A few weeks ago, Bob Cassidy taught us some tips about how to get Keyboard Maestro to do our bidding. He was helping me with a specific macro that needed to be triggered on a Finder item. At the end of his explanation, he wrote: I think the ideal way to trigger this macro would […]
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CCATP #670 – Ken Ray on Apple’s Record-Breaking Earnings Call
This week our guest on Chit Chat Across the Pond is Ken Ray, host of the macOS Ken Podcast, hosted at macosken.com. You may have been wondering why Ken had never been on Chit Chat Across the Pond before, but I just wanted to make sure he was going to stick with it. Since he […]
Continue readingCCATP #653 – Lory Gil on New Apple Watches, iPads and Services
With the new announcements of Apple Watches, iPads and services like Fitness+ and Apple One, the best person to talk to is Lory Gil, managing editor of iMore. In this episode we talk about whether the new Apple Watch Series 6 processor matters, or is it the new colors that excite us. Is Apple doing […]
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CCATP #628 — Bart Busschots on Creating Automator Quick Actions
This week our guest is Bart Busschots with an installment of something he’s calling Programming By Stealth-adjacent. It’s not part of the regular series of Programming By Stealth, and yet it’s not technically very “light” in terms of the chit chatting. Since neither podcast is the right place for it, I’ve decided to put it […]
Continue readingDropShadow App Made With Automator and ImageMagick
The final form of these instructions was updated in 2025 – scroll to the “2025 Update to DropShadow App” heading to learn more Have you ever had a favorite piece of software be abandoned by the developer? I’m not even talking about Apple or Google here, but maybe some nifty little utility that does exactly […]
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