[lead dropcap="yes"]I got a request to share my favorite Keyboard Maestro macros and so I put a few of them together here. Keyboard Maestro (KM) is a Mac app that allows you to create complex automations to control your software in almost any way... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]One part of our smart home setup is our Philips Hue lighting system. Over the years I've replaced many of our old light bulbs with Hue smart bulbs in various fixtures, which allows us not only to control the lights with... [Continue Reading]
As regular readers will know, I’m a big fan of automation; specifically I’m a fan of automating my computer to streamline my workflows for efficiency. One of the newer tools I’m using on my Mac is Keyboard Maestro. I’d... [Continue Reading]
My last "How I Work" post was in 2018 and and the first one was in 2015 and I thought it was time to update, even though much of how I work remains similar to last time.
[lead dropcap="yes"]Every week, I edit about a dozen podcast episodes that include a whole bunch of big files. Once the show is posted and scheduled, those files can be moved to archival storage1, which in my case is a Synology DS418 network... [Continue Reading]
ecause I podcast and do live video from my home office while my wife, Melanie, is homeschooling our five kids in the other room, it's important that I let others know when it's safe to knock on my office door and when they have to be very quiet. In... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]As you may know, I produce about a dozen different podcasts, most of them weekly, and keeping track of all the tasks of pre-production, recording, editing, distributing, and promoting them is challenging for a one-man operation... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]It’s been three years since I first did a “How I Work” blog post (at the prompting of Tom McDonald) and since then I moved to a different full-time job and then to another (current) full-time job, where what I do is now almost... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]Among the most useful and most overlooked of Mac software applications are Menu Bar Apps. These are small, often single-purpose applications that reside in the top-right part of your Mac’s menu bar, usually behind a small icon... [Continue Reading]
[lead dropcap="yes"]After posting my previous blog post on my Must-Have Mac Apps, a number of friends and readers suggested even more apps that they must have, and I had to admit that I could add many more to my list. And so here are even More Must... [Continue Reading]