July 4, 2023

JixiPix Summer Sale with 40% Off

There is a fantastic sale going on for 40% off the entire JixiPix line. Use the coupon HOT40SALE to save on the Premium Pack, Bundles, and individual titles. I’m a huge fan of JixiPix and their art tools. Over the last two years, I believed I purchased each app they offer. I started with the Premium Pack + Pro Bundle, then filled in the rest over the next few sales. I use them standalone and within Affinity Photo. I discovered them on a search to make a portrait look like an oil painting. That led me to Portrait Painter, which I love messing around with. Portrait Painter led me into Spektral Art, which can make images appear to glow, or melt, or look neon. I’ve got an entire desktop wallpaper collection of Spektral Art and beach scenes. Thing is, these are incredibly versatile tools that can run standalone or within another app. And the collection of effects is near endless. […]

July 2, 2023

🖱 Adding functionality to Finder with Mouseboost Pro

Mouseboost was a random discovery with features I couldn’t pass up. Despite the name, Mouseboost is targeted at improved File and Folder management in Finder. PathFinder was my disk management tool of choice, until it proved itself to be a subscription, and got deleted. Now back to using Finder, I wanted some of the same functionality – copy path, new file type, move/copy to a defined location, delete immediately, send to an app. All of that and more is possible with Mouseboost. Mouseboost adds quite a bit of new functionality to Finder, or makes existing functionality easier to get to, through the right click menu. You can define common folder locations, send a file to a common app not necessarily the default app, launch a script, cut, and copy path. These are all very handy features that once you start using them, you miss them when they’re gone. I use Copy Path all the time when working with macros. Finder […]

June 28, 2023

🖱 MyPoint Pro

I’ve had MyPoint Pro installed for nearly a year now, and not only is it beneficial, it’s also fun. I originally discovered MyPoint while looking for a tool to darken all my screens for a focus mode. It’s a pretty popular tool, but some of the prices were ridiculous. You really want $6 for that? MyPoint offers this simple feature, and a dozen more. It can darken one, or all of your monitors. It can change the “shade” to a different color. It provides a locator, so clicking CTRL, reveals the mouse location. It has a visual cue when you click the mouse. It shows the mouse coordinates as well as a grid and crosshair. All of these are awesome for multiple monitors and screen presentations. Finally, and for me the coolest feature, is the Halo. This is a picture you can attach to the mouse pointer. This helps to locate the pointer if you have a lot of screen […]

June 25, 2023

💥 Fun with Comic Life 3

Comic Life is a full featured desktop publishing app for the design, layout, and publishing of comics. I’m not an artist, nor do I work on comics, but I have a great time using this tool to entertain my kids, and antagonize my teammates. For my kids, I like to make paneled comics with web images or screen captures from a movie. I set up my panels, drop in my images, then add speech bubbles to say something funny. I use this a ton during the holidays, especially Halloween, and Christmas. My other use is to antagonize my team by writing smart ass phrases using Comic Life’s Lettering feature, then drop them into Teams. I amuse myself to no end with Batman style Shazam! WTF? Or a giant Challenge Accepted banner in chat. I use these enough to have a whole library of them hooked up to text expansion keywords. Comic Life is like Affinity Publisher, but Comic Life focuses […]

June 22, 2023

🗯 Some quick thoughts on my new 2013 Mac Pro

I haven’t put this Mac Pro through all it’s paces, but I’ve loaded a few apps, done a few things, and have a few thoughts. It’s not the colossal case of the 2010, but the 2013 Mac Pro is still a good looking machine. It’s a radical departure that only got one iteration, but I like it. It doesn’t really look like a computer. At first place you could easily mistake it for a bluetooth speaker. It’s compact, so doesn’t take up much room, runs almost silently, and has plenty of ports to work with. It’s from 2013 and has USB 3.0 so you can plug in plenty of hardware. As far as workstations go, it’s a solid unit. That compact size does put out a fair bit of heat though, even at idle. You can put your hand over the top and feel it. The same is true for my 2010 Mac Pro, which has plenty of heat coming […]

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