Lots of us are feeling down and sad today for pretty good reasons. There's something to be said for feeling your feelings and processing grief, but prolonged feelings of sadness produce cortisol and are physically, not to mention mentally, bad for you. Plenty of folks can have a … | Continue reading
Dockside There is a new player in the category of apps that includes Yoink, Dropover and Dropshelf. Dockside, from Hachipoo Apps is a shelf utility that uses the space on either side of your dock (if you position it on the bottom of your monitor). For those of use who position ou … | Continue reading
I tried to keep my mind occupied all day with something other than hope versus awful possibilities. Spent a great deal of time trying to turn a 30 second task into a 15 second task by automating what happens when I download pictures on my computer. I looked for a new program to t … | Continue reading
Have you ever had to work for someone you just couldn't respect? Have you watched your colleagues leaving one by one as you trudged through hell on earth at work? Ever worked for a hypocrite? An ass-kisser? If you can answer any of these questions in the affirmative, and I can, t … | Continue reading
The question is from Brandon - What advice would you give someone graduating from high school? This question is a cross between what it says and what I'd like a chance to do if I were 18 all over again. It would be cool to have nearly 60 years of accumulated knowledge crammed int … | Continue reading
Word Salad If you are a writer or just like words, the chances are you find Apple's built-in Dictionary app a little lacking. There are websites that offer advanced functionality, but you have to be online to use them. There are a few free tools that can help you out. Nisus Thesa … | Continue reading
One of my Internet friends is lucky enough to be going to New Mexico on business this week. Saturday he's heading up to Santa Fe and that makes him a lucky man. My wife and I spent a week's vacation there a while back and it was fantastic. There are so many great places to eat, h … | Continue reading
My Internet friend, R. Scott Jones, asked - What's one place you've traveled to (or perhaps an entire trip) that changed you? Tell us how you changed because of it, and why you think it inspired that change. I've lived for all but a very short period of my adult life in the same … | Continue reading
Mail Archiver X I bought Mail Archiver X by Moth Software at a discount from Bundlehunt a few months back and didn't have to pay the full $49.95 they charge on their website. My intention was to keep a regularly updated archive of my 19-year-old Gmail account containing 155K mess … | Continue reading
I am one link in a chain of military service stretching over four generations. I didn't go to war, as the period between 1983 and 1989 lacked one to send me to. They only needed a few guys for the invasions of Grenada and Panama, and I wasn't one of them. I've lived in military t … | Continue reading
Apple Intelligence Arrives in macOS 15.1 Sequoia, iOS 18.1, and iPadOS 18.1 - TidBITS - This is what you get if you upgrade your iPhone or Mac to the latest version. A brief history of Mac firmware – The Eclectic Light Company All About Willie Nelson’s 153rd Album, ‘Last Leaf on … | Continue reading
The November Ask Me Anything blogging challenge is going well. Today's question is once again from @annie@social.lol on Mastodon. She wants to know, "What's an important lesson you've learned about relationships?" As a happily married guy, albeit in marriage number four, I feel f … | Continue reading
Task Til Dawn One of my favorite parts of using a Mac is making use of all the automation apps, including the built in ones, Automator and Shortcuts. My productivity would be severely hampered without: Apps to Enhance Apple Shortcuts Clop for image processing Hazel for file manag … | Continue reading
Better Touch Tool, an app from Folivora.ai is one of my favorite automation apps. Here are a few of the shortcuts I use with it. ⌘+Q - Runs an Apple Script that prompts “Are you sure you want to close this app” shift+shift - opens/closes notification center control+control - reve … | Continue reading
Jason Kottke began blogging in 1998. In 2005 he was given a Lifetime Achievement Award (LOL). In 2024, he's still at it and still getting new subscribers. Although he is a designer by profession, he's made his living through subscriptions to his blog, ad and affiliate income sinc … | Continue reading
In the continuation of the Ask Me Anything series, today I am tackling a question from Annie, first answered by Keenan, Estebanxto and Kerri Ann - if you could instantly change one internal pattern/thing about yourself, what would it be? This is an easy one. I would turn myself i … | Continue reading
Scratchpad For years, I kept a text editor open on my computer at all times and when I needed a scratchpad, I would switch to it and type or paste whatever I needed. Then Raycast came along with it's floating notes feature, which is nice. It can be summoned with a hot key. Then I … | Continue reading
Today bloggers across the IndyWeb started doing AMAs with questions from a variety of sources. Here are the writers I found with tagged Mastodon posts. I remember every mean thing anyone ever said to me - By Keenan answering "If you could instantly change one internal pattern or … | Continue reading
Question: Why do you have the politics you have today? In real life, outside of my family and a couple of close friends, I rarely talk politics unless someone says something real backwards around me, in which case I speak up. I consider any endorsement of what passes for Republic … | Continue reading
FASA in Action A free app by a developer who goes by INCHMAN1900 on Gumroad can provide an easy way to manage images if it fits your workflow. His small app, FASA (Forget About Save As), lets you copy images from any source to your clipboard and then paste them as files in the … | Continue reading
Alright, all you bloggers, November is the month to get behind the keyboard and show everyone what you can do. There are three "challenges" going on at the same time! Crazy, huh? A challenge is nothing more than a soft commitment on your part to write within a certain set of guid … | Continue reading
When Wonder Woman decides she doesn't need something anymore it gets tossed into recycling, or it gets donated. When I decide I don't need something right now, I place it aside because you never know, I might need it later. Therein lies a slight problem. She looks at my stuff wit … | Continue reading
Elephas Logo I had a real-world task today that was perfect for AI, except all the tools I tried kept quitting halfway through. I had a list of over 100 URLs that I needed to convert into a Chrome bookmark file for an import I was trying to do. This involves going out on the i … | Continue reading
Here are three cool things I've learned about recently. 1. Create a cumulative clipboard with PopclipPopclip is an app that does all sorts of things with text you select, from sending it to different apps, to formatting it, looking it up on Google, adding it to your calendar. One … | Continue reading
One of the central tenets of Buddhism is that everything is decaying. Eventually, everything falls apart. One just has to buy a home to see the truth in this. Trust me. Today, lots of people were disappointed that a well-liked Internet service, Omnivore, which allowed you to save … | Continue reading
NextDNS With the deprecation of the classic uBlock Origin as blocker by Google Chrome in favor of a less powerful Light version and the ever-increasing need for security, Mac users have the option of downloading the NextDNS configuration app from the Mac App Store and setting … | Continue reading
If you stick around the Internet long enough, you will inevitably see some of your favorite websites and apps disappear right before your very eyes. Today, many people were disappointed to hear that an incredibly useful and free read-it-later service, Omnivore had been purchased … | Continue reading
A long time ago, a friend of mine told me that in life, you find what you look for. I believe that to be true most of the time. I'm always on the lookout for nice people. Thinking about them is a tool I use in my personal gratitude practice, a daily exercise where I record three … | Continue reading
Startup Manager Interface I posted yesterday about an app I'd tested called StartupManager that helps control the login items on your Mac by reordering them, starting them hidden and introducing delays. One thing it doesn't do is control items that launch in the backgr … | Continue reading
One of the nicest and most helpful people I've encountered on my blogging journey is a Swedish writer by the name of Robert Birming who blogs in English. Robert posts on a daily basis and he also has a newsletter. A man with considerable technical skills, he is the developer of t … | Continue reading
I have updated my /now page - What I’m reading and watching, plus links to this week’s blog posts, the week’s best purchase, and the links I added to my personal bookmarks. | Continue reading
Today on AppAddict - Free Startup Manager with Many Options - This app brings back management of your startup items on your mac, including the order in which they launch and the ability to launch them as hidden. | Continue reading
I'm turning 60 in a few months and though I wouldn't say it's messing with my head in any kind of negative way, it has prompted me to think about aging and mortality more than I have in the past. It's so weird to be getting ready to start my seventh decade on earth while simultan … | Continue reading
Startup Manager Window macOS doesn't make it easy to manage your startup options anymore. The app, Startup Manager, by developer Arie van Boxel brings back some of the options that have been removed and adds quite a few more. If you use Startup Manager, you can once again choose … | Continue reading
If you check out this blog regularly or better yet, if you subscribe by RSS, I'm going to imagine that you are a fan of discovering cool new websites, stories, blogs and galleries on the regular. Not only do I post here every day, I also have a weekly post on Micro.blog that I ag … | Continue reading
The 100 Best Horror Movies of All Time: Critics' Pick Aerial photos of scrapyards and arranged the junked cars, planes, trains, and other objects_ Digital decluttering – alexwlchan White Chicken Chili (BEST EVER!) - Cooking Classy Whole Foods predicts the major food and beverage … | Continue reading
(Note: this is a repost from my tech blog from a few months back. I was a wee bit busy this weekend being a supportive husband and was away from my computer) I often make the comment on Reddit or Mastodon that Obsidian, a cross-platform note-taking application, is my favorite pie … | Continue reading
Note Ideas In all my time using a Mac, I’ve never found more uses for a single app as I have for the note taking app, Obsidian. With a robust selection of over 1900 plugins, Obsidian can be configured to import and manipulate data from a great many sources. It can even be used fo … | Continue reading
I have been a dedicated newspaper reader since I was in the first grade in 1971. I did not limit myself to just the comics. I thought Dear Abby was fascinating and I always read the headlines on the front page. In North Carolina in the 1970s an infamous civil rights case was ofte … | Continue reading
At 8:00 AM Saturday morning, Wonder Woman and about 70 others will begin running a 2.2-mile course over and over for 24 straight hours. Whoever covers the most distance in that time period will be declared the winner. Those completing 50k, 50 miles, 100k, 75 miles, and 100 miles … | Continue reading
Virtual Buddy If you want to test out betas without endangering your primary machine or if or if your a developer looking to test backwards compatibility with previous versions of macOS with your app or even if you just want a safe way to test software you want to try before addi … | Continue reading
The dividing line between Generation X and Boomers is New Years Day, 1965, fifty-two days before I was born. Over the next 15 years my cohort, smaller than the one that preceded it and the one that followed it (Millenials), began to reap the meager rewards our parents bequeathed … | Continue reading
Back in the days when people still bought encyclopedias, my parents were confronted by an especially good salesman who sold them not only a full set of the Book of Knowledge but also a collection of classic literature. When I was in elementary school, I tackled many of those book … | Continue reading
Today on App Addict - Mouse Boost - Right-Click Powerhouse - Integrates into Finder to add extra functionality | Continue reading
MouseBoost Prefs One of the most useful features of Finder replacements like PathFinder or Qspace Pro is the enhanced right-click menus they offer with features like cut, copy and paste for files and the ability to create different types of new files among others. Not everyone wa … | Continue reading
Zorba's Gyro is the name of the diner at the end of the street where I've been a regular customer for over 30 years. It's Greek owned, of course , and serves a variety of dishes from American and Italian cuisine as well. The signature dish though, the humble gyro, is a masterpiec … | Continue reading
📝 The Best Pharmacist in the World - The story of how I discovered the world’s best pharmacist by being hard to get along with. - louplummer.lol/the-best-… | Continue reading
For one reason or another, I've taken some kind of medication on a daily basis for almost forty years. I am an expert at swallowing pills. I'd hate to estimate how many I've taken over the years. Despite the attempts by my insurance company to strong-arm me into using a mail-orde … | Continue reading