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. ∞
Listen & read notes →To Siri, With Love
Judith Newman wrote a touching piece for the New York times about her autistic son’s relationship with Siri. If you’ve previously written off Siri and iPhone dictation, you should try it again. It just keeps getting better and better. I’m dictating these words using it.…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Hay Oborn
This week’s home screen features Hay Oborn (Twitter)(Google+). Hay hails from Bournemouth, United Kingdom and routinely helps out with the Mac Power User show notes. So Hay, show us your home screen. What are some of YOUR favorite apps? Oh I have so many…
Continue reading →A Few Notes on the October 16 Apple Event
I sat down and watched the video of today’s Apple event and was left with a few thoughts: 1. No More iPad Parity I’m curious why they spent so much time talking up the new iPad Air and then talked about the iPad mini…
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