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…
Listen & read notes →25 Years Without Dad
Today’s the 25th anniversary of my father’s death. I still miss that guy. A lot. Here’s an article I wrote several years ago about how my dad taught me about craftsmanship.
Continue reading →Jazz Friday – Chris Potter
I recently received an email from a reader thanking me for these jazz Friday posts. He explained that he loved learning about some of these older musicians that he had never heard of before but then he very politely ended the email, “Do you…
Continue reading →Microsoft Office for Mac’s New Real-Time Collaboration
With the latest update to Microsoft Office for Mac, Microsoft has added much-improved tools for collaboration. I’ve only had the update for a day but I’ve been testing it out with a few friends, and it’s the closest I’ve seen yet to the Google…
Continue reading →Being Productive from Kourosh Dini
My friend Kourosh Dini is a smart guy, and I’ve always thought of him as a kindred spirit. He spends his days working as a practicing psychiatrist, but he also makes music and writes books. His latest book, Being Productive: Simple Steps to Calm…
Continue reading →Daylite Gets Push Notifications
Daylite, the CRM (Customer Relationship Management) and small office management tool, continues to roll out new features. Most recently, Daylite added the ability to send push notifications to your iPad and iPhone. While I don’t use Daylite (I have a team of just one), I…
Continue reading →Solve the Winmail.dat Problem with Letter Opener – Sponsor
These days there aren’t many friction points left when working on your Mac with Windows users. One, however, that still gets me is the dreaded winmail.dat files. If you ever work with Windows users, you know what I’m talking about. These are windows formatted…
Continue reading →SaneBox Productivity Gold Promotion
Longtime MacSparky sponsor SaneBox has joined forces with several productivity tools to offer a nifty productivity promotion. They have collected several of their favorite productivity tools (most are web-based) and negotiated discounts for users. This is not a bundle. You do not have to…
Continue reading →10 Years of MacBook Air
Stephen Hackett made a great little video celebrating ten years of the computer that Steve Jobs pulled out of an envelope. I was in the building that day at Macworld, but I couldn’t get into the Keynote. In these days of thin MacBooks and…
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