Today’s iOS 10.3 update to the iPhone adds the brand-new Apple File System (APFS) to your iOS devices. The APFS system was announced last year WWDC. It replaces the now 30-year-old hierarchical filing system (HFS, later updated to HFS+) that, until today, was on…
Continue reading →MPU 370 – Sal Soghoian Talks Automation
This week we’re joined by long time Automation evangelist and former Apple Automation head, Sal Soghoian. This is a very special episode of the Mac Power Users where we discuss the current state of automation technologies on the Mac and iOS and where we’d…
Listen & read notes →Sponsor: Daylite – Announcing Team View for Mac
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Daylite, the CRM & Project Management app for teams on Mac, iPhone & iPad. New in Daylite is Team View for Mac. Team View gives business owners and managers a quick overview of their team’s workload. You can…
Continue reading →Time for an iCloud Security Tuneup
Depending on who you believe, hackers have either compromised 600 million iCloud accounts or they have just a few and are trying shake Apple down for $150,000. Sometimes, humans are the worst. Either way, either today (or this weekend) would be a great time…
Continue reading →Free Agents 17 – Stop Digging
On the latest episode of Free Agents, we discuss firing clients. Not all clients are good clients. If you don’t manage the herd, you could lose the farm. This is why it’s important to consider the right time, and right way, to fire a client.…
Continue reading →The Case For and Against Apple’s Purchase of Workflow
There was a bit of surprising news today out of TechCrunch from Matthew Panzarino. It looks like Apple bought Workflow, which is–in my opinion–the single most useful utility application on the iPhone or iPad. I love Workflow so much that I made a MacSparky…
Continue reading →Interact Scratchpad for Mac
Today Agile Tortoise released a new Mac App, Interact Scratchpad (website)(Mac App store). One of the best features on the Interact for iOS app is the scratchpad, where you can paste any address-related clump of text and the application sorts it out for you.…
Continue reading →MPU 369 – Music Workflows with Michael Whalen
This week on the Mac Power Users, Emmy award winning composer and artist Michael Whalen joins us to talk about his 68+ Macs and how he’s been making music with Apple technology since 1984.
Listen & read notes →Random Thoughts on the New Apple Products
Today Apple announced several new products… The New 9.7 Inch iPad Just last week I wrote about the need for an “ePad”. The new lower priced iPad makes a lot of sense for schools and other buyers on a budget. It is $70 less,…
Continue reading →Sponsor: OmniFocus
This week MacSparky is sponsored by OmniFocus from the Omni Group. Last week I just spent several days at the American Bar Association conference where I talked to a lot of lawyers using OmniFocus to hold things together. That shouldn’t surprise you though. OmniFocus…
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