I’m speaking this weekend at the Southern California Macintosh Owner/User Group about the present and future uses of emerging cloud technologies. If you are in the Orange County, California area on Saturday morning, drop in to meet some very nice people and put your…
Continue reading →Easy Timeline from BeeDocs
(Disclosure: BeeDocs, maker of Easy Timeline is a sponsor of MacSparky.com. I’ve used (and paid for) BeeDocs’ products long before they started sponsoring the website.) I’ve always been a fan of BeeDocs Timeline 3D. As a lawyer, I find its powerful timeline tools useful…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Michael Lopp
I have this distinct memory of being in a dark place about two-thirds of the way through Mac at Work and discoverying this article by Michael Lopp (Twitter). Michael’s tips for finishing a book were critical and came at exactly the right time in…
Continue reading →The New Loop
They did a bang up job on the re-design of one of the best Apple news sites.
Continue reading →Multi-Platform is a Feature
Maybe this is obvious but as iCloud rolls out, users are going to add a new criteria to their app buying calculus. “Is it multi-platform?” Just like the way even us ‘power users’ are getting hooked on Lion’s versioning and auto-saves, even the most…
Continue reading →Why Markdown?
I’m so pleased that Brett Terpstra is writing more. Today he put up a small post that answers the question, Why Markdown? Brett is also going to be our guest on the next Mac Power Users episode, Power Text Editors.
Continue reading →Byword Daily File
With Lion’s new document versioning framework, I’ve been running a single Byword document called “Daily” for two months. I use it every day to write text for any of a number of uses ranging from contract language to blog posts. All of this text…
Continue reading →PDFPen Gets Bates Stamping
I’m old enough to remember bates stamping pages with an actual Bates Stamp. PDFPen now adds this feature striking one more reason off the list as to why you’d need to spend $450 for Adobe Acrobat.
Continue reading →Lion Dictionary with Three Finger Double Tap
Convenient dictionary access. I’m hooked.
Continue reading →Home Screens – Jory Raphael
This week’s home screen features Jory Raphael (Twitter). Jory is the genius behind all of the 5by5 artwork, including the latest iteration of Daren Rolfe’s excellent Mac Power User’s logo. Jory is super-talented and a really nice guy. You can learn more about Jory’s…
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