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…
Continue reading →Moment Lenses
For a few years now I’ve been using my iPhone as my camera. While I was never a diehard camera enthusiast, I have owned SLR and Micro Four Thirds cameras in the past. Don’t get me wrong; in many ways those fancier (and more…
Continue reading →The History of the iPhone on MacCast
This week I joined Adam Christianson on the MacCast where we reminisced about the history of the iPhone and how it changed so many things. We also compared our first app purchases, which was really fun. Adam and I have been friends for a…
Continue reading →PDFpen for Mac – The Ultimate Tool for Editing PDFs – Sponsor
This week, MacSparky is sponsored by PDFpen 10 for Mac. Smile has released the most recent version of PDFpen, and it includes several new impressive features. My favorite new feature is batch support for optical character support. Often I’m given piles of PDF documents…
Continue reading →The Waterfield Air Porter
My Air Porter on my last trip. I’ve been doing quite a bit of travel lately for fancy lawyer-related business. Usually I just take a backpack on trips, but it doesn’t really look good in the business meetings where I have to wear a…
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