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In the past I have employed numerous solutions to capture a link to a web page into another app. I think that in every case I was focused on working in that other app and pulling in a link to the current page, or perhaps a set of links for all open pages. This works fine for most of my use cases, but recently I encountered one where what I actually wanted was to stay in the browser and send the links to the other app rather than pulling links in from that app. That avoids constantly switching back and forth and pulling them in or leaving lots of browser tabs open. To that end I quickly put together something to let me quickly send a link to a web page into my favourite capture app, Drafts.

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Apple’s crack marketing team has once again put their heads together and come up with another California landmark to use as the namesake for the latest version of macOS. During the WWDC keynote, we were introduced to macOS 27 Golden Gate. As with all of Apple’s platforms this year, the main features of Golden Gate

During yesterday’s WWDC keynote, Apple introduced the latest software for the Apple Watch, watchOS 27. As with the other Apple platforms, much of the focus this year was on Siri AI, but there are plenty of quality-of-life improvements to look forward to as well. Let’s dive in. [aside pre_title="Supported By" title="Gentler Streak" align="center" width="narrow"] Gentler

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On this episode of Mac Power Users, Stephen and I dig into the wide and messy world of Apple photo management. We talk about pruning enormous libraries, what’s worth keeping, and the cleanup apps we trust to help. We also get into iCloud Shared Photo Library trade-offs and the fact that Apple’s 5 GB free... Continue reading →

As the LiaEx funding sprint draws to a close, here is an overview of what was built: a new desktop app, a web UI, xAPI support, ePub/DOCX export, a GitHub Action, and much more.

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It is spring and so the time to do some spring cleaning. Inspired by some recent amendments to Conductor, my Alfred workflow for Keyboard Maestro, I decided to tidy up some of my macros and macro groups. As part of that, I realigned some of my macro groups to my current conventions, and in this post, I’m going to share a few details about my approach.

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The keyboard is the most powerful tool we have when using our Macs, which is why I’ve curated what might seem like an overwhelming combination of keyboard utilities that I use daily.