This week, MacSparky is sponsored by OmniFocus, the best task management application for the Mac, iPad, and iPhone. I use OmniFocus every day to stay on top of my commitments and avoid being a flake. Designed by the Omni Group’s crack team of programmers,…
Continue reading →Free Agents 36 with John Voorhees
The latest episode of the Free Agents is up. John Voorhees of MacStories is a brand-new free agent, a lawyer who left his job in Chicago to set out on his own as a writer and app developer. He tells us how he decided…
Continue reading →The Decision to Buy an iMac Pro
With all the news coming out on the iMac Pro, Jason Snell wrote a thoughtful piece over at Macworld about the pluses and minuses of the new machine. If my email inbox is any indication, this question is on a lot of people’s mind.…
Continue reading →iMac Pro Specifications
The Apple iMac Pro website has a lot more details about what this sexy looking iMac can do. The whole thing is pretty crazy. Up to 18 cores, 4TB SSD, 42MB Cache, Radeon Pro Graphics, and 128GB Ram. Marques Brownlee has had one for…
Continue reading →Home Kit Vulnerability and Alcohol
9to5 Mac reports a discovered zero-day Home Kit vulnerability that allowed bad guys to open automated locks and garage doors. They’ve reported it to Apple and Apple has closed the door server-side with a further update expected next week. If Craig Federighi wasn’t a…
Continue reading →Backing Off Defer Dates: An OmniFocus Experiment
For years, I’ve been using defer dates to manage the flow of work in OmniFocus. I’ll often push projects out days, weeks, or even months so they disappear from the radar until a later time. Using this method, I’ve generally been able to keep…
Continue reading →MarsEdit 4
MarsEdit, one of the premier Mac blogging applications got updated today to version 4. This new version has seven years of development behind it and a lot of new features including a new look, additional WordpPress support, additional editor improvements and automatic preview template…
Continue reading →Apple Text Replacements Now Working
For a long time, Apple’s built-in text replacement system has been unreliable at best. A few months ago Brian Stucki went deep on the problems with Apple Text Replacement, and it got a lot of attention on the Internet. In my mind, the inability…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 407 – Shahid Kamal Ahmad
In this week’s episode of Mac Power Users, game developer and all-around-geek Shahid Kamal Ahmad joins us to talk about Apple hardware, software, and workflows.
Listen & read notes →Jazz Friday – Bill Evans’ Santa Claus is Coming To Town
This week for Jazz Friday, I’m featuring the Bill Evans’ cover of Santa Claus is Coming to Town from 1964. This is a weird track. It’s the only Christmas tune buried on Evans’ Trio 64 album released in January 1964. I’m guessing it is…
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