With the release of iOS 8.4, iBooks on the iPhone can now display iBooks Author rich media books like the MacSparky Field Guides. Hooray! Often I receive emails from readers asking to read my books on the iPhone. Now you can. The books look…
Continue reading →MPU 264: Workflows with John Gruber
This week John Gruber joins us to discuss his workflows. John is the pre-eminent Apple Blogger and has a very fine podcast of his own. In addition to other geeky tips, John shares this AppleScript for grabbing Safari URLs when blogging. There is lots of…
Listen & read notes →Sponsor: HoudahSpot
This week I’m pleased to welcome a new sponsor to MacSparky, HoudahSpot. Imagine if there were a group of engineers at Apple that wanted to turn up the Spotlight search a notch or two and had nobody in management to tell them “no”. That’s what you…
Continue reading →Pen Addict: Three Questions
Recently I answered a few questions over at the Pen Addict about analog tools and other related obsessions. ∞
Continue reading →App Camp 3.0, Almost There
App Camp is just a little over $25K away from its funding goal and there are five days left. It’s not too late to help out. ∞
Continue reading →Disney GIFs Keyboard
Disney has a new keyboard for iOS loaded with GIFs from the Disney, Pixar, ABC, and Star Wars franchises. If you’ve got kids or a significant other that enjoys any of the those franchises, check it out.
Continue reading →Directions On My Wrist
As you can probably tell from all the recent travel-related posts, I’m on the road a lot as of late. One of the nicest surprises for me with the Apple Watch in my travels is walking directions on the Apple Watch. I’ve always felt like…
Continue reading →Apple’s Teaching Swift Materials
John Weatherford sleuthed out these Swift training materials published by Apple. (I found the link through MacStories.) I think Apple is going to push hard to make Swift a “beginning” programming language. Why not get people started on their platform? I’m pretty excited about this…
Continue reading →Tunnel Bear VPN
I’ve been on the road a lot the last few weeks and, as happens when you travel, spent a lot of time around tempting, yet unknown, public WiFi. . So I decided to get more serious about VPN. The biggest reason (to me) to…
Continue reading →MPU 263: Rethinking Task Management with Kourosh Dini
This week’s Mac Power Users episode goes off the reservation a bit. I get tons of email from listeners asking for help with task management. Their problems quite often are not about what app to use or what OmniFocus perspective they need. The problems…
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