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The MacSparky Labs March 2022 Virtual meetup was a lot of fun. Topics of discussion included The Apple Event “Peek Performance”, Backup Strategies, My Looming Studio Build, and some general Labs updates.
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Hooray! My Stream Deck Pedal arrived. It’s time to set it up and try it out …
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Apple has fully embraced the HEIC photo format. Unfortunately, a lot of the Internet isn’t on board (yet?). I created a new Shortcut on the Mac that builds a quick action to quickly convert any HEIC image to a JPG image. …
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This Friday will be the March MacSparky Labs virtual meetup …
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I’ve decided to build a dedicated space for MacSparky Studios. Here’s the explanation and the initial plans. This also turned into a bit of a screencast on how to use Home Design 3D …
This is a post for MacSparky Labs Backstage and Early Access Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in? I’ve been testing out the Rocket Book, an erasable analog notebook system with an attached application that scans, sends and attempts OCR on your handwriting. Here is the book in action and my initial impressions …
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Alfred is a powerful tool, but using Alfred Workflows you can go even farther. In this video, I demonstrate how to set up a custom Alfred search to find only folders in a designated directory. If you keep data in groups of folders, you’ll dig this. …
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Gabe Weatherhead joins me on this FOD interview where we talk about the current state of automation on the Mac and some specific problems Gabe is solving with Keyboard Maestro and his struggles with Shortcuts for Mac. As two Star Wars nerds, we also drift into our thoughts on the recent “Book of Boba” series, and we finish off the call getting nerdy with Obsidian. It’s always fun talking with Gabe …
This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in? I’ve been playing with a menubar app called, One Thing, which lets you put some text in your menubar. I wanted to use One Thing to post a random inspirational quote of my choosing, so I built a Shortcut on a dictionary action. I also used a simple AppleScript to trigger the shortcut from Keyboard Maestro. Here’s a video explaining the whole thing …
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I got my second monitor out of mothballs and hooked it up. I need some advice …