’60 Mac Tips, Volume 2′ by David Sparks and Brett Terpstra
A collection of tricks and tips to make you more efficient on your Mac.
‘Ask Me Anything: Volume 1’ — An eBook of Reddit’s Best AMAs
A collection featuring the most interesting, provocative, humorous, and inspirational sessions from /r/IAmA — including Barack Obama, Madonna, Elon Musk, Buzz Aldrin, Bill Gates, Louis CK, Martha Stewart, and many more.
‘Harry Potter’ Enhanced Editions Now Available Exclusively on iBooks
The same books you know and love, now enhanced with interactive animations, elaborate artwork, and annotations written by J.K. Rowling herself.
‘How They Got There’ by Khoi Vinh
14 interviews with some of the web's leading digital designers about their lives and careers.
‘Helvetica, Objectified, & Urbanized: The Complete Interviews’ by Gary Hustwit
The complete unreleased interviews from Gary Hustwit's "Design Trilogy" documentaries.
Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution
Neither one of my kids were alive "pre-smartphone". They only know the world where "there's an app for that". Dogfight: How Apple and Google Went to War and Started a Revolution is about the building of that world. It was one of my favorite books of 2013. Get it on Amazon for $10.99
MacSparky’s ‘Presentations’ Field Guide is Now Available
In case you missed the news back when David Sparks' new Field Guide on presentations was available for pre-order, here's a friendly reminder that the book is now live on the iBookstore. You can watch the trailer here. What I wrote about the book last time still applies, so here it is again: With a primary focus on Apple's Keynote software—and filled…
Presentations — A MacSparky Field Guide
This morning our friend David Sparks announced the newest book in his excellent Field Guides ebook series. It's called Presentations. In a nutshell, this guide will teach you how to make your presentations not suck. With a primary focus on Apple's Keynote software—and filled with more than 30 screencasts, audio interviews, and other rich media assets—David shows you how to plan an…
Perfect Coffee at Home
Perfect Coffee at Home, written by former U.S. Marines Michael Haft and Harrison Suarez and available only on the iBookstore for iPad, is all about the joys and methods of brewing an awesome cup—you guessed it—at home. They explain all the factors that go into every cup, and how you can tweak them step-by-step to get the best results. Haft and Suarez…
The MacSparky Email Field Guide
David Sparks is a legend among men. In addition to being an attorney, half of Mac Power Users and blogger, he has written several great ebooks. His most recent — released last night — is a beast. At 300 pages with nearly 1.5 hours of video screencasts and 200 screenshots, the book covers the world of email. Chapters include: The Email Problem Tactical Email…
90 Degrees
I'm a big fan of Andrew Kim's blog, Minimally Minimal (you may know him from his awesome rebranding concept for Microsoft). He's a product designer who not only showcases his own work, but also likes to post reviews of all kinds of products, always with a focus on minimalism, function, and beauty. Every review is chock full of beautiful photography, where his…