Over the last Christmas holidays, I saw a Toot on Mastodon from Rui Carmo saying that Apple Photos had dreadful exporting and archiving features. He thought there was a better way and so wrote a Mac command line tool, using Swift, to address what he saw as the shortcomings. Reading the instructions on GitHub, it […]
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Cleaning Up Apple Contacts Using Smart Lists
While I was at Macstock Conference and Expo, a lovely gentleman named Bob asked the table for advice on how to clean up his Contacts. He explained that he had a few things he wanted to fix. The first was that when he chose the Resolve Duplicates option, it showed that he had over 500 […]
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NC #685 Rocket; PhotoBulk; Compression, Encryption and Archive; PSA on Photos After Accidents
In this week’s show, you’ll learn how to do emoji like the cool kids with Rocket app for macOS. You’ll learn how to batch resize, rename and watermark images with PhotoBulk for macOS. Then we’ll get even geekier while I explain the difference between formats for compression, encryption & archive. Then we’ll finish things off […]
Continue readingExplaining Compression, Encryption, and Archive
One of the hardest videos I’ve done recently for ScreenCasts Online is the one just published for an app called Keka. Keka is a sweet little $2 app designed to compress and expand files. Keka itself is simple and easy to use, but understanding the technologies behind it was where the real effort came in. In […]
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