Strap in gang! Rosemary and I are digging in on document automation on this episode of Automators. Whether you assemble your words with text, the Web, or Microsoft Word, we have ideas and automations. We are also tackling stacking shortcuts in iOS, email automation,…
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For some time now I’ve been trying to increasingly work with my technology in terms of contexts, not apps. I don’t want to open the Mail App to check email. Instead, I want to open the mail app to look at my legal inbox…
Continue reading →Taming the Terminal: Free eBook on Learning to Use the Mac Terminal
Allison Sheridan and Bart Busschots did a series on Allison’s podcast about using the Mac Terminal. I remember thinking at the time how brave they were to talk about something so technical in the audio format, but Allison and Bart got it just right. Now they have released…
Continue reading →The AppleScript Email Extractor
I spent several hours putting together a super-nerdy Keyboard Maestro script that saves an Apple Mail message as a PDF and then uses some AppleScript to pull data out of the message and use it in the file name. I’ve already added the video,…
Continue reading →Fantastical for Families
Today Flexibits announced Fantastical Premium for Families. With it, you can get up to 5 family members in Fantastical for $7.99 a month. If you’ve got more than a few members of your family on Fantastical, that’s a nice discount. It’s also an excellent…
Continue reading →Blogging from Space
View fullsize For the last few months, I have been playing with an Oculus Quest. I never really had any experience with virtual reality (VR) before, and I decided that there was no better time to look for a little escape than amid the pandemic.…
Continue reading →Lego UX
Having built a lot of LEGO sets over the years, I had given very little thought to their user experience (UX) design until I read this by George Cave. Regardless of your feelings about LEGO panels, this article will teach you a lot more about…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 548: Jumping into Markdown
From jotting quick notes to writing for the web, Markdown has become a very popular choice for formatting plain text. Its syntax is human-readable and easy to learn. On this week’s episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I teach Markdown 101, covering the…
Listen & read notes →Artificial Intelligence Performance … “Also” Security
Samual Axon at Arts Technica published an interview with Apple’s artificial intelligence (AI) chief John Giannandrea concerning the state of AI at Apple. If you go back enough years, you can see plenty of articles and hear podcasts where I bemoaned Apple’s ability to…
Continue reading →Mac OS 8 on macOS 10
View fullsize Wow, are you feeling nostalgic for your old Mac? The macintosh.js project just released a JavaScript emulator that runs Mac OS 8 emulated on a 1991 Macintosh Quadra. It works! I had several minutes of nostalgia—followed by several minutes of realizing things are a…
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