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How to Create Project in Reminder via Shortcuts

This one is a ‘reminder’ (no pun intended) for anyone who had migrated over from other task managers. On Apple’s Reminder, you can mimic the project-like behavior (i.e. putting sub actions underneath the parent) by simply dragging what will be a child under the project. In other words, there are GUI implementations of making a…

How to Automatically Create Half-way Timer with Shortcuts

I’ve dreamt of baking in an oven that doesn’t need turning half-way, but it seems such creature is thing of a myth. Even professionals comment they turn their sheets half-way for consistency. My oven, which I often bake in convection mode, should have less cold spots and hot spots, but I can still visibly see…

How to Create iCloud Link under macOS User Folder

My first cloud storage subscription was not iCloud. It meant that when I switched over, I needed to make concessions. One of which was iCloud’s folder location. As far as I understand it, macOS does not allow local iCloud path to be changed from the pre-determined path. And the path itself is not the most…

How to Remove Virtual Audio Device on macOS

Some of the audio devices “installed” on a machine are bound to be virtual, especially if a user is using some kind of streaming or remote desktop features. The idea behind the virtual speakers or virtual microphones is it allows a software to reroute these audios to another device. No doubt there are variety of…

How to Fix Steam Link Audio on macOS Host

It is less likely scenario for macOS to be the host than the client for Steam Link, but it does indeed happen. I usually set my MacBook Air to be the host for Steam Link to play a stream the game session over to my phone, and no doubt there are other use cases where…

How to Add Custom Text Around WordPress Comments

After the 30 days decision, the first change I wanted to make immediately to the site was letting readers know that comments will be closed after certain period. I didn’t get into details before, WordPress simply doesn’t load comments section if the post in question doesn’t have any comments and the submission is closed. In…

How to Change Comments Closed Message on WordPress

On WordPress, the default behavior for comments section has an oddly hidden notification message. It is only shown when a post already has some comments, and the comment section must be closed for future submission. It simply reads: “Comments are closed”. It sounds obvious and communicates to the fact why the comment field is not…

How to Calculate Next Day of the Week on Shortcuts

It’s yet another calendar series for Shortcuts. As I have written before, as powerful the Shortcuts is, it could use some handy functions surrounding general date managements — particularly days and weeks department. It is never hard to make a subroutine if you need one, however. I hope this particular function doesn’t sound too off…

How to Calculate Nth Day of the Week in Month on Shortcuts

Shortcuts app on iOS and macOS is one of the most powerful tool available to the platform. I strongly recommend anyone who owns an Apple device to give Shortcuts a try; it is equivalent of BASIC in our time. But not every functions a user would want is in the Shortcuts. Thankfully, what Shortcuts doesn’t…

How to Save Animated Images with SingleFile

As I was preparing for this piece, the title was originally ‘how to save GIFs’, only to realize that will confuse even more readers and users of SingleFile. If you have tried to save a webpage using SaveFile that contains modern animated images, likely the result would not contain the image itself. The problem goes…

How to Remove AirPods Max Headband

AirPods Max is likely the only Apple-made electronics that has mesh fibers instead of the usual choice of metals. Not that it doesn’t have metallic exteriors on the sides, it uses materials that needs maintenance as it tends to collect dust and other debris. The part needs to be cleaned most frequent, the ear cups,…

How to Band-aid Fix Duolingo Stuck Mistakes Items

Duolingo, the popular language learning app, has been pushing the ads in South Korea quite rigorously, and I’m giving it a go for a year. The fact that I can jump to another language if I feel stuck at certain ‘level’ of a language to give myself a refresher (i.e. sleep on it) is definitely…

How to Band-Aid Fix Behaviour Account Sync with Wrong PSN

If you are using a single computer amongst multiple PlayStation players, (e.g. different players on family computers, regional PlayStation accounts by the same person) Behaviour has made some dubious choices on their end to make the life difficulty for most players. The website, when it is linking PSN accounts, does so automatically without asking the…

How to Create Web Meta Messenger App on macOS

With the recent announcement all desktop Meta Messenger app for Windows and macOS will be depreciated this coming December, I had to login to my Facebook account to see how the web interface has changed since forever. To be frank, I was never a heavy Facebook user. I liked it as another option amongst myriads…

How to Rename Multiple Filenames on Windows

One of the GUI features available on macOS side is its automation. I often contribute Mac’s near-obsessive focus on user automation has to do with the early days of PC experience, experimenting with BASIC for the first time on a computer. That being said, on Mac, if you select multiple items to “rename”, Finder gives…