I noticed last night that the camera roll on my iPhone was using 6GB. Between iCloud and other mechanisms, my photos are backed up but I’ve been sloppy about cleaning out my camera roll. I could do this on the phone but it isn’t…
Continue reading →Now Booking Ads
Google Adsense makes my brain hurt. The best (and only) way to promote your company, product, app, or service to the MacSparky readers is through a week-long sponsorship. What do you get? An exclusive ad in the right margin and a post in the…
Continue reading →Software Manuals Through the iBooks Store
The Omni Group has recently started distributing manuals and books about their software through the iBooks Store. I think it is a great idea. Frankly, I don’t know why more people aren’t using this method to connect with customers, especially in the Mac/iOS market.
Continue reading →Shuttering Doo
I was disappointed to see the online document management service, Doo, shutting down. It seemed like they were onto something but perhaps they were too early. I have no doubt that at some point in the future online, organized document storage will be the…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Composer Johnny Knittle
This week features musician and composer Johnny Knittle (Website)(Twitter). Johnny writes music for numerous television programs and is extremely talented (Johnny’s SoundCloud). Johnny also composed and performed the current Mac Power Users music. So Johnny, show us your home screen. What are some of…
Continue reading →Paperless Turns 1.4
Today my most recent update to the Paperless Field Guide went live in the iBooks Store. Updates include: Added new section on hybrid-cloud storage Added discussion of using the Transporter for personal cloud storage Added a new section and gallery for PDFpen Scan+ and…
Continue reading →iPhone JD Reviews Reader 7
This may be a lawyer thing but I spend a lot of time reading Word documents with tracked changes. Today Jeff Richardson at iPhone J.D. reviewed a Word file viewer, Reader 7, that doesn’t let you edit those documents but does an excellent job displaying…
Continue reading →Project Management for the Masses Email Interview
I recently did an interview on email with the Project Management for the Masses podcast. Cesar Abeid is a great host and, of course, insanely organized. How could he not be with a podcast of that title?
Continue reading →Merlin’s Title Wallpaper
Awhile back, Chase Reeves made an excellent desktop image out of the hypothetical title for Merlin Mann‘s book. “Cut the bullshit. Do the hard stuff. Start making things you love.” I’m really not an inspirational phrase kind of guy. I don’t have pictures hanging in…
Continue reading →Phraseology 2
For the last week I’ve done most of my writing on the iPad with the new Phraseology 2.0 (website)(App Store) from Agile Tortoise. I have to admit I buy a lot of text editors and for the most part I find them lacking in…
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