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.
giveaway, macos
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
I’ve answered some questions about my own experience with creating screencasts recently. I’m not by any means the most prolific screencaster in the community, but I learned a lot creating 60 Tips with David Sparks for the iBookstore, and creating my own screencasts for Marked 2 and my blog. It seemed like the kind of info that might be of use to the world.
productivity, screencast, tips, video
I just updated iTunesIcon, my little app for grabbing icons for any App Store application. This is a bugfix release, updated to fix the recent bug that only saved the 100x100px version of an icon.
ios, iphone, itunesicon, macos, scripting, search
Nova, a new icon set from the creator of the fantastic Streamline set is out. It includes 4000 icons (both line and solid versions) in Sketch, Illustrator, SVG, and PDF formats.
design, freebie, icons
