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Make Back Tap Front and Center Wanna access a menu from anywhere on your phone? Accessibility features have a strange reputation of not being for everyone. We all need to make our devices more accessible in one way or another. 🗓️ October 1, 2021 🏷️ Shortcuts🏷️ iOS

The Omni Show I was a guest on the Omni Show. You should listen to it. The good folks at the Omni Group were kind enough to talk to me about how I use OmniFocus for work and play. 🗓️ September 27, 2021 🔗 The Omni Group 🏷️ Podcast🏷️ OmniFocus

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Changes Are A'Comin' (Probably) Epic v. Apple lawsuit is over, and both sides claim victory It's a Friday, so of course some piece of tech news drops. Time for everyone to go crazy on Twitter and speculate in blog posts until the involved parties actually put out some sort of guidance on what happened/what will happen. 🗓️ September 10, 2021 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Legal🏷️ Epic

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Window Magic with Keyboard Maestro We don't need no stinkin window manager There are lots of tools in the world that can manage your windows on the Mac. If you're a Keyboard Maestro user, maybe you don't need any other tools. 🗓️ August 16, 2021 🏷️ #Mac #KeyboardMaestro #Automation

The Case for Mini Widgets Single icon widgets should be a thing. When iOS 14 came out last year, one feature really blew up: Widgets. People were making their home screens not only more usable but "Aesthetic AF", whatever that means. Now that it's been a year and widgets are a thing, I propose a new widget style: **The Mini**. 🗓️ June 3, 2021 🏷️ #iOS #WWDC #Widgets

Progress Through the lens of the Space Jam web site. Max Böck, on his blog: Right. So after 25 years of technological progress, after bringing 4.7 billion people in the world online, after we just 🗓️ April 5, 2021 🔗 Max Böck 🏷️ Internet

Day 62 Supply Chain Woes After weeks of waiting for cabinets, we're waiting again. 🗓️ March 29, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel

Apple's Home Strategy Apple's home strategy is basically ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Let's talk about Apple's strategy for the connected home. Spoiler alert: there isn't one right now. 🗓️ March 17, 2021 🏷️ Apple🏷️ Home🏷️ Automation

52 Fridays Weird year, huh? 🗓️ March 12, 2021 🏷️ personal

Day 29 It's been a while Feels like it's dragging along, but progress is being made! 🗓️ February 24, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel

Day 15 Short Weekend Electric done, drywall up! 🗓️ February 7, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel

Day 9 Going Up The drop ceiling is gone! 🗓️ February 2, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel

Day 6 Progress is messy That stupid drop ceiling is GONE!. 🗓️ February 1, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel

Day 1 Getting off the paper and into the space Getting from the drawing to the actual space is a big first step. 🗓️ January 26, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel

It Begins A quarantine kitchen remodel In the hopes that a Covid vaccine makes it possible to go out and do stuff later this year, we're tackling our kitchen. 🗓️ January 24, 2021 🏷️ KitchenRemodel

Day One Breathe. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are officially leading the country. They're hitting the ground running. 🗓️ January 20, 2021 📷 ABC News 🏷️ Politics

Impeached Again. Objectively the worst President ever. Donald J Trump got impeached today. Again. Let's have some fun with charts 🗓️ January 13, 2021 🏷️ Politics

2020 Year In Review What a shit show... Well, 2020 is drawing to a close, and I for one am ready. 🗓️ December 19, 2020 🏷️ Personal

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Create Random Wallpapers With Shortcuts Spice up your lock screen! One of the new/not so new features in iOS 14 is the ability to set wallpapers using Shortcuts. This is great if you want to schedule a different 🗓️ December 15, 2020 🏷️ Shortcuts🏷️ iOS🏷️ iPadOS

Chrome is Bad Chrome has been I.E. for a while, now. Loren Brichter has started a one-page website to let us all know how bad Chrome is. 🗓️ December 13, 2020 🔗 Loren Brichter 🏷️ Chrome🏷️ Mac