This week I’m pleased to feature Joseph Nilo (twitter), one of the pioneers of Mac podcasting and a very talented video and audio production guy who co-founded HiLo Media. After having a multiple year e-lationship, I finally got to meet Joseph in person this…
Continue reading →Data Liberation, MultiMarkdown, and OPML
Fletcher Penney has been hard at work on MultiMarkdown 3.0. Perhaps one of the most inspired new features is the ability to work with OPML files. (Don’t know what OPML is? Read this.) Fletcher let me in on the secret early and it is…
Continue reading →Dashkards, Keyboard Shortcuts on the Dashboard
If you are having trouble remembering the keyboard shortcuts for your favorite Mac OS X applications, check out Dashkards, a nice little pre-rendered bit of HTML that you can add to your dashboard using the little-known dashboard clipping feature. The site supports many popular…
Continue reading →Meetings vs. Electrons
Several posts have cropped up lately concerning using an iPad in meetings. Ben Brooks is for it. Randy Murray, not so much while Eddie Smith walks the middle path. This raises a bigger question about the role of technology in meetings and since it…
Continue reading →Did You Backup Today?
So this morning I had a grand plans to get lots of writing done, drink tea, and recover from my cold. I sat down at the iMac and worked for about 30 minutes when, while I was away from my desk, everything froze. The…
Continue reading →Control + F2
How many times have you keyboard nerds been stymied by the need to access a menu? On Mac OS X, click Control + F2 and your in. If you are on a laptop, don’t forget the “fn” key. MacSparky.com is sponsored by Bee Docs…
Continue reading →Home Screens – Adam Behringer
This week’s Home Screen post features Timeline 3D developer Adam Behringer (twitter). Adam’s company, BeeDocs, makes the best timeline application available on any platform and I have used it to vex and harass opposing counsel many-a-time. I’ve been fortunate to get to know Adam…
Continue reading →TextExpander Markdown Snippets and Beyond
Brett is getting it together. His markdown snippets are more elegant than mine, which feel like the coding equivalent of Soviet-era public housing. Either way, I’m going to start pestering Brett to help out with this project and if you are a TextExpander/Markdown junkie,…
Continue reading →A Few Thoughts on iTunes Subscriptions
There seems to be a lot of distress over the fact Apple will be taking a 30% cut for online subscription materials. I can understand why this would make me angry if I published a magazine but (then again) if I published a magazine,…
Continue reading →Macworld Video
There are video clips from some of my Macworld talks: MacPowerUsers Live Session Excerpts Unfortunately, the video of the whole session didn’t happen. Our friend, Steven Sheridan, did post some of his Video to YouTube. OmniFocus Talk OmniGraffle Talk The sessions I did at…
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