If you’ve been missing my dulcet tones, I’ve got several new podcasts: The Productivity Podcast with Paul Minors Paul Minors has a great productivity minded podcast. On it I talked about some of my own personal workflows and my thoughts on “productivity” in general. MPU…
Listen & read notes →Zen and the Art of Work
Kourosh Dini, author and publisher of using Creating Flow with OmniFocus (and this guy) has a new project called Zen and the Art of Work. I have to admit that I’m normally resistant to anything that incorporates “Zen” into the name because the word has…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Jonathan Copeland
I’ve recently been corresponding with Jonathan Copeland (Website)(Twitter). Jonathan is an information science/multimedia student at the University of Pretoria and he’s got some definite opinions on his favorite apps. So Jonathan, show us your home screen. What are some of your favorite apps? Music…
Continue reading →Hurricane Apps
I’ve been following the news pretty closely about Hurricane Matthew as it works its way up the Florida coast. In addition to a close friend, there is currently a conference going on in Orlando where some of the smartest Mac lawyers in the country…
Continue reading →Free Agents 6: The Shawshank Redemption with Shahid Kamal Ahmad
Free Agents just released its sixth episode. This one includes an interview with former PlayStation executive PlayStation Shahid Kamal Ahmad, left Sony to become an independent game developer. We discuss why he left and how he schedules his workday in his garden shed, the…
Continue reading →Samsung’s Viv Acquisition
One of Siri’s original founders, Dag Kittlaus, left Apple a few years ago and started a new thing, Viv. I’ve actually been watching this one pretty closely. While Viv is still in development, I’ve always felt it may be something pretty nifty. Maybe it…
Continue reading →Clockwise 157
This week I guested on the Clockwise podcast, where we talked about Google’s new stuff, including Google Home; Apple’s new Spoken Editions of print articles; and imagining the Next Big Thing. ∞
Continue reading →Yahoo.Gov
It is becoming increasingly clear that last year, the government ordered Yahoo to search its entire user email database and Yahoo’s response was, “no problem”. According to the New York Times, Yahoo was forbidden from disclosing the order and the collection is no longer…
Continue reading →“Hello Computer”
In our recent Mac Power Users episode on macOS Sierra, both Katie and I bemoaned the fact that you can’t verbally trigger Siri on the Mac. It seems a no brainer to me as someone with an iMac on my desk sitting there waiting…
Continue reading →Sponsor: PracticePanther Law Practice Management
This week MacSparky is sponsored by PracticePanther, legal practice management software for the modern attorney. Practice Panther includes tools for attorneys to manage contacts, matters, and documents, track tasks, track time and send invoices, and manage expenses. Using PracticePanther, it takes less than one…
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