Yesterday 9to5 Mac linked to some iPhone 12 dummy images. I sure hope they are accurate. If so, it looks very much like a modern take on the iPhone 4. That was, in my opinion, the best looking iPhone yet and I’d love to…
Continue reading →The Case of the Secret iPod
David Shayer delivers another gem, this one about when he was asked to work on a secret government project to make a “special” iPod that he speculates was used as a Geiger counter by James Bond types. I can’t help but wonder that if…
Continue reading →Mac Power Users 549: Brett Terpstra’s New Robe
Brett Terpstra returns Mac Power Users, and on this episode he’s talking about the Touch Bar, regular expressions, Markdown, and what Apple silicon Macs will mean for macOS applications and utilities. This episode of Mac Power Users is sponsored by: 1Password: Have you ever…
Continue reading →Automators 56: Document Automation
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…
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