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Keeping the Workflow Simple
Recently, I decided I wanted to reestablish the practice of daily writing, following the model of 750words.com. But I didn’t want to use that site, I wanted what I wrote to be searchable, and I wanted...
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Print From Anywhere with Dropbox, IFTTT, and Automator
If you’ve owned an iOS device, you’ve probably wanted to print from it at some point. Maybe it’s a file, maybe it’s a webpage or e-mail–sometimes, the people want their paper copies. And so Apple...
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Using AppleScript to Automate Notetaking
[This guest post reprints, with permission, Jason Heppler's post from Saturday. Jason is a Ph.D. candidate in history at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln, where he is also project manager for the...
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Scripting 101: A Very Gentle Introduction to AppleScript
We’ve written before at ProfHacker about the power of scripting tasks: Letting your computer take over some of the repetitive things that each of us do regularly daily hourly. Recently, for example,...
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How to Use Pa11y for Automated Accessibility Testing of Web Pages, Part 1
Here at ProfHacker, we’ve covered accessibility (often abbreviated as a11y) in a number of different posts. This is an ever-growing topic of interest for many, but especially for those who design and...
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An Easy macOS Script for Converting Images to PDFs
One of the great conveniences about modern smartphone cameras is that it’s now much easier to submit paperwork of various types. Even if you don’t have a digital copy of the form, you can frequently...
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Automating using APIs and Zapier
Something I know I need to know and understand more about are APIs, so I follow Kin Lane (aka The API Evangelist). He has a great introductory tutorial API 101, but he also points to some useful tools...
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Desktop Automation with Belvedere
For many of us this week is jam packed with spring semester preparation. One aspect of this prep that has arguably the highest ROI behind actually knowing the content you’re teaching is setting up and...
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How to Learn More about Automating Tasks
An evergreen topic of interest at ProfHacker is how to automate tasks, whether via a web tool such as If This, Then That*, an iOS app such as Workflow (recently bought by Apple), or a language like...
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Weekend Reading: Midsummer Edition
For those of us on a May-August academic calendar, summer is quickly vanishing: I for one cannot believe July is nearly upon us. This time of year is a great opportunity to reflect on the spring...
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