This week’s home screen feature Peter Lewis, maker of Keyboard Maestro, which recently got a nice update, one of my favorite productivity apps on the Mac. Peter not only shared his home screen but also some of his favorite apps on both iOS and…
Continue reading →iCloud Text Replacement
There has been a lot of press the last few weeks over iCloud’s lackluster text replacement feature. Brian Stucki wrote an excellent post documenting just how bad the service is. I have to admit that I forgot iCloud even provided text replacement services. For…
Continue reading →10 Years of MacSparky
This year I’m celebrating 10 years of MacSparky.com. It’s hard to believe that a decade has gone by with me writing to the internet. In some ways, it feels like much less time. In other ways, I can’t remember a time when I wasn’t…
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I recently spent some time in the Apple Store looking at the iPhone 8. There’s a lot to like about the new iPhone. It’s substantially better than its predecessor, and the glass back makes more of a difference than I thought it would. It’s…
Continue reading →The End of the Line for Windows Phone
Microsoft’s head of mobile business, Joe Belviore recently tweeted that Windows Phone will get no new features. Of course we’ll continue to support the platform.. bug fixes, security updates, etc. But building new features/hw aren’t the focus. 😟 https://t.co/0CH9TZdIFu — Joe Belfiore (@joebelfiore) October…
Continue reading →Pixelmator 3.7 Mount Whitney
Pixelmator got its High Sierra update late last week. The new version lets you now launch Pixelmator directly from the Photos App and save edits back to your original image. It’s nice to have this feature back on the Mac. Pixelmator also now supports…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 399: Workflows with Merlin Mann
This week, our original workflow guest, Merlin Mann, returns to the show to share how he’s getting so much work done on the iPad these days and the other bits of technology that make him happy. Sponsored by: Fracture Bring your photos to life. The…
Listen & read notes →Sonos and Apple Music
Sonos is a great speaker system. After much badgering from Mac Power Users listeners, I started investing in them several years ago, and now I have a collection of them throughout my house. However, where Sonos failed to keep up was voice control. As…
Continue reading →The Omni Group is Ready for iOS 11 and High Sierra (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by the Omni Group, makers of some of the finest productivity software for the Mac, iPad, and iPhone. The Omni Group always jumps in with both feet for new operating system updates, and they didn’t disappoint this year. All…
Continue reading →Jazz Friday: Joey Alexander’s Joey. Monk. Live!
Joey Alexander, the jazz piano prodigy that continues to surprise me, released a new album, Joey. Monk. Live!, (iTunes)(Apple Music) where he played music from Thelonious Monk. I’ve written it before but I can’t get over how Joey plays with so much fire. I’ve heard…
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