I’ve heard a lot about automation this week as the Automators podcast gets launched. One of the easiest ways to get started with automation is by getting TextExpander installed on your Mac, iPad, and iPhone. TextExpander is a text replacement tool and so much…
Continue reading →Free Agents 51: Freedom Frogs
On this week’s episode of Free Agents, Mike and I talk about why “eating your frog” is an important free agent survival skill. I talk through a pivot in my approach to book publishing, and Mike shares his struggles with “Imposter Syndrome” and how…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 438: Workflows with Matt Gemmell
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…
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