Thank you WeatherSnitch 2 for sponsoring MacSparky this week. Finding the perfect weather app isn’t easy. Most apps rely on free information; providing the bare minimum and accuracy that leaves much to be desired. They lure you in with fancy effects and a flashy…
Continue reading →iOS 6 and Every-Day Life
Shawn Blanc just saved me a bunch of time. I have an outline that includes a post highlighting the same features. Soon we will take these all for granted. I used the iOS 6 beta and the decline call and send a text message…
Continue reading →The Trick to a Good R2D2 Ringtone …
… is to make sure to include spaces. He just can’t jabber endlessly. The little robot will give you a chance to respond. With five minutes in GarageBand and some web downloaded WAV files (which I’ll leave up to you to find), I just…
Continue reading →Twist for iPhone
Ever want your iPhone to automatically notify friends, family, and collegues when you are about to arrive? TechHive has a nice reveiw of an app I’ve come to rely upon. ∞
Continue reading →Kaboo Bags
My wife can’t stop talking about how much she likes her Kaboo Bag, a purse that includes a handy iPad pouch. They are made by a friend of ours and with the holidays coming up, you may want to check this out. ∞
Continue reading →iOS OmniFocus ♥ TextExpander touch
Today’s iOS OmniFocus update is a doozy. The headline feature is the addition of iOS TextExpander support. As I’ve explained before, I aggressively use TextExpander snippets when creating tasks in OmniFocus. I even made a screencast about it. Now they work on the iPhone…
Continue reading →MPU 103: Five Bucks or Less on iOS
As soon as we published our earlier show on $5 Mac apps, emails started arriving asking for a similar show about iOS apps. While $5 on iOS goes a lot further than $5 on the Mac, we tried to find some of the lesser…
Listen & read notes →Generational with MacDrifter
Gabe Weatherhead is one of my favorite Mac bloggers and now he’s started a podcast, Generational. I joined Gabe for episode one where we talked about sharing the technology love. ∞
Continue reading →Paperless, Version 1.2
I’m pleased to announce the update to Paperless is now live both in the Apple iBookstore and in PDF form. Why An Update? It always made me a little crazy with my prior books that I couldn’t update them. I was in Barnes and…
Continue reading →Integrating 1Password and Launchbar for Superfast Logins
Here is a nice explanation of the (sort of) new Launchbar/ 1Password integration. I’m finding this really useful. I run several apps through the Launchbar search bar including 1Password and Fantastical. I am, however, to see Launchbar get some UI love. ∞
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