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.
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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 movies were shot from a theater seat. The camera sat where the audience would have sat. The actors moved across the frame like they were on a stage, and the shot didn't change for the whole picture. You were watching a play that someone had happened to have filmed. It took years before folks had the idea to put the camera on the stage. That single move turned a recorded play into cinema. I think we're in the silent film era of AI right now. Most of...
THE MACSPARKY DISPATCH Hi Friend, I've been wearing an Apple Watch since 2015. The face problem hasn't changed. That sounds like a complaint, and it is, but I want to be specific about it. The Apple Watch has changed enormously over ten years. The hardware is faster. The health features have saved lives. The battery on my Ultra runs for a couple of days. The watch is great. The faces are still a mess. For years, I used the Explorer face. It shipped with the first cellular Apple Watch in 2017...
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...