A nice update with several feature tweeks including hotkeys for searching snippets and activating TextExpander. Now that you can activate the application with hot keys, you can ban it from your dock and menu bar. Learn more here.

Mac Power Users Episode 27 is up. Katie and I discuss how we are using the iPad now that we’ve had a few months. It is chock full of iPad app and accessory goodness.You can get it in your browser here or on your…

Practically efficient posted a good piece about Microsoft. I’ve been wondering the same thing. There are some really smart people in Redmond, lots of them. Somebody needs to look closely at the Microsoft corporate culture and figure out what is going on.

This edition of the Home Screens series features John Chandler (twitter), publisher the delightful site, the Creativityist. John also has a new project, 501 Words, that looks really intriguing . I plan on actively participating just as soon as I dig out of the hole…

iPad + Velcro from Jesse Rosten on Vimeo. Great lifeHacker find.

Who would of thunk it?

Walmart is now selling a $97 iPhone 3GS. Stay away. Jeff Richardson gets it right. While the idea of a $97 iPhone is appealing, you’d regret it on June 7.

Structural Change I’ve made some changes to the site. MacSparky.com is now reduced to two-columns. This allows me to make the article column wider, and use bigger pictures/screenshots. I like the cleaner look better. Let me know what you think. Advertising Changes Once the…