The Thoughts 2 developer had an interesting idea for text selection. Specifically, he put right and left arrows on the text selection points that allow more fine-tuned selection. They’ve got a clever little video showing off the feature. I bet there are some pretty…

Chris Brogan bought a Dell tablet and things went downhill from there. I’ve been out of the PC market for years now. Hasn’t anyone on the Windows side tried the Apple model of customer service? They should. ∞

Last week Dr. Drang lamented the inability to share a Numbers template between Mac and iOS. He then very cleverly showed where the Mac iWork template files are buried and how to get them onto iOS. This is a problem I’ve struggled with for years. Not…

I keep threatening to stop writing about this story but some part of me can’t resist. Last week Microsoft’s chief of marketing explained how there were a lot of reasons to keep Office off the iPad. Then days later, Mary Jo Foley reported we could…

I noticed last night that the camera roll on my iPhone was using 6GB. Between iCloud and other mechanisms, my photos are backed up but I’ve been sloppy about cleaning out my camera roll. I could do this on the phone but it isn’t…

Google Adsense makes my brain hurt. The best (and only) way to promote your company, product, app, or service to the MacSparky readers is through a week-long sponsorship. What do you get? An exclusive ad in the right margin and a post in the…

The Omni Group has recently started distributing manuals and books about their software through the iBooks Store. I think it is a great idea. Frankly, I don’t know why more people aren’t using this method to connect with customers, especially in the Mac/iOS market.

I was disappointed to see the online document management service, Doo, shutting down. It seemed like they were onto something but perhaps they were too early. I have no doubt that at some point in the future online, organized document storage will be the…