Long time, no post! Hi diehard readers. I hope this is a little reward for not cleaning up your RSS feeds. I really enjoy using Logitech mice, which is good because almost no one else makes multi-function mice for macOS anymore. The MX Master 3 for macOS is a well designed, comfortable mouse with a lot of buttons and scroll wheels. Unfortunately the...

Portable Desktops This is a short comparison of two excellent Thunderbolt docks for the Macbook Pro. The OWC Thunderbolt 3 dock is currently $360 on Amazon. ^spacegrey The CalDigit TS4 Thunderbolt 4 dock is currently backordered for $380 at B&H Photo. ^spacegrey: Strangely the Space Grey version of the dock is almost $100 more. Thanks, Apple....

My guilty pleasure is watching YouTube videos about obscure math. Holy cow

I’m still a big fan of ChronoSync for Mac and the new version 10 looks really great. The application is now M1 native and provides more convenient connections to iCloud and support for bootable backups on Big Sur and Monterey. I like Time Machine for convenience of file recovery but I’m always a little wary of it’s longevity. ChronoSync just makes a...

Modern web tools provide some amazing solutions. Stories like this remind me why the first step in solving most problems is to try to build it myself. Nelson Minar: For anyone wondering how Goodreads could have simply lost all my data, I’m wondering too! It bespeaks contempt for users. And terrible system design, services should not be able to lose...

A couple of weeks ago I sat down with my friend David Sparks to talk about nerdy stuff. I always love talking with Dave because he’s exactly as nice as he sounds. We talked about Keyboard Maestro, Shortcuts, and plenty of Star Wars. If you haven’t tried MacSparky Labs, I can tell you it’s pretty great. It comes with member-only posts as well as insightful...