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#38: Simon Leeb and Pushcut
December 6th, 2019 · 70 minutes
App developer Simon Leeb joins us to talk about his automation journey that turned into building an automation app, Pushcut. We also stray into the world of iBeacon and automation.
#37: Mac Maintenance & Management Magic
November 22nd, 2019 · 77 minutes
In this episide, David and Rosemary set their sights on Mac maintenance and how to automate it, from clearing your trash to managing duplicates and even handling those pesky .ics files, nothing is safe from their automation!
#36: Sal Soghoian's Control Panel
November 8th, 2019 · 80 minutes
Sal Soghoian returns to the Automators to share his ingenious Mac control panel built with an iPad, a Luna display connector, and some clever automation. Sal also updates us on the Omni Javascript automation project.
#35: Automating Business with Don McAllister
October 25th, 2019 · 73 minutes
In this episode David and Rosemary are joined by Don McAllister, founder of ScreenCastsOnline, to talk about the automations he has set up to make running a small business easier for everyone!
#34: Getting Cozy with Regular Expressions
October 11th, 2019 · 58 minutes
Roll up your sleeves Automators. This week Rose and David tackle regular expressions. What are they? How do you make them? Where do you use them? All those questions get answered in this episode. Regex isn't as daunting as it may first seem.
#33: Packing List Extravaganza
September 27th, 2019 · 53 minutes
In this episode, Rosemary and David climb out of their suitcases armed with a variety of Shortcuts, Scriptable Scripts, Trello Boards, Reminders, TextExpander Snippets, Keyboard Maestro Macros and even a Drafts action group.
#32: Shortcuts iOS 13 Release and the Shortcuts Field Guide
September 13th, 2019 · 76 minutes
Rose and David break down where Shortcuts is with respect to the 13.0 and 13.1 iOS updates. They also share some of their favorite new shortcuts with the new programming model. Also, David has a new Shortcuts Field Guide arriving next week.
#31: Making Your ScreenFlow Flow and More with J.F. Brissette
August 30th, 2019 · 54 minutes
In this episode, Rosemary and David get to talk to J.F. Brissette about everything automating Screenflow with Keyboard Maestro to using the Terminal as a launcher, as well as regular expressions and looking into combining Dropbox and Chronosync.
#30: Some Favorite Automations
August 16th, 2019 · 48 minutes
Rose and David share some of their favorite recently created automations ranging from email, to meetings, to Rose's experiments on her new Mac mini.
#29: The Dark Dungeon with Adam Tow
August 2nd, 2019 · 51 minutes
In this episode David and Rose talk to Adam Tow. From having photos taken on his DLSR automatically shared to him via iMessage to playing text adventure games with Shortcuts, there is plenty of automation fun to be had!