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…
Continue reading →Less Wibbly-Wobbly
I wrote a few weeks ago about how the App review process has made Apple look bi-polar as of late. I’m pleased to see they have reversed course (in the right direction) on two of the more notable apps. Last week, Apple permitted Transmit to…
Continue reading →App Santa Returns
For a few years now, a collection of developers have put some of the best iOS and Mac productivity apps on sale at AppSanta. They’re back this year with a full menu of great apps to choose from. I bought several that I didn’t already…
Continue reading →The Perils of Electronic Communications
I’ve been reading the reports of the massive data loss at Sony over the last few weeks. In some ways, the most jarring reports are not leaked finances but instead all the email. As much of a geek as I am (or perhaps because I’m a…
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