I’ve found animated GIFs to be useful both on my blog and in README files. There are many ways to create them, but most suffer from issues with cropping and resulting file size. I’ve found some great solutions, though, and I want to share them with people who currently create GIFs and those who might find GIFs useful for their own needs.
productivity, screencasting
I posted a quick update to my GIFTag Jekyll plugin. The plugin allows Jekyll to display a clickable poster image for animated gifs without forcing the user to download it on page load. The updated version no longer requires an external play image, instead generating the overlay using CSS only.
jekyll, plugin
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:
giveaway, macos
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.
giveaway
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
