This week MacSparky.com is sponsored by Rocket Matter, the premier cloud-based law practice management solution. The folks at Rocket Matter get how to run your business in the Internet age and Rocket Matter is the place to go when you’ve finally had it with the…
Continue reading →Home Screens: Greg Pierce
While there are a lot of app developers, there aren’t many that created an entire genre of applications. Greg Pierce (Twitter) from Agile Tortoise, who dreamed up and created Drafts, the App that holds the right-most position in my dock. Katie and I spent…
Continue reading →2.9 Million Adobe Accounts Compromised
It looks like they got customer names and encrypted passwords. I feel for Adobe. With a big database like that, how can you truly keep it safe with hackers always probing for another way in. It takes just one chink in the armor. Did…
Continue reading →1Password Version 4
Today marks the release of 1Password, version 4. Agilebits has been hard at work on this update for some time. I jumped on board in the middle of the beta and have been using it on a daily every since. If you’re already a…
Continue reading →Marked 2 Now Available
I’m a little late to this party but last week Brett Terpstra released version 2 of his Marked application. Marked is the last word in markdown preview on the Mac. I’ve already purchased mine and am using it. Marked 2 tracks your file changes…
Continue reading →Samsung Gooses its Hardware to Look Better on Benchmark Tests.
Shocker! Here’s a nice bit of digital sleuthing by Ron Amadeo at Ars Technica. ∞
Continue reading →Flipping a Coin with Siri
David Chartier at Finer Things in Tech points out that Siri can roll dice and flip a coin. As an attorney, I actually have a lot more cause to flip coins than you’d think. ∞
Continue reading →EverDock Kickstarter Project
I’ve been a lot more skeptical about Kickstarter projects lately but this EverDock Duo solves a problem for me. I charge my iPad and iPhone on my bedside table and this looks perfect. Moreover, there are no included electronics so I’m betting they are…
Continue reading →MPU 157: Security Problems and Answers
Katie and I have been collecting a list of security related problems listeners send in. This week, we explain how we solve some of the most common security problems related to our Macs, iPads, and iPhones.
Listen & read notes →More From Apple This Fall
Macworld’s Dan Frakes and Dan Moren give a nice rundown of what Apple may still have up its sleeve this fall. If we are to get new iPads in October (which seems likely), it is pretty impressive that nobody really knows whether the new…
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