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MacStories boss Federico Viticci returns to Mac Power Users to talk about the iPad’s apparent stagnation and how the Mac has grown over the last few years. The guys also talk about Raycast, Shortcuts, Apple silicon, and more. This episode of Mac Power…

Rose and I dig deep on all of Automator’s varied automation tools on the latest episode of Automators. This episode of Automators is sponsored by: Kolide: Endpoint Security Powered by People. Try Kolide for 14 days free; no credit card required. LinkedIn…

Joe Moyer is writing some great stuff over at his blog, 24 Letters. That name comes from an Athenodorus quote, “Whenever you feel yourself getting angry, Caesar, don’t say or do anything until you’ve repeated the 24 letters of the alphabet to…

This week MacSparky is sponsored by DEVONthink. There are a lot of ways to manage a database on your mac, but in my opinion, there is no better tool than DEVONthink. Just a few of the things I use DEVONthink for include: A reliable repository of research…

One of the benefits of being a member of The MacSparky Labs is access to the weekly Lab Report podcast, where I summarize Apple news and other items I find interesting in about 10 minutes. If you are a labs member, you should have already received this…

This week we got another nice update from Keyboard Maestro. This update includes a ton of new support for Shortcuts integration on the Mac. I’m so happy to see Keyboard Maestro setting itself up to be a platform where you can use it’s already powerful…

I’ve now mentioned the Camo app several times on the MacSparky Labs podcast so I thought I should share how I use the app to set up my iPhone as a my webcam… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?…

For a long time I’ve been adding OmniFocus template projects using Shortcuts. I have a few other automations that involve project creation with Keyboard Maestro, which got me thinking about adding templated OmniFocus projects via Keyboard Maestro… This is…

Rumors are coming back about a flat-sided Apple Watch getting released this year. John Prosser made some renders, below. Who knows if this thing will actually ship. People were convinced it was going to release last year and it didn’t. If this is truly the…

Jesse Grosjean from Hog Bay Software has a new Mac outliner app called Bike. The idea is to make it as easy as possible to add and rearrange outline entries. The documentation quotes Jonathan Edwards, “We were promised bicycles for the mind, but we got…