I’ve been working the last few months on an update to the OmniFocus Video Field Guide. I’ve updated it for several new features and gone deep on the iOS Automation and URL linking. I’m making final edits and additions over the next few days…
Continue reading →The Perils of Your Own Mail Servers
I was at a professional gathering recently when the subject of email security came up. I was surrounded by a group of lawyers that knew next-to-nothing about technology and it made me curious about their thoughts on email servers. Going around the room, I…
Continue reading →Wireless Keyboard Security Vulnerabilities
Bastille Networks ran an experiment where they tried to intercept transmissions of some wireless keyboards. This would let the bad guys capture a user’s keystrokes from a remote computer and even inject their own keystrokes on your device. It all comes down to poor…
Continue reading →Six Colors on Apple Quarterly Results
Speaking of Jason Snell, his Six Colors website did a bang up job on coverage of Apple’s quarterly earnings call today. Not only does Six Colors make pretty charts, Jason’s knowledge and vast experience covering Apple make his commentary some of the best there…
Continue reading →My New Podcast: The Free Agents
Today I’m launching a new podcast with my friend Jason Snell called the Free Agents. As the show description explains: David Sparks and Jason Snell spent their careers working for the establishment. Then one day, they’d had enough. Now they are independent workers, learning…
Continue reading →The Law Entrepreneur Podcast
Neil Tyra does an interesting podcast where interviews entrepreneurial attorneys called, appropriately, The Law Entrepreneur. Neil has a great interview style and makes it easy to talk. I was please to be asked to guest on episode 26, which is now live. In it I…
Continue reading →Better Item Selection with iOS Pixelmator
It’s remarkable to me how I do nearly all of my photo processing these days on iPad. Along that theme, the Pixelmator team just released a nice update with a focus on selecting objects. Quick Selection ToolJust swipe over an area to select it.…
Continue reading →Learn Drafts this Weekend
Got an hour this weekend? Why don’t you master the Drafts app? I did an entire series of screencasts on Drafts and it is a really handy app. Drafts let’s you quickly capture text on your iPhone and iPad and then perform actions on…
Continue reading →MacSparky 2016 T-shirt Campaign
It’s been nine years since I launched MacSparky and I figured it was about time to have an official shirt. So here it is for a limited time. Studies indicate that wearing this shirt will make you more attractive and smarter. You can get it…
Continue reading →Scrivener for iPad and iPhone
In searching the archive, I found my first review of Scrivener on MacSparky in 2007. That’s right. … 2007. Scrivener was my original “White Whale” app for the iPad. Within an hour of using my first iPad, I remember thinking, “Now I need Scrivener.” How…
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