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Learn about getting the most from your Apple technology with focused topics and workflow guests. Creating Mac Power Users since 2009, one conversation at a time. Hosted by David Sparks and Stephen Hackett.
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Feb 13, 2017 • 1h 40min
364: The Calendar Show
David and Katie dive deep into calendars and discuss the various cloud calendar services, sharing, calendar apps, best practices, and scheduling services.
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Links and Show Notes: Support Mac Power Users with a Relay FM Membership Mac Power Users Chicago Meet-up Tickets, Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 6:30 PM | Eventbrite OmniFocus — MacSparky iCloud: Calendar overview Business Email and Shared Calendars | Office 365 Google Calendar G Suite – Gmail, Drive, Docs and More FastMail: Professional email hosting How to share or make iCloud calendars public on iPhone and iPad | iMore iCloud: Share a calendar with others Share your calendar with someone - Calendar Help Create and share a group calendar - G Suite Administrator Help Learn how IFTTT works - IFTTT The best apps. Better together. - Zapier - Zapier How to Fight Calendar Spam — MacSparky How to use calendars with Family Sharing | iMore BusyCal Flexibits | Fantastical 2 for Mac Daylite: CRM, Project Management, Scheduling and Team Collaboration Timepage – Calendar by Moleskine on the App Store Calendar and reminder app for iPhone and iPad | Calendars 5 Easy scheduling | Doodle Online meeting and appointment scheduling software Calendly - Scheduling appointments and meetings is super easy with Calendly. Online Appointment Scheduling Software

Feb 5, 2017 • 1h 34min
363: Workflows with IT Specialist Ivan Hemmans
Ivan Hemmans manages Macs, PCs, and a lot of iOS devices. He joins us this week to share some advice for manageing your home and work networks and devices. Ivan also frequently presents and has some great tips for speakers.
This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by:
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Guest Starring: Ivan Hemmans
Links and Show Notes: Ivan Hemmans manages Macs, PCs, and a lot of iOS devices. He joins us this week to share some advice for manageing your home and work networks and devices. Ivan also frequently presents and has some great tips for speakers.
Support Mac Power Users with a Relay FM Membership Ivan's WebsiteIvan's home on the Internet.
Ivan Hemmans on Twitter JamF Bushel for Device Management curbi - free parental controls for Android and Apple mobile devices MobileIron - MDM & Enterprise Mobile Solutions SreenFlow Getting Things Done - Amazon Books The Harmony Remote YNAB. Personal Budget & Finance Software for Windows, Mac, iPhone, iPad and Android TripIt - Travel Itinerary - Trip Planner Small Business Cloud Accounting Software Free Trial | FreshBooks The Magic Castle ABA TECHSHOW 2017 | Bringing Lawyers & Technology Together

Jan 30, 2017 • 1h 37min
362: MPU+: No Other Tea
We answer questions on a variety of topics including sending email later, managing a 16GB iPhone, RSS workflows, and more. We follow-up on DevonThink, the iPad as a Mac replacement, task management, personal cloud and share listener workflows, tips and tricks.
This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by:
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1Password Have you ever forgotten a password? Now you don't have to worry about that anymore. Save up to 20% using this link.
Fujitsu ScanSnap ScanSnap Helps You Live a More Productive, Efficient, Paperless Life.
Sanebox Stop drowning in email!
Links and Show Notes: Support Mac Power Users with a Relay FM Membership Mac Power Users Chicago Meet-up Tickets, Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite Facebook - Mac Power Users Group Mail Act-On Dervish Software | MailHub How to trick your iPhone into freeing up storage space Paparazzi! Screen Capture Software for Windows and Mac | Snagit | TechSmith PDFpen - Edit PDF Files | Smile Software Cloak VPN - Cloak - Super-simple VPN TunnelBear: Secure VPN Service ★reeder Pinboard: social bookmarking for introverts Welcome to Feedly Unread – An RSS Reader Reading List — Katie Floyd Smart information management and web research for Mac - DEVONtechnologies Notability by Ginger Labs Lima – The first Cloud that respects your privacy B2 Cloud Storage: The Lowest Priced Online File Storage Task Management Software | Producteev by Jive Automating expense reports - All this Home - MindNode LiquidText PDF Document Reader: Annotate & Excerpt on the App Store DraftTable | ElevationLab Amazon.com: Dell Ultra HD 4K Monitor P2415Q 24-Inch Screen

Jan 22, 2017 • 1h 32min
361: Hidden iOS Features with Clayton Morris
This week Clayton Morris joins us to talk about some of our favorite unused and hidden iOS features. Good stuff.
This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by:
TextExpander from Smile Type more with less effort! Expand short abbreviations into longer bits of text, even fill-ins, with TextExpander from Smile.
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Squarespace: Make your next move. Enter offer code MPU at checkout to get 10% off your first purchase.
Guest Starring: Clayton Morris
Links and Show Notes: This week Clayton Morris joins us to talk about some of our favorite unused and hidden iOS features. Good stuff.
Support Mac Power Users with a Relay FM Membership Mac Power Users Chicago Meet-up TicketJoin us in Chicago on March 15!
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Clayton Morris Clayton on Twitter Flic - Camera Roll Management & Photo Deletion PowerPhotos – Merge Mac Photos libraries, find duplicates, and more PhotoSweeper - Fast and powerful duplicate photo cleaner for the Mac - Overmacs Team Gemini 2: The Best Duplicate File Finder for Mac. Smart selection and fast scan. 3D Touch is More Useful Than I Thought – Part OneAllison Sheridan shows off 3D touch.
Samsara Timer on the App Store Mac Power Users #328: iOS Email Sleep++

Jan 16, 2017 • 1h 37min
360: Workflows with Charles Perry
Charles Perry, one of the organizers of the Release Notes conference, joins us to talk about turning his passion into a business, then a podcast, then a successful conference and the tools and logistics behind all of it.
This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by:
Ministry of Supply: Dress smarter. Work smarter. Get a free pair of Smarter Dress Socks with your first purchase.
1Password Have you ever forgotten a password? Now you don't have to worry about that anymore. Save up to 20% using this link.
The Omni Group We're passionate about productivity for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Marketcircle We help small business grow with great Mac, iPhone and iPad apps including Daylight and Billings Pro.
Guest Starring: Charles Perry
Links and Show Notes: Support Mac Power Users with a Relay FM Membership Mac Power Users Chicago Meet-up Tickets, Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite Mac Power Users Group on Facebook Charles Perry (@DazeEnd) | Twitter Release Notes 2017: Chicago : Conference : Everything But the Code A Conference About Building Businesses | Release Notes Slack: Where work happens Bare Bones Software | BBEdit 11 Home | LibreOffice - Free Office Suite - Fun Project - Fantastic People Pandoc - About pandoc Amazon.com : LifeSpan TR1200-DT5 Treadmill Desk The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right Metakite Software Big Nerd Ranch: Mobile App Development, Training Programming Guides Marked 2 - Smarter tools for smarter writers Airmail - Lightning Fast Mail Client for Mac and iPhone Online Data Backup | Offsite, Onsite & Cloud | Crashplan Prompt 2 Panic - Transmit - The ultimate Mac OS X FTP + SFTP + S3 app Tweetbot for iOS Weather Line iPhone App NOAA Weather Radar - HD Radar & Weather Forecast on the App Store

Jan 8, 2017 • 1h 39min
359: Big Questions
Katie and David cover some of the most common listener questions from the Mac Power Users email archive including backing up photos, task overload, Apple IDs, cold storage backup, moving your iTunes library, the differences between tasks and calendar items, and more.
This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by:
Gazelle Sell your iPhone for cash at Gazelle!
MindNode Delightful mind mapping for your Mac, iPad, and iPhone.
Pixelmator Powerful image editing that gives you everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images, now on iPad and Mac.
Squarespace: Make your next move. Enter offer code MPU at checkout to get 10% off your first purchase.
Links and Show Notes: Katie and David cover some of the most common listener questions from the Mac Power Users email archive including backing up photos, task overload, Apple IDs, cold storage backup, moving your iTunes library, the differences between tasks and calendar items, and more.
Support Mac Power Users with a Relay FM Membership PhotoSweeper on the Mac App Store Gemini 2: The Best Duplicate File Finder for Mac. Smart selection and fast scan. Photos - Google Photos Prime Photos: Unlimited Photo Storage, Free with Amazon Prime Mac Backup Software | Carbon Copy Cloner Amazon.com: Seagate Expansion 5TB Desktop External Hard Drive How to move your iTunes library to an external hard drive | iMore Task Management Pain Points – False Urgency — MacSparky Mac Power Users Chicago Meet-up Tickets, Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 7:00 PM | Eventbrite

Jan 2, 2017 • 1h 51min
358: Gabe Weatherhead Returns
Gabe Weatherhead returns to the show. We discuss OmniFocus Automation, follow-up on DEVONThink, discuss privacy in the wake of cloud services, the iPad as a computer for a child and more.
This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by:
PDFpen from Smile With powerful PDF editing tools, available for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, PDFpen from Smile makes you a Mac Power User.
1Password Have you ever forgotten a password? Now you don't have to worry about that anymore. Save up to 20% using this link.
The Omni Group We're passionate about productivity for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Squarespace: Make your next move. Enter offer code MPU at checkout to get 10% off your first purchase.
Guest Starring: Gabe Weatherhead
Links and Show Notes: Support Mac Power Users with a Relay FM Membership Macdrifter TaskPaper – Plain text to-do lists for Mac The Drafts Inbox for Plain Text Tasks Drafts Screencasts | Agile Tortoise OmniFocus TaskPaper Reference - Support - The Omni Group OmniFocus for iOS Now Automation-Ready - The Omni Group OmniFocus Screencast 1.1 - Automation Sample on Vimeo Mac Power Users #23: Workflows with Merlin Mann - Relay FM Mac Power Users #356: A Fresh Look at DEVONthink - Relay FM The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business Automatic Pro | Automatic: Connect Your Car to Your Digital Life Airtable Rego — Bookmark you favorite places & routes

Dec 25, 2016 • 1h 27min
357: Workflows that Worked in 2016
Katie and David share some of their favorite new workflows from 2016.
This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by:
Fujitsu ScanSnap ScanSnap Helps You Live a More Productive, Efficient, Paperless Life.
Marketcircle We help small business grow with great Mac, iPhone and iPad apps including Daylight and Billings Pro.
1Password Have you ever forgotten a password? Now you don't have to worry about that anymore.
Links and Show Notes: Katie and David share some of their favorite new workflows from 2016.
Support Mac Power Users with a Relay FM Membership The Apple AirPods After a Day of Use — MacSparky Early Impressions of the Apple AirPods — Katie Floyd Amazon.com : DYMO Label Writer 450 Twin Turbo label printer Amazon.com : DYMO LW USPS Postage Stamp Labels Amazon.com: DYMO LW Mailing Address Labels DYMO Stamps® EasyEnvelopes | Ambrosia Software, Inc. Ulysses OmniFocus — MacSparky OmniFocus Screencast 1.1 - Sparky's Automation Sample Dragon Anywhere Dragon Professional Individual for Mac, v6 Timing App for Mac

Dec 19, 2016 • 1h 22min
356: A Fresh Look at DEVONthink
Stuart Ingram joins Katie and David to take a fresh look at DEVONthink. We discuss what's new with the service, workflows and organization, machine learning, setup, sync and more.
Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!
This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by:
1Password Have you ever forgotten a password? Now you don't have to worry about that anymore. Save up to 20% using this link.
The Omni Group We're passionate about productivity for Mac, iPhone and iPad.
Sanebox Stop drowning in email!
Guest Starring: Stuart Ingram
Links and Show Notes: Support Mac Power Users with a Relay FM Membership Stuart's DEVONthink series Bare Bones Software | Yojimbo Capture what’s on your mind | Evernote ScreenCastsOnline - SCOM0586 DEVONThink Pro Office [Pt 1] DEVONthink — Smart document management for Mac - DEVONtechnologiesAll the flavors of DEVONthink
Compare all editions of DEVONthink and DEVONnote for Mac - DEVONtechnologies DEVONthink To Go — Your iOS companion to DEVONthink for Mac - DEVONtechnologies OmniFocus - task management for Mac, iPad, and iPhone - The Omni Group

Dec 11, 2016 • 1h 33min
355: The iPad as a Mac Replacement
David gave up his laptop and went iPad only for several months and now shares both the joy and the agony.
Thanks to MPU listener Jigar Talati for help with the shownotes this week!
This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by:
Agenda Minder: A meeting is only as good as the agenda.
Eero: Blanket your home in fast, reliable WiFi. Use code MPU for free expedited shipping.
PDFpen from Smile With powerful PDF editing tools, available for Mac, iPad, and iPhone, PDFpen from Smile makes you a Mac Power User.
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Links and Show Notes: David gave up his laptop and went iPad only for several months and now shares both the joy and the agony.
Support Mac Power Users with a Relay FM Membership iPad - Apple iPad at Work: David Sparks, Merlin Mann: 9781118100561: Amazon.com: Books Swift Playgrounds - Apple Presentations — MacSparky Canvas - Relay FM Mac Power Users #243: Workflow.app - Relay FM Workflow — MacSparky Drafts | Agile Tortoise Mac Power Users #328: iOS Email - Relay FM Dispatch: TextExpander-enabled Email App for iPhone