This week programmer and entrepreneur Manton Reece joins the Mac Power Users this week to share how he’s using Apple gear to program and run his own business. Sponsors include: The Omni Group We’re passionate about productivity for Mac, iPhone and iPad. Fujitsu ScanSnap ScanSnap Helps You…
Listen & read notes →HomePod as Mac Speaker
I’m digging my HomePod. The speaker itself is excellent, and while Siri has its limitations, the features it does include are working solidly. (I do wish it could tell me my calendar appointments though.) One unexpected benefit of the HomePod, which sits on my…
Continue reading →Things and Productivity Training From Shawn Blanc
I prefer OmniFocus but if you like Things, The Sweet Setup has a really nice course they’ve just released. I watched it and was impressed. My favorite part, however, is the additional materials where Shawn shares some of his own productivity and planning workflows.…
Continue reading →Tinderbox – Get a Discount on the Tool for Notes (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Tinderbox, the tool for notes. Tinderbox is a Mac App that lets you collect your thoughts and slice and dice them any way your brain prefers. The application does a great job of adjusting to the way you…
Continue reading →Alto’s Odyssey Coming Next Week
Alto’s Adventure continues to be one of my top 5 ever iPhone games. They are releasing the sequel next week and I’ll be first in line.
Continue reading →The 2018 Emoji
Emoji are increasingly a bigger deal to me. And I say that non-ironically. I recently sent an octogenarian client an email telling her that her corporate minutes were done and she responded by sending me a text message with a smiling face and heart…
Continue reading →Free Agents 40 – Like Being in a Boat, with Kourosh Dini
In the latest episode of Free Agents, Psychiatrist, writer, musician, and free agent Kourosh Dini joins us to discuss his long journey to being an independent worker, mixing his various jobs, dealing with the stress of being on your own, and much more.
Continue reading →50 Years
Today I celebrate my 50th birthday. I know this is a big one. Right? For a long time now I’ve known this day was coming, and at the appointed day I’d leave my 40s behind me. At the same time, I felt ambivalent about…
Continue reading →BBEdit 12.1
The wheels at Bare Bones Software just keep turning. Today they released BBEdit 12.1. My favorite new feature is the ability to open files over 1.5GB. That’s right. BBEdit, largely used for development text files can now open 1.5GB files because for some people,…
Continue reading →MPU 416 – Consuming Content
View fullsize This week at the Mac Power Users, we explained our workflows for consuming digital (and some analog) content. We discuss keeping up with blogs, magazines, books, spoken word, movies, television, news, and more. It’s pretty remarkable how much the technology behind content consumption…
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