A few weeks ago, we published a Mac Power Users episode comparing the current status of notetaking applications. During the show, I went on at some length about the good and bad points with Apple’s notes application. One of my issues was the inability…
Continue reading →Email Write Order
Recently I made an offhand comment on the podcast about how I write email backwards. This triggered a bunch of email questions so I thought I’d explain further with an excerpt from my Email Field Guide. Here you go. Email Write Order I’ve always…
Continue reading →Announcing App Camp for Girls Orange County
For the last several months we’ve had a secret project here in the Sparks household. My wife, Daisy, has been working to bring App Camp for Girls to Orange County, California. Like most ventures of this nature, it already feels like we could make…
Continue reading →Encryption Divergence
While Apple has held the unenviable lime-light over digital privacy lately, they are not alone. Today WhatsApp announced that, like Apple’s iMessage service, WhatsApp service will feature end-to-end encryption. As a result, they’ll be unable to monitor your messages and unable to respond to…
Continue reading →New TextExpander and Video Series
Smile Software has released a new version of TextExpander. This upgrade has been a long time in the making and is the culmination of a lot of work. TextExpander got a new design and now you’ll store your snippets at TextExpander.com. There are a…
Continue reading →MPU 313: Education and iPad
This week on the Mac Power Users, Fraser Speirs joined us to talk about his school’s one to one iPad program after five years, how he ditched his Mac for his iPad Pro, and comparing the various iPadsand iPad Pros on sale today. This…
Continue reading →Supercharge your Jumbo iPad
Jeff Richardson over at iPhone JD bought one of those fancy 29W USB-C Chargers and Apple’s USB-C to Lightning cable to speed up charging his 12.9″ iPad Pro and he likes it. There have been several posts on this and the short version of…
Continue reading →Fantastical Version 2.2 Ships
Today Flexibits released version 2.2 of Fantastical for the Mac. They could’ve easily named this update version 3.0. There are a lot of new features in this update including: Microsoft Exchange support Attendee availability support Dual timezones – Your timezone on the left and…
Continue reading →Which 9.7 Inch iPad?
Since my post last week about the big iPad, I’ve received quite a few emails from people asking which 9.7 inch iPad they should buy. Apple has now taken the iPad more in the direction of the Macs where there is a standard model…
Continue reading →My MacBook MenuBar
I’m starting a new post series here at MacSparky where I feature some nerd’s Mac MenuBar with a discussion of some of their favorite cool little MenuBar apps. I’m starting with the MenuBar on my MacBook. So here it is. Fantastical While Fantastical has…
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