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…
Continue reading →Thoughts on The Post PC World
I watched the Apple Keynote tonight and was struck by how often I heard the term “Post PC.” When Steve Jobs and Apple start using these catch phrases, it is no accident. Apple has its own lexicon that starts internally but, at some point,…
Continue reading →Kensington Presenter Pro Review
My beloved remote has failed me. I’ve been using it for at least 6 years without a hitch and suddenly (despite new batteries, cleaning the contacts, and a few kindly whacks) it has stopped advancing slides. So time for a new one and I…
Continue reading →TechShow 2011 Discount Still Available
It’s not too late to take advantage of the early bird discount at the American Bar Association’s TechShow. If you are a legal professional and want to use technology to the detriment of opposing counsel, get yourself to Chicago. This will be my third…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 44: Taking Notes
Mac Power Users Episode 44 is available for download. Katie and I survey the best applications for taking notes on your Mac and iOS. I recorded it with a cold and by then end I was falling over in my chair which, in hindsignt,…
Listen & read notes →Service Sunday – iPad Image Processor
I’m hard at work on the OmniFocus Screencasts. As part of it, I’m making several slides with iPad screenshots. The process of importing images into Keynote, rotating, and then resizing them is tedious. After banging my head on this 10 or 20 times, it…
Continue reading →TextExpander Backups
I’m not sure when this feature snuck into TextExpander, but I dig it.
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