I’ve written a few times now about the lengths I’ve gone to tweak how I interact with my computers. I’ve with a bunch of little custom-built utilities for searching the web. I’ve spent way too many hours trying out that provide helpful functions that aren’t built in the OS. I’ve ranted on about how the iPad doesn’t quite work as my main computer because I always seem to want just one more app on my screen. This week’s episode of is another one of these “pro tip” kinds of videos, where I just lay out six of the menu bar utilities I’m using on my Mac. Increasingly, though, I am uncomfortable with the distinction we casually make between “pro” users and “regular” users. I don’t think these sorts of utilities are useful just for computer nerds. (There’s another category we should leave behind us.) I think they’re useful for everybody. Put another way: we’re all “pro” users. I want to be clear that I believe computers should be made in a way that makes them simple and accessible enough for everybody. The trick is creating a learning curve that allows people to get better at using them. At some point, everybody hits a moment when they think, “Ugh, why does my computer make doing this one thing so annoying?” Giving people the ability to solve that kind of problem is important. It’s empowering, just as much as the current push to teach people to learn to code. I tend to prefer using computer platforms that make it relatively easy to fix that one thing through little add-ons (Mac and Windows) that others do not (iOS and Chrome OS). That’s changing soon, I hope. IOS will soon have, which could empower iOS users to really personalize how their iPhones and iPads work. Chrome OS is improving through a mix of Android apps and extensions. We’ve taken the desktop for granted I don’t have a fully formed manifesto here, just a sort of rumbling feeling that the dominance of the smartphone made us (and the companies that make them) take the desktop for granted. The metaphor of the desktop is really powerful. This is a list of macOS components, features that are included in the current Mac operating system. 1 Applications. 1.1 App Store; 1.2 Automator; 1.3 Calculator; 1.4 Calendar; 1.5 Chess. Automator provides a graphical user interface for automating tasks without knowledge of programming or scripting languages. This flashcard is meant to be used for studying, quizzing and learning new information. Many scouting web questions are common questions that are typically seen in the classroom, for homework or on quizzes and tests. I’m not only talking about the original Xerox PARC set of metaphors of windows and a mouse pointer. I’m talking about setting up your own workspace — a thing that is maybe cluttered and messy, but you know exactly where your stuff is because you put it there. Good music software for mac. Once upon a time, believed that we could optimize the time of every human worker.
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