I’m getting lots of e-mails on the promised screencasts. The first one is nearly done and should go live next weekend. Two more will follow up in two week increments after that. They will be in the Mac Power Users feed, among other places.…
Continue reading →iPad 2: To 3G or not to 3G
The decision to shell out another $130 for the 3G connection is not so clear as it was a year ago. Now that the iPhone has a tethering and WiFi hotspot plan ($20 a month with AT&T), you may want to skip the 3G…
Continue reading →64 Gigs
There appears a consensus that buying yourself a 64 gigabyte iPad tomorrow is not a very smart move. You can alway slim your library and the additional price for that extra flash memory seems pretty steep. Bucking popular opinion, I can think of two…
Continue reading →The Next Book, iPad at Work
I’m thrilled to announce I’m hard at work on a new book. It’s called “iPad at Work.” People liked the first book so Wiley asked, “may I have another?” and I said, “Yes.” This book is a natural sequel to Mac at Work and…
Continue reading →Notational Velocity’s Relevance
I’m getting lots of e-mail questioning the necessity of Notational Velocity and Simplenote. I still have a big place in my heart for both apps. Here’s why. The Case for Notational Velocity and Simplenote Notational Velocity started out as the best way to sync…
Continue reading →Mac Roundtable 98
This week I participated in the Mac Roundtable episode 98. We covered the new iPad, iOS 4.3, and several other topics of note. We all had a lot of fun recording this one and you can tell listening. Enjoy.
Continue reading →Steve’s Blank Slide
While watching the iPad 2 event, I noticed a few times where Steve advanced to a blank slide and just talked. It allowed the audience to focus on him as he built up to the next image and it was pretty smart. Maybe this…
Continue reading →Service Sunday – Prepare Image for Posting
Following up on my last Service Sunday post, this service lets you take any image and resize it to 500 pixels wide, convert the image to a JPG file, and lets you rename the file. The perfect treatment before posting to MacSparky.com. Here are…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Keith Blount
This week’s home screen post features one of my favorite Mac developers, Keith Blount, who very quietly revolutionized word processing with his outstanding application, Scrivener (also, see Scrivener on twitter). In addition to being a top notch Mac developer, I can report with first…
Continue reading →ScanSnap to OmniFocus Workflow
Here is a propeller-beanie worthy workflow that lets you stuff a piece of paper in your ScanSnap and get an OmniFocus action out the other side using folder actions and other black magic courtesy of Brooks Duncan. MacSparky.com is sponsored by Bee Docs Timeline…
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