There’s a trend of people buying intentionally dumb phones. Sometimes it’s for a kid who needs a way to call home but not a portal to the whole internet. Sometimes it’s an adult trying to claw back their own attention. I understand the impulse.…
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The Worst Default Setting on the Mac
Found under the Mission Control System Preference, “Automatically rearrange Spaces based on recent usage” takes any Spaces you’ve set up and scrambles them every time you open a new app. So it just adds a bit of chaos to your day. I’ll never understand…
Continue reading →Fast Windows Navigation with Moom
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.
Continue reading →Fixing the Print to PDF Trick for High Sierra
One change from the High Sierra macOS update is a slight modification to the command to print to PDF. Years ago I shared a tip about printing to PDF by holding down the Command key and pressing P twice. It’s a great tip and…
Continue reading →“Hey Siri, Send”
For the first week I used my Apple Watch, it drove me nuts that I still had to tap the screen to confirm sending text messages I’d dictated via “Hey Siri”. Then I decided to try dictating the button press. When presented with the…
Continue reading →The iPhone Extension Trick
Have you got any contacts that have extensions in their phone numbers? If you do, you’ll know that adding extension information to your contacts can give your iPhone fits when placing calls. There is, however a trick. When creating a contact, instead of this:…
Continue reading →Print to PDF, Revisited
** Note ** the below video is out of date. You’ll want this updated one. My Print as PDF post still gets tons and tons and tons of views. Apple changed things up a tiny bit with Apple Mail in Mavericks so I thought…
Continue reading →Permalinking SquareSpace with TextExpander
I get a lot of requests about how I put permalinks at the bottom of link posts. People think I’ve done this with some clever bit of web programming but the answer is really just a TextExpander snippet. Here is the snippet text: [∞](https://www.macsparky.com/blog/%clipboard)…
Continue reading →Use Hazel to Find Dates Inside Files
Timotheus over at macorios.com has a workflow for using Hazel to pull dates out PDFs. Basically, he uses the Contents field to look for strings of text matching common date formats. Clever. He is selling the rules for $4, which I can understand because…
Continue reading →14 Days in Mountain Lion Calendar Week View
There used to be a really handy terminal command to open debug mode in iCal. One of my favorite settings was the ability to display two weeks in week view. Unfortunately, the command stopped working in Mountain Lion and it doesn’t appear anyone has…
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