Have you got any contacts that have extensions in their phone numbers? If you do, you’ll know that adding extension information to your contacts can give your iPhone fits when placing calls. There is, however a trick. When creating a contact, instead of this:…
Continue reading →Mac Voices Interview
Today I appeared on the Mac Voices podcast with Chuck Joiner. I say appeared because I did it on video, which was a new thing for me. Chuck and I talked about the OmniFocus and Workflow Video Field Guides. ∞
Continue reading →MPU 249: Tech and Families
Dan Moren, who recently co-authored a book on The Connected Apple Family joined us this week to discuss common problems and solutions using Apple technology with your family. ∞
Listen & read notes →Sponsor: OmniFocus 2.1 for iOS. Now Universal!
This week MacSparky.com is sponsored by OmniFocus. The Omni Group has been hard at work since last year taking all of the their iPad applications universal, so they work on both the iPad and iPhone. Version 2.1 of OmniFocus for the iPad is now officially universal and…
Continue reading →Apple Watch Guided Tours
When the original iPhone was getting released, it was a big investment and I wasn’t sure whether I’d get one or not. Then just a few days before launch Apple released this video and I was hooked. Showing us exactly how the revolutionary phone worked was…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Mike Williams
This week’s home screen features Mike Williams (Twitter). Mike is the President and CEO of the David Allen Company and a geek just like the rest of us. Okay Mike, show us your home screen. Notes about my home screen My home screen is intentionally very…
Continue reading →The New Trackpad
Last week I went into the local Apple store to check out the Force Touch trackpad in the new MacBook Pro 13 inch. It was a strange experience. I walked up to the Apple-specified table and looked at the laptop and confirmed it was…
Continue reading →Physician’s Writing Workflows
Physician and educator Jeff Taekman wrote up his writing workflows and pushed a lot of my buttons in the process. I’m going to have to take a serious look at Papers 3.
Continue reading →Using Pocket to Create OmniFocus Tasks
On a recent episode of Mac Power Users, I talked about my workflow that uses IFTTT to send articles from Pocket to OmniFocus based on tags. A lot of people have asked me to explain further. Here is how you do it. The Idea…
Continue reading →The Apple Watch and Big iPhones
Like a lot of other nerds, I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about the Apple Watch. Over the last year, I’ve been wearing my Pebble watch a great deal and I’ve come to rely upon the ability to get notifications on my wrist.…
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