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

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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!

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Since CurrentKey Stats’ launch, users have often asked for a way to see their Spaces'(Rooms’) names without clicking the menubar icon. The most recent request was just yesterday “Hi just tried ur app. Its a nice start but if you dont show the name somewhere i won’t be bothered to click on the icon to… Continue reading Set up banner notifications that will tell you the name of the Space you just moved into!

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Google is now telling users that its iOS apps are out of date (despite no updates being available)

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[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mandatory privacy labels, Google is stalling… Continue reading Google is now telling users that its iOS apps are out of date (despite no updates being available)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 (🤨)

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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 (🤨)

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

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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 🖥 🎯

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PSA: you can rearrange your Mac’s menubar icons by pressing Command (⌘) and then clicking and dragging them

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CurrentKey Stats has an icon that lives in the menubar, and a little-known trick can help you further customize where it exists. To move your menubar icons around, press the “command ⌘” key and then simply click and drag them around, to reposition them wherever you want. I learned this trick a few months into… Continue reading PSA: you can rearrange your Mac’s menubar icons by pressing Command (⌘) and then clicking and dragging them

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Introducing CurrentKey Stats 3.5, graph color palette switcher, more powerful alerts, and more! 🌈📊

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Version 3.5: Adds the ability to switch the color palette of all graphs and charts within the app to one of six choices. Find the button on the left side of the toolbar in the large stats view. Debuts an option to auto-show the Room-selection dropdown when popover opens, for faster access to common actions.… Continue reading Introducing CurrentKey Stats 3.5, graph color palette switcher, more powerful alerts, and more! 🌈📊

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How to give each of your Mac’s Spaces a custom sound 👂🏻

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We all know about the MacOS feature called Spaces, and many of us love splitting our projects, work, and hobbies across our virtual desktops. What if you could not just assign a name to each Space but also assign a custom Internet radio station to each one too? As you move between them, immersive sound… Continue reading How to give each of your Mac’s Spaces a custom sound 👂🏻