Moving your windows around the screen manually can be a pain. In this video I demonstrate how I use a few keyboard shortcuts with a great little screen utility, Moom, to make my windows dance.
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Checking Out MaskerAid
My friend Casey Liss made a new iPhone app that that can put emoji faces over human faces, called MaskerAid. It’s a clever little trick and particularly helpful if you don’t want pictures of your kids on the Internet. Here’s a little video I…
Continue reading →Setting Up Your Legacy Contact Screencast
The Legacy Contact feature that shipped with iOS 15.2 is grim, but smart. It only takes two minutes to set up and I made a screencast to show you how it works. No excuses not to set it up right now!
Continue reading →Cardhop 2.0, Flexibits Premium, and New Videos
Today Flexibits announced the release of Cardhop 2.0. Cardhop has always had the Contacts app beat because of the Cardhop search bar, where you can access, create, modify, and act on contacts. (Flexibits also makes Fantastical, also known for its similar search/create bar feature.)…
Continue reading →IOS 14 Back Tap for Camera and Flashlight
I couldn’t help myself and installed the iOS 14 beta on my iPhone. There are a lot of nice new features, but one obscure one is Back Tap. This new accessibility feature lets you trigger Accessibility functions by tapping the back of your phone…
Continue reading →Keyboard Maestro Script for Automating Contact Creation with Cardhop
Here’s a small Keyboard Maestro script that I use just about every day to create contacts on my Mac with Cardhop. The problem this is designed to solve is Basecamp project email addresses. Every new Basecamp project I create has a specialized (and nearly…
Continue reading →The Siri Shortcuts Home Screen
I was listening to Cortex this week and heard CGP Grey talking about replacing applications on his home screen with Siri Shortcuts links. It was some really clever insight and led me down a rabbit hole of experiments resulting in this, the all Siri…
Continue reading →Window Management with Keyboard Maestro and Screencast
A few weeks ago, I posted about my new two-screen setup. I explained that I have started using the second monitor as a “reference” monitor to the right of my iMac screen. I’ve received emails and questions in the forums about how I manage…
Continue reading →Cardhop Version 1.1
Flexibits released version 1.1 of Cardhop, their clever contact management app. There are lots of new features in the new version: • Support for French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese (including full text parsing and localized address and phone formats) • Smart groups: create…
Continue reading →PDFpen Version 10
PDFpen for Mac continues to improve. Today Smile released version 10 with several new features: Adds watermarks Insert Headers & Footers OCR multiple documents in batch (PDFpenPro only) New Precision Edit tool selects, moves, resizes and deletes line art and text Improves move &…
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