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.…
Continue reading →Clean up Your Mac with CleanMyMac 3 – Sponsor
I’m pleased to welcome as a new sponsor to MacSparky this week an app I’ve been using for years, CleanMyMac. It’s easy to let cruft build up on your Mac, and with the limited space available on SSDs, that can be a pain to…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 425: Web Browsers
Join us this week as we dive into the topic of browsers: the browsers we use on Mac and iOS, reasons to look at third-party browsers versus staying with Safari, tweaking your settings, our favorite add-ons and companions services, and more. This episode of…
Listen & read notes →Home Screens – Dr. Barrett Mosbacker
Some of my favorite home screens come from MacSparky readers. Dr. Barrett Mosbacker is one of those. So Barrett, show us your home screen. What are some of your favorite apps? For managing my personal and professional life my favorite apps are Spark, Fantastical,…
Continue reading →Free Agents 44: Maybe You’ll Get a Real Job, with David Wain
You might not realize it, but creative professionals in the entertainment industry are also free agents. In this episode, we talk to writer/actor/director David Wain of Wet Hot American Summer and The State about his life as a free agent, from hitting MTV right out of…
Continue reading →Apple is Staffing Up Siri
There’s a lot of news lately about Apple staffing up Siri. First we heard that they are adding something like 100 additional engineers to the product. Now the New Your Times is reporting Apple hired Google’s former artificial intelligence chief, John Gannandrea to oversee…
Continue reading →Repairability vs. Sturdiness
Over the years, Apple Products have become increasingly less repairable. The latest teardown of the new iPad evidences this fact with photos of densely packed electronic components and copious amounts of glue. This led iFixit to give the new iPad a low repairability score.…
Continue reading →Daisy Disk 4.5
DaisyDisk is a smart little utility to help you manage your Mac’s drive space. I’ve been DaisyDisk on my Macs for a long time. Recently they updated to version 4.5. The initial reason I liked DaisyDisk so much is the user interface. It uses…
Continue reading →Tame Your Email with SaneBox – Sponsor
This week’s sponsor, SaneBox is the solution to so many of my email problems. SaneBox is the email service that adds a pile of productivity features to your email, regardless of what email client you use. For a lot of folks, email is a constant pain…
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