Every year, Splash Data reveals its list of the year’s most commonly used passwords. This year the usual suspects, like “123456” and “password”, are, again at the top of the list. I had to grin that “starwars” has made its way to the list…
Continue reading →Technology and the California Wildfires
Speaking of disaster preparedness, my friend, and fellow geek, Rogier Willems, had the latest wildfires show up on his doorstep. He had to evacuate in a hurry and reports in with some excellent advice. One mistake he reports is taking his networking gear when…
Continue reading →MPU 408: Disaster Preparedness
This week’s MPU episode, which we recorded just days before the latest California wildfires, is all about emergencies and your technology. In additiona to disaster preparedness, this episode also covers personal emergencies, accident or illness, technology failures and even happy emergencies. Sponsors include: Eero:…
Listen & read notes →Episode VIII
Today marks general release of the latest Star Wars Movie. This will be episode VIII and, for me, continuation of a journey started when I was nine years old. I’ve got my Star Wars shirt on and wearing my Star Wars shoes (the same…
Continue reading →Getting Your Act Together with OmniFocus (Sponsor)
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…
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