Hope you’re all having a great holiday season! Here are the lucky 5 who get to top off their stocking with a free copy of CleanMyMac 3:
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CleanMyMac 3 is a great app for maintaining your Mac and freeing up hard drive space (now with Photos support). I reviewed it when it came out, and as you can see on the Product Hunt Mac App of the Year contest results, I’m not the only one who thinks so.
giveaway, macos, review
Congratulations to the 5 lucky ones. If you think you’re on the list (hard to tell without last names…) and didn’t get a code, feel free to check in with me.
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I love home automation. I’m enamored with the idea of a house that knows where I am, intelligently controls lighting for me, talks to me, and the goal I’ve worked toward for years with varying degrees of success: voice control. While solid close-range proximity triggering has still eluded me1, my voice control dream is here.
apps, hardware, homeautomation
My post “A useful Caps Lock key”—based on a method pointed out by Steve Losh—has been one of the most popular pages on this blog over time (up there with nvALT and iTextEditors). It turns your Caps Lock key into a “Hyper” key that emulates holding Control, Option, Shift, and Command all at once, which is handy for expanding your keyboard shortcut collection.
keybindings, keyboard, productivity
There are two new solutions, one for Mac and one for iOS, for taking advantage of the wide array of music available on YouTube.
appreview, apps, appstore, ios, mac, music
Earlier this month, this blog was sponsored by a Mac app called Magic Number, a beautiful calculator application with advanced features. Here’s a quick overview of the extensive feature list.
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Federico Viticci mentioned my little TitleCase project in a MacStories post recently, but I never got around to officially announcing it. It’s a very simple API for title casing a string of text (AP rules) which can be used in iOS workflows, Mac services and CLIs, and any tool that can get a response from a URL.
api, writing
