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A note about CurrentKey Stats’ return to the App Store after two years and offering an IAP subscription

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

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Brainstorming cool ways to use CurrentKey via its AppleScript support

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

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Presenting JOTJOLT! and Quorbo: quick-quote puzzles that give your noggin a boost.

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.

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Set up banner notifications that will tell you the name of the Space you just moved into!

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!

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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

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

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Google is now telling users that its iOS apps are out of date (despite no updates being available)

[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)

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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

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

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Assign specific scripts to run when you visit certain Mac Spaces 🖥 🎯

Most of us know about the MacOS feature called Spaces, and many of us love splitting our projects, work, and hobbies across our virtual desktops. Some find it unweildy because each Space is generic out of the box. Spaces don’t come with the ability to be named or personalized other than setting a desktop background… Continue reading Assign specific scripts to run when you visit certain Mac Spaces 🖥 🎯