Dave Caolo joins Mike and me on this week’s episode of Focused to talk about games and productivity, how his bullet journal helps him stay focused, and working from home without going crazy. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance…
Listen & read notes →Mac Power Users 535: State of the Platform: Apple Services
From iCloud to Apple TV+, Apple’s range of services is broader than ever, but how do they all stack up? Has this shift to services changed how users should view the company? Stephen and I discuss on the latest episode of Mac Power Users.…
Listen & read notes →The Intentional Family Podcast
My pal, and fellow co-host on Focused, has a new podcast called the Intentional Family. This is a show made by Mike and his wife Rachel, and it is all about raising your family in a crazy world. Mike and Rachel have five children and a…
Continue reading →Automators 49: Reusable Shortcuts with Scotty Jackson
In this episode of Automators, Rosemary and I are joined by Scotty Jackson to talk about his Shortcuts-based automations which cross into the web and beyond. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: Pingdom: Start monitoring your website performance and availability today, and get instant alerts…
Listen & read notes →Jazz Friday: McCoy Tyner
In March we lost another jazz great, pianist McCoy Tyner (Wikipedia). McCoy first entered my orbit as the pianist in the John Coltrane quartet during its best years. McCoy played piano on some famous Coltrane recordings, including My Favorite Things (Wikipedia(Apple Music) and one…
Continue reading →The Apple Store Online Hub
Yesterday Apple unveiled a new online store hub that makes it a lot easier to get at services that traditionally required a trek to an Apple Store. Not only does this help out while we endure the pandemic, this service is going to be…
Continue reading →Federighi on AppStories
Speaking of Craig Federighi, he also appeared on the most recent episode of AppStories. Great work by Federico and gang on this interview.
Continue reading →How Apple Reinvented the Cursor for the iPad
I keep finding myself linking to Matt Panzarino here because he just keeps delivering the goods, particularly with iPad coverage. Matt got to interview Apple Software Chief Craig Federighi about the new iPad cursor implementation and wrote it up at Tech Crunch. It was…
Continue reading →Deferring Email with SaneBox (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by SaneBox, the email management service I’ve now used for years. For this post, I’d like to focus on one SaneBox feature, deferring email. Deferring email is the process of taking something in your inbox and snoozing it for a…
Continue reading →Significant Pushcut Updates
Automators take note. Pushcut has received several updates over the past few months, improving the ability to trigger automation on iOS in creative ways. The original idea behind the app was to give folks the ability to trigger iOS automation beyond those limits Apple…
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