The Apple HomePod goes on sale tomorrow (presumably tonight at midnight PST). We’ve been hearing about Apple’s entry into the home speaker/voice-in-a-can business with the HomePod announcement at last years WWDC. There is a lot of “meh” in the community about this product. Fundamentally,…
Continue reading →The WaterField MacBook SleeveCase Review
For a few weeks last month I was a world traveler. While it is fun getting stamps on your passport and embarrassing your children while you try to converse with people in other languages, one concern I had for the trip was getting around…
Continue reading →Free Agents 39 – Quality Time with a Sledgehammer
On the latest episode of the Free Agent, I talk about avoiding working too hard on vacation, while Jason tries to do the same in his own house; I’m experimenting with hyper-scheduling and the Twelve-Week Year; Jason performs some drastic office remodeling.
Continue reading →The Email Diet
With the start of a new year, I’m looking at new workflows, this year even more than usual. I’m disappointed that my latest iBook didn’t get released last year and am now looking for ways to get rid of some of the obstacles that got…
Continue reading →Transmit for iOS Replacements
I wrote about the demise of Transmit for iOS last month. Since then, I’ve had several people ask me about replacements. Federico Viticci sums up the options nicely. I settled on FileBrowser, which I used to use before Transmit was released. It’s not as…
Continue reading →A Complete Listing of All the Acceptable Places to Keep Your Apple AirPods
1. In your ear. 2. In the case.
Continue reading →MPU 414 – This is What I Got
In the latest MPU+, Katie shares her struggles with APFs and High Sierra, and I explain a few workflow changes related to OmniFocus defer dates and my hyper-scheduling experiment. We also answer listener questions relating to photo albums on the Apple TV, how we’re…
Listen & read notes →Digging Out
The Sparks family had an amazing vacation in January. It was one of those once-in-a-lifetime trips to London and Paris. My kids are at the perfect age, and my wife and I both agreed that we don’t know how many years we have left…
Continue reading →Upgrade Any Mail App with SaneBox – Sponsor
This week’s MacSparky sponsor, is SaneBox, the email tool that everybody could use. You may have heard about some of the innovative new email features like inbox auto-sorting, deferred email, and reply tracking. The trouble is that early implementations of those features were all…
Continue reading →MPU 413 – iPad Productivity
I somehow forgot to link to this episode this week. Whoops. I really like the way this episode came out where we picked several categories of work that we get done on the iPad and explaind our favorite apps and workflows for getting it…
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