Don McAllister of Screencasts Online is one of my favorite people in the Mac community. In addition to being a swell guy, Don is also a really good teacher. If you are going to be near someone with a new Mac or iPad this…

PostDesk has its annual list of web geeks and their holiday lists, including yours truly.

I’ve been toying with the idea of a journal. When writing iPad at Work, I discovered this really great app, Day One, that takes all the work out of creating an electronic journal. It works on the Mac, iPad, and iPhone and uses Dropbox…

Mac Power Users Episode 67, Web Security, is available for download. We invited George Starcher to join us with advice about staying secure on the Internet. This is a very detailed show in classic MPU fashion. There is a nice summary towards the end…

Great news for Scrivener geeks. I’m really looking forward to seeing where this goes.

I’ve made no secret that iThoughtsHD is my “go to” mind mapping application. The developer also has a version for the iPhone that shares many of the shortcuts and cloud syncing features that makes its iPad big brother so great. iThoughts for the iPhone…

MPU listener Marvin wrote in about how he created playlist folders for each family member to help avoid trashing each other’s playlists using iCloud and iTunes Match. I promptly copied this trick and now we have playlist bliss. Nifty. MacSparky.com is sponsored by Bee…

Do you have a collection of external hard drives sitting around and an overwhelming sense of confusion about what is stored where? Mike Yenco’s Archive 7 indexes your hard drives and lets you search all of them, even when offline. Moreover, the latest version…

BeeDocs has a holiday sale on for Easy Timeline. For just five bucks you can drastically improve your timeline game. I’ve written of this app before. If you ever find yourself in the position of trying to convey time related data to anyone, you…