David Pierce is editor-at-large at The Verge. This week, he joins Stephen and me on Mac Power Users to talk about the hardware and software he relies on for work, the overall state of Apple in 2025, and his complicated feelings about his new…
Listen & read notes →Nano-texture Normalcy
It’s been a while since Apple introduced Nano-texture glass on iPad, and in that time, they’ve expanded the option to the MacBook Pro. What’s interesting to me is that we haven’t seen any major controversies or “gates” surrounding this technology. The Nano-texture glass seems…
Continue reading →Sticking with My M2 Mac Studio: A Surprising Decision
If you listened to the most recent episode of Mac Power Users, you heard me struggling with a decision: should I upgrade my Mac? As you may know, I’ve been happily using an M2 Mac Studio with 8TB of internal storage. It’s a powerhouse,…
Continue reading →The Lab Report for March 28, 2025
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: We have dates for this summer’s WWDC, iOS 18.4 arriving soon, the Siri shakeup, and…a camera in Apple Watch?
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CrossOver 25 for Painless Mac Gaming
Many Mac gamers are fans of CrossOver, a Mac application that enables you to run native Windows software on macOS. When compatible, it’s an easy way to play PC games on your Mac. I once used it to play a PC-only Star Wars online…
Continue reading →MacSparky.com Moves to a Dedicated Server
After all my recent whining about Artificial Intelligence kneecapping traffic to small publishers, I got a little surprise from WordPress… Turns out, traffic to macSparky.com is way up — so much so that it’s been exceeding the limits of my previous hosting plan. As of today, MacSparky is running…
Continue reading →Focused 226: The Importance of Review
Mike and I discuss the power of review and reflection in your focused productivity system on this episode of Focused. This episode of Focused is sponsored by: Indeed: Join more than 3.5 million businesses worldwide using Indeed to hire great talent fast. Zocdoc: Find the right…
Listen & read notes →The Big Terminology Update
Today Terminology, Greg Pierce’s word app, gets a major update. It’s a complete overhaul, marking the most significant update since its original release in 2010. Terminology is a powerful and extensible reference tool that goes beyond a standard dictionary. It starts with an offline, WordNet-based…
Continue reading →New Medication Tracking App: Capsule
Rosemary Orchard and the gang at Snailed It Development have a new medication tracking app, Capsule. It’s built with exactly the kind of attention to detail you’d expect from Rose and really steps up a notch over Apple’s built-in medication tracking. It has plenty of options including…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 789: Back to the Mac, with Matt Gemmell
Author Matt Gemmell joins Stephen and me on this episode of Mac Power Users to talk about using an iPad as his only comptuer for eight-and-a-half years and why he recently switched back to the Mac. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: 1Password:…
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