Setapp, the Netflix for Mac Apps service, got a nice update yesterday improving on App discovery with better App summaries and categories of apps. The overall user interface is much nicer now. Both prettier and more accessible. I first signed up just to try…
Continue reading →Apple’s Green Ambitions
Yesterday Apple released it’s 2017 Environmental Progress Report. The company has come a long way on this front in the last few years. They’ve got most of their operations working off renewable energy. They’ve also developed a robot that takes iPhones apart so they…
Continue reading →A Few Rules to Avoid Getting Stung with Crowd-Funding
Three years ago I backed this project on Indiegogo that was a clever iPhone battery/cable/locator/camera trigger. At the time it seemed pretty useful and I was still in those heady days of believing that anything listed on Kickstarter or Indiegogo would necessarily ship. Well…
Continue reading →Sponsor: Avoid Email Mistakes with MailButler
This week MacSparky is sponsored by MailButler, your personal assistant for Apple Mail. One of the best features of Apple Mail is the plugin architecture, letting you customize the application to suit your needs and the grand-daddy of Apple Mail plugins is this week’s…
Continue reading →Star Wars Episode VIII – The Trailer, The Poster, and the Show Floor
Today was the Episode VIII panel at Star Wars Celebration and it was pretty great. The corker was a 2 minute teaser that LucasFilm is calling a “trailer”. I don’t see how you can call this a trailer though. It’s just the barest of…
Continue reading →A Long Sunset for Workflow
MacRumors reports that the Workflow team has confirmed in a recent customer support email there will be no further features but imply they’ll do maintenance updates. Specifically, they wrote: “But just so you know, we have no further planned updates for Workflow. That being…
Continue reading →PDFpen Version 9
Smile just released a new version of PDFpen for Mac. The new version adds several features including better annotations, linked files, better export options, a new “search and highlight” feature, line numbering, a new hand tool, better table of contents editing, and Asian OCR.…
Continue reading →Packing the Laptop
I’m about to take a little trip. Packing for me is usually pretty easy. If I can get by on a trip with one pair of shoes, it makes my entire day. I can, however, get hung up when it comes to technology. My…
Continue reading →TestFlight Improvements and the Developer Climate
Yesterday Apple released an update for the TestFlight app. TestFlight is a tool that allows developers to release beta iPhone and iPad software to testers. At any one time I’m running several beta applications on my iPhone and and iPad via TestFlight. When I…
Continue reading →Star Wars Celebration
I remember being a teenager and talking to one of the older gents in my neighborhood. At the time I thought he was ancient but looking back I’m pretty sure he was younger than I am now. Anyway, he told me that the older…
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