
MigraineBot for Mac is here. With a great dashboard and responsive charts, it’s easy to view and amend data effectively. I have always wanted a version of MigraineBot to be Mac native so it works in a way that’s best for Mac users (particularly user number 1, me) while still keeping the features of the…

I’m doing a PhD and as part of that I have interview transcripts to manage. You can read about my workflow for doing that on my PhD site: phd.anthonyarblaster.com/phd/Transcript-Management/. The main way I was able to achieve this was by creating a python script that my shell calls to process the file. The script is…

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.

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.