Your business card says a lot about you. To me, it tells me how much you care about the little things, and that, in turn, tells me how you care about the big things. I recently had a lawyer give me his card. It…
Continue reading →Grammarly Gets Better on iPad
Yesterday Grammarly, my online grammar checker of choice, released a new version of their iPad app. Historically, the Grammarly app was just this side of garbage. There was no app, per se, but a keyboard that would grammar check your document. In theory, this…
Continue reading →The ElevationHub
ElevationLab is one of my favorite makers of tech gizmos, and I own many of their products. Today I pre-ordered their latest addition, the ElevationHub. It is a small gizmo that plugs into the Apple USB-C laptop chargers and includes a pass-through USB-C, an additional…
Continue reading →Fantastical 3.1 Releases and New Videos
Today Flexibits released a major update to Fantastical with version 3.1. This is the “working from home” update with a bunch of new features aimed at people surprised to find themselves working from home: Time-Based Calendar Sets Calendar sets have always been a cool…
Continue reading →Last Call for Introductory Pricing on the Photos Field Guide
I have been thrilled with the warm reception for the Photos Field Guide. I didn’t know what to expect, releasing it during a pandemic, but the feedback has been excellent, and customers are writing to tell me how much better they are at taking, organizing,…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 540: Subroutine in the Brain
On this Mac Power Users’ feedback episode, Stephen and I talk more about email and working from home, but also get into what it takes to make a MacSparky Field Guide and some weird problems we’ve recently encountered with our tech. This episode of Mac…
Listen & read notes →Photos Field Guide Transcripts
The Photos Field Guide now has all closed-captioning transcripts in place, along with a written transcript of each course located below each video. Hooray! I am also trying something new with the Photos Field Guide. I have added a PDF and ePub version of the complete…
Continue reading →The Playwright Repertory Podcast
There is another Sparks in the podcasting racket. My daughter Sarah has been regularly putting out episodes for her Playwright Repertory Podcast for months. If you have ever been curious about playwriting, or know someone else who may be, check it out.
Continue reading →Preparing for a Sabbatical
In this week’s episode of Focused, I committed to Sean McCabe to take an entire week on sabbatical in July. For years I have been trying to figure out how to take time off. Last year I rented a cabin in the mountains for a few…
Continue reading →Mac Software on ARM Macs
Gus Mueller wrote a post about software predictions with the hypothetical ARM Macs. Gus is a long-time (and smart) developer that has gone through prior Apple processor changes, so I put a lot of stock in his opinions. The whole post is worth reading,…
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