This year I’m going to feature some of my favorite holiday-themed jazz music every Friday. One of my favorites Wynton Marsalis’s Christmas Jazz Jam (iTunes) (Apple Music). Wynton, who I’ll cover another day in greater detail, is very much a traditionalist but as he’s…
Continue reading →2017 MPU Hoodie and Shirt
It’s been a few years since we did any merchandise at the Mac Power Users so we’ve teamed up with the Cotton Bureau on these really great looking hoodies and shirts. The hoodie features an embroidered MPU Battery logo and can keep you warm…
Listen & read notes →MPU 405: 2017 Holiday Gift Guide
This week’s episode of the Mac Power Users is our annual gift guide. Katie and I looked high and low this year and we came up with some great picks. We also had some great ideas from the community and added those as well.…
Listen & read notes →Get Focussed with Middle Davids Candles (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Middle Davids Artisan Candles. Middle Davids understand the use of rituals to help with productivity. Have you considered using the scent of a candle? It works. I burn candles while I work and I always feel that the…
Continue reading →Gabe Weatherhead’s iPad Experiment
I enjoyed reading Gabe Weatherhead’s thoughts following his attempts to do more on his iPad. Although I have to admit that I could never see Gabe going into the iPad-only crowd, at least not in the foreseeable future. Gabe is far too clever in the…
Continue reading →Free Agents 34 – I Think I Just Got Fired with Marco Arment
The latest episode of Free Agents is live. App developer, podcaster, analyst, and secret entrepreneur Marco Arment joins us to discuss his journey from college to Tumblr, building Instapaper, getting quit-fired, setting out on his own, and working in bursts of productivity.
Continue reading →The Increasingly Rare iPad Deal Killers
Jason Snell wrote an excellent piece today about how he uses his iPad for a lot of his work. The post references a recent quote from Microsoft’s Satya Nadella that implies the iPad is not a real computer and a recent iPad ad that…
Continue reading →MPU 404: The iPhone X and Austin Mann Talks iPhone Photography
In this week’s episode of the Mac Power Users, we share our initial thoughts and impressions of the iPhone X. Also, Austin Mann, having recently finished his Guatemala trip with the iPhone X shares his thoughts on photography with the iPhone including shooting technique,…
Listen & read notes →OmniGraffle, My Secret Weapon for Graphics (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by the app that I use as my own personal graphics toolbox, OmniGraffle. OmniGraffle was created as a diagramming tool but it is so much more. I don’t need to use a graphics app every day but I do have…
Continue reading →iPad Sans Bezel
Image by Benjamin Geskin Now that I’ve got a bezel-less iPhone in my hands, I’m looking at my iPad(s) a little sideways. Turns out I’m not alone. Benjamin Geskin did some lovely renders of a bezel-less iPad that feels to me like the direction Apple…
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