On this episode of Focused, I’m reflecting on 18 months of freedom, Mike is reporting back from Craft + Commerce, and we’re both sharing our best advice for teaching kids how to focus. Join us.
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Mike Schmitz recently went indie, and we are already seeing the dividends of that. He’s getting ready to start Obsidian University on June 12. It’s a 4-week cohort-style course with eight 60-minute sessions to get you going with Obsidian. Mike is a great teacher, and I expect this to be something pretty great.
You really don’t need your mouse when working with text. The trick is to just get a few, simple keyboard shortcuts under your fingers. Here’s how…This is a post for MacSparky Labs Level 3 (Early Access) Members only. <a href=”https://www.macsparky.com/join/”>Care to join?</a> Or perhaps <a href=”https://www.macsparky.com/?memberful_endpoint=auth”>do you need to sign in?</a>
It’s time for another monthly meetup. This one’s set for May 11 at 10:00 AM Pacific. I’d love to see you there…
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My thanks to TextSniper for sponsoring MacSparky.com this week. This is an app that I use … often. Just a few examples from the last week:
TextSniper is a Mac OCR app that can extract text anywhere on your Mac’s screen and automatically save it to your clipboard so that you can paste it anywhere you need it. It can even read the text to you. The whole thing works a lot like the built-in screen capture on the Mac, just way more powerful.
Also, TextSniper doesn’t collect your data. The text recognition is processed on your Mac and does not require an internet connection.
With TextSniper, you can:
TextSniper works with macOS Catalina and later and also works with Parallels Desktop
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The Opal C1 Webcam is meant to be the webcam everybody actually wants to use. It\’s got tons of software features and a better lens system than anything you\’d find in most (all?) other webcams. It\’s time for me to kick the tires…
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Here’s the video from the MacSparky Labs April Meetup. Topics include WWDC, new Apple hardware, and artificial intelligence…
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I wrote about Wayne Shorter a few weeks ago after his passing. Since then I stumbled on to Adam Neely’s excellent video taking apart Wayne’s song, Infant Eyes. If you have any interest in music, this is worth your time.
I read this post by John Gruber, and I couldn’t agree more about the shenanigans that will come from AI-generated deepfakes. The computers are so good at duplicating your voice at this point that a determined jackass could “produce” a tape of you saying anything. Conversely, an insolent jackass will deny an actual recording of him and claim it is a deepfake. Down is up. Up is down.
I don’t know that we’ll ever have “smoking gun” audio again. It’s just a question of time before that is true for video, too. The bad guys are certainly going to use this to further polarize us. Be warned.
A lot of folks have been asking me about HazeOver since I recently talked about it on the Mac Power Users. Here’s a walkthrough on how the app works and how I use it…
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