Recently, we had a family celebration. The reason is irrelevant, but the means of our celebration was our usual. We went to Disneyland. We’re fortunate to live close, and two of the four members of my immediate family work for Mickey. So, we went…
Continue reading →A Voice-Based Future?
I’m still thinking plenty about this collaboration between ChatGPT and Jony Ive. The Frontier Model LLMs are a revolutionary technology, but perhaps there is a new hardware paradigm for using them we haven’t seen yet. Still, I think it’s going to be hard for…
Continue reading →The Lab Report for July 11, 2025
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: Some new AI-powered browsers make their entrance, Rosemary Orchard has a new app, and I help you fix bad transcription on your clipboard.
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Liquid Glass in Beta 3
This week we got the third iOS 26 beta, and, unsurprisingly, Apple continues to tamp down a bit on Liquid Glass. In the below image, from Zac Hall at 9to5 Mac, you can see the clear trend toward legibility. This comes as a surprise to…
Continue reading →Jam Pack Nostalgia
Stephen Hackett recently wrote a delightful article on Apple Jam Packs that made me smile. If you were using Apple gear during a certain decade, saving up for and buying Apple Jam Packs was one of the delights of the platform. I remember slowly…
Continue reading →Apple’s Journal on iPadOS
Apple’s Journal app is growing up a bit and is now a much better candidate to be your journaling app of choice than it was when first released on iPhone. In this video, I take a look at Journal on iPadOS.
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Guesting on Paper Places
Recently I guested on Kerry Provenzano’s Paper Places podcast where I talked about my analogue and digital writing systems. It was a lot of fun talking to Kerry. I even went deep with my original book, Encyclopedia Sparky.
Continue reading →Testing the Dia Browser
The team that brought us Arc is back with Dia, their new browser. It’s a Chromium browser with artificial intelligence baked right in. I’ve been using it for a few weeks and here are my initial impressions.… This is a post for the MacSparky Labs Pathfinder and Insider members. Care to join? If you’re already a member, you can log in here.
The Omni Road Map
Speaking of Ken Case, the Omni Group recently posted its post-WWDC roadmap. There are some nice new features heading to OmniFocus, including mutually exclusive tags (for things like priority and Kanban status), better repeat, and a new, third date field for “planned” dates. It all…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 804: From NeXT to Liquid Glass, with Ken Case
Ken Case is the CEO at the Omni Group and has been developing for Apple platforms for decades. On this episode of Mac Power Users, he shares how he got his start in technology, what Apple gear he uses, his approach to customer communication,…
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