Dan (laptopllama)

Finally, my toil in the clicking-mines paid off. I can now feature you alongside an equally valuable brand.

Between this, the Chrome vs Safari battery life tests, and a third example that I can't quite remember at the moment, I've been appreciating your debunking arc.

New app

Short Run ⚡️
Run shortcuts from your menu bar

sindresorhus.com/short-run

The cognitive shuffle has been helping me, thanks for putting it out there!

What a clever idea.

Screenshots of a finder replacement, and banter with a dictation model

Just finished my free #mac newsletter about a *shockingly* good Finder replacement and a free dictation app that made me stop resenting Siri. See what I'm yammerin' about here: laptopllama.me/subscribe/

SummerFest Summer Festival Artisanal Software.

Summerfest has some nice discounts on Scrivener, Scapple, BBEdit, EagleFiler, etc. for anyone interested: www.artisanalsoftwarefestival.com

Welcome, DEVONthink 4.0 Copernicus! — Here's our new DEVONthink generation with a slew of new features and improvements, from generative AI to versioning, audit-proof databases, a completely rewritten web interface, new automations and much, much more. #devonthink #upgrade buff.ly/7qm8WXg

New Finder icon.

Did anyone else have the sudden realization with the new Finder icon that maybe it was always supposed to also be a face in profile?

I like that perspective, minimizing interaction instead of displayed items.

Love the color picker. And the CleanShot updates video guy is good, he deserves a channel of his own.

I'm proud to be here on day 1 of this user interface innovation.

Of the dozen I googled, Peat Seat looked the closest to what I pictured. Good work, Mr. Seat.

Slick. link.marcoluthi.com/timer

BarCuts Brings Order to Your Shortcuts Menu I make extensive use of shortcuts all day long on my Mac.  I use them to import data into Obsidian, generate alt-text for images I post on my blog or social media, query Open.AI, dismiss…

Huge shoutout to @amerpie.lol for his very, very positive review of my contextual #Shortcuts launcher #BarCuts. I'm positively blushing 🙏🏼

In case you don't know him: Lou is a prolific macOS app reviewer. His blog is great for finding new things, is what I'm saying

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MacUpdater icon

RIP, MacUpdater: www.corecode.io/macupdater/p...

Love Smash Smash, we're back to the 90's.

Free Apps

Today on AppAddict - Free App List Number 4 - This is the fourth collection of free apps reviewed on AppAddict. Links to the first three collections are posted below. I've downloaded and installed each of these on my Mac. I've added many of these ... https://appaddict.app/post/free-app-list-number-4

I actually expected higher prices, just given how some of these specialty niche things get. But yeah, wouldn't want to pay that, personally.

It was indeed. It's not for me, but I love it.

I am intrigued by the hint of an anti-smartphone.

New app:

Simple Color Palette
Create, view, and edit color palettes

Free. Available for macOS 15, iOS 18, and visionOS 2.

sindresorhus.com/simple-color...

Plugging Hiro's newsletter as usual. I'm unsure if signing up now gets you this week's issue, but as a hint to its intriguing contents, I will say that I'm a sucker for cooperative board/card games.

Will be curious to hear what you think about DEVONThink, I feel like it's been having a real second wind these days.

Now that I've received it, the burglar pick is indeed intriguing.

Almost reminds me of ancient tile art.

I knew I sensed a disturbance in the Force. Looking forward to whatever "how robbers look at buildings" means.

A collage of images from the first llamaletter

@hiro.report has generously spared me his samurai-sword-strike for stealing his excellent newsletter format, so I announce to you my first llamaletter! It's free! laptopllama.me/subscribe/

It clues you in to 3 nifty apps, including my faves from the majestic @mikker.dev & @rhyskentish.bsky.social.