A reminder to my future self: Create email (and other) templates in Textexpander but embrace writing them in Markdown. Then use Brett Terpstra’s Markdown Services Tool to convert the template text into rich text prior to sending. This will solve the problem of Textexpander’s rich text editor being so flakey and annoying.
I deleted the YouTube app from my iPhone because I was sick of saying “No” whenever it tried to gain background access to my microphone. Own goal, YouTube.
I enjoyed hearing @miraz talk to @martinfeld on his Lounge Ruminator podcast. I like crosswords but I never seem to be able to settle for simple things. 🤔
Photoblogging Challenge Day 20: change 📷 #mbaug
Very little happening in the NBL this week, but we still managed to talk for an hour about it. That’s true passion! The NBL Pocket Podcast / Brett Brown, John Mooney nicknames and Draymond Green’s tweets 🏀 🎙
Photoblogging Challenge Day 19: Many a ribbon won by my gym trainer in international Ironman Events. 📷 #mbaug
My third visit back to the gym after a lay-off of about 18 months(!). Really happy with the weight training I did today. Improving quicker than I had anticipated! 🏋🏻♂️
This Apple Music radio show with Billie Eilish and her Dad is surprisingly good. music.apple.com
I hope Safari 14 on Big Sur brings better extensions. I’ve been a Safari loyalist but it’s becoming increasingly difficult to justify compared with Firefox/Edge/Chrome.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 18: grid with thanks to Black Ink by @danielpunkass 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 17: cuddly 📷 #mbaug
Martin Feld, Jason Burk and I recorded a ‘pilot episode’ of a podcast idea we had been germinating.
Martin has been kind enough to host the episode on his site.
I have not listened to this album for a long time… but it’s still great. 🎶 music.apple.com
I’ve been a subscriber to Setapp since it launched. In fact, I participated in a pre-launch user interview to help the MacPaw team develop the offering.
I’ve been a happy customer, and I believe I may be grandfathered into an older plan because I am permitted two seats. This has traditionally been for two Macs, but with Setapp now commencing a formalised iOS offering, I suppose this now makes more sense as a Mac + iPad combination. It’s a shame that the second license doesn’t include unlimited iOS devices, but that’s their business decision to make.
Setapp is a subscription service, and good financial management suggests that one should occasionally audit subscriptions to ensure a good deal is still being attained.
To that end I have completed a quick audit of my Setapp usage.
It pretty clearly indicates that I’m still getting what I would consider reasonable value. Of course, the longer one subscribes, the more you trend towards ‘should have bought it’. But if the major applications release a major paid upgrade, then once again the subscription calculation improves.
All up, I will keep Setapp for another year. And start putting money away for the next years subscription straight away using a YNAB category!
| Software | Mac App Store Price $AU |
|---|---|
| Use Regularly | $414.90 |
| Meeter | $12.99 |
| MarsEdit | $79.99 |
| NotePlan | $46.99 |
| PDFpen | $124.99 |
| CleanMyMac X | $59.99 |
| Using Direct Licensed Versions | |
| BusyCal | |
| BusyContacts | |
| Use but Also Own | |
| iThoughts X | |
| Bartender | |
| Marked | |
| Use Sporadically | $225.98 |
| Meta | $35.00 |
| Path Finder | $36.00 |
| RapidWeaver | $129.99 |
| Dropshare | $24.99 |
| Use but Could Live Without | 89.95 |
| Receipts | $89.95 |
| AdGuard | |
| Default Folder X | |
| iStat Menus | |
| Elmedia Player | |
| Receipts | |
| Diagrams | |
| Capto | |
| Typeface | |
| Installed but Not Using | |
| Taskheat | |
| Screens | |
| Ulysses | |
| Tayasui Sketches | |
| MindNode | |
| Aqualero | |
| CleanShot X | |
| Permute | |
| Gifox | |
| SheetPlanner | |
| PDF Squeezer | |
| GlyphFinder | |
| ForkLift | |
| Sip | |
| World Clock Pro | |
| TextSoap | |
| Be Focused | |
| Photolemur | |
| CloudMounter | |
| Gemini | |
| Noizio | |
| Prizmo | |
| Squash |
A quick audio interlude to let you know about my other current podcast projects:
Photoblogging Challenge Day 16: stationary 📷 #mbaug
Currently reading: Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout 📚
I had a blast recording an International Mac Nerds podcast with @martinfeld and @burk. We all met one another through micro.blog, so a big thanks to @manton and @macgenie for creating the rendezvous point.
Photoblogging Challenge Day 15: silhouette 📷 #mbaug
Photoblogging Challenge Day 14: the boy among the play equipment. 📷 #mbaug
