Yesterday the text surfaced of proposed legislation that would allow the FBI in the future to demand companies like Apple break their own encryption. This feels like too much. I can’t help but wonder what the founders would have thought of a government that…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Daisy Sparks
This week’s home screen features my partner in crime, Daisy Sparks (website) (Twitter). My wife is pretty amazing. Not only is she coordinating the Orange County App Camp for Girls (want to help?), she also puts up with her befuddled, nerdy husband. So Daisy, show…
Continue reading →Me Okay. Me Trooper.
Apparently someone at Apple left the camera rolling too long when Cookie Monster was on set for the latest Siri commercial. I love when Apple lets a little whimsey show.
Continue reading →Nesting Folders in Apple Notes
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…
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