I’ve been turning some friends and family onto online backup lately. It just makes a lot of sense for me, who will have to deal with data loss as the resident nerd. Backblaze has a nice promotion running right now that gets you a…
Continue reading →MPU 194: Workflows with Tom Merritt
This week episode of the Mac Power Users features Tom Merritt from The Daily Tech New Show and the Sword and Laser podcast. Tom is a busy guy and has some great idea for managing vast quantities of information. I also got to talk about my…
Listen & read notes →Sponsor: Drafts
This week I’m welcoming a new sponsor to the site, Drafts. With the emergence of mobile computing, we are still figuring out exactly how to make these pocketable devices work for us. Drafts is one of those applications that just bangs you over the…
Continue reading →iWork Collaboration in the iCloud
This week, Apple released some pretty nice upgrades to the web-based iWork apps in iCloud. The improvements include more fonts, more chart options, and the ability to handle larger sized files. The experience really is quite remarkable. If you haven’t yet, log into your…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Todd Olthoff
This week’s home screen features my pal Todd Olthoff (Twitter)(Website)(YouTube). Todd is a pastor by day and OS X Server guru by night. Todd has a really great YouTube channel with many Mac tutorials, including an excellent series on Mac OS X Server. Most…
Continue reading →Inconceivable
I was reading Steven Frank’s excellent piece (via Daring Fireball) about growing up and playing Dragon’s Lair and there was one passage that struck me where he wrote about ordering a strategy guide from some guy who’s name he found in the back of a…
Continue reading →OmniFocus for Mac, Version 2
Today the Omni Group released OmniFocus for Mac, version 2. I’ve already bought my upgrade license for the pro version. I’m going to write up why and how I use this app in greater detail in the near future but for now you can read…
Continue reading →Sponsor: Hoban Cards
This week MacSparky is sponsored by Hoban Cards. Hoban Cards specializes in in minimal calling cards. This is a less expensive way to get into letterpress printing. Pick from among fifteen beautiful, typographic calling card templates. They now have designs as low as $50 (pictured below)…
Continue reading →NosillaCast on Cooking Ideas
Speaking of podcasts, this past weekend I joined Allison Sheridan’s NosillaCast to talk about one of my favorite topics, cooking ideas. Allison did a great job with the interview. ∞
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 193 with James Floyd Kelly
In episode 193, writer of many books James Floyd Kelly talks about how he gets it all done and shares some excellent geek dad tips, including how to build your very own wireless Atari 2600 emulator including controller. Check it out. ∞
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