Matt Gemmell joins us on this week’s MPU+ episode to discuss life as a software engineer-turned-writer, his evolution from Mac to iOS, his passion for fitness, and being an independent worker. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Squarespace: Make your next move. Enter…
Listen & read notes →Home Screens – Zac Hall
This weeks home screen features Zac Hall (Twitter)(Website). Zac is the lead editor and one of the prolific gang of writers over at 9to5 Mac. Zac and I recently met for the first time and found ourselves in a mutual admiration society. So Zac,…
Continue reading →Automators 1 Feedback
There is some great feedback and suggestions for calendar automation on the Automators Discourse forum, including a post from Sal Soghioan with a custom AppleScript he wrote to help automate Fantastical.
Continue reading →London Meetup Today
If you’re in London today, we’re having an MPU meet up in London on July 9th, at 6PM London time at the Wetherspoons just outside of Victoria station 5. Weatherspoons is a basic pub where we can walk around and converse. There’s no dress…
Listen & read notes →Automators Episode 1 – Calendar Automation
I’m so happy to see Automators #1 get released. The Automators is really a great experience for listeners. We talk through how to automate your life and share the downloadable scripts (and screencast a bunch of it) so you can take our work and…
Listen & read notes →Become the Boss of Your Email with SaneBox – Sponsor
This week MacSparky is sponsored by SaneBox, the email service that can change your life … today. For a lot of folks, email is that thorn in your side that you can’t quite ever escape. The problem is that email never sleeps. It just keeps…
Continue reading →Timing Adds Multi-Mac Synchronization
A lot of people are getting religion about time tracking lately, myself included. Working in a law firm for all those years I got used to tracking time I spend on client matters. However, what I missed was the idea of productivity-based time tracking.…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 437: The iPhone as a Communicator
Speakding of podcasats, of all the things an iPhone can do, we sometimes forget it is a great device for communication. In this episode, we dig deep on how to use the iPhone as a communicationd tool. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored…
Listen & read notes →New Podcast: Automators
I’m pleased to announce today the launch of a new podcast I’ll be making with my pal Rosemary Orchard. The show is called Automators, and it’s all about, as the name implies, Automation. Specifically, this show will pick one particular Automation subject and drill…
Listen & read notes →MPU T-Shirts and Hoodies Available for Limited Time
There’s a big promotion at Cotton Bureau that ends tomorrow. As part of the promotion, we agreed to put some of our MPU merchandise back up for sale. We really weren’t planning on selling these again but the folks at Cotton Bureau asked and…
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