Matt Honan, who’s at Buzzfeed these days, got to go for a ride in a Google car. “A future without human drivers is a long, long way off. But we’ll get there. No matter what you think. No matter what you hope. No matter…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Brian Sutich
Brian Sutich (Twitter) is a huge Apple guy who writes over at TheAppFactor.com and Sutich.org. Brian’s a man of many hats as a dad, musician, and audio engineer. So Brian, show us your home screen. My homescreen is a little crazy, but it has a method…
Continue reading →The Mother of All iPhone Camera Comparisons
Last Friday I thought I was really special running off to Disneyland with the new iPhone and doing a bunch of tests comparing the new and old cameras. Silly me. I should have remembered that Lisa Bethany does this every year much better than…
Continue reading →Carrot: Weather with Attitude
Growing up in southern California, I never thought much about weather. It’s always kind of nice and occasionally too hot but never too humid. But these days things are getting weird here and it has stopped raining. Not only do I care more about…
Continue reading →A Few Notes about OS X El Capitan
It’s update day! Hooray! My usual sickness for installing beta operating systems long before any sane person would carried over to this year’s OS X update, 10.11 El Capitan. After several months, here is my collected list of notes, tips, and observations: The new…
Continue reading →Billings Pro 2 for iOS
Marketcircle has updated Billings Pro for iOS (Website) (App Store). The new version adds iPad multitasking. When I saw the screenshot, I was immediately taken with the update. This is exactly the kind of implementation I was hoping for with iPad multitasking. Adding billing entries…
Continue reading →5 Quick Tips to Make Sure Your Presentation Doesn’t Suck
I recently was asked to give a presentation on how to make a presentation. I tried to keep it simple and came down to these five points: 1. Never Turn Your Back to the Audience It can be scary standing up in front of…
Continue reading →Bartender 2
There once was a dark time for all Mac users where the menubar threatened to take over our computers. The march of applications with handy menubar icons seemed unstoppable while at the same time Apple started making laptop screens smaller and smaller. I remember…
Continue reading →Sponsor: inShort Project Diagramming and Planning
This week MacSparky is sponsored by inShort. inShort is a project diagramming and planning tool that wears big-boy pants. Using inShort, available for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, you can build a diagram of processes and resources and then see that diagram with as much…
Continue reading →Pixelmator for iOS 2.1
There are a lot of updates hitting the wire this week. One of my favorites is Pixelmator for iOS 2.1. Pixelmator now fully supports iOS 9 and multitasking on the iPad. Having the Photos app and Pixelmator open simultaneously is pretty nice. The application…
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