This week, a lot more folks will be working from home than usual. I’ve talked to several friends and family lately about this. Some are looking forward to it, and others are dreading it. I drove into an office for 22 years, but I’ve…
Continue reading →Apple and Covid-19
In the last few days, Apple has announced it’s reaction to Covid-19. Yesterday there was an announcement that WWDC will be online-only this year. I’ll miss not seeing my Apple community friends, but I also think this is the right move. I had to…
Continue reading →Automators 45: LaunchCuts, Feedback, and More!
On the latest episode of Automators, Rosemary and I dive headfirst into the feedback pile and look at LaunchCuts. We’re also talking about the new Pushcut automation server feature and eye some beta apps too! This episode of Automators is sponsored by: Pingdom: Start monitoring your…
Listen & read notes →The Archive for Plain Text with Panache (Sponsor)
This week, MacSparky has a new sponsor, The Archive. I’ve made no secret of my love for plain text files over the years. Plain text is universal, portable, and the most likely format for your words that computers will still recognize in 100 years.…
Continue reading →Flattening the Curve
MacSparky isn’t going to be your destination site for Covid-19 information. However, as California starts buckling down and my family shutter ourselves in to help slow down this disease, there is one graph I wanted to share. You can learn more about how this…
Continue reading →More Hope for the End of the Butterfly Keyboard
While I don’t cover a lot of rumors here, the latenst nugget from Ming-Chi Kuo is worth mention. Reportedly, we’ll be getting scissor switch updates to the smaller MacBookPro and and MacBook Air by June. I sure hope he’s right. While the butterfly keyboard…
Continue reading →Time Estimates and Self Delusion
A few weeks ago, I re-opened the Pandora’s box of hyper-scheduling, and the email started pouring in. One common problem I heard from folks implementing their own hyper-schedules went something like this. “Dear Dave, I tried your nerdy block schedule thing, but it was…
Continue reading →Apple watchOS 7 and Custom Faces
9to5 Mac has a nice scoop on watchOS 7 that looks to include some excellent features (including sleep tracking). What stood out to me, however, was a suspected new feature that lets you share Apple Watch faces. If true, you’d be able to share…
Continue reading →Vanishing Ports
Jason Snell made a chart of the 15” MacBook Pro ports over the years. Looks like 2003-2005 was the period of peak ports. I actually like the USB-C concept of “one port to rule them all” but I can’t help but feel it is,…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 526: I Don’t Aspire to Anything Else
It’s feedback time on the latest episode of Mac Power Users! I celebrate my fifth year of being independent, while Stephen has settled on an application to manage his tech history research. Then, more on Do Not Disturb and a whole bunch of listener…
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