![]() ![]() This episode of The Talk Show was edited by Caleb Sexton. Charlie Warzel, writing for BuzzFeed last year - “ Apple’s Junk Drawer Problem” - under the premise that most people replace Apple’s apps on the iPhone with Google’s.Ben Thompson: “ Chat and the Consumerization of It”.Walt Mossberg: “ Why Does Siri Seem So Dumb?”.“ Some Comment on the Twitter Buyout Rumors”.John Hempton of Bronte Capital on Twitter:.Phil Stokes on Dropbox’s abuse of admin privileges and Accessibility permissions on MacOS: part 1 and part 2.The circumstances that led Apple to link to the two developer accounts.Dash developer Bogdan Popescu’s “full story”, in a statement to iMore.Me on the the Dash/App Store controversy.Me on Twitter, posting a photo of my wife’s Apple Watch that fell apart coming off the charger. ![]() Fluid: longstanding utility that let’s you turn any website into a standalone Mac app.Create your own snippets and type a short abbreviation to. Draft: web app that’s Ben’s preferred writing tool. Use the Clipboard History to locate any text, image or file you copied earlier and paste it again.BetterSnapTool, a Mac window management utility Ben uses.1991 TidBITS story on NowMenus, a classic Mac OS utility.How to download your entire music library to a device using iCloud Music Library.Away: First-class luggage at a coach price, including built-in USB chargers.Use code talkshow and get a free bottle of Harry’s post shave balm. Harry’s: An exceptional shave at a fraction of the price.Backblaze: Online backup for $5/month.Topics include voice control with AirPods, how to get your entire music library onto an iPhone while using iCloud Music Library, Apple Watch durability, the Dash/App Store controversy, the disappointing and frustrating state of Siri and voice-driven AI assistants, Google’s new Pixel phones and the strategy behind them, Snap’s (née Snapchat) Spectacles (and why they’re nothing like Google’s ill-fated Glass), and more. Special guest Ben Thompson returns to the show. We could go on forever with our favorite examples: pasting the third item back from the clipboard history, moving a file into a deeply nested folder, creating calendar events, skipping to the next track in iTunes, running Terminal commands, looking up terms in Wikipedia, counting the characters in selected text, tweeting a quote from an article, finding your uncle's phone number, and so on.The Talk Show ‘Kicking Dirt on Them While They’re on Fire’, With Special Guest Ben Thompson Sunday, 16 October 2016 One example is to employ superpower #5, Instant Send, to file photos: select a photo's file icon in the Finder, hold down the key you use to invoke LaunchBar for an extra second to put the file on the bar, select the Add to iPhoto action, and press Return to send the photo to iPhoto. LaunchBar doesn't require predefined abbreviations instead, it adapts to you! This method of accessing an app uses the Abbreviation Search, superpower #1.Įxample 2: Once you've become accustomed to the ease of accessing any app, you can start applying abbreviation search to other tasks and begin to unleash LaunchBar's other four superpowers. Just invoke LaunchBar (with a keyboard shortcut of your choosing), type a quick abbreviation - whatever seems natural to you - and press Return. For those who want to save the most time, Instant Send is the fastest way to put a selected file or bit of text on the bar, ready to open in another app, move to a folder, send to a Google search, look up in Dictionary, and more.ĭon't worry about remembering all this - a one-page cheat sheet in the book will jog your memory until LaunchBar has worked its way into your fingertips.Įxample 1: The most beloved LaunchBar function is to access apps quickly - especially apps that you don't keep in the Dock. Want to open a PDF in PDFpen rather than Preview? Or attach a document to a new email message? You can send anything on LaunchBar's bar to another application, folder, action, or service.ĥ. Too many results in a list to browse? Try a sub-search, which is an abbreviation search limited to a list of search results.Ĥ. Abbreviation search won't help there, but you can browse folders, recent documents for an app, clipboard history, snippets, and more.ģ. Sometimes you don't know what you want until you see it. ![]() LaunchBar is smart (so the abbreviation doesn't have to be obvious) and learns from what you type (in case it guessed wrong the first time).Ģ. The primary way you select things in LaunchBar is by typing a few letters associated with the item you want to find. To help you develop a mental map of all that LaunchBar can do, Kirk explains LaunchBar in the context of its five superpowers - key LaunchBar techniques that no Mac user should be without.ġ. Join Mac expert Kirk McElhearn, and learn how to use LaunchBar, from Objective Development, to carry out nearly any Mac task more efficiently. ![]()
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