Ben Thompson runs a successful publishing business from Asia largely using Apple technology. This week he joined us on the Mac Power Users to talk about how business strategy impacts technology, living and working in Asia and global views on the mobile market, and…
Listen & read notes →Ulysses Version 2.5
Ulysses isn’t a text editor or a word processor. It is a writing tool. It lets you collect bits of text together and organize them, reorganize them, hide them, delete them, write them over again, and generally carry you through all the angst that…
Continue reading →Best Apple Pencil Review Yet
Serenity Caldwell reviews the Apple Pencil with her Apple Pencil. ∞
Continue reading →Intuit Sells Quicken
Long before I knew of the existence of Intuit, I was well aware of Quicken. Quicken was the first personal financial management software that really made sense. Everybody used it and that’s what made their slow abandonment of the Apple platform so tragic. I…
Continue reading →Sponsor: Billings Pro
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Marketcircle, the makers of Billings Pro – a time-tracking & invoicing app for the Mac, iPad, iPhone & Apple Watch. It’s great for freelancers and small businesses such as consultants, lawyers, designers, photographers, that need an easy way…
Continue reading →Craig Federighi on Security
In an op/ed piece for the Washington Post, Apple’s king of all software, Craig Federighi, explains: “Great software has seemingly limitless potential to solve human problems — and it can spread around the world in the blink of an eye. Malicious code moves just…
Continue reading →The Amazon Echo
For about a month now I’ve been using an Amazon Echo in my home. The Echo is the most interesting thing to come out of Amazon’s tech labs since the first Kindle. The Echo is a cylindrical speaker and microphone array about the size…
Continue reading →Art Channel for Apple TV
One of the nice things about being a parent is that as your kids grow up you get to learn new things. One of my daughters loves fine art. She can talk about artists and their work the same way I talk about jazz…
Continue reading →The Complete History of the Millennium Falcon
Here’s a post that I look forward to reading this weekend the exact same way I used to look forward to opening my Christmas presents. I have a lot of complaints about the Star Wars prequels. One of them is that without the Falcon,…
Continue reading →Talking Email on Home Work
Speaking of podcasts, Dave Caolo and Aaron Mahnke are doing an email series on the Home Work podcast. There are some really great episodes coving the topic in depth. I joined for episode 198 to talk about email priority. ∞
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