This week MacSparky is sponsored by SaneBox, the email service that adds power features to any email system. With SaneBox at your back, you add a powerful set of email tools that can work in just about any email client. SaneBox will automatically sort…
Continue reading →Free Agents #14 – Putting Numbers in Boxes with Andrew Carroll
In the latest episode of Free Agents, CPA (and fellow free agent) Andrew Carroll guests to explain accounting and tax challenges for independent workers. This is a great episode – especially with April 15 around the corner.
Continue reading →Still Using It – Trip Mode
A few years ago I wrote about a then-new application, Trip Mode, that allows you to turn off the Internet pipes for particular apps on your MacBook. It’s a great idea, particularly if you tether your MacBook to your iPhone or iPad. Using Trip…
Continue reading →The OmniFocus Video Field Guide Gets Streaming and Closed Captions
When I first started distributing the video field guides, I wanted to make it as simple as possible. Customers pay and then download a video. It worked great originally but lately I’ve been getting emails from customers that just work on iPad and iPhone. For…
Continue reading →More on the iPad and Software
Dr. Drang wrote over the weekend: “The biggest problem for the iPad is Apple’s unwillingness to let it become its own thing. Development of iOS is driven by the iPhone, which probably shouldn’t have the tools of a regular computer. But the iPad needs…
Continue reading →MPU 363 – Workflows with IT Specialist Ivan Hemmans
We spend a lot of time on the Mac Power Users talking about how, as Mac users, to deal with a hostile IT staff. This week we decided to have a friendly IT specialist on the show in Ivan Hemmans. Ivan talks about how…
Listen & read notes →Sleuthing the MacBook Pro Battery Issues
Gordan Mah Ung at Macworld recently spent some time researching battery issues with the new MacBook Pros. He did comparative tests with different tasks and came to the conclusion that the problem is the MacBook Pro getting stuck on the discreet graphics card, which…
Continue reading →A Few Thoughts about iPad
Apple recently announced their quarterly earnings and it turns out the fruit company is doing well. The iPhone sales return to growth, the Mac is doing well, revenue from services is up. The outlier was the iPad. The iPad’s sales are down for the…
Continue reading →Fantastical for iOS 2.8
Fantastical for iPad and iPhone updated today to version 2.8. The new update includes rich notifications and and haptic feedback on iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. Now in Fantastical on the iPhone 7, when you scroll dates or times, you feel a nice…
Continue reading →World’s Greatest Apple Watch Stand
Despite being an Apple Watch fan, I’d never purchased a dock for it. Laying it on its side always seemed good enough for me. That was until I saw this little beauty, which I immediately bought from Amazon for $15. This may be a generational…
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