Bytes that get stuck in your teeth.
Lots of talk of backing up and stripping DRM from Kindle books lately.
In my associated adventures I found this app for doing similar with your Audible library.
I’ve been giving Photomator a try for photo post-processing and it’s great.
I enjoy having the masking, healing, and rich editing features of Lightroom1 in software that works natively with my Apple Photos library2.
One feature Apple Music has that Spotify doesn’t is Smart Playlists. They are handy for honing in on favourite tracks for specific artists or genres.
Time for another rundown post. Here are a bunch of macOS apps I use. You’ll see some entries from my previous iOS apps post mentioned.
I love finding out about what apps other folks use so I thought I’d give a rundown on what’s on my iPhone.
John Brayton:
Similarly there is a new optional Next Article menu item for the swipe left menu of the article view on iPhone and iPad. To enable it, open the Settings screen, select Articles under Basic Options, and turn on Next Article under Basic Actions.
I use Moom for window management on macOS.
Version four has loads of new features I’m keen to try.
Privacy concerns aside, this has me intrigued.
iA Writer dims the text you paste from AI tools. As you edit ChatGPT’s input and make it your own, iA Writer keeps track of what is yours and what isn’t.
Ryan emphasizes the effectiveness of the copy-paste method in rapidly exploring alternate options.
He also mentions some shaping and analysis tools including Interrelationship diagrams and Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) Four Forces Diagrams.
I spend too much time reading online.
I tend to trawl content from a variety of sources, save the shiny ones in Instapaper, and read them later.
The latest version of Photoshop Beta now includes a feature called generative fill.
I can imagine it’s easy to compromise the authenticity in your photography if you overuse these kinds of tools. With that said, and I know it’s potentially a slippery slide, there are situations where they can be incredibly useful.
A site that provides a peek at which apps folks have in their docks.
I’m still a sucker for code editors.
An inspection of how values affect software through the lens of text editors.
I use LucidChart for collaborative drawing at work but I’m going to give Excalidraw a crack over the next few weeks.
A simple application to get your macOS menu bar under control.
ASCII art editor for macOS. Great for adding diagrams alongside code.
Allows you to spoof your mac address. Useful for airports.
Graphviz is handy for generating diagrams from code.
Grep all the things.
Nice tour of Unix and zsh.
The versioned, forkable, syncable database
If you use PostgreSQL this is a nice native Mac OSX client.
Agile Tortoise:
Terminology for iOS is based on WordNet, a great semantic lexical reference. We do not offer a full Mac app for Terminology, but have prepared a dictionary using this same great data for use in the built-in OS X Dictionary app.