I’m thinking about going all-in with Microsoft Office as a trial, especially focusing on Teams and OneNote. I’ve a tendency to have stuff strewn across apps. Plus it’s a cross-platform solution.
I’ve been trialling krisp.ai for video conference noise reduction. I’ve only used it in my home office where the prevailing noise is a spinning drive array, but I think it’s been good? I need to remember to toggle it to test its efficacy.
My Last Day with CCI
Today marks the end of a personal era for me; it is the last day of my employment with the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Western Australia. I’ve worked at CCI for 3 months short of 13 years. When I arrived, my plan was to stay for no more than 2. This speaks to the opportunities I have enjoyed while with the organisation. Over the time I have worked in Policy, Economics, Membership and the Entrepreneurs' Programme, plus other temporary assignments.
The birthday present I bought myself arrived today: a Keychron K2 keyboard with Cherry Brown switches. It’s delightfully chunky and immediately I’ve found myself typing with my wrists up, as my typing teacher taught me on an old typewriter at school.
Keep Practising: 11 - Graeme Speak, CEO & Founder of BankVault
I welcome a special guest to the show, Graeme Speak of BankVault. BankVault has developed a cybersecurity product that can circumvent security risks such as key logging and man-in-the-middle attacks, by offering passwordless logins. As well as discussing the BankVault product, Graeme discusses his approach to entrepreneurship. We talk about the differences between business in Perth, Western Australia where BankVault has been founded, and San Francisco, California where he is currently based.
Configuring Preside on iPadOS
In an earlier post I wrote about how I replicated a HEY-style workflow with other email applications. I thought some detail about how I’ve configured my preferred iPadOS email client, Preside to work in a similar way might be in order. Preside is an amazing power-user email application for iOS. The application features a myriad of options. The hardest thing about configuring Preside is knowing where the particular setting or customisation might be found within its many nested folders of preferences and settings.
Well, I’ve set up my Hey.com email address on a 14 day trial. ‘canion’ at hey dot com it is.
My friends are enablers, encouraging me to buy Steam games. Shame on them.
Govt urged to ditch COVIDSafe for GApple
Govt urged to ditch COVIDSafe for GApple - InnovationAus: recently released testing data revealing that upon launch, COVIDSafe logged encounters 25 per cent or less between locked iPhones. After a series of updates and improvements, this figure is now between 25 to 50 per cent. A switch to using the official tracing architecture within the Android/iOS platforms seems a sensible move to me.
My Random Thoughts from the WWDC Keynote
These are my thoughts on the 2020 Apple WWDC keynote, presented in the order they occurred as I watched the show. I’ve not yet read any other feedback so these thoughts are non-affected by groupthink: General The stagecraft and direction that Apple puts into these shows is amazing. iOS Widgets on the home screen - finally! The new messages is great but still relies on everybody having iOS.
I’ve fully Rogue Amoebafied my Mac with Audio Hijack, Fission, Farrago, Loopback, SoundSource. Send help! // @rogueamoeba
I tried out Otter.ai today which does voice to text transcription, recognising the different speakers. It’s kind of amazing, but I’m not confident of the privacy policy.
Keep Practising: 10 - Why Am I Doing This?
I consider why I am doing this podcast, and why I gave it the name Keep Practising. In Nerd Corner, I note my disappointment with how Apple has handled the HEY App Store situation, but note my pride in how my article about replicating the Hey workflow in regular apps has been received. Brené Brown, Unlocking Us, Episode 1
I wonder if @Fastmail have any idea of the love for them on micro.blog. They should drop in and say hi. In the words of @cheri, we would probably all throw our tech panties at them.
I edited my forthcoming podcast with a trial version of Hindenburg Journalist. It took some getting used to coming from Ferrite and it’s direct manipulation with the Apple Pencil. The main missing feature I noticed was ripple delete. I’m tempted to buy a license, though.
Ecamm Live Trial
My home page on the web needs to be redone. But that needs motivation and an idea. I’m devoid of both.
I’ve been playing around with Ecamm Live this afternoon. I have no reason to do a live stream, but it’s fun to experiment.
Promos
Addendum: Replicating Hey.com Features in MailMate
It has been pointed out by Martin McCallion that I failed to explain how I generated the “People Pages” view that is inherent within Hey into my own MailMate reconstruction. To do this I created a new Smart Mailbox with the following mailbox filtering criteria: Furthermore, in the same mailbox configuration window, but under the ‘Submailboxes’ tab be sure to select the checkbox to create submailboxes, and choose an appropriate filter.