This week MacSparky is sponsored by inShort (website) (Mac App Store) (iOS App Store). inShort is is an iPhone/iPad/Mac application that lets you plan projects and processes graphically. This brings a new paradigm to process and project planning and is absolutely worth checking out. One…
Continue reading →The Desk
I’ve recently received my shiny new Retina iMac and chose the event to clean up my home desk. I know it is kind of a thing for people to take these “posed” pictures of their workspace. Nevertheless, here is my desk-porn. In my defense, most…
Continue reading →The Tripmate
I’ve written and talked about travel gear several times over the years. There is a new gadget on the market that is worthy of consideration for road warriors. It is the HooToo TripMate Elite (Amazon). This device is about the size of an older…
Continue reading →Apple Pay and CurrentC
For a long time merchants have been paying a lot of fees to credit card companies and they don’t like it. So they started their own payment initiative, called CurrentC, that gives them the ability to cut credit cards out of the loop and…
Continue reading →Brick by Brick
Tim Cook wrote an excellent essay for Business Week about being gay and the impact it has had on his life. Being gay has given me a deeper understanding of what it means to be in the minority and provided a window into the…
Continue reading →Pixelmator for iPad
I finally got some time to play with Pixelmator for iPad this evening. I know some of the people at Pixelmator and I know they’ve been working on this application for a long time. I knew it was going to be something special but…
Continue reading →Knocking and Unlocking
In a recent episode of the Mac Power Users I made an offhand remark how I thought it would be clever to use the Apple Watch to unlock my Mac. I received multiple emails from listeners telling me that this functionality effectively exists already…
Continue reading →MPU 221: Academic Workflows with Aleh Cherp
This week Aleh Cherp, an instructor at two universities and publisher of Macademic.org joined us to discuss how he gets work done with his Apple Technologies. In it we cover dealing with students and research and writing. There are some great tips in this…
Listen & read notes →The Last Macworld Magazine
A few days ago I received the final printed edition of Macworld magazine. Even though I get most of my information these days digitally, I could never bring myself to cancel my subscription. There was something comforting about receiving it on my doorstep. Nobody…
Continue reading →Retina iMac Review
Jason Snell delivers his review of the new retina iMac over at Six Colors and he liked it enough to buy one for himself. After reading the review, I went into a local Apple Store and violated my own rule. I looked at it.…
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