New Video Coming Soon I’ve just finished doing the chapters for the YouTube Good and Geeky tutorial. It’s exporting out of Screenflow as I write this. In this video I show you what you can do with the application Yabai and a whole load of keyboard shortcuts to make it work. A nice bit of macOS automation!
Read moreUsing Neovim to work on a txt file today and I’m starting to get into it. It is nerdy and not for mere muggles. This evening I did a pile of find and replace which in Neovim is super quick and easy. Once you learn the KB shortcut combinations.
Read moreMade a video today showing off how Yabai Window tiling appworks on MacOS Ventura. I like if better than Stage Manager and make great use of all the available space on a big monitor. I’ll be publishing the video tomorrow. Still have to do the chapters to get it ready.
Read moreNew 4TB Crucial SD drive arrived today. I can put the spinning hard drives out to pasture now. Cool indeed. I see there are 8TB such drives for sale now too.
Read moreThis video tutorial provides a step-by-step guide on how to connect to a Linux or Mac computer from an iPad using Secure Shellfish (SSH). It outlines the necessary configuration settings, describing how to use the address, username, and password, as well as how to use SSH keys for quicker and more secure access. It also provides information on how to use the Files App to drag files into the command line and access files on other computers.
Read moreLast night I set up Yabai a window tiling service on my Mac. I think I like it. The screen arranges itself automagically and then I can shift things around with the keyboard after that. It’s totally geeky…
Read moreTime to get started on the next video tutorial. Yesterday was setting up an SSH key to connect into my Mac from my iPad. Today I’ll show some of what you can do while connected. A bit of command line goodness on the iPad.
Read moreJust set up a Window Tiling manager on my MacBook Pro M1 - Followed the instructions by Josean Martinez on YouTube. Yabai is the application for the tiling and skdh does the keyboard shortcuts It’s pretty cool.
Read moreINSTALL A SSH KEY TO CONNECT TO YOUR MAC FROM IOS DEVICES
How to install and set up an SSH Key to SSH into your Mac using the Secure Shellfish app by @Andersborum. Easy as Pie… Look out for a video coming soon to show how to use Tmux and Neovim on your iOS devices.
Read moreOut and about on the motorbikes today and we’ve come to a place called Banyoles which is famous for its lake. There are not too many lakes in this area of the world, Catalonia.
Read moreLearning more about using Neovim. Didn’t get around to making any tutorial videos. Busy getting a tooth pulled at the dentist. Neovim is cool though. Seems confusing at first but eventually gets under your skin.
Read moreAffinity Designer iPad - Text on a Path When making logos you will often want to put text on a path. This could be a wavy line or in the case of this tutorial following the shape of a circle. Using the tools to do this on the iPad version of Affinity Designer is slightly more fiddly. I can do it with just one circle and use the controls to fairly easily place the text.
Read moreAffinity Designer Text on a Path Circle At the moment I’m making a video about how to put text onto path. It’s quite easy using the Mac version. It’s quite a struggle to do the same thing with iPad Affinity Designer. If you want some text the top and some text at the bottom and both the right way up it’s easier to do it with two circles. I’ll post the tutorial later today on they Good and Geeky YouTube channel.
Read moreKEEPASSXC AND KEEPASSIUM
More setting up of KeepassXC and KeePassium I have been using 1Password for years. With the change to Apple Silicon I’d have to get the subscription . So looking to see what’s there I came across KeePassXC. I can use it on the Raspberry Pi’s, as well as the M1 Mac. Now with KeePassium I can also access all my passwords from my iOS devices. So this morning I exported the passwords out of 1Password and imported them into KeePassXC.
Read moreJust worked out how to post from Drafts I messed up the credentials of MicroBlog in Drafts. Took me ages to find the Credentials in the settings so I could tell it to forget what was there and put in the correct one. This is a post made from Drafts. Best app on Apple devices to input text. The automations / actions available mean you can do all sorts with your text once you have it in the app.
Read moreTUTORIAL TO SHOW HOW TO ADD IMAGES TO YOUR MICRO.BLOG POST
The Best way to add images to a Micro.Blog Post I struggled at first until I found it was best to upload the images first then drag them into the post to put them where you want them. Here is a tutorial showing you the best workflow to Add Images into Micro.Blog
Read moreSLOW TO INSTALL PGP ON MY MACBOOK PRO
I Am A Big Fan Of Using PGP Encryption To be honest I’m at completely taken back and surprised at the fact that four months later with my new MacBook Pro M1 I’ve only just installed GPG Tools. Maybe I shouldn’t be too surprised though, I try to avoid using email as much as possible. If I need to send something sensitive, it is far better to use an encrypted messaging service instead.
Read moreAnswer for @KristenDanes about Sorted app. On the Mac you will have to learn the keyboard shortcuts or just go to the menubar to click on the formatting options.
Read moreBEST WAY OF GETTING IMAGES INTO MICRO BLOG POSTS
It seemed difficult to add images and place them exactly where I wanted them in the Micro.Blog app. When you drop an image in, it goes to the bottom of the post and that’s where it stays. A better way is to drop the images into the app first - in the uploads section. Drag and drop from the uploads window into the new post. You can put the image where you want.
Read moreGOOD AND GEEKY - AUTOMATE THOS BORING TASKS FOR FUN
How to be Good and Geeky It’s easy, just take joy from doing tech stuff. If there is a way to improve life by integrating technology, give it a go and see if it works. Automate as much as you can. Spend the thirty minutes to create a script to save you time on repetitive boring tasks.
Learn a programming language to keep the grey cells bouncing around inside your skull.
Read moreA youtube short - Good and Geeky fun with Warp Terminal, tMux and Neovim. Learn how to quit out of Neovim. It’s not hard to do despite some people struggling. youtube.com/shorts/hP…
Read moreUSING NEOVIM IN THE WARP TERMINAL APP
Neovim Is The Best Text Editor To Use On The Command Line There are times when you’re working in the terminal and you need to do something with a text file. It doesn’t make a lot of sense to jump out of the terminal and into a text editor. Not when there are perfectly good text editors to use from the command line. Most people in the situation would immediately open up Nano because it’s simple to use and always there and available.
Read moreINSERTING IMAGES INTO MICROBLOG - NOT EASY TO PLACE WHERE YOU WANT THEM
Why is it difficult in the Microblog app to put images where I want them in the post. It adds the image to the end of the page and maybe I want the image inbetween two paragraphs?? I can do it if I publish the post then go back in to cut the html for the image and place it where I want it. There has to be a better way
Read moreWARP TERMINAL APP
Really enjoying using Warp Terminal. I went back into iTerm2 briefly the other day and it was not a good experience.
Read moreSHOTTR - FREE MAC SCREEN CAPTURE UTILITY APP
Shottr is a free Mac screenshot application that supports full-screen screenshots, customisations with drawing tools and annotations, multiple file formats including PNG and JPEG, and powerful editing tools. Additionally, it has an easy-to-use interface and allows users to share their screenshots on social media or via email.
I used this app almost every day. Extremely useful and does the job with style and panache.
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