This week MacSparky is sponsored by JustSend. It is easy open your iOS email client only to get sucked into the vortex of your inbox. JustSend gives you a simple way to send off email messages without ever seeing your inbox. The app is free…
Continue reading →Happy Holidays! All Field Guides are On Sale
This holiday season I’ve put all of the MacSparky Field Guides on sale. If you’ve been waiting to buy any of the below titles (or you know someone getting a new iPad or Mac), now’s the time to strike. The sale runs up through the…
Continue reading →Creating Flow with OmniFocus 2
Kourosh Dini has a second edition of his OmniFocus book out. It’s 110,000 words taking you from beginner to expert in OmniFocus, all told in Kourosh’s patient voice. If you’ve got some time over the holidays, this would be a good read. ∞
Continue reading →MPU 231: Jason Snell Goes Indie
After many years working at IDG, Jason Snell has gone indie. He has some great new workflows. This week, Jason joined us to talk about how he gets work done. ∞
Continue reading →Sponsor: Dropzone
This week MacSparky is again sponsored by Dropzone, the Mac menubar app that makes opening and sorting files wicked easy. Simply drag a file onto the Dropzone menubar icon and a menu slides down with several landing targets. For example, I’ve got a folder…
Continue reading →Removing Photo Metadata with Metapho
With the holidays coming up you may be taking photos for posting to Facebook, Twitter, and other social media outlets. If you want to make certain those photos don’t contain location data before putting them on the Internet, you’ll need an app to scrub…
Continue reading →Pixelmator and InShort Updates
Two Mac apps that I like got gesture-based updates. First, InShort for Mac received a Yosemite-friendly update with several interface tweaks, including the ability to scale diagrams on a touchpad. The app also has the ability to keep a catalog of locations and mark in which of them…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Geoff Barrall
This week’s home screen features Geoff Barrall (Twitter). Geoff is the guy that came up with the Drobo and then followed that up with the Transporter. Geoff’s a geek, like us, and love’s his iPhone. Despite Geoff’s serious job (and picture), I’ve honestly never seen him without a smile…
Continue reading →Jazz Friday: Christmas Time is Here
With this last Jazz Friday post before Christmas, I’m going to feature one more holiday song. You can’t think of the Peanuts without hearing Vince Guaraldi’s amazing music. Vince (Wikipedia) was an accomplished jazz musician with a career entirely outside of the Peanuts. By far,…
Continue reading →Ulysses for iPad
Ulysses now has a public teaser site for the upcoming iPad version. Ulysses for Mac, that has really matured into something special over the past few years, has always been able to sync to the iPad with Daedalous Touch but I’ve never found that experience…
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