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"This is one of those things that really hurts you, both in terms of pride and professionalism."

If you own a Stream Deck and want a better way for adding your shortcuts to it, give Shortcuts by SENTINELITE a try. I’ve only been playing with the plugin for a short time, but this is hands down the best way I’ve found for adding push-button convenience to Shortcuts on the Mac. I covered

In late December, for a few years now, I have tweeted out a big list of albums I enjoyed. On Thursday, I posted my picks for 2021, some of which were likely not a surprise for anyone who follows me on Last.fm. This spring, I reactivated my account there and began scrobbling again after years […]

File synchronization can be fun and painless if you don’t have to deal with corporate bullshit.

Tweetbot is releasing today version 6.8 of its app. In this update, the Twitter client is receiving its first big update in 2022.

The new EV will hit the roads in the US in 2023.

What’s happening?

Fom QD-OLED TVs to EVs to a hair-coloring gadget.

Adam McKay’s latest surface-level political satire fails both as a metaphor for climate change and as art.

In a year of grief, “comfort care” takes on new meanings. We’re wearing our dispossession on our sleeves.

What comes next.

Anecdotal lifesaving, meet Apple’s heartstring plucking ads

Along with Ernest Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises.

A common complaint these days is that our work tools and practices bias much too heavily towards constant collaboration. We’re all drowning in Slack pings...

Like lots of women, I started wearing a bra at age 13 and I never stopped to ask why. Even at that age, it was unconsciously a given that the “unruliness” of my female body needed to be hidden or at least transformed into something society deemed acceptable. Many years later, I finally had the time

The Wall Street Journal's stubborn conservatism.

2022 should see me read more and write more on this blog.

In this tutorial, we'll cover in detail some of the best uses for the macOS command line tool. Including: how to watch an ASCII version of Star Wars on the Mac using Terminal

In my day job, I work on Windows, and XYplorer is my file manager of choice due to it’s configurability and extensibility through scripting. One of my most used extensions is one which will move the last downloaded file to the directory in the currently focused XYplorer pane. I have written about a very similar XYplorer script in the past that works in the same way, but rather than the last download, it grabs a copy of the last screenshot I took. Recently I realised I was missing this functionality over on my Mac, and so I decided to redress the imbalance through a little scripting.

Remind Me Faster, my favorite app to create new reminders with support for natural language input and quick access to priorities and lists, received a major 4.0 update earlier this week. The app has become a staple of my iPhone and iPad dock in this final part of 2021, and it only felt right to

As Club MacStories members know, I use my Mac’s menu bar sparingly. With Bartender, our MacStories Selects Mac app of the year, I limit my menu bar to a handful of frequently-used apps and system controls that take up as little space as possible. That cuts down on clutter and means everything will fit when

What comes next.

According to him looking at website source code is a crime

Mash that cancel button before you get billed.

A look back at some of The Verge’s most impactful photography and illustrations from 2021

AppleMatters. He wrote an extensive post on how you can use TextExpander to launch applications and control them. The snippets are really simple and they really work. With a short TextExpander abbreviation, you can open or quit a program, navigate to a website, close all Finder windows, and more. While operations like Open or Quit… Read More »

AppleMatters is a serious yet irreverent look at all things Apple

Handy apps, fun apps, and everything in between.

It may come as a surprise to some (many), but I’ve never really made effective use of TextExpander on my iPad or iPhone ( TextExpander touch ). I don’t do a lot of the things on my iPad which I do on