Technology

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.

ZoteroBib is a free service that helps you build a bibliography instantly from any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software.

Introduction Zotero is a free, open-source tools for collecting, managing, and sharing research. Its functionality can be used through both an online interface to shared collections between groups and when using a desktop application. When working with certain compatible web browsers, Zotero can also be used to more easily import different resources into a collection…

The iPad is excellent for focused writing. With a little help from Zotero and Shortcuts we can now automate academic referencing on ipad

@Smartie_Pops My goto source for learning more about Zotero are these videos from @ncgoodbody 3/

Using @zotero for a literature review from @jss00c #dissertation

I swear, I live and die by #evernote and #zotero... #wunderlist is pretty great too. Thanks for sharing, @bonni208!

My love for Zotero is great, but even I have to admit that it's not perfect. Thankfully, a third-party plugin called Zotfile makes up for its minor limitations with PDF management. Here are the two features I've found particularly beneficial. 1) Extraction of highlights and annotations from PDFs I warn…