City traffic can get pretty congested, but hardly anyone would expect an endless stream of self-driving cars flocking to one quiet residential street. Except, that’s what’s happening to one dead-end street in San Francisco, according to a local KPIX report.
Amazing.
Out a few days early to clear Apple’s event on Monday, this episode of Mac Power Users is all about iOS 15’s revised multitasking system and some of our favorite workflows for the iPad.
On More Power Users, we spoke about the last ten years of Apple under Tim Cook’s leadership.
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Apple has announced an October event, so the Passionate Ones have gathered to appoint a new Event Chairman through the making of Picks, both Regular and Risky.
I love this game.
On the longer, ad-free version of the episode, I check a shipment, Federico gets some HomePods and Myke explains pet peeves.
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If you deal with screenshots, this Shortcut by Federico is a must.
I think reading into invite artwork is mostly silly, but I assume this graphic is showing how quickly an M1X Mac will look zipping past my Mac Pro.
Akshay Bhargava, writing on the 1Password blog:
Let’s say I want to share that Wi-Fi password with my in-laws. All I need to do is open the share menu and select “Share” to generate a link.
By default, the link expires in seven days, but I can also choose to let it expire after 30 days, 14 days, one day, one hour, or after a single person views it. I can also choose to let anyone who has the link view the item, or I can restrict sharing to only the people whose email addresses I enter.
Next, when I select “Get link to share,” I can send that link to my recipient(s) through any channel I choose. I can even share it directly through my operating system’s built-in share menu.
I dig it.
Yours truly writing for Six Colors members:
Back in August, we passed the 10th anniversary of Tim Cook being named CEO of Apple, and of course, this week marks ten years since the passing of Steve Jobs.
A lot of water has gone under the bridge in the decade since, and in my mind, there are three major inflection points when it comes to Apple under Tim Cook.
You can create an animated GIF from slides in your presentation, then share it in a message or email, or post it on a website.
In this feedback episode, David and I discuss recent updates to iWork, more on various editions of DEVONthink and go through some listener feedback.
For More Power Users, we check in on macOS Monterey. It’s pretty good unless you plan on relying on Shortcuts, which at this point, is still in pretty rough shape.
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I’m turning 36 early next year, so in attempt to stay relevant with my younger friends, I communicate a lot with GIFs.
I am a big fan of the GIFWrapped app by my buddy Jelly for building my own private collection, but sometimes I want to search for something quickly from my Mac.
I use Alfred as my launcher of choice, so I’ve built two custom workflows to make this Very Important Work easier. I have shared the GIPHY workflow before, but now I have one for Tenor as well.
And of course, there’s MegaGIF, which is my workflow that searches both at once.
If you’re not an Alfred user, you can use the bash scripts at the core of these workflows just about anywhere:
search=$(echo "{query}" | sed 's/ /-/g') open "http://tenor.com/search/${search}-gifs" search=$(echo "{query}" | sed 's/ /-/g') open "http://giphy.com/search/${search}"
Yes, please. I really like how Material design looks on Android, but it’s always been out of place on iOS.
This week on Connected, we turn to a 12-sided die to shape the order of the show. Topics on the dodecahedron include follow-up, the 10th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ death, tables coming to Craft and Amazon’s recent announcements.
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