Let’s all get better at TextExpander together. In this webinar-style session, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite TextExpander snippets and tricks and I’ll be joined by Josh Centers from TextExpander with his own bag of tricks…
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Happy Monday! I had a great weekend. I took Saturday off for some family time, and yesterday I worked on my project management workflow. That may sound boring, but that’s the kind of thing that I love…
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:
I got the serial number from a picture of a tool
I pulled text off of a donation receipt for my taxes.
I pulled some text from an unfriendly website about my Japanese maple bonsai.
I got nutrition data off a box of cereal.
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:
Quickly get a text from PDFs, Zoom calls, Presentations, and Videos.
Copy text from anywhere, even images and websites that don’t let you select text.
Quickly grab data like email addresses, phone numbers, and links.
Read QR codes and barcodes.
Get text out of just about any image format, including JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and BMP.
TextSniper works with macOS Catalina and later and also works with Parallels Desktop
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There are some remarkable contemporary jazz artists making traditional bebop jazz these days. One of my favorites is the Yayennings Quartet. It’s an interesting instrument composition with trumpet, tenor sax, bass, and drums. There is no traditional comping instrument (like a piano or guitar). Instead, the trumpet and sax frequently play soft chord tones behind the soloing player.
The trumpet (Jay Jennings, who also is the composer) and tenor sax (Bob Reynolds – yes, that Bob Reynolds) play tight melodies flawlessly. They just released their second album, YAYennings, Vol. 2 and every track makes me smile. Enjoy it this weekend.
It’s time for the latest Lab Report from MacSparky, covering this week’s Apple news and updates… This is a post for MacSparky Labs Members only. Care to join? Or perhaps do you need to sign in?
Several MacSparky Labs members have asked about my thoughts on Apple devices and the risks of shoulder surfing, where someone looks over your shoulder and steals your passcode. I do, indeed, have thoughts. Here you go…
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…
With the imminent arrival of a 15” MacBook Air, several of you have asked for advice about where to draw the line between the MacBook Air and the MacBook Pro. The tipping point between the consumer and pro MacBooks has moved over the years…