I’ve started creating Dimspirations again, my depressing-but-actually-realistic collection of “inspirational” posters. You can follow the hashtag #dimspirations on Twitter, Facebook, Mastodon, or Instagram for new posts. I’ve also automated the process of creating wallpaper-formatted version of them which get uploaded to Flickr and are also available as a zip (containing 5120x3200 and 2048x1366 versions). I should probably add an iPhone ratio to the automation, but they get harder…
design, dimspirations, wallpaper
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, a license ($39.95 value) for FastScripts. FastScripts puts all of your scripts in your menu bar, accessible with keyboard shortcuts and instant search. It even improves the efficiency of scripts by executing them in their own processes in parallel. It’s a tool no aspiring productivity enthusiast should be without.
giveaway, macos, scripting
I’ve been working with a former nvALT user who stored all of their files in RTF format. Ideally, people switching from nvALT to another app — be it nvUltra, Obsidian, or anything Markdown-based — would already be storing their notes as individual text files. If nvALT is still working for you, make that change now and give it a chance to write all the new files to disk. However, if the conversion isn’t what you hoped for, or nvALT is no longer working on your machine and…
markdown, nvalt, nvultra, shortcuts
I’m excited to offer the next giveaway, 5 licenses ($34 value each) for HoudahSpot. HoudahSpot is basically Spotlight on steroids. All of the power of Spotlight file searching, plus some tricks that Spotlight can’t even do. Results are presented in a fully-fledged file management window, plus file previews, result filtering and saved searches.
giveaway, macos, search, spotlight
Ok, so I wrote yesterday about a solution for checking your VPN connection via a network interface change, but it turns out there’s a better way to do it. I discovered it shortly after posting (StackExchange thread), and received a few comments mentioning it. So here’s part two.
network
I got a question from a reader about how to test if a VPN connection is active and terminate an app if it isn’t. There’s probably a way to do this with Keyboard Maestro or BetterTouchTool or something, but to keep things interesting, I wanted to find a way to do it with just shell scripts.
bettertouchtool, network, scripting
