This week I am pleased to welcome Drafts as a sponsor of MacSparky.com. Drafts is one of the most innovative apps to show up on iOS. The idea is simple: make it dead simple for people to capture text on their iPhone or iPad…
Continue reading →MPU 223: It’s So Choice
Got some downtime this weekend? MPU 223 is out. In it Mike Rohde joins us to talk about his new book, the Sketchnote Workbook. We also discuss my fancy new iMac, academic workflows, goal setting, security, and share listener tips and answer questions. ∞
Listen & read notes →iPhone JD Likes Word for iPhone
My congratulations go to Microsoft for embracing iOS this year with versions of Office for iPad and iPhone. If there is anyone you’d want to see review Microsoft Word on the iPhone, it’d be a lawyer and nobody is better at these stress tests…
Continue reading →iCloud Drive Stumbles
Over the past few weeks I’ve had a post it in development concerning iCloud Drive and document syncing. Through the beta process for both Yosemite and iOS, I had varying degrees of success with synchronizing documents through the iCloud drive, by which I mean…
Continue reading →Home Depot Gives up 53 Million Email Addresses to Hackers
Apple Pay anonymity just gets better and better each day. ∞
Continue reading →Transforming Old iPhone to New iPod touch
Thinking about making your kid’s day with an old iPhone? Deron Bos shows you the way. ∞
Continue reading →You’re Mac
I’ve been doing some speaking over the past few months. They’ve been small corporate-type gigs about technology and productivity. Two events in particular, both at large law firms, are worthy of note. 1. The Vanishing Function Key As you might guess, I’m pretty thorough…
Continue reading →Screenflow 5. 35 Bucks. Today Only
I often get emails asking how I do my screencasts. There are a lot of apps I’ve tried and discarded but over the years, the one application I absolutely rely upon is ScreenFlow. I’ve written about it before. Today Telestream released version 5 and…
Continue reading →TapCellar
Gabe Weatherhead is, without a doubt, one of my favorite nerds in Internetland. He blogs. He podcasts. And now he develops Apps. Gabe has told me in the past how he combines his geeky superpowers with his love of good beer and now he, along…
Continue reading →The Textbundle Format
I’m behind on posting this but my pal Brett Terpstra recently collaborated with the folks behind Ulysses to create a new rich text file format called Textbundle. I, along with the rest of the Internet, have been yammering about the benefits of text files for…
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