In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: A new Vision Pro-focused immersive video is out, big updates to two of Apple’s Pro Apps, the top 100 Apple Music albums collected in a coffee table book, and Sparky shares his Apple Watch band purchase story.
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Fantastical for Windows Released
What was that thing Steve Jobs said about ice water in hell?
A First Look at Image Playground
In this video I kick the tires on Apple’s Image Playground feature (from 18.2 beta) and I get some strange results in the process.
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Get Organized with DEVONthink (Sponsor)
I often hear from listeners and readers looking for a research solution in the Mac ecosystem. My favorite app for this, without a doubt, is DEVONthink. DEVONthink is the most professional document and information management application for the Mac. It’s the one place for storing all your documents, snippets, or bookmarks, and working with them.
The integrated AI engine assists you with filing and searching, while the extensive search language includes advanced Boolean operators.
DEVONthink features a flexible sync system that supports many cloud services — or lets you synchronize over your local network — with everything securely encrypted. This gives you the choice for whichever syncing works best for you!
It has Smart rules and flexible reminders that let you automate all parts of your workflow and delegate boring, repeating tasks. Let DEVONthink automatically organize your data with rules you define!
DEVONthink’s AppleScript dictionary is one of the best on the Mac. There’s no part of DEVONthink that can’t be automated. Extend DEVONthink’s functionality with your own commands by adding them to its Scripts menu. Even templates can have scripts inside and you can set up new documents with data from placeholders, or inserted using your own AppleScript code.
DEVONthink just continues to get better. In the latest update they improved PDF annotation, Evernote import, Markdown functionality, and added even more AppleScript and JavaScript automation.
I find DEVONthink’s combination of innovative features and automation support irresistible. Interested? MacSparky readers can get a 20% discount on DEVONthink.
Mac Power Users 770: The 2024 MPU Gift Guide
Stephen is back from his sabbatical and joins me just in time for some holiday shopping on this episode of Mac Power Users.
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Fastmail Rules How-To
I’ve been experimenting with having Fastmail apply server-side rules to my incoming emails. This video explains how easy they are to set up and how powerful they can be.… This is a post for the Early Access and Backstage MacSparky Labs Members. Care to join? Or perhaps you need to sign in?
The Lab Report for November 8, 2024
In this week’s episode of The Lab Report: Apple is set to acquire popular image and graphics design software company Pixelmator, we’ve got accessories for colored iMac, and you can now search with ChatGPT.
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Focused 216: Wholehearted Transformation, with Amy Wicks
Business and life coach Amy Wicks joins Mike and me on this episode of Focused to talk about the Enneagram personality assessment and showing up as our true selves.
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Trying Out ChatGPT Search
ChatGPT is getting in on the search engine racket. In this video, I share early tests and my impressions of ChatGPT Search.
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Election Day Live Activity
It’s Election Day in the United States, and Apple News has added a feature that can make Election Day coverage a Live Activity. You can enable it in the News application. If you turn this on, it will give you updates in the Dynamic Island (on iPhone devices that support it) throughout the day and hopefully let you avoid spending time in front of the news.
It’s tempting to keep the news on during an election for minute-by-minute updates, but I discourage that. As a US citizen, as long as you have voted, you’ve done your part. Instead, go do something productive, fun, or take a nap.
If you feel compelled to follow the election, however, this Live Activity gives you an option that won’t be as intrusive to your day.