Pictured above: Here I am at the store, waiting for the demo. The unit I actually tried used the Dual Band loop, which was very comfortable. Based on podcasts and reviews that I’ve seen over the past year, going into the demo I thought that: In reality I found: My takeaway was: something derivative of… Continue reading Finally tried the Apple Vision Pro. My impressions.
So a Redditor recently asked me an absolutely fair question about why CurrentKey Stats is a subscription app, and I would like to provide an explanation in full, because who doesn’t love free or really inexpensive software? (I do very much!) When I launched this app 5 years ago in early 2019, it had a… Continue reading A note about CurrentKey Stats’ return to the App Store after two years and offering an IAP subscription
My hope is that CurrentKey helps you use your Mac more productively and that you can have some fun along the way. Because I have added extensive AppleScript support, there are endless possibilities to spice up your Mac experience. What could I do with this power? Just brainstorming off the top of my head, here… Continue reading Brainstorming cool ways to use CurrentKey via its AppleScript support
In our increasingly fast-paced lives, finding the time for fog-busting puzzles is hard to come by. This makes having speedy games that can enrich your day even more important! JOTJOLT! and Quorbo both take a multi-pronged approach to revving you up: featuring some of the wittiest quips ever concocted alongside brain-teasing action. It’s a combo… Continue reading Presenting JOTJOLT! and Quorbo: quick-quote puzzles that give your noggin a boost.
Fortunately, there’s an easy way to accomplish this! We will use CurrentKey‘s Room Change Alerts to issue push notifications! Here’s what it will look like: How to set it up: Here is how to enable Room alerts: Here is what the script looks like: It’s just that easy! You can do so many things with… Continue reading Set up banner notifications that will tell you the name of the Space you just moved into!
I have a Mac app, CurrentKey Stats, in the App Store. It has been a free app since the beginning. (Well, when it initially launched it was freemium with upgrade IAP purchases, but around mid-2020 I made the app fully free, and I know that thousands of people have gotten use out of it!) The… Continue reading Because I do not have a Mac capable of running the upcoming MacOS Monterey, I am removing my app CurrentKey Stats from the Mac app store
Hey there! Because you have happened upon my site, I wanted to let you know that I’m writing some longer-form pieces at a new blog called Key Discussions. My first two posts are: Your iPhone (and iCloud backups) are full of gigabytes-worth of old iMessages that are virtually impossible to read (which led to lively… Continue reading New blog posts at Key Discussions
[Update: Users can’t reproduce this any longer, as they have pushed a server-side fix for this issue. It still counts as an embarrassing failure by Google. If you would like to see what the bug looked like, there’s a video at the bottom of the article.] Amid Apple pushing mandatory privacy labels, Google is stalling… Continue reading Google is now telling users that its iOS apps are out of date (despite no updates being available)
I’ve gotten feedback that this comes off as an ad for Apple or something. I’m oftentimes pretty critical of Apple, it’s just I feel like a hobby of mine has been significantly improved, and sometimes adding the right gadget can do that. For years I’ve relied on jogging as a primary means of creating quiet… Continue reading Jogging, brainstorming, and the Apple Watch
As this popular reddit post aptly points out: “Screen time for macOS should only count the minutes when the app is open in the foreground” , there’s a basic problem with Screen Time for Mac. Unlike with its iOS counterpart, the stats that it relays to the user are largely useless, because they don’t represent… Continue reading CurrentKey Stats counts the number of minutes an app is in the foreground 😄, unlike Mac’s Screen Time, which counts the total time an app is running even if it’s in the background