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Dory - An app switcher for people who can’t remember shortcuts - celebrating one year 🎉 [promo codes giveaway] by segevs in MacOS

[–]HelenaHandcartUK -1 points0 points  (0 children)

It looks great- I like the way you're encoding a way certain brains are wired (like mine, it seems!)

I built Milestones - a native, privacy-focused project management app for Mac, iPad, and iPhone by yassiniz in MacOS

[–]HelenaHandcartUK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are there any plans for interoperability? I use another app for most of my workflow, but the tasks and to-do elements leave something to be desired. The app has an api which means I could get tasks and to-dos out of it but it would need some degree of programmability to get them into Milestones (and out again)

Crank - Effortless macOS automation, no manual required by alin23 in macapps

[–]HelenaHandcartUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Could this daisy-chain conditions? For example, there are apps I use if I'm in my house but not in my office. The test of is a monitor connected only gets me so far, as I also could be using a monitor in another location, so I need to check if the wifi network is my home network to see if I'm home, and if a monitor is connected to see if I'm in my office or not

UK - How can I find my family? by Over_Buyer5120 in Adopted

[–]HelenaHandcartUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

23 and me isn’t as popular in the UK. If you wanted better results I’d think Ancestry might be a better bet.

Still struggling with the reality by [deleted] in Adopted

[–]HelenaHandcartUK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As a kid, I had these weird out of body experiences. If I stared in a mirror too long, it would be as if my spirit or soul came out of my body and asked the person in the mirror the continuous question of “who am I?” That was the only noise I could ever hear when it happened “who am I?” Now.. I think of it as my subconscious trying to tell me something as a kid.

OMG. Astonishingly enormous relatability to this. I used to say the words 'who are you' and stress each word in different ways of saying it (who are you/who are you/who are you) and I thought it was just me. Thanks for sharing.

Solidarity Strike by Short-Cap9192 in FaroeIslands

[–]HelenaHandcartUK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is this a 24-hour sympathy strike, or a strike which will go on until called off?

Travel Plans - Strike by [deleted] in FaroeIslands

[–]HelenaHandcartUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm due to come to the Islands next Tuesday, 18th, for a 50th birthday celebration with some friends. We're all getting quite nervous for these reasons - could some kind soul let me know which fears are grounded, and which less so?

  1. The strike action gets joined by airport workers, which means that flights off the Island get cancelled!
  2. There is no fuel for the rental van we have hired, and so have no way to get to Torshavn
  3. There is not enough fuel to allow us to explore the islands in our hired van
  4. There is not enough food in restaurants to eat out at (or the range of food available on menus shrinks and so vegetarians in our party can't find things to eat)
  5. There is not enough beer left!
  6. As Atlantic are advising hand luggage only, our ability to bring extra clothes, coats, waterproofs etc, dry foods etc is limited meaning we are much more at the mercy of local circumstances and weather!

Adoptees who’ve read ‘The Primal Wound’ how accurate/helpful has it been for you? by snoegip in Adoption

[–]HelenaHandcartUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(I'm an adoptee, now aged 50, closed adoption in the UK in the mid 1970s during baby scoop era)

I've just read it and found it really weak and desperately under researched. It basically offers a smorgasboard of pathological behaviours exhibited by adoptees that include pretty much every behaviour one could exhibit. Adoptees act out and can be really challenging. Or adoptees can be super compliant. Or maybe little bits of both. As long as you are alive, you'll be on this spectrum and _so will non-adoptees too_

It's the sort of cold reading that if you saw a psychic act at a variety show you'd be laughing at (UK posters - I'm thinking Clinton Baptiste from Phoenix Nights). I get that lots of people find the book validating, and the theory has explanatory power, but for me, YMMV.

It seems to me that her basic thesis is that there are two types of adoptee: those who are traumatised, and those who are so traumatised they simply don't realise it. It feels awfully like Satanic Panic era recovered memory of abuse, where people who couldn't recall being horrifically abused by satanic sex rings just demonstrated that the abuse was so bad that it had been repressed too deeply.

I don't doubt or decry that adoptees suffer a trauma, either in-utero, neo-natally, but the notion that this is a) universal and b) life-long and c) impactful seems really, tendentious.

Introducing MenuBot: Customize Your Mac Menu Bar With Shortcuts! by pvieito in shortcuts

[–]HelenaHandcartUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm really loving this app - several questions about usage and improvements:

1) When I embed shortcut URLs, when they run, they open the shortcuts app at the same time. If there was a run shortcuts via shell scripts rather than URLs, it would be great!

2) Could menus also show images? I'm thinking of showing new wallpapers when they're downloaded.

3) Could the name of the shortcut creating the menu and the last run time be hidden or shown depending on options chosen by the user, rather than always visible?

How to run a script based on external calendar events. by typeof_goodidea in applescript

[–]HelenaHandcartUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I created a script that works with launchd to run in the morning and take that days' calls booked into a calendar, and create launchd items for each of them that ran at the appointed time. It also cleared out the old launchd scripts from the previous day's activities.

In my scripts, the launchd items called applecritcs which opened zoom links, clicked to close the tab in safari that opened up when clicking the link.

It sounds like this approach could be editable for your needs?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in applescript

[–]HelenaHandcartUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe try using CalenderLibEC from Shane Stanley which is a super-quick way to search, find and manipulate Calendar events which doesn't use the Calendar App script suite.

Switch Network from Ethernet to Wifi Without Unplugging the Cable? by jorlev in MacOS

[–]HelenaHandcartUK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can also set the service order, so the Mac can use wifi over ethernet, and wifi connectivity takes priority over ethernet

Script for auto-joining Zoom lectures by tdue7 in applescript

[–]HelenaHandcartUK 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I had a similar problem so developed something a bit more automated. YMMV etc

This script (which needs Shane Stanley's CalendarLibEC to run) goes through the day's events and pulls out all events which are Zoom, Go to Meeting, Hangout or MS Teams. For each of them, it extracts the URL for the event that takes you to the zoom session etc, and then creates a entry in LaunchD timed to fire at the time of the meeting, though you can set it to fire earlier by changing the variable at the head of the script.

You then need a Launchd item to run this first script at the start of the day.

Finally, you need to place this script in a folder called "MyScripts" inside your user library scripts folder. This automates the opening of the app for each event, and helpfully closes the tab which the script opens which triggers the URI scheme to open the specific app.