This week I’m featuring Steve Stanger, host of the MacAttack podcast and all-around great guy. Steve has extensive knowledge of Mac hardware and software and is particularly adept at giving the maintenance, backup, and utility advice we all need. Check Steve out at…
Continue reading →Widemail Gets Snow Leopard Support
One of my favorite Mail.app plugins, Widemail, now supports Snow Leopard. If 3-column e-mail floats your boat, get it now.
Continue reading →iPhone Gem – AutoStitch 2.0
One of my very favorite iPhone applications is AutoStitch. This $2 app allows you to take numerous pictures with your iPhone and combine them into one big one. The Small World photo below was created on my iPhone stitching together 4 pictures. AutoStitch just…
Continue reading →Dragon Voice and OmniFocus iPhone Workflow
I’ve been using Nuance’s Dragon Dictation on my iPhone now a few weeks. One of my favorite uses for it is dictating task item into OmniFocus. Dropping new items in the inbox is simple. Dictate the task into Dragon Copy the task…
Continue reading →Scrivener vs. Pages + Evernote
Kevin Morton, at his excellent Disability Law Blog wrote a very thoughtful article on a workflow using Evernote and Pages in lieu of Scrivener. Of course you will still need to yank Scrivener from my cold, dead hands.
Continue reading →Merry Christmas Readers
Merry Christmas to all MacSparky readers. May Santa stop by Cupertino on the way to you tree.
Continue reading →Home Screens – Don McAllister
This week’s featured home screen belongs to my friend, Don McAllister. Don is the host of ScreenCastsOnline.com and also blogs at themacscreencastguy.com. If you ever get the chance to meet Don you’ll immediately discover he is, in every way, exactly like that friendly…
Continue reading →Site Improvements
I’ve been doing a lot of under-the-hood tinkering to the site. I am pleased with reports I’m getting back at improved loading times and am making an effort to declutter the site. Let me know if you run into any bugs or problems.
Continue reading →Tablet Rumors Snowballing
Several Mac sites are reporting today that Apple has approached select iPhone developers to make “full resolution” versions of their applications for a demonstration in January, possibly January 26. Buckle up boys and girls. Tablet mania is about to find its fifth gear. If…
Continue reading →PGP – Snow Leopard Beta Report
A few weeks ago I took the plunge and began running the PGP beta on my Snow Leopard MacBook (learn more here). That is right. I installed software that both: 1) encrypted my entire hard drive and; 2) included the word “beta” in…
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