As an admitted Star Wars fan, I couldn’t help buying this book from the iBookstore. It uses the iBooks Author tools that I so love for my own Field Guides and includes tons of great photo galleries, interviews, and outtakes. If Episode V is…
Continue reading →MPU 176: Everyday Automation and MPU Live
This week’s episode of the Mac Power users is out. In it Katie and I share some of our favorite automation tips. We’ve also decided to add an extra show to the schedule every month where we’ll be dealing with listener feedback, doing some…
Listen & read notes →Home Screen: Casey Liss
This week features Casey Liss (Twitter)(Website). Casey is a combination straight man/voice of reason on the Accidental Tech Podcast and a very nice fellow. So Casey, show us your home screen. Favorite Apps My favorites are the ones I get the most use out of. That…
Continue reading →Embracing the Past, 30 Years of Mac
There has always been an interesting dichotomy between Apple and Mac Users over history. As users, we relish in little trips down memory lane about the original control panel or how bleak things were in the 90s. It has been a journey for us all and…
Continue reading →OCR with Hazel
A few years ago I wrote about doing optical character recognition with AppleScript and PDFpen. Remarkably, it still works. Katie Floyd had a great idea of incorporating that script into a Hazel rule that looks for PDFs without OCR and performing the OCR automagically. She…
Continue reading →MPU 175: Workflows with Federico Viticci
This week’s Mac Power Users episode is ready for download full of great Mac and iOS tips from Federico Viticci from Mac Stories. We had a lot of fun recording this episode and it came out great. ∞
Continue reading →Sponsor: Rocket Matter with Free Evernote Book
This week MacSparky.com is sponsored by Rocket Matter. Rocket Matter is a fantastic cloud-based solution for running a law practice. You set up an account and log in and get back to work. You don’t need to buy your own server. You don’t need to install…
Continue reading →Ken Ray’s EYE Chart
For years Ken Ray has delivered the daily dose of Mac news with his Mac OS Ken podcast. If podcast listening isn’t your thing, Ken now puts out the same content with a magazine, the EYE Chart. Ken is one of the good guys…
Continue reading →Podcast Appearance: Beyond the To-Do List
I recently appeared on Erik FIsher’s Beyond the To-Do List podcast where I talked about coping with email and getting work done. While I acknowledge how boring that sounds, I promise I made it absolutely riveting. ∞
Continue reading →Rediscovering Launch Center Pro
I’ve had an on-again-off-again relationship with Launch Center Pro (Website)(iTunes). At a certain level this app really speaks to me. It has this remarkable ability to make iPhone apps do cool automation-style things despite the fact Apple has never been to sweet on the…
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