This week MacSparky is sponsored by SaneBox, the email service that acts like your personal email assistant. There’s a lot that SaneBox can do for you, but this week I’d like to focus on SaneReminders. They’re awesome. So what are SaneReminders? Let me answer…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 393: Developer Roundtable
In this week’s episode of Mac Power Users, prominent app developers Ken Case, Greg Scown, and Dave Teare join us to talk about the future of macOS and iOS, along with a few thoughts on the software business in 2017. Sponsors include: MindNode Delightful mind…
Listen & read notes →The CrashPlan Crash and Online Backup Options
This week we learned that CrashPlan is getting out of the consumer backup business. For years I’ve been reading emails from Mac Power Users listeners from both team CrashPlan and Team Backblaze. I started out using CrashPlan years ago but left it because there…
Continue reading →Jazz Friday – Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage
If you’re building up your library of jazz standards, you definitely need tot add Herbie Hancock’s Maiden Voyage (iTunes)(Apple Music) to the list. Maiden Voyage was the name of Herbie Hancock’s 1965 album and the title track. The song has a great sort-of motion…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Shirantha Beddage
Last month we interviewed Apple Distinguished Educator, musician, and music teacher Shirantha Beddage (website) (Twitter) on Mac Power Users. Shirantha has released three jazz albums and is an excellent candidate for a Jazz Friday post here at MacSparky. Besides that, Shirantha’s enthusiasm for his…
Continue reading →Star Wars Augmented Reality Promotion
Reuters is reporting that September 1-3 we are going to get augmented reality Star Wars characters on our iPhones at certain retailers like Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy and … yes … Apple. “The hunt for “Star Wars” characters is scheduled to last three days…
Continue reading →Free Agents 28: My Origin Story
In the latest episode of Free Agents, Jason asks me about my Free Agent origin story. The episode is full of navel-gazing and hippie nonsense, so you’ve been warned. This week’s Free Agents sponsor is Freshbooks: Online invoicing made easy.
Continue reading →One More Go at iOS Text Manipulation
Now that my weapon of choice for text manipulation is getting shut down, I’m thinking about a replacement. Jon Voorhees over at MacStories pointed me to Clean Text (website)(App Store), a $2.99 app that has many of the same text cleaning features as TextTool…
Continue reading →The Demise of TextTool 2
Yesterday I wrote about a really clever little IOS utility, TextTool 2. Shortly after I posted, the app developer announced he is ceasing development. He explained in his blog post that despite putting significant work into the application, Its total income was a little…
Continue reading →iOS Text Transformations with TextTool 2
Longtime Mac users may be familiar with one of my favorite Mac utilities, Text Soap. The application lets you fix text just about every way possible. That’s great so long as you’re sitting at a Mac, but what about iOS? There’s a solution for…
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