Yesterday Wired magazine published an article about the most recent improvements to Siri. Several prominent Apple executives participated including Alex Acero, the Siri lead, and Greg Joswiak. The focus of the article was the improvement to Siri’s voice with IOS 11. Having used the…
Continue reading →Free Agents: The “Spreadsheet”
So you’re thinking about going out on your own. It’s time to build The Spreadsheet, a tool to let you gauge your potential income and expenses and give you a realistic view of what it will take to succeed.
Continue reading →Disaster Preparedness for Your Technology
In light of Irma’s imminent arrival in Florida today, I thought it’d be worth linking a few articles addressing technology-related disaster preparation. First, Ars Technica has an article about the utility of having a UPS attached to your networking gear. I just did that…
Continue reading →iPhone (Pro?) Size Comparisons and Naming
Redmond Pie took a mock-up iPhone (Pro/Edition/8) and compared it to existing and past iPhones. Most interesting to me is the picture below pitting it against a 7 Plus. For existing plus-sized customers, the phone would get smaller and have fewer pixels. However, with…
Continue reading →More on Microsoft Office for Mac
My post a few days ago about the future of Microsoft Office drew a lot of email. Here are a few random bits I picked up along the way: A lot of people really hate subscription software. Office 2011 has some Add-in support that…
Continue reading →The Latest Apple Park Drone Footage
For some reason, I just can’t get enough of these drone shots of the new Apple Park. Looks like the Steve Jobs Theater will be good to go for Tuesday’s big announcement.
Continue reading →Happy Anniversary to the Omni Group (Sponsor)
This week MacSparky is sponsored by the Omni Group. For 25 years the Omni Group has been making outstanding software for Mac, iPhone, and iPad users. The Omni Group started writing software for Next computers before Next was acquired by Apple and Steve Jobs…
Continue reading →MPU 394: Workflows with Dan Moren
My pal Dan Moren has been writing fiction for years and his first novel was recently published. On this week’s episode, Dan, who is a first-order geek, shares how he used his Apple technology to plan, write, edit, and get published. We also talked about…
Listen & read notes →The Future of Microsoft Office on the Mac
Microsoft has been telling folks for a while that Microsoft Office 2011 is going to cease getting future development. Lately, they’ve made it even more explicit that if you upgrade to macOS High Sierra in a few weeks, you’re out of luck with Office…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Greg Scown
Greg Scown (website)(Twitter) started his programming career at Apple but eventually made his way out of Cupertino and into his the Apple developer community. Greg is one of the owners of Smile Software and is, in addition to being a geek like us, a…
Continue reading →