kooaba Shortcut is a shortcut between real life and the Internet. Take a picture of what you are reading in a newspaper or magazine and instantly get connected to the digital version. Using image-recognition technology, Shortcut recognizes what you’re reading. Once recognized, you can…

It looks like Sal Saghoian is at it again with an AppleScript to make your Mac sing you Happy Birthday. As soon as I get some time , I’m going to automate this into an app I can send geeky friends on their birthday.…

Mac Power Users Episode 72, Workflows with Colleen Wainwritght, is live. While Colleen and I haven’t met in person (yet), having followed her for so long at Communicatrix.com, I feel like we are old friends. She has a great story to tell and does…

Between the day job and visiting Macworld, I’ve spent a lot of time with application developers over the last several months. I think because I’m a Mac user, I have an idealistic impression of software developers. They are artists. They sweat the details. They…

I’ve had several people tell me it is hard to find my screencasts out on the Internet. Not anymore.

I’m pleased to announce that I, generally, and MacSparky.com, specifically, is a member of the Read & Trust consortium of writers and websites. When asked to join and I realized I already follow just about everyone at Read & Trust, joining was a no-brainer.…

Dr. Drang adapts an AppleScript to automate forms in PDFpen. And I didn’t think of this because … I got nothing.

I seem to change camera apps on my iPhone with the same frequency as my socks but I’m really digging Mattebox by Ben Syverson. It has some real nice controls and feels like a traditional camera when you use it. One of my favoribe…

Slavery wasn’t that long ago. I recently talked to a friend whose great-grandfather was a slave. This letter from a former slave to his former master brings the whole mess into focus for me. Former slave Jourdan Anderson’s closing line cinched it for me.…

Sven Fechner recently screencasted how he goes about using TextExpander with OmniFocus. Sven has an interesting workflow where he uses a task’s note section to track projects. I do something similar inside nvALT, not in OmniFocus. I do, however, use TextExpander all the time…