Transloader v3.1.6 is now available. The update improves the placement and display of the popover if you use the app’s menu bar icon, syncing and handling of download states, and the visual feedback when adding a download to the local Mac. Additionally, it fixes a localization issue in the “Added from device” informational overlay.
With Transloader, you manage downloads on your Macs, remotely from your iPhones, iPads, and other Macs.
Tameno – your self-repeating tapping interval timer – is now available in version 1.0.5 and brings a couple of nice additions to the Mac app. Here’s what’s new in the Mac app:
Dock Menu
Start and stop intervals from Tameno’s icon in your Dock, or change it to one of your recent ones.
Dock Icon Badge
See at a glance how much time is left in your interval by looking at Tameno’s icon in your Dock (you can turn it on and off in the app’s settings).
Menu Bar Display
Additionally to the Dock icon badge, or alternatively to it, you can enable Tameno’s display in your menu bar (which only appears when the app is tapping you; there’s a toggle for this, too, in the app’s settings).
Links and Availability
Tameno is exclusively available on the App Stores for Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. It’s a universal one-time purchase, for USD 3.99 / EUR 3,99 / GBP 3.99. Tameno is currently available in English and German and requires watchOS 9.4, iOS 16.6, iPadOS 16.6, macOS 13.5, or tvOS 16.6.
Today I released Tameno v1.0.3, and it comes with a ton more intervals, “Count to zero”, and more.
What’s Tameno?
Tameno informs you about the elapsing of an interval you give it. Say you want to water all your plants for the same duration: set a 20 second interval, and Tameno will tap you every 20 seconds. Or you want to brush each side of every quadrant of your teeth evenly: set a 10 second interval, and Tameno will tap you every 10 seconds. Or you’re doing stretches and want to do them for the same amount of time: set a 15 second interval, and Tameno will tap you every 15 seconds.
It’s a universal app that is available for your Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV!
Features vary from platform to platform, naturally: The Apple Watch taps you when the interval elapses. The iPhone vibrates, optionally plays a sound, and optionally flashes the screen. The iPad, Mac and Apple TV play a sound and optionally flash the screen(s).
What’s New in Tameno v1.0.3?
Most importantly, instead of intervals between only 2 and 60 seconds, you can now choose between 2 seconds and 20 minutes! That’s a whopping 3.400% increase in intervals. And it’s a completely free upgrade. Wow!
With that increase in intervals, I found it necessary to have a faster way to set them up. So to change the interval by seconds, you just scroll up/down or left/right like before. If you want to do it by minutes, you can instead tap-drag. Here’s a short video of it in action:
Some users have expressed their wish that Tameno would count to 0 instead of 1, so I’ve implemented just such a setting. Instead of 3 > 2 > 1 >> 3 > 2 > 1, a 3 second interval will count 2 > 1 > 0 >> 2 > 1 > 0 with it enabled:
Links and Availability
Tameno is exclusively available on the App Stores for Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV. It’s a universal one-time purchase, for USD 3.99 / EUR 3,99 / GBP 3.99. Tameno is currently available in English and German and requires watchOS 9.4, iOS 16.6, iPadOS 16.6, macOS 13.5, or tvOS 16.6.
ScreenFloat v2.1.1 is now available and comes with a bunch of cool new features and improvements. Read on to learn what’s changed.
What’s ScreenFloat?
ScreenFloat powers up your screenshots and -recordings in numerous ways. First of all, it can make them float, like Picture-in-Picture; incredibly useful for keeping information always visible when you need to remember or reference something. Next, it allows you to extract, view and redact information like text lines, faces and barcodes with a simple right-click. Share and export quickly and easily with drag and drop. Pick colors. Crop, “fold”, rotate, resize, “de-retinize”, trim and mute your shots. Annotate, markup and redact them. Organize and collect them with its Shots Browser. Synchronize your shots over iCloud. And more – see my 8-part (and counting) blog post series “Get to know ScreenFloat 2” for an in-depth look.
What’s New in ScreenFloat v2.1(.1)
Highlight your Mouse Cursor and Keyboard Input in Screen Recordings
You can now highlight the position of your mouse cursor, cursor clicks and pressed keyboard keys in your video recordings, and customize the highlights’ appearance.
You can change the placement of the key stroke highlight, give highlights different colors and strengths and decide which modifier keys should be displayed, or if all keyboard input should be shown.1
I’ve also lowered the system requirements for these new highlights to macOS 12, so every user of ScreenFloat can make use of it! Speaking of which, I’ve replaced ScreenFloat’s use of the screencapture CLI for video recordings with macOS’ ScreenCaptureKit APIs when running macOS 13 or newer.
Auto-Trim of Ending Video Recordings
ScreenFloat now auto-trims your video recordings so it does not include you ending the recording. That means, when you go to the menu bar, click ScreenFloat’s icon and select Stop Recording, instead of that being part of the video, it gets trimmed away for you. Consequently, when you highlight key strokes and use ScreenFloat’s keyboard shortcut to end the recording, that will get trimmed away for you, too.
Selective Audio Removal (All, System, Microphone)
When recording your screen with audio input and output, you can now not only remove all audio from the video later on, but decide if you’d like to remove only the system audio or the microphone audio you recorded.
This can also be set up as part of a double-click workflow for floating shots, of course:
Please note that this only works with captures recorded using ScreenFloat v2.1 – it adds app-specified metadata to the audio tracks to identify them, enabling this feature.
Save and Re-Use Often-Captured Screen Areas
If you find yourself capturing the same area of your screen repeatedly, ScreenFloat now allows you to save that capture area and use it any time you need it during re-capturing.
Aspect Ratios for Re-Capture
Just like when you crop shots in ScreenFloat, you can now set a fixed aspect ratio for your re-captures, making it easy to frame screenshots and recordings in 1:1, 3:2/2:3, 4:3/3:4, and 16:9/9:16 with a simple right-click.
Force-Sync Shots
Shots that would not normally sync because of a limit you have set up (like “only sync images / only sync videos”, or a file size limit), can now be forced to sync in the Shots Browser.
Repair your Database
In the rare case you have double-entries for “All Shots”, or “Trash”, for example, or if you’d like to restore unreferenced image- and video files, or sanitize tags and other metadata, you can launch ScreenFloat in Repair mode by holding down option (⌥) and shift (⇧) when launching it.
If you have any feedback or questions, please don’t hesitate to reach out!
Keyboard input monitoring begins and ends with video recordings and does not operate at any other time when ScreenFloat is running. Key strokes are neither stored, nor logged, and certainly not transmitted. Input monitoring is exclusively used to display key presses in your video recordings. You can grant and revoke input monitoring permissions any time in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Input Monitoring. Please refer to my privacy policy for further info.↩︎
