I’ve always been told that battery technology is the bottleneck. Until we can figure out how to push more power in smaller spaces, it will be hard to evolve portable devices to the next level. As an example, just look at all the constraints…
Continue reading →Systematic 107, Nominally on Presentations
Yesterday I recorded an episode of Systematic with Brett Terpstra. It was my third podcast of the day (after a full day of work) and I was pretty punchy. We started talking about Presentations but very quickly the talk digressed to mind mapping and…
Continue reading →Bartender’s Five Second Rule
One of my favorite Mac utilities is Bartender, which allows you to create a sub-menu in the menubar. I run an ever-fluctuating set of utilities in my menubar and sometimes they end up filling up the whole bar to such an extent that they…
Continue reading →MPU 205: Geek Vacation
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about using technology on vacation and how to maintain actually enjoy time away from work in this strange always-connected world. Katie and I covered these topics and more in the most recent Mac Power Users episode. ∞
Listen & read notes →Little Snitch to Keep LTE Costs Down
Today I discovered several people have been writing up ways to use Little Snitch to hold down LTE data costs as tethering becomes more common. The idea is to have Little Snitch clamp down on data hogs, like Dropbox, iTunes, and online backup services, when…
Continue reading →1Password Keyboard Shortcuts
Few software companies get blogging the way 1Password does. They just posted a helpful guide to using keyboard shortcuts in 1Password that had a few tricks I didn’t know. For instance, did you know holding the Option key will reveal a password and Command-Shift-C copies the password…
Continue reading →Sponsor: Mighty Deals Email Templates
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Mighty Deals. Mighty deals puts together deals on some of the best tools and resources available for your Mac. This week they are featuring an email template package that includes 11 professionally designed templates from ChocoTemplates. These include over…
Continue reading →Incomparable Meetup
With the San Diego Comic-Con in full swing, a lot of the Incomparable gang is in southern California. Tonight they are going to do a meetup at the Stone Brewing Company in Escondido at 6pm. I’ll be the one running around like a great…
Continue reading →Pasting Plain Text with TextExpander
There are a lot of ways to paste text. The most common way I do it is with the Command-C and Command-V shortcuts. However, a lot of times you are working with text that is carrying a lot of formatting baggage and when you…
Continue reading →The Apple Ad Stickers
Mike Wehner at TUAW tracked down most of the stickers in Apple’s latest ad. Probably because of my day job, I prefer to keep my Mac naked. If, however, one of the stickers in the below ad tickles your fancy, Mike has you covered. ∞
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