This week David Allen comes back to the Mac Power Users to talk about the new release of his updated Getting Things Done book. In the episode, we talk about the philosophy and science behind GTD. This is the first show released on Relay.fm. If…
Continue reading →Talking Apple Watch on the Maccast
This week I joined Adam Christianson and some other smart geeks on the Maccast to talk about the Apple Watch. The guests include Ken Ray (Mac OS Ken), Allison Sheridan (Nosillacast), Veronica Belmont (Sword & Laser, Vaginal Fantasy), Erfon Elijah (Cultcast, Cult of Mac), and me. It’s a…
Continue reading →Pixelmator Update With Photos Support and Spooky-Good Repair Tool
I’ve been fiddling with the latest Pixelmator update. It’s pretty great. Even though Apple doesn’t support external editors with Photos on the Mac (at least yet), Pixelmator can now access your full Photos library from inside the Pixelmator with its Photo Browser. They also…
Continue reading →Needs Versus Wants
John Gruber had an excellent post yesterday about the Apple Watch. “… Of course you don’t need it. No one, not one person on the face of the earth, needs any $400 watch, Apple Watch or otherwise.3 The right question is simply “Do you want…
Continue reading →The New MacBook Review
For the last week and a half, I’ve been doing a lot of my work on the new MacBook. I bought this computer as an experiment with the intention to return it unless I felt it was good enough to replace my existing 15″…
Continue reading →App Camp for Girls Quiz App
Jean MacDonald was at WWDC a few years back and looked around to see almost no women in the room. So she left her company, started a non-profit called App Camp For Girls and, over the past few years, started making her very own…
Continue reading →Watch App Screen: X Marks the Spot
I’m having trouble with the app launcher screen on the Apple Watch. (I’m intentionally not calling it the home screen.) The touch targets are small. You can zoom in with the digital crown, but doing so makes it easy to get lost in exactly where you are…
Continue reading →MPU 253: Life on Mars and Relay.fm
This week we are joined by Dr. Ross Lockwood about the workflows he used while spending four months as part of a NASA-funded simulation studying what it would be like for humans to live on Mars. There’s some great stuff in there. We also announce…
Continue reading →Sponsor: inShort Planning and Diagramming
This week MacSparky is sponsored by inShort (website) (Mac App Store) (iOS App Store). inShort is an iPhone/iPad/Mac application that lets you plan projects and processes graphically across all of your Apple devices. This brings a new paradigm to process and project planning and…
Continue reading →Two Days With the Apple Watch
My wife’s Apple Watch showed up on Friday. My own space gray 42mm aluminum watch (ordered just a few minutes after the Apple Watch went on sale) didn’t make the launch day shipment but is now in a truck somewhere between China and my…
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