Rose and I use this episode of Automators to share some of our favorite automation tips for use in personal knowledge management. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: Data Citizens Dialogues: Unpacking the importance of data and its impact on the world. Listen now.
Listen & read notes →The Lab Report for November 1, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: The new M4-powered Mac computers are here! You can get on the Apple Intelligence waitlist, Anthropic’s Claude now has a Mac app, and Oliver Burkeman’s latest book, one chapter per day.
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An Automation Golden Age
Did you know I have a newsletter? I post some, but not all of my newsletter’s content to this blog. Here’a a recent one. An Automation Golden Age I’ve mentioned several times on my podcasts that we’re experiencing a renaissance in automation, particularly on…
Continue reading →The 16GB MacBook Air
A surprising bit of news this week was that Apple doubled the base memory on the M2 and M3 MacBook Air. Before this week, if you bought the entry-level model, you got 8GB. That has now increased to 16. I’m sure this is entirely…
Continue reading →The M4 MacBook Pro
Hooray! The new M4 MacBook Pro is here. The case design is the same in both 14- and 16-inch variants, with support for the M4, M4 Pro, and M4 Max chips with increased CPU/GPU performance. It’s nice to see Apple improving on the built-in camera,…
Continue reading →The New Mac mini & iMac Lineup
This week, Apple introduced a wave of M4 Macs, bringing some exciting updates. New iMacs The M4-powered iMacs come in refreshed colors: orange, blue, green, yellow, pink, purple, and silver, each with matching accessories. Apple’s design flexibility shows, though it makes the grayscale of other…
Continue reading →Mail Sorting with Apple Intelligence
With the release of iOS 18.2 Beta 1, we’re getting our first look at Apple Intelligence-based inbox sorting in Mail. In this video I share how it work and my initial impressions.
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Testing NotebookLM
Here are some of my early tests using NotebookLM, Google’s new tool that lets me create an AI-assisted podcast based on the data I feed it. … This is a post for the Early Access and Backstage MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
Mac Power Users 768: Getting Intentional with Chris Bailey
Author Chris Bailey joins Mac Power Users to discuss his simple tech stack and interesting automation to tie it all together. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: NetSuite: The leading integrated cloud business software suite. 1Password: So much more than a…
Listen & read notes →iA Writer Improvements
For reasons unknown, I took about a year off from using iA Writer and recently rediscovered it. They’ve made a lot of improvements. For example, you can import text into your document, and iA Writer will track that as imported text. This works well…
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