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…
Listen & read notes →Trip Mode Protects Your Data Caps
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…
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