My pal Brett Terpstra recently released Marked, version 2.5. If you’re not familiar with Marked, it’s a native macOS app for previewing Markdown and other text markup languages, as well as HTML and OPML files. With Marked, you can see rendered, styled versions before…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Darren Carr
This week’s home screen features Darren Carr (Twitter). Darren blogs at The Mac Quad and podcasts at the Mac Quadcast. Darren writes, podcasts, and does Mac troubleshooting. He’s also a graduate of the London School of Economics. Darren pulls all of this off while…
Continue reading →Apple Continues to Lock Down the iPhone
9 to 5 Mac is reporting that in the latest iOS 11.4 beta, Apple’s added a feature that turns off lightning cable access to an iPhone that hasn’t been unlocked in a week. There are several rumors of black-box style security devices that can…
Continue reading →Get Your Act Together with Timing – Sponsor
One of the key first steps to figuring out how to be more efficient is to first figure out where you’re spending your time now. You may think you know, but you probably don’t actually know. I frequently track my time to get an idea…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 429: iWork Deep Dive
With the recent updates to iWork, we’re going to take a deep dive into iWork on this week’s MPU+ episode. We share the best uses for Pages, Numbers, and Keynote. We discuss the pros and cons of the apps, collaboration, and try to tackle…
Listen & read notes →Cardhop Version 1.1
Flexibits released version 1.1 of Cardhop, their clever contact management app. There are lots of new features in the new version: • Support for French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese (including full text parsing and localized address and phone formats) • Smart groups: create…
Continue reading →Free Agents 46: Being Comfortable Is Not an Option, with Jaimee Newberry
Longtime web developer, tech executive, start-up co-founder, inspirational speaker, and coach Jaimee Newberry joins us on this week’s episode to discuss her own journey, when to go out on your own, when to walk way from projects, and how to deal with unexpected success.…
Continue reading →The Overdue Demise of the Apple Airport
I have a complicated history with the Apple Airport. For years I’d buy whatever Netgear router was on sale and bumble my way through their web interface to get it set up and semi-configured. Those routers had a unique combination of ugliness, cryptic user…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 428: The Bedroom Episode
We’re talking about bedroom tech, including what’s on our nightstands and sleep tracking, on the latest MPU+ episode. We also discuss my new backup strategy, Drafts 5, returning a lost iPhone, Apple’s education event, and follow up on Katie’s lightning strike. This episode of…
Listen & read notes →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…
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