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Review of some small Mac apps

Published by Silveira on 2023-11-17

I got these app licenses in a bundle at BundleHunt for not much. Here is a quick review and impressions of these:

  • CleanBoard: Copy twice to remove the formatting of the text you are copying. Perfect.
  • CopyPaste Pro: list previous clipboards so you can have a list of previous texts and images you cut to paste. I used to use something like this on Linux and it was super handy so I wanted to try it out. It also does a lot of things and it’s full of quirks. I’m still getting used.
  • Grab2Text: on screen OCR. One Shift+Cmd+2 and you select a rectangle and it outputs the text from the image to the clipboard. The OCR is ok. Solves an infrequent but annoying problem.
  • iClock: Some calendar, timezone, clock functions right in the menu bar.
  • 1000 OpenType Fonts: a zipfile with fonts. There is no app. You have to use the Finder preview to see and install the fonts. Installing all fonts would make the computer slow. I hope to use some of these fonts.
  • AI Image Enlarger – Photo Upscaler: Not good. I did a few tests and it pretty much smoothed the photos, actually loosing photo information in the upscaling. Probably better off just using Stable Diffusion with DiffusionBee.
  • Musify Music Downloader: TBD
  • Mass Rename: TBD

Placa-pai

Published by Silveira on 2023-11-17

Mostrei pra ele uma placa-mãe. Depois ele me traz e diz que é uma placa-mamãe.

Mostro pra ele que é a placa-mãe do computador da mamãe. Ele aponta pro meu computador e diz que quer ver a placa-pai.

maybe

Published by Silveira on 2023-11-07 
while true; do if [[ $(($RANDOM % 2 )) = "1" ]] then; echo "y"; else echo "n"; fi done

“Morning Bell” by Iman Mersal

Published by Silveira on 2023-08-15

The eye opens like a curtain rising
In the dark, feet search for something real
Consciousness hasn’t happened yet
And the floorboards are skin temperature
A fresh repetition, today will be one more or one less
An impromptu concert strikes up in the kitchen
Maybe this black coffee is the morning bell-
the prize you win for returning safe from sleep

conditional past, present, future in spreadsheets/Excel

Published by Silveira on 2023-06-27 
=IF(B2=TODAY(),"Past",IF(B2<TODAY(),"Today",TEXT(B2,"ddd")))
  • Given a column B that contains dates in a sequential order.
  • Shows a “Today” when it’s today.
  • Shows a “Past” when is past.
  • Shows an abbreviated name of the day of the week.

Here is an example using emojis instead of past/today:

Mac: changing screenshots location

Published by Silveira on 2023-06-22 
mkdir ~/Desktop/screenshots

defaults write com.apple.screencapture location ~/Desktop/screenshots

killall SystemUIServer
  1. Creates a directory in /Users/username/Desktop/screenshots.
  2. Sets the default screenshot location to that directory.
  3. Restarts the service responsible for screenshots.

New screenshots (?+Shift+3, 4 or 5) are now stored in ~/Desktop/screenshots.