In this step-by-step tutorial, learn the top 20 best tips and tricks in Zoom Video Conferencing. For example, create your own custom virtual background, have...

If you—or your teenager—are into gaming, you’ve likely at least heard of Discord, even if you haven’t used it yourself. It’s one more way for teenagers to connect with their friends and chat about gaming or other topics via private or public servers, individual messages, or group chats. But, as with any social network like this, there is also the potential for them to be exposed to mature themes, abusive language, cyber bullying, and other inappropriate content.

Ready to upgrade your USB microphone or headset to something better? Here’s how to make sense of pro(ish) audio gear.

Last week, I posted some notes about five different tools for live captioning a Zoom session. After I posted, I found out that OU had just turned on a new

Is your OmniFocus Inbox overflowing with tasks, random thoughts, ideas, and more? Learn how and why to capture into Drafts instead of OmniFocus. You'll also learn how to use Drafts as a convenient repository for OmniFocus project notes and templates. While it may feel good to dump your thou ...

ZoomOSC is a FREE utility to control a Zoom Video Meeting with the OSC open protocol. This enables virtual performance and countless interactive audience experience opportunities.

Here are some “rockstar resources” for #PowerPoint: Free design assets, webinars, experts to follow and a customized feed to keep your learning going 24/7

The 2020 Internet Health Report analyzes the health of the internet based on five issue areas: privacy and security, openness, decentralization, digital inclusion, web literacy.

Apple Shortcuts: Tutorials, Tip & Tricks

I am an avid creator of Shortcuts on Apple’s iPhone and iPad devices, and also of Elgato’s Stream Deck hardware that provides me with additional dynamic trigger buttons to use on both my personal Mac and my work PC. I personally make use of a lot of text-based identifiers for content on my Stream Deck, but in other areas I revert to meaningful pictograms. I posted earlier this year about a number of repositories that would give you over 3,800 icons for use with your Stream Deck. But I’ve moved on a little from that. I would like to explain how I am now generating icons using Apple’s Shortcu...

Stephen Millard from Thought Asylum joins in to share his automation journey and his extraordinary ecosystem of plugins Drafts.

CARROT Weather has been a MacStories favorite for years now. Just last month we named it the Best Watch App of 2020 in our annual MacStories Selects awards. One of the impressive features in CARROT’s Apple Watch app is the ability to customize the interface to display exactly the weather data that you’re interested in.

This month we're highlighting Pushcut, a powerful utility that uses triggers and notifications for shortcuts, home, and online automations. We spoke with Founder and CEO, Simon Leeb, and learned more about Pushcut, the benefits of semi-automations, and their new service on IFTTT

In this episode, David and Rosemary attempt to automate as much communication as possible, from email to messages and TextExpander to Shortcuts and Drafts, there’s plenty of ways to get stuck in!

Here's the latest stuff in Bunch 1.3.1!

RSS isn't dead; it's thriving. If you stopped using RSS when Google Reader shut down—or if you have no idea what RSS is—this guide is for you.

For ten years or so I've been putting down my thoughts on design, and technology, and ethics. Essays after essay. Some of those essays get turned into talks, some of them get blown out into books, but the essay has always been the native form for all these. I am, at heart, an essay writer. I love the form. It's long enough to be nuanced, and short enough to get it out immediately. All the essays here have already appeared somewhere. Some might be familiar. But I thought it'd be nice to get them all in one book. Cause man I love holding a book, and flipping through it, and writing notes in t...

Free Technology for Teachers

Elgato Stream Deck is very simple to setup and use.This article reproduces the printed Elgato Stream Deck Quick Start Guide.There also are many articles available that describe how the software wor...

A Workflow for the OS X app Alfred2: Search your Raindrop.io bookmarks

Watch the videos to get started. Then use KEY CREATOR to make Stream Deck completely yours.

I have been  using DuckDuckGo  for several years now. Recently I was talking to a friend about this, and she explained that while she likes the idea of DuckDuckGo, she still thinks she would occasionally need Google. “Then just bang Google,” I responded, and she looked at me like

View the original issue. This is the week! Once iOS 14.3 drops, millions of people will update their smartphones and suddenly be able to create their “app ideas” by adding them as shortcuts to their Home Screen. The main change? The limitation where “custom icons always open into Shortcuts first” is now gone! Shortcuts added to the Home Screen […]

Scotty works at a large Canadian telecom and technology solution provider as part of corporate communications and co-hosts the Nested Folders podcast alongside Rosemary Orchard.

I think a lot of people are underutilizing links. Lately, I have been working with contextual computing and the idea that you can go from idea to action on your computer with the least amount of friction. For example, if you need to access your task list for a specific project and open your task man

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