It’s been awhile since I shared my home screen and since I finally shipped my iPhone Field Guide, this seemed the right time to share my iPhone home screen, 2018 edition. Since getting the iPhone X, I’m still in love with the OLED display.…
Continue reading →Free Agents 45: Like Going Back to High School
My home workspace gets invaded by teenagers, Jason reprises his old commute and learns to appreciate the ability to work from anyplace, and a listener reminds us of a classic technique: making promises that your future self has to keep. Join us for the…
Continue reading →Big Update for Drafts
Drafts, one of my favorite utilities for the iPhone just got a big update to version 5. For some of you, that’s all you need to hear. Download the new version and subscribe. For the rest of you, let me explain a bit further.…
Continue reading →OmniGraffle, Graphics Software for Mortals – Sponsor
This week MacSparky is sponsored by OmniGraffle, by the Omni Group. OmniGraffle is the diagramming and graphics tool made for people that don’t have the time to get a degree in diagramming and graphics. It’s a powerful application that is also easy to use.…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 426: Workflows with Andy Ihnatko
Writer, photographer, geek, and all-around nice guy Andy Ihnatko joins us this week, while Katie attempts to avoid electrocution. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: Ulysses: The ultimate writing app for Mac, iPad, and iPhone. Get 3 months free. Eero: Never think…
Listen & read notes →CarPlay’s Unsurprising Success
Strategy Analytics released a report explaining how happy car owners are with Apple CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto in their vehicles. This is hardly shocking. Several months ago I put an after-market CarPlay device in my Ford and it is better than Ford’s previous…
Continue reading →Announcing the iPhone Field Guide
Today I’m pleased to announce my latest MacSparky Field Guide is available for purchase from the iBooks Store, The iPhone Field Guide. I’ve been working on this book for a long time and I’m really happy with how it turned out. With the iPhone…
Continue reading →The (Red) iPhone
The new Product (Red) iPhone looks pretty nice. I like the black bezel much better than last year’s version with the white bezel. Still, a few thoughts occur to me. 1. Why is this only on iPhone 8? It seems it would have been…
Continue reading →PDFpen Version 10
PDFpen for Mac continues to improve. Today Smile released version 10 with several new features: Adds watermarks Insert Headers & Footers OCR multiple documents in batch (PDFpenPro only) New Precision Edit tool selects, moves, resizes and deletes line art and text Improves move &…
Continue reading →The New iPad
Over the weekend I took a trip to the Apple Store to check out the new 9.7 inch $329 iPad. There is a lot to like about the new iPad, starting with price. It’s roughly half the cost of the 10.5 inch iPad Pro.…
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