The developer of HoudahSpot has a somewhat lighter version, called Tembo. Tembo isn’t quite as powerful as HoudahSpot but also takes more of a guiding role in helping you find your files. For a lot of people it will be just right for improving…
Continue reading →$49,000,000,000
I knew that 49 Billion had nine zeros but I had to write it down to appreciate it. That is, after all, a lot of zeros. Either way, today Apple announced that last quarter Apple had $49.6 billion in revenue in a slow post-holiday quarter. Do you remember…
Continue reading →MPU 268 – Travel Hacks with Liana Lehua
We’re right in the middle of vacation season and this week Liana Lehua joins us to share some excellent geek-based travel hacks. If you’ve got travel plans, this one will help you out. ∞
Listen & read notes →Learn OmniFocus Seminar
If you’re a subscriber of Tim Stringer’s Learn OmniFocus website, you may want to join me tomorrow as I do a live webinar about OmniFocus workflows and strategy.
Continue reading →Jazz Friday: Kind of Blue
I’m not sure how this happened but I’ve never featured one of my very favorite albums in the Jazz Friday series, Kind of Blue. This album was groundbreaking and still, after all these years, amazing. I like this album so much that I spent half an hour…
Continue reading →Stephen Hackett is Going Solo and Selling Shirts
I’m so thrilled for my friend, Stephen Hackett. He and Myke Hurley have built Relay.fm into an enterprise and now he’s going to be putting his full time effort behind the network. I know how terrifying it can be leaving a steady job and…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Matt Alexander
Matt Alexander (Twitter) was one of the most impressive guys I met at WWDC this year. In addition to the fact Matt is a geek, he’s also an entrepreneur. Most recently Matt started a few companies: Need, that specializes in curating collections of men’s clothing,…
Continue reading →Sponsor: OmniFocus 2.6 and Video
I’d like to thank the OmniGroup for sponsoring MacSparky this week. The OmniFocus team has been hard at work, releasing version 2.6 this week. The new version includes some nice new features, including dark mode, swipe to flag, and push syncing. The new version…
Continue reading →The Future of the iPod touch
Today we got updates to the iPod touch after a three-year hiatus. The updated devices are better than I expected. The entry-level device has 16 GB of storage—yes, Apple is still releasing devices with 16 GB of memory—and an A8 processor, 1 GB of RAM, and…
Continue reading →MPU 267: David Wain’s Film and Television Workflows
David Wain joins us this week to talk about how he used his Mac to write and produce the Netflix series, Hot Wet American Summer premiering later this month. We also stopped to talk about some other nerdy topics like photo management and Mac…
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