While my music features on Friday typically revolve around jazz, I also enjoy soundtracks. This YouTube video shows the collaboration between John Williams and Steven Spielberg while working on one of my very favorite soundtracks, E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial. There is an excellent remix of…
Continue reading →Thanks Peter
We got the news today that Peter Mayhew, the actor behind Chewbacca, passed away. Peter’s passing really touched me. I’m enough of a Star Wars nerd that I’ve attended the Celebration Expo several times and, of all the original cast, Peter always seemed one…
Continue reading →Getting More from DuckDuckGo
It’s been several years since I last wrote about DuckDuckGo and how I use it as my primary search engine. At this point, it is my default search engine everywhere for some pretty good privacy-related reasons. I do not consider myself a tinfoil-hat-wearing privacy nut, but personal…
Continue reading →How I Defer 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 →CardioBot 4.0
While not everyone is sold on the Apple Watch, its health benefits and data-gathering capabilities are beyond question. Apple has made a lot of progress toward heart health with the inclusion of an electrocardiogram (ECG) function, but people forget there are other ways to…
Continue reading →Focused 72: Heart-Centered Productivity, with Jocelyn K. Glei
Jocelyn K. Glei, host of the podcast Hurry Slowly, joins Mike and me on this week’s episode of Focused to talk about avoiding burnout, percolating ideas, intentionality for introverts, and what it means to do truly productive work. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: ExpressVPN:…
Listen & read notes →CalZones – A New Take on Time Zones
David Smith released a new app, CalZones, which addresses the pesky problem of time zones with way more panache than I’ve seen from any other time zone app. I particularly like/use the Today Widget. It is always kind of amazing for me when an…
Continue reading →Free Email Course from Mike Schmitz
Mike Schmitz just released a free email course: The Email Workflow for People Who Hate Email. Isn’t that all of us Mike? Either way, check it out.
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 480: Catching Up with Michael Hyatt
Michael Hyatt joins Stephen and me on the latest episode of Mac Power Users to talk about how to get your life together and find a little focus to nerdy Keyboard Maestro scripts. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: MOO: Custom business printing…
Listen & read notes →Automators 22: Text Expansion
The latest episode of the Automator’s podcasts is now available for download. In this episode, we go back to basics and talk about text expansion. I joke in the episode that text expansion is a gateway drug or automation, but that’s really kind of…
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