I’ve been traveling a lot lately and, as a result, spending a lot of time tethering my Mac to my iPad and iPhone. Trip Mode is a Mac App that can turn off selected applications’ access to the Internet. For example, I share multiple…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Joe Darnell
This week’s home screen features Joe Darnell (Twitter) (Blog). Joe produces the TechTonic podcast where he and Josua Peiffer talk about technology. Joe also harnesses all of his geeky superpowers to talk about coffee at Top Brew. You may know of Joe from his creation of the popular “Focus”…
Continue reading →DuckDuckGo Growth and Its Future With Apple
9to5 Mac reports DuckDuckGo has grown 600 percent. It doesn’t surprise me that DuckDuckGo is growing. The word is getting out and its search gets continually better. I’ve been using it as my primary web search engine and I haven’t missed Google enough to want…
Continue reading →Three Days Left in the Stack Social Bundle
Stack Social has a great summer bundle including apps like iStat Menus 5, Jump Desktop, Notebook 4, and six more worthy Mac apps for just $19.99. There are just a few days left. I wrote more about it here. You can buy it here.…
Continue reading →Apple Aces Its EFF Report Card
The Electronic Frontier Foundation rates tech companies annually on how they handle their customer’s data. The 2015 report is out and, not surprisingly, Apple did well. The EFF explained: “This is Apple’s fifth year in the report, and it has adopted every best practice we’ve identified…
Continue reading →Sponsor: inShort with New Features
This week MacSparky.com is sponsored by inShort, an iPhone/iPad/Mac application that lets you plan projects and processes graphically across all of your Apple devices. InShort for Mac just got a significant updated adding several new features including: • Data synchronization using iCloud (The iOS version…
Continue reading →One of Us
Last week at WWDC, I went to John Gruber’s live taping of The Talk Show. I expected to see some entertaining talk from folks like Merlin Mann and Adam Lisagor. What I didn’t expect was Apple’s Senior Vice President of Marketing Phil Schiller to…
Continue reading →A Few Thoughts on iOS 9
After spending a few days roaming the streets nearby WWDC and drinking interesting beverages with developer friends, I’ve got a few thoughts on iOS 9. I’m not going to summarize the new features since Apple does a dandy job of explaining it right here. I’ve…
Continue reading →Automatically Add Recipient’s Name to Email with TextExpander
I occasionally have need of a TextExpander snippet to automatically add the first name of an email recipient to the body of an email. Over the years, I’ve made lots of snippets that have a fill-in field asking me to type in the recipient’s name…
Continue reading →Initial Impressions of Mac OS 10.11 El Capitan
Today was the first time I’ve ever watched an Apple WWDC keynote in a room full of developers. I did not get a press pass to the actual event itself but instead attended a remote viewing down the street. There’s definitely a different dynamic…
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