The web is full of links designed to track and surveil the people who share and receive them.

I want to encourage people to be kind to their friends and followers by stripping tracking data from links they share. You can do this by only sharing only expanded versions of links and by removing tracking query parameters.

If you’re on iOS (or macOS), you can use this simple shortcut I created to do so.

https://chromamine.com/2025/07/share-links-thoughtfully-with-an-ios-shortcut/

Diese iOS 26 Funktionen benötigen iPhone 15 Pro oder neuer
Apple hat mit iOS 26 markante Änderungen eingeführt. Eine davon ist das Liquid Glass Design, das auf allen kompatiblen Geräten verfügbar ist. Doch eine Vielzahl der neuen Funk
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/diese-ios-26-funktionen-benoetigen-iphone-15-pro-oder-neuer/
#iPhone #News #ASerieChips #AppleIntelligence #AppleWallet #IOS26 #IPhone15Pro #KI #LiquidGlassDesign #Livebersetzung #NeuralEngine #Shortcuts #SpatialScenes

WWDC25: macOS 26 Tahoe bringt mehr iOS, Personalisierung und Spotlight
Das neue macOS bekommt immer noch einen Beinamen, auch wenn es macOS 26 heißen wird, diesmal wird es sich um Tahoe handeln. Dazu kommen einige neue Funktionen, die wir vom iPhone kennen und mehr Personalisierung.
Das neue Design setzt sich auch auf dem Mac
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/wwdc25-macos-26-tahoe-bringt-mehr-ios-personalisierung-und-spotlight/
#News #Design #iOS #Kurzbefehle #Shortcuts #Spotlight

Whim: “Gosh, it'd be handy to have crontab for running #Shortcuts on #iOS.”

Action: Do a quick web search

Result: Mind blown by a blog post from @joshdholtz.

https://www.joshholtz.com/blog/2021/06/23/automating-ios-shortcuts-the-cron-job-way.html

Hey #SiriShortcuts folks: Here’s an interesting thread of people sharing custom shortcuts they’ve built to do all kinds of unique things.

A standout for me: A woman has seizures. So her husband built a shortcut for her phone that texts her GPS location to him, a message that says “I’m having a seizure,” and begins an audio recording for 20 minutes so they can log how long it lasts for her medical records. #Apple #Shortcuts

https://www.reddit.com/r/shortcuts/s/Nsj792pu72

The #Tolman "sunburst maze" results (from 1946) are often used to demonstrate shortcut ability in rats... but do they really? More on this later!

For now, would you know of any #ComputationalModels that were tested in this protocol (whether they replicate the original results or not)? We know of a few (well... 4) but would like to make sure we are not missing any.

#BehaviouralNeuroscience #SpatialCognition #Shortcuts #CognitiveMap #Neuroscience (kind of)

This Easter weekend I've already released new versions of two #Alfred workflows ('Bypass' for Apple #Shortcuts and 'Read the Manual'), and a brand new one 'Factor' for #Warp (the terminal app).

Today I'm pushing another couple of small'ish updates. This time for 'Slink' (a workflow for SearchLink by @ttscoff ) and for 'Noise Player'.

Find them all at https://www.thoughtasylum.com/alfred/

My favorite thing about #Shortcuts on the Mac is that when i run the same automation 10 times a day, I get to click "Always Allow" every time.

Does "always" mean something different than what I think it means?

Confused by the #Emacs key binding concepts? You might be interested in reading:

#UOMF: My Emacs Key Binding Strategy
https://karl-voit.at/2018/07/08/emacs-key-bindings/

Just gonna leave this here for a bit:
https://actions.work/barcuts?ref=mastodon

Beta no more! #macOS #Shortcuts #Automation

I’m trying something new, which is to share some of my personal day-to-day workflows in a series I’m calling Wicked Workflows.

First up, a way you can use Shortcuts, Things and One Thing to keep you focused on one task.

/cc @sindresorhus, @things

#Shortcuts #Apple #macOS

https://heliomass.com/projects/wicked-workflows/one-thing/

Getting back into the swing of things! B13 of the Shortcuts plugin for #Elgato's Stream Deck is out, featuring #OpenAI's 5x new voices!

Fixes:
- A bug with audio generation
- An incorrectly named file, causing 'Nova' to not function correctly

Please hound me with any feedback!

iOS 18.4 Beta 2: Neue Funktionen und Verbesserungen im Überblick – Alte Siri-Animation
Apple hat die zweite Beta-Version von iOS 18.4 veröffentlicht und bringt damit weitere Optimierungen für iPhone-Nutzer:inne
https://www.apfeltalk.de/magazin/news/ios-18-4-beta-2-neue-funktionen-und-verbesserungen-im-ueberblick-alte-siri-animation/
#iPhone #News #AppleIntelligence #AppleMaps #AppleVisionPro #Emojis #IOS184 #iPhoneUpdate #Kontrollzentrum #Shortcuts #Siri #VisualIntelligence #WalletApp

By the way, if your iOS ships #AppShortcuts with a custom background tile color (for the Shortcuts app), its most likely that it only works on iPhone and not iPad.

I was able to get it to work on iPad by making a duplicate entry in the info plist for “CFBundleIcons" to be “CFBundleIcons~ipad" because I remembered about "Device-Specific Keys" from this article.

So now my background tiles show up green on iPadOS Shortcuts app.

#SwiftUI #iOSDev #AppIntents #Shortcuts

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/bundleresources/managing-your-app-s-information-property-list

My new app Browser Actions adds #macOS #Shortcuts support for #GoogleChrome, #MicrosoftEdge, #Safari, #Vivaldi, #Chromium, and #BraveBrowser! Now you can use Shortcuts to …

- create, find, filter, manipulate browser windows/ tabs/ pages
- work with browser menus
- send keystrokes, mimic typing
- interact w/ pages, click and scroll
- fill out forms
- extract info, selection as plain text or #Markdown (tables and everything!), the current DOM, all text content, etc.

https://actions.work/browser-actions

Once you get the hang of it, #AppIntents and #AppShortcuts are pretty easy to build.

In this case, it uses your bookmarked transit stops to get either arrival times or service alerts for that transit stops. It’ll display either in the Siri response UI.

Read a very geeky IoT / Apple Shortcuts story in my latest blog post: “NFC Sticker Automation”
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/01/27/nfc-sticker-automation/

Useful for everyone, but especially on the Mac… Shift plus escape will move focus to the edit box when on the ChatGPT website. #Keyboard #Shortcuts #Convenience.