building and improving apps
OpenAI’s Sora app, which lets users generate and share AI videos into a social feed, launched as an invite-only app on September 30. It hit the top of the US App Store within 3 days. It nabbed its first 1M downloads in under 5 days. It kept ascending: in early November it started relaxing its… Continue reading OpenAI’s Sora now sits at #71 in the US App Store and #108 on Play Store
[Update: and I shipped the feature, three weeks later, rolling out to users now as version 8. Here’s a post describing it.] Ahhgh! – what I’m feeling right now in this moment is pure excitement. I can see, on my Mac (in my app via Xcode): a new marquee feature that is delivering results and… Continue reading A Day in the Life
Pictured above: Here I am at the store, waiting for the demo. The unit I actually tried used the Dual Band loop, which was very comfortable. Based on podcasts and reviews that I’ve seen over the past year, going into the demo I thought that: In reality I found: My takeaway was: something derivative of… Continue reading Finally tried the Apple Vision Pro. My impressions.
So a Redditor recently asked me an absolutely fair question about why CurrentKey Stats is a subscription app, and I would like to provide an explanation in full, because who doesn’t love free or really inexpensive software? (I do very much!) When I launched this app 5 years ago in early 2019, it had a… Continue reading A note about CurrentKey Stats’ return to the App Store after two years and…
My hope is that CurrentKey helps you use your Mac more productively and that you can have some fun along the way. Because I have added extensive AppleScript support, there are endless possibilities to spice up your Mac experience. What could I do with this power? Just brainstorming off the top of my head, here… Continue reading Brainstorming cool ways to use CurrentKey via its AppleScript support
In our increasingly fast-paced lives, finding the time for fog-busting puzzles is hard to come by. This makes having speedy games that can enrich your day even more important! JOTJOLT! and Quorbo both take a multi-pronged approach to revving you up: featuring some of the wittiest quips ever concocted alongside brain-teasing action. It’s a combo… Continue reading Presenting JOTJOLT! and Quorbo:…
Fortunately, there’s an easy way to accomplish this! We will use CurrentKey‘s Room Change Alerts to issue push notifications! Here’s what it will look like: How to set it up: Here is how to enable Room alerts: Here is what the script looks like: It’s just that easy! You can do so many things with… Continue reading Set up banner notifications that will tell you the name of the Space you just moved…
I have a Mac app, CurrentKey Stats, in the App Store. It has been a free app since the beginning. (Well, when it initially launched it was freemium with upgrade IAP purchases, but around mid-2020 I made the app fully free, and I know that thousands of people have gotten use out of it!) The… Continue reading Because I do not have a Mac capable of running the upcoming MacOS Monterey, I am removing…
Hey there! Because you have happened upon my site, I wanted to let you know that I’m writing some longer-form pieces at a new blog called Key Discussions. My first two posts are: Your iPhone (and iCloud backups) are full of gigabytes-worth of old iMessages that are virtually impossible to read (which led to lively… Continue reading New blog posts at Key Discussions
[Update: Users can’t reproduce this any longer, as they have pushed a server-side fix for this issue. It still counts as an embarrassing failure by Google. If you would like to see what the bug looked like, there’s a video at the bottom of the article.] Amid Apple pushing mandatory privacy labels, Google is stalling… Continue reading Google is now telling users that its iOS apps are out of date…