I have often said that one of the easiest on-ramps to automation is text expansion. That’s one of the reasons why I’m such a fan of TextExpander. They’ve gone the extra mile with giving you automation tools in addition to text expansion. But it…
Continue reading →Time Track with Timing (Sponsor)
I’ve talked and written extensively over the years about the utility of time tracking. Yet, many of us don’t track our time. And the reason is usually simple: it’s cumbersome and way too easy to forget. This week’s sponsor, Timing, gives you the benefit…
Continue reading →The Looming Threat of AI-Generated Voice
I read this post by John Gruber, and I couldn’t agree more about the shenanigans that will come from AI-generated deepfakes. The computers are so good at duplicating your voice at this point that a determined jackass could “produce” a tape of you saying…
Continue reading →Microsoft 365 Copilot
Last week Microsoft gave an impressive presentation demonstrating the incorporation of artificial intelligence into their productivity apps. You can have it summarize and analyze data in Excel, write better documents in Word, and even summarize email in Outlook. Moreover, it had less of that…
Continue reading →Malicious Email is Getting Smarter
Malicious email is not comically dumb any more. One malicious strain, called Emotet, appears to come from a known contact and looks as if it is replying to an existing thread. If you click on the links or attachments, you are done for. Dan…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 684: 20 Mac Apps Under $20
It’s that time again on Mac Power Users: Stephen and I round up some Mac apps for our “20 Under $20” saloon! This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: 1Password: Never forget a password again. TextExpander: Get 20% off with this link and type…
Listen & read notes →Home Screens: Daniel Schwartzberg
This is Daniel Schwartzberg. He is a teacher, he host of the podcast Creative Consumption, and he’s a swell guy. So, Daniel, show us your Home Screens. Primary Home Screens Walkthrough Right off the bat, when making this post, I realized that the way…
Continue reading →Shooting the Moon, AI Style
There’s an interesting story right now about the latest Galaxy S23 and the moon. A person on Reddit made a blurry picture of the moon and then took a picture of that blurry image with his Galaxy S23, which used its particular, highly trained…
Continue reading →AI-Generated AppleScript
I enjoyed this article from Dr. Drang about the robot-created AppleScript. I think AppleScript will be one of the most difficult languages for AI models to write because it was created to make it more human-readable, and that makes it quirky. The other thing…
Continue reading →Avoid Email Overwhelm with SaneBox (Sponsor)
Email can get overwhelming for all of us. It just keeps coming. And the more emails you reply to, the more people write you back, generating even more email. When you get down to it, however, for most of us the truly daunting thing…
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