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.…
Continue reading →Home Screen: Dave Stachowiak
Dave Stachowiak (Twitter) is the host of the Coaching for Leaders and Carnegie Coach podcasts. Dave is also Executive Vice President, Talent Development at Dale Carnegie of Southern Los Angeles. Dave, through his podcasts, manages to combine a love of technology with a bit of sanity towards being…
Continue reading →Sponsor: inShort (Now with iOS 8 Support)
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 →You’ve Come A Long Way, Baby
Here is the original 128K Mac screen laid upon a 5K iMac display. Spoiler: It’s a postage stamp. ∞
Continue reading →Update to Mail Send-From Trick
A few years ago I published a screencast explaining how to put keyboard shortcuts to your email send-from account. With the release of Yosemite, you are going to need to tweak that shortcut. Before, Apple Mail would wrap your email in <arrow brackets>. Now Apple…
Continue reading →App Specific Passwords
As Apple ups its game with two-factor authentication (you are using it, right?), you may find some of your apps suddenly stop recognizing your iCloud password. I’ve seen this in my life with Sanebox, Fantastical, BusyCal, and Dispatch just to name a few. In…
Continue reading →Audio Messages in iMessages
Today iOS 8.1 releases (hooray!). Now that we’ve all been using iOS 8 awhile how big of a thing is the ability to send a recording of your voice via iMessages? I’ve done it once for the sole purpose of demonstrating how it works. I thought…
Continue reading →MPU 220: OS X Yosemi-fied
Episode 220 covers all that is shiny and new about OS X 10.10, Yosemite. Get is while it is hot. ∞
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