This week MacSparky is sponsored by OmniGraffle 2.1, the newly released version of The Omni Group’s diagramming, wire framing, draw-anything power tool. This version ups the game in a lot of ways: 1. Universal! Did you buy one of those big new iPhones and…
Continue reading →Apple Watch Anticipation
Tomorrow Apple is having their “Spring Forward” event to discuss further plans about the Apple Watch and, hopefully, a few other new and shiny things. There’s been a lot of speculation lately about pricing. I’m sure looking forward to that being over. How much…
Continue reading →Jazz Friday – Tivoli
Dexter Gordon is most famous for the way he plays his tenor saxophone. He was also quite accomplished, however on the soprano saxophone. In 1986, Dexter starred in a movie about an aging jazz musician in Paris in the 50s. The movie was called…
Continue reading →Home Screen: Kevin Wild
This week’s home screen post features Kevin Wild (Twitter)(website). Kevin writes about technology at the Hungry and the Foolish. Kevin was nice enough to share his home screen. So Kevin, show us your home screen. What are some of your favorite apps? It’s hard…
Continue reading →Initial Thoughts on Microsoft Word 2016
Today Microsoft released a preview of the new 2016 Office for Mac update. I think complaining about the menus in office and the massive number of features is pointless. Office exists to satisfy IT checklists and every obscure feature has its group of advocates out…
Continue reading →The Safe Mac
Recently, I’ve seen an increasing number of emails from readers and listeners that stumbled into Adware on their Macs. Interestingly, the bad guys are not just distributing these things through bit torrent and porn sites (as they used to) but instead they are infecting…
Continue reading →Upgrade 25 Guest Appearance
This week I joined Jason Snell and Myke Hurley on the Upgrade podcast to talk about my new indie life, the Apple Watch, and why it’s hard to keep secrets. ∞
Listen & read notes →New MacSparky Video Field Guide: Workflow
I’ve been spending a lot of time with the Workflow app (website) (App Store) as of late. Workflow is one of the most powerful apps available for the iPhone and iPad. Using Workflow, you can combine functions from different applications to make things happen…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Sam Montooth
This week’s home screen features Sam Montooth (website)(Twitter) In addition to being an extraordinarily talented bassist and photographer, Sam has, quite possibly, the coolest picture in the history of the home screen posts. I got to spend some time with Sam this year at…
Continue reading →Iconic Book
I’ve been spending some time lately with a distinctly non-digital book, Iconic. Iconic is a visual tribute to all things Apple. It has gorgeous full color photographs of everything from the Apple I to the the new jet-pack style Mac Pro. I couldn’t help but…
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