We all think we will live forever. Despite knowing we all have to kick the bucket and push up the daisies eventually. So set up a Legacy Contact for your Apple ID. Share your legacy with photos, docs and whatever else in your iCloud account. You don’t want to make things more difficult for your surviving family. Click on the image to see the tutorial Here’s how you do it On the Mac or can be done on your iOS devices.
Read moreHave Letters or Shapes Cut out To reveal an Image below A couple of videos showing ways to do this thing where the image below shows through shapes cut into another shape. So this could text or whatever and there is a shape which masks the image underneath.
Watch the Tutorial You can do it with boolean tools to subtract the shapes from the rectangle or create a compound object first with the rectangle and the text or other shapes.
Read moreI’ve Been Setting up the Yubikey 5Ci It works a treat and I’ll slowly be adding more to the Yubikey to the Authenticator app as I log into them
Read moreMaking Good Use of Your History in Warp Terminal Save time not having to type a long command in again and be sure you type it just right like you did the last time you used it. Especially good with long terminal commands. Click image to watch the tutorial.. Warp Terminal
Read moreFive Things I Like About Neovim Neovim is a text editor you use in the terminal. I use it in the Warp Terminal, which is the most modern terminal out ther for the Mac. Click On The Image Below To See The Tutorial Here is the Neovim video tutorial The main idea with Neovim / Vim is to forget about the mouse and to do just about everything with your keyboard.
Read moreHow To Protect Your Apple ID In The Case Of iPhone Theft The first thing you should do is to treat your iPhone passkey in the same way as you would treat the pin code to your bank card. You wouldn’t let random people look over your shoulder while you’re putting in the pin code when you’re making a purchase with your credit card. Why would you let random people watch you put in the pin code/Pass key to your iPhone.
Read moreDayOne App vs Diarly App - Journalling Apps Face Off Which is the best app of these two? I have used DayOne for over 11 years and will probably stick with it, even though the subscription is about 10 Euro cheaper per year. They look quite similar so It would be easy to swap apps. For a beginner I would recommend Diarly, unless you want to add video to your entries.
Read moreThere’s a Small Bug in Affinity Designer Affecting How You Work with Groups of Objects For a while I was having a problem when I was selecting a group of objects. I tried selecting the group by clicking on the group and I only got one object out of the group. This was annoying when I wanted to change the size of something and I only changed the size of one object in the group and not all of it.
Read moreDelighted with my new Yubikey. I bought a 5Ci this time. The others I have are the 5 series with a USB A connector. Having the lightning and the USB C will work better with my iPad and iPhone. Just set up one Google Account with all three keys and also Facebook. It was quite easy to set them up using the Yubico Authenticator app.
Read moreLonger Tutorial showing a variety of ways to edit out blank lines for a block of text using Mac apps. Drafts has an action to remove blank lines and it is so fast. Or you could make a macro in Keyboard Maestro or a shortcut in Shortcuts. So much better than editing out the blank lines manually - like an animal. What is your favourite way to automate your Mac?
Read moreGET RID OF THOSE BLANK LINES AUTOMAGICALLY
Instead of editing text to delete blank lines manually, put automation to work and get it done so much quicker. Automation Tutorial
Read moreHOW TO SHEAR OBJECT/SHAPES IN AFFINITY DESIGNER IPAD AND MAC
Even though you don’t get as many controls to transform shapes by shearing them or skewing them on the iPad you can still get it done. You have to use the control panel for transform, or the Transform Studio which is on the right side of the application. You just have to put your Apple Pencil into the circle which is for controlling the shear amount and move it either up or down.
Read moreI baulked at the idea of another subscription with 1Password. Tried KeePassXC and it wasn’t bad. Just not as convenient as 1Password. So I have gone back to using the best password manager. I can access it though a web page on my Raspberry Pi…
Read moreFinished binge watching all of what is available so far of ‘The Last of Us’. Excellent series with so much pathos and not all of the hack and slash as we found in ‘The Walking Dead’. These fungus people are more dangerous too.
Read moreThe car needed some charge (Nissan Leaf) I needed some warmth. I can charge for free in town and take the benefit of the heated seats in the car. I call that a win win situation. Nice place to make a YouTube video. Oh boy - I’m toasty…
Read moreMac and iOS automation to get the IMDb reference from the URL When I want to add a movie to my database in obsidian I need to get the reference number from IMDb. To do it manually is a pain in the rear end. It’s much easier to create a shortcut in the shortcut application on the Mac or on iOS and have the job done automatically. This is what computers are really good for.
Read moreWORK YOUR MAC WITH CUSTOM VOICE CONTROL COMMANDS
Unlock the Power of Your Voice with Custom Commands for Your Mac Are you ready to take your Mac to the next level? Voice control custom commands are the key to unlocking the full potential of your machine. With just a few simple words you can easily add snippets of boilerplate text to your document, launch applications, open files and even control system settings and preferences with ease. Click on the picture above to watch the video
Read moreHad a bad couple of days with my iPhone and the latest beta 16.4.1. The phone would connect to wifi and the phone network but was n ot to good at pushing the data to the apps. Whatsapp, banking apps, car charging apps and any thing that wanted data has been a pain in the arse. So now I’m taking the beta off the phone. I’ve learned my lesson.
Read moreI’m in a village in the Pyrenees in a place where they have snow, and I can’t use the electric car charger and it’s broken because of the snow. How ridiculous is that?
Read moreFinally Stumped up the subscription to HBO so I can start watching ‘The Rest of Us’ - I’ll get to see The Game of Thrones prequel too. How cool is that…. Can’t wait to get started..
Read moreConnect to other computers from your iPad using SSH. The app to use is Shellfish. Here is a quick video showing how to set up an SSH key so you don’t have to put in a password. More Secure.
Read moreToday is a motorbike day out. Got to Port de la Selva and the road down from the mountain was fantastic. Twisty bits and a god few hairpin bends.
Read moreA Push From The Automators Podcast I was listening to the Automators podcast and they suggested that it would be a good idea to run the Stream deck from bettertouchtool rather than using the software that comes from Elgato. Click on the Image above to see the tutorial I wasn’t too impressed with the Elgato software so I thought - why not After getting the Apple MacBook Pro M1 in October I moved the settings for stream deck across from my old iMac.
Read moreYABAI AND STREAMDECK BUTTONS
I have an Elgato Streamdeck and It will be good to use with Yabai. I’ve started setting up a few of the keyboard shortcuts to the buttons. I might look at Better Touch tool to see if I can do some of Yabai with gestures on the Trackpad. Mostly using the actual keyboard shortcuts will be the best way forward.
Read moreHOW TO USE THE YABAI WINDOW TILING APP ON MAC OS VENTURA
Amazed at Yabai Window Tiling on MacOS Ventura. Yabai was pretty easy to set up. It’s all controlled by a config file. I did this in Neovim although you could use any good TextEditor. Click on the image above to go to the tutorial in YouTube. There’s a whole load of easy shortcuts which I set up using the Application SKHD, which was installed the same why through Homebrew.
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