In last Friday’s issue of MacStories Weekly, John wrote about the convenience of simple utility shortcuts on macOS. Essentially, he argued that because of the variety of ways we have to run shortcuts on macOS Monterey, triggering automations that are comprised of a handful of actions, or even just one action, is so much faster...
Syncing Dolphin Between Windows and macOS with Dropbox and Symbolic Links
A couple of weeks ago on MacStories Unwind, I talked about my experiments with Dolphin, an amazing emulator for Nintendo GameCube and Nintendo Wii that is available on a wide variety of platforms, including Windows and macOS. As I explained, one of the best features of Dolphin is its ability to upscale the resolution of...
2022 Apple Hardware Predictions
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AppStories Episode 262 - 2022 Apple Hardware Predictions
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This week, Federico and John survey the many Apple hardware rumors circulating and take a stab at predicting the new hardware we’ll see in 2022.
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Preventing Accidental Lock Screen Activations by Disabling Tap to Wake
Picture this: I was at the pharmacy a few days ago to buy some COVID self-test kits. As I was entering my debit card’s PIN code at the counter to confirm my payment, I hear my mom’s voice coming out of my iPhone, which I was holding in my left hand. “Federico….?” That was quite...
Shortcuts Code Injection and 10 Innovations Apple Should Adopt from Third-Party Apps
AppStories Episode 261 - Shortcuts Code Injection and 10 Innovations Apple Should Adopt from Third-Party Apps
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This week, Federico explains his experiments with injecting code into shortcuts before he and John cover ten innovations from third-party apps that they would like to see Apple adopt in its system apps and OSes.
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Shortcuts Code Injection
- Behind the Scenes of the MacStories Shortcuts Archive
- Parsing Shortcuts as XML or JSON and Extracting Comments From Them
- Creating, Modifying, and Signing Shortcuts on macOS
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10 Innovations Apple Should Adopt from Third-Party Apps
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Automating Email and Things to Do in Rome
Here are the highlights from the Club MacStories Discord this week: Member Greg posted an in-depth look at his email setup and different automations he uses. It’s an incredible read with tons of examples and links to check out. Over in the off-topic channel, we shared some recommendations for places to visit and restaurants in...
Shortcuts Wish List, 2022 Edition
AppStories Episode 260 - Shortcuts Wish List, 2022 Edition
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This week, Federico and John revisit their 2021 Shortcuts wishes to see what came true and share a long list of additional ways they’d like to see the app evolve in 2022.
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Shortcuts Wish List, 2022 Edition
- Our 2022 Shortcuts Wish List
- Better Safari support on the Mac
- Share sheet integration on the Mac
- Personal automations on the Mac
- More types of triggers
- Improved layout for Shortcuts for Mac’s right sidebar
- Keep Apple app features up to date with shortcuts actions
- Debugging tools
- Copy and paste blocks of actions
- Disable notification alerts when a shortcut is run from the Home Screen
- Global hotkeys
- Shortcuts widgets
- Multiwindow awareness
- The ability to run shortcuts in the background on iPhone and iPad
- Better cross-platform integration
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Parsing Shortcuts as XML or JSON and Extracting Comments From Them
Nearly three years ago in MacStories Weekly, I wrote about an advanced technique I was using to assemble the MacStories Shortcuts Archive. As I wrote at the time, the Shortcuts Archive is itself generated by a shortcut that collects information from hundreds of text files (one for each shortcut) that contain metadata such as title,...
Parsing Shortcuts as XML or JSON and Extracting Comments From Them
Nearly three years ago in MacStories Weekly, I wrote about an advanced technique I was using to assemble the MacStories Shortcuts Archive. As I wrote at the time, the Shortcuts Archive is itself generated by a shortcut that collects information from hundreds of text files (one for each shortcut) that contain metadata such as title,...