Tag: macOS

  • ETC Reset

    ETC Reset

    ETC Concert doesn’t find Net3 devices sometimes. Using Terminal you can stop and start services manually, but who has time for that? So I wrote a zsh script to do it easily. If you don’t feel comfortable with the Terminal, I have wrapped it in a little app instead.

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  • Karabiner Elements for Adobe Digital Editions

    Karabiner Elements for Adobe Digital Editions

    I have updated my custom scripts for Karabiner Elements, which I use for creating a HyperKey from my Caps Lock button. I also use Karabiner to manage the F1-12 keys in specialist apps, which you can read about here. I have added a new script to deal with the worst app for reading DRM books,

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  • Karabiner Elements Function Key Management

    Karabiner Elements Function Key Management

    Karabiner Elements is fantastic tool for managing keyboards on MacOS. I have created a set of rules for using the traditional function keys in key apps for me. This uses specified app bundles to switch the function keys to the F1 – F12 key without the need to press “fn”.This is particularly useful in cross

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  • Alfred Battery v1.1.1

    Alfred Battery v1.1.1

    Yet another Alfred Battery update! Aren’t you spoilt. This time the updates include improving the screenshots in the readme, improving the clarity of instructions in the readme, and therefore bumping the version number. Very minor changes but worth doing. The screenshots make it clearer what to change to set a custom trigger and make everything

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  • Alfred Battery v1.1.0

    Alfred Battery v1.1.0

    Multiple updates within a couple of days! The excellent team at Alfred spotted some errors which have now all been fixed. You can download the most recent version of the workflow on GitHub. Alfred battery is a simple workflow designed to report your battery level in a notification. There are lots of battery management tools

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  • Useful AppleScripts v1.0.1

    Useful AppleScripts v1.0.1

    There’s a new update to the UsefulAppleScripts repo on GitHub. It’s an all new and fancy version 1.0.1. The changes are really minor and mostly just introduce a new script that I have been using to open Safari pages in DuckDuckGo. Mostly I only use this if Safari isn’t rendering a page correctly, or a

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  • Alfred Battery Workflow v1.0.3

    Alfred Battery Workflow v1.0.3

    A few little updates to the battery workflow for the excellent Alfred app. Most of the changes are really to the readme and other minor details.

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  • Useful AppleScripts

    Useful AppleScripts

    I have been putting together a small collection of (hopefully) useful AppleScripts. I have no idea if anyone else will find them useful, but I thought I would share them anyway. The scripts contain a number of options – many inspired by the work of others. Here is some information about each of the scripts and

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  • Use Alfred to Get Your Battery Level

    Use Alfred to Get Your Battery Level

    Anthony has developed a simple Alfred workflow to check their Mac’s battery level, as they no longer displayed the battery indicator. They shared the workflow on GitHub, hoping to help others. They plan to improve it in the future. Furthermore, they expressed a preference for keyboard-based solutions over using the mouse.

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  • BBEdit Language Modules for AppleScript and Bunch

    BBEdit Language Modules for AppleScript and Bunch

    The writer uses the Bunch app to manage contexts on their Mac but found it challenging to edit the text files. They started using BBEdit and created language files to simplify editing Bunch files and AppleScript. They shared these on GitHub and welcome feedback. Find the project on GitHub for download.

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