App Camp for Girls and Macworld/iWorld are joining forces this year to offer a special App Camp for Girls on March 29 right in Moscone Center during Macworld. They are looking for girls 12 and up to come and learn about app development. If you were already…
Continue reading →Home Screens – TJ Luoma
This week’s home screen features TJ Luoma (website) (Twitter), Presbyterian minister by day, geek by night. TJ writes for The Unofficial Apple Weblog and frequently posts on automation. If that isn’t enough, TJ was our guest this week on the Mac Power Users. So TJ, show us…
Continue reading →Find My Friends and Notifications
Find My Friends has become a thing in the Sparks household. My wife, kids, and a few other relatives have been using it since it premiered and while I don’t find myself looking in there every day, I certainly do it often enough. It is great…
Continue reading →Waterlogue Review
Did you know my wife also blogs? Here’s Daisy’s explanation of an app I’d never heard of that gives your photos a watercolor effect. Clever. ∞
Continue reading →Oolong Tea, Alarms, and Silent Judgment
I’ve talked about my simple (yet essential!) Siri task to help me not screw up tea on the Mac Power Users. (“Set a Timer for 4 minutes.”) Listener Bob White, wrote in to explain that he sets these timers as alarms. Specifically, you can…
Continue reading →Throwaway TextExpander Snippet Tips
Dr. Drang posted this week about the value of throwaway macros and snippets. He’s a fan. So am I. I’ve referred to this before on the Mac Power Users but never posted on it here. Whenever I find myself doing anything remotely repetitive, my nerd-senses kick…
Continue reading →Super Retina, The New MegaPixel
Super Retina, The New MegaPixel Have you seen the new super high-density screens some of the Android phones are getting? The The iPhone 5/5c/5s phones have a 1136×640 screen with a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch. I immediately appreciated these retina screens…
Continue reading →Sponsor: Rocket Matter
My thanks go again to Rocket Matter for sponsoring MacSparky.com. Rocket Matter is the best online law practice management solution and it just keeps getting better. Rocket Matter’s new advanced search makes it even easier to find information from multiple categories. This week Rocket…
Continue reading →MPU 180: Feedback Extravaganza
The first MPU Live episode published this week. In it, we include some listener audio questions and cover tweaking automation workflows, organizing PDF files, going back to school with an iPad, and more. We are going to continue doing these the first Saturday of every…
Listen & read notes →Home Screens – Heidi Alexander
This week’s home screen features Heidi Alexander (Twitter). Heidi is a law practice advisor and a geek. Heidi blogs here and co-hosts the Legal Toolkit podcast, where she talks about tools to make the practice of law easier. So Heidi, show us your home screen. What…
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