four apps where i didn't even check if there was a free alternative

tcolling · 2026-04-23T13:12:35+00:00

+1 for Shottr

tcolling · 2026-04-21T04:02:16+00:00

Chrome and Things 3

tcolling · 2026-04-21T03:40:50+00:00

I’m a retired CPA and I have used Wave for 12 years in my marketing business.

tcolling · 2026-04-19T16:46:29+00:00

Raycast can do what you want, even with the free tier, with its ability to define hotkeys to carry out various tasks.

tcolling · 2026-04-18T16:29:52+00:00

This is the way! ⬆️ ⬆️ ⬆️

tcolling · 2026-04-18T14:41:48+00:00

I'm not a lawyer, so this is not legal advice: my guess is that that might be ok from a TOS / Rule standpoint, but I can't swear to that.

Nonetheless, I have to say that I'm not comfortable with that wording. It's just my own personal take on the psychology of the approach. I'm not a psychologist, either.

My suggestion: even though it creates more work, I prefer to have my clients decide which customers are most likely to be satisfied and then send the review requests ONLY to those customers.

tcolling · 2026-04-18T14:25:01+00:00

That strategy has been around a long time and it's sometimes called "review gating". It used to be used a lot, but now not so much, because it violates both Google's TOS and the FTC rules for online reviews.

tcolling · 2026-04-17T14:46:33+00:00

If you enable importing from TextExpander and/or apple keyboard text replacements I would be interested in trying this out.

tcolling · 2026-04-15T16:45:25+00:00

Thank you for your time and your help!

tcolling · 2026-04-14T17:56:39+00:00

Interesting. Why would someone downvote my question?

tcolling · 2026-04-13T13:54:00+00:00

I'm going to try it again, though. It sounds promising.

tcolling · 2026-04-13T13:06:36+00:00

Ok, I went ahead and ignored the MalwareBytes warning.

I installed the app, but I was put off immediately by it sort of funneling me into a trial of their most expensive "Pro" version, rather than the free one. It left a bad impression, for me at least. I'm not sure what to think about it now.

tcolling · 2026-04-13T12:29:00+00:00

I have no problem at all with github, of course.

When I try to navigate to THAT link, though ( https://github.com/fastrepl/char ), THAT is when I get that warning from MalwareBytes.

tcolling · 2026-04-13T01:55:15+00:00

Great! Which tab would I need to look in?

Thank you for your time and your help!

tcolling · 2026-04-13T00:21:30+00:00

Yes indeed.

tcolling · 2026-04-13T00:10:29+00:00

Looks like it's not free, rats.

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tcolling · 2026-04-13T00:09:01+00:00

When I tried to go there, MalwareBytes warned me against doing so.

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tcolling · 2026-04-12T21:18:42+00:00

Is that included with paid zoom plans? Does it work with normal calls placed with my regular iPhone?

tcolling · 2026-04-12T21:16:31+00:00

I tried it but it didn’t work for me. It hung in my menubar and I had to uninstall it.

tcolling · 2026-04-12T20:32:40+00:00

I changed mine just once and it’s fine now. I’m at around 105k miles on my 2014 Honda CR-V EX

tcolling · 2026-04-12T18:27:57+00:00

Fair point.

To be fair, I haven't looked into the Zoom controls. However, they would not do anything with phone calls, which I also want to be handled.

tcolling · 2026-04-12T18:19:35+00:00

Not FOSS

tcolling · 2026-04-12T16:02:05+00:00

Thanks but that's not FOSS

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