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Automation on the Mac is alive and well and FastScripts 3 from Red Sweater makes it easy to organize and run your favorite scripts.

With FastScripts you can set up powerful keyboard shortcuts to run your scripts, or select and run your scripts from a menu bar icon. The app supports AppleScript, Automator, and shell scripts including Ruby, Python, or anything else you can cook up! Version 3 is a major upgrade that brings powerful new features supporting parallel script execution, a streamlined in-menu search function, and progress reporting.

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I haven’t thought about AOL in a long time, but it is still around, apparently:

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In this feedback episode, David and I discuss AI-powered dictation solutions, the safety features built into many Apple products, and some listener feedback.

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If you’re starting the new year off looking at new tools, Drafts Pro is half off for the first year right now. Drafts is the fastest and most flexible way to get something out of your head and into you computer.

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This week on Connected:

It is time to name a new Annual Chairman, so the guys judge their 2024 predictions and make a new round of guesses for what 2025 may bring to the Apple faithful.

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I double checked; today is not April 1.

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Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac?

Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.

As an efficient, high performance and native Safari ad blocker, Magic Lasso blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – delivering a faster, cleaner and more secure web browsing experience.

Magic Lasso Adblock is easy to setup, doubles the speed at which Safari loads and also blocks all YouTube ads; including all:

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This week on Mac Power Users, David and I discuss the task managers we tried in 2024, and what we are currently using to get things done at work and beyond.

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I haven’t gotten very far into this interview yet, but Serlet’s history and career should be more widely known than it is.

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On January 5, 2000, Steve Jobs unveiled the Aqua user interface for the very first time. Stylistically, it was a bold departure from what had come before, and was no doubt created with the iMac G3 in mind.

The changes were more than skin deep, and no where was the influence of NeXT’s software more evident than the Dock, a place for users to stash documents, an easy way to launch applications, and generally anchor the user interface to the bottom or side of the screen.

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Editor’s Note: This is a guest post written by my buddy Kevin, and is the first in a series covering a weird and wonderful corner of retrocomputing.

I’m Kevin Lipe, 512 Pixels’ somewhat-official MS-DOS correspondent. Long time reader; second-time guest post.

I’ve only ever written for this site about software that’s as old as I am, and this series will be no exception.

Stephen and I have been friends for a very long time (ask him about buying forkbombr.net from me for two slices of pizza in 2008), and for most of that time, I’ve been obsessed with retrocomputing in all its various forms and fashions.

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Apple:

Apple TV+ is ringing in the New Year by offering an all-access pass to customers all around the world. Enjoy Apple TV+ for free the first weekend of 2025 (January 3 through January 5), Apple TV+ will be free on any device where Apple TV+ is available. All you need is an Apple ID to see what all the buzz is about.

Over the holidays, a lot of family members praised Apple TV+ when talking about media, and rightfully so. Apple TV+ has some really, really good shows and movies, and the hit rate is pretty high for me.

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