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November 2026

  1. An Audience of One Is Enough
  2. This Week in the Labs — November 6, 2026
  3. Finding an iPhone Duo with Store Stock Checker
  4. A New Mac Power Users Bonus: Status Board Apps
  5. Intentional AI 12: Four Macs and a Human, with John Voorhees
  6. Talking AI With Kourosh Dini
  7. Focused 268: Gateway to the Past, with Liz Covart
  8. Playful Fonts from Bastardica
  9. Stephen Robles’ iPhone Duo Review
  10. Mac Power Users 873: iPhone Duo Review and Touchscreen MacBook Pro

October 2026

  1. What Would This Actually Change?
  2. This Week in the Labs — October 30, 2026
  3. Jeff Richardson Cancels His iPhone Duo Order
  4. Timing Lets Your AI Agent Sort Out Your Time
  5. You Can’t Buy Your Way Out of the Local AI Problem
  6. The iPad mini and the iPhone Duo
  7. My 512GB Mac Studio Bet
  8. Stephen’s iPhone Duo App Directory
  9. Mac Power Users 872: The Mighty Mac mini
  10. What a Million Views Did Not Do for My Business
  11. This Week in the Labs — October 23, 2026
  12. Ethan Mollick Releases Co-Existence
  13. Curio 34 Opens Up to AI Assistants
  14. The 2027 Focused Calendar
  15. Intentional AI 11: AI Task Management
  16. MindNode Comes to the iPhone Duo
  17. Focused 267: A Menu of Opportunity
  18. RSS Feed Update for macsparky.com
  19. TextExpander Adds Conditional Sections and Spelling
  20. Let AI Do the Work, Not the Thinking
  21. Mac Power Users 871: AI Can’t Fake Taste with Emmy-Winning Composer Michael Whalen
  22. Apple’s Second Chance in the Home
  23. This Week in the Labs — October 16, 2026
  24. UniFi Takes Its Travel Router Long-Range
  25. Drafts Adds a Chat Console and Better Dictation
  26. Apple’s New Home Lineup
  27. Mac Power Users 870: The Full Sparky
  28. Siri’s Everyday Superpower
  29. This Week in the Labs — October 9, 2026
  30. Cotypist 2026.4 Syncs Your Writing Between Macs
  31. Intentional AI 10: Cal Newport: Automate Tedium, Protect Thought
  32. Hookmark 7.3 Improves Link Cleanup and App Integrations
  33. Focused 266: AI as a Distraction
  34. The Alfred 6 Preview
  35. On the Rumored M8 Ultra AI Servers
  36. Mac Power Users 869: It Was Basically a Wash
  37. Why Quarterly Reviews Matter More Than Annual Goals
  38. This Week in the Labs — October 2, 2026
  39. Apps Adding Siri AI Support for iOS 27

September 2026

  1. Mike Vardy’s New Book, Productiveness
  2. Daylite Now Syncs With Google Calendar
  3. Rogue Amoeba Turns 24 (and 24% Off)
  4. Mac Power Users 868: Tyler Stalman Reviews iPhone 18 Pro Camera
  5. Don’t Ask the Robot What to Do
  6. This Week in the Labs — September 25, 2026
  7. From Apple Watch to AI Assistant with Whisper Memos
  8. Intentional AI 9: Dissecting the Extinction Headlines
  9. Fantastical, Siri AI, and Keeping Every Calendar Honest (Sponsor)
  10. Mac Power Users 867: Deep Dive on macOS 27 and Siri AI
  11. 600,000 People Watched Me Make a Decision
  12. This Week in the Labs — September 18, 2026
  13. Tyler Stalman Reviews the iPhone 18 Pro Camera
  14. Strategery Returns to iPhone and iPad
  15. Why I’m Buying the iPhone Duo Instead of the iPhone 18 Pro Max
  16. Mac Power Users 866: The Ternus Doctrine
  17. The Ternus Doctrine
  18. Two Apple Event Videos Worth Watching
  19. This Week in the Labs — September 11, 2026
  20. A Few Thoughts Following Apple’s September 2026 iPhone Event
  21. Intentional AI 8: Whisper to Write
  22. Focused 264: The Accountability Shaped Hole
  23. A 7″ Reading Device
  24. Record Any Audio on Your Mac, with Audio Hijack
  25. Help Relay Reach $5 Million for St. Jude
  26. Hazel Turns 20
  27. Mac Power Users 865: Harvard Professor Teddy Svoronos on AI in the Classroom
  28. The Approaching Star Trek moment
  29. This Week in the Labs — September 4, 2026
  30. For Those of Us Particular About the Things on Our Desks…
  31. How Far Are We from “Her”?
  32. MindNode Ships MCP Support

August 2026

  1. Mac Power Users 864: Marked Safe from Buying M5 Ultra
  2. Materiam Superabat Opus
  3. This Week in the Labs — August 28, 2026
  4. Things 3’s Repeating Task Feature Restructured
  5. A Truce on App Store Fees, Still No Siri AI in Europe
  6. Intentional AI 7: We’re All Developers Now
  7. Focused 263: Removing the Roadblocks, with Cat Mulvihill
  8. The Vision Pro’s Uncertain Future
  9. New M5 Mac Studio and M6 Mac mini
  10. Bitrig, An AI Development Assistant from SwiftUl Team Members
  11. Daylite Puts the Whole Client Relationship in One Place
  12. Chris Bailey’s New TEDx Talk
  13. Mac Power Users 863: 20 Years of Things with Werner Jainek
  14. The Case for a Personal Apple Developer Tier
  15. Susan Kare Revisits the Original Mac Icons
  16. This Week in the Labs — August 21, 2026
  17. TerminalWidget by Brett Terpstra
  18. MailMaven Adds AppleScript and AI
  19. Mac Power Users 862: Alfred vs Spotlight vs Raycast
  20. Why I Pay for Search
  21. This Week in the Labs — August 14, 2026
  22. A Business Card Worth Keeping
  23. Intentional AI 6: Sparky’s Email Odyssey
  24. Google Health Two-Way Sync with Apple Health
  25. Focused 262: The Strategic Deployment of Friction
  26. Looming Supply Shortages
  27. 1Password Travel Mode and Federal Law
  28. Mac Power Users 861: Stephen’s Kanban App
  29. Why I Killed My Daybook
  30. Daylite Is Getting a Local MCP Server
  31. Stop Optimizing, Start Choosing

July 2026

  1. This Week in the Labs — July 31, 2026
  2. Focused 261: Metrics of Success
  3. MacWhisper 14 Adds a New Editor View
  4. Intentional AI 5: Dragons in Execution
  5. Mac Power Users 859: Tangential Gadgets
  6. Apple Should Just Do One Big Thing a Year
  7. This Week in the Labs — July 24, 2026
  8. Claude Cowork Made My Quarterly Review Better
  9. A New Home for the Field Guides
  10. Aerial Photographer of the Year 2026
  11. Turn Any iPhone Into a Dumb Phone
  12. Talking AI Agents With Michael Whalen
  13. Omni Group Building Toward MCP Support
  14. The Old Site Didn’t Look Like Me Anymore
  15. This Week in the Labs — July 17, 2026
  16. Apple History Calendar Update
  17. Drafts Adds Encryption and a Command Line
  18. Maestral Mac Dropbox Client Retired
  19. A Productivity Tool Draft for Relay Members
  20. Mac Power Users 857: Sparmerica
  21. Toy Story 5 and Our Kids’ Devices
  22. This Week in the Labs — July 10, 2026
  23. The DAK Catalog
  24. A Golden Age for Fraudsters
  25. A Hopeful Word on the New Siri
  26. A Ritual for Switching Gears
  27. This Week in the Labs — July 3, 2026
  28. On Pain and Happiness
  29. Intentional AI 3: Context is King

June 2026

  1. Mac Power Users 855: Shortcuts with Viticci
  2. Why Local AI Is Apple’s Play
  3. Fantastical Tackles the Double-Booking Problem
  4. This Week in the Labs — June 26, 2026
  5. Where Apple’s Price Increases Landed
  6. Lettera, A New Markdown Editor for Mac from Bear Developers
  7. The Model Holds the Shovel. You Hold the Map.
  8. Cotypist Puts Smart Autocomplete Wherever You Type
  9. Where Apple’s Price Increases Will Land

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