExpander for Teams,…
Continue reading →Last Call for Tomorrow’s Keyboard Maestro Webinar
I’ve been hard at work this week preparing for tomorrow’s Keyboard Maestro webinar. If you’d like to join in at 10AM pacific (or later get a link to the recording), sign up now.
Continue reading →BitBar
This week I discovered BitBar (courtesy of Jason Snell at Six Colors). What a great app! BitBar lets you load up your Menu bar with useful data customizable with a rich assortment of BitBar plugins ranging from AirPods battery power to weather to cryptocurrency monitors. Now if only my…
Continue reading →GoodNotes Releases Collaboration Update
I’ve been noodling a lot lately with digital journaling tools. In doing so GoodNotes quickly rose to the top for me in the “draw words on an iPad” category. The app is reliable, has an excellent ink engine, and, most of all, the developer…
Continue reading →Teaching Effectively with Zoom
A friend of mine, Dan Levy, is a Harvard professor and a pretty swell guy. Dan is passionate about teaching and recently released a new book called Teaching Effectively with Zoom (Amazon link). I read the book over the weekend and found it useful, not only…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 550: The World of RSS
RSS can bring news, blog posts, and even podcasts to you, without needing to visit a bunch of different websites. This week on Mac Power Users, Stephen and I talk about the rise of numerous RSS services, the apps we’ve seen over the last few…
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