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Lab Report Podcast for May 16, 2025
In this week’s Lab Report, I cover a slew of rumors and address Apple’s current doldrums.…
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OmniFocus Kanban Views
I often think that I must be unbearable to my developer friends. Sometimes I get the bit between my teeth on some pet feature and I just won’t shut up about it. But then again, sometimes that pays off.
Continue reading →Cotypist: AI Autocompletion Everywhere on Your Mac (Sponsor)
There are a lot of angles to AI and productivity emerging right now. One I’ve come to appreciate is AI-based smarter autocomplete. My tool of choice for this is Cotypist. It’s made by a trusted Mac developer, it’s fast, and it takes privacy seriously.…
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Folks have been asking for a low bandwidth menu-bar manager. I’ve found one, Hidden Bar. In this video I share how it works.…
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Has Apple Lost Its North Star?
Despite the name of his blog, Hypercritical, I’ve always appreciated the measured tone John Siracusa takes when it comes to criticizing Apple. From the outside, it’s always easy to oversimplify analysis of what’s going on in a trillion-dollar company, and John doesn’t do that.…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 796: The Alfred Field Guide
Known as an app launcher and Spotlight replacement, Alfred can supercharge a wide range of tasks across macOS. On this episode of Mac Power Users, Mike and I discuss my new Field Guide covering the app and our use of the application. This episode…
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The Opal C1 Webcam is meant to be the webcam everybody actually wants to use. It\’s got tons of software features and a better lens system than anything you\’d find in most (all?) other webcams. It\’s time for me to kick the tires…
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Jam Session 001 – Local AI
In this very first MacSparky Labs Jam Session, several Labs members and I got together to discuss running a local AI model and how it’s going. There were lots of interesting takes and tips on how that is working in 2025.
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