In a world where technology is increasingly conspiring to steal our focus and attention, my goal is to teach you how to be more productive with Apple technology. I want to help you achieve what is most important to you and enjoy your life at the same time using technology instead of becoming another one of its victims. Pretty much everything I make points at that North Star. I believe in this message so much that I’ve staked my livelihood on it.
MPU 841: The Robot Assistant Field Guide
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David Sparks (MacSparky)
In a world where technology is increasingly conspiring to steal our focus and attention, my goal is to teach you how to be more productive with Apple technology. I want to help you achieve what is most important to you and enjoy your life at the same time using technology instead of becoming another one of its victims. Pretty much everything I make points at that North Star. I believe in this message so much that I’ve staked my livelihood on it.
THE MACSPARKY DISPATCH Hi Friend, The first time I installed TextExpander, it changed how I used my Mac. Snippets I typed twenty times a day became three keystrokes. It wasn’t the most powerful text utility on the Mac. There were heavier options out there. But TextExpander hit the spot: the feature was powerful enough to be useful and simple enough to use every day. That’s a hard place to land. Wispr Flow has done the same thing for dictation. I’ve been dictating into Macs for years. I’ve...
THE MACSPARKY DISPATCH Hi Friend, I want to talk about stretch goals, because I think they're doing you more harm than good. The idea sounds reasonable. You pick your top three priorities for the week, then you add a few more items labeled "stretch goals." If you get to them, great. If not, no pressure. Except that's not how your brain works. (Or at least mine.) Your brain sees five things on the list. It doesn't care about the label. It sees five commitments. And by the time you finish your...
MPU 846: Apple Watch On this episode of Mac Power Users, David and Stephen go all-in on the Apple Watch. They cover the history of the device, share their current watch face setups (with image links in the show notes), dig into the bands they’re actually wearing, walk through the complications and apps they rely on from their wrist, and get into the health and safety features that have quietly become essential. They also cover buying advice and Family Setup. Before the main topic, they break...