Well, Shortcuts comes from the iOS world and is a relatively recent addition to macOS. Automator originated in macOS and I don't think it has made it over to iOS at this point?
That's not even the full extent of it though. Before Automator, there was Script Editor, which could also create script applications, but that doesn't seem to work so well anymore. Automator has become the preferred approach for that. But Script Editor is still around and is useful for looking up AppleScript dictionaries. These tell you if a given application offers special scripting support, and there are also a few general dictionaries like StandardAdditions that are worth a gander. I wish AppleScript existed for iOS.
And then there's the command line approach of using crontab to open your files with the open command. And osascript lets you run any AppleScript from the command line.
True story. I was looking for an answer to an obscure problem and found it in a 10-year-old stackoverflow post. Then I looked more closely at the author…
Hey! Me from 10 years ago, stop being such a smart ass! It's obnoxious.
Oh yeah, I remember CompuServe. I believe it was its own separate network from the Internet, though they had an email gateway at least. Maybe towards the end they became an ISP like AOL did? My memory is fuzzy on that.
I do remember they invented gif files which then of course spread to the Internet. But it was a mess because the compression they use was patent-protected. CompuServe had paid royalties on it, but the Internet was, well, the Internet…
Can't remember the exact year but I imagine it was sometime in the mid-90s?
I used to play MUDs on a community BBS and one day the admins said they were testing out an Internet portal. Before long, they became the first ISP in town. It was weird because until they eventually upgraded to DSL, they had this quirky dialup script you had to use that navigated past the BBS part to get you on the Internet. For all I know, the BBS may still lurking around somewhere to this day?
I have some vague recollection of a hacker convention from the 90s where people were challenged to come up with wireless networking in a one night coding marathon. (This was long before wifi.) So some dude used speech synthesis to get a machine to say "one zero one one zero…" and another to assemble the binary data into packets using speech recognition. It was hilarious, and the dev had to keep telling people to shut up and stop laughing so he could complete the demo.
But anyways… what I'm trying to suggest here is you might have the best luck if your notification sounds contain spoken commands and you use speech recognition to trigger scripts? That tech is pretty mature at this point.
Some good suggestions here. But if you've been battling this for ages, it might be time for a sleep study? You may need a referral from your family doctor for this, but it's generally not hard to get, and the sleep lab will be able to tell you if you have any bio-mechanical issues like sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome, etc. There are all sorts of things that can mess up sleeping. Also, it's a rapidly evolving field of medicine, so even if you had one done years ago, it might be worth a revisit?
Do you just see white along the crack? Nothing darker? In that case you're probably fine? I chipped my front tooth when I was a kid in the stupidest accident ever. I was playing some game with friends outside and started laughing so uncontrollably I hit my tooth on a stone fence. It didn't even hurt but my friends were like "dude!"
The dentist repaired it with some sort of fake enamel-looking stuff which lasted a number of years before falling off. They did it again and it fell off again. Eventually I was like you know what? Let's just leave it this time. It's not causing me any grief.
Anyway, as middle-aged guy, I have lost one tooth from infection at this point, but it had nothing to do with the chip. It was a gum infection that led to a root canal and eventually they had to remove the whole thing. I'm contemplating whether to get an implant but again, it doesn't really bother me that it's missing? It's pretty far back.
For future reference, if you ever see a pussy white looking mark on your gum a little above the tooth, that's an abscess and do get that shit looked at pronto. It'll probably hurt and let you know it's there though.
There is also the ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure aspect to all this. The anti-carbon tax camp loves to blame rising costs on essentials like groceries on the tax (conveniently forgetting to mention that aside from it being a minor contributor, the rebates are specifically put in to address this).
But you know what else will raise the price of food? Climate change. I think it's fair to say that it has already contributed to shortages of certain items and you can bet it's only going to get worse to the point that we will be looking back on the prices today nostalgically before long.
I don't doubt it. It's a bit like natural selection. A good idea has better odds of taking hold and becoming a part of the next generation's knowledge base, but there are no guarantees. There are all sorts of circumstances that can affect whether this actually happens, and sometimes it's just down to dumb luck.
I was astonished to find the other day that LibreOffice has no problem opening ClarisWorks files. That is an ancient Mac format that even Apple's Pages has long since abandoned.
This is a big deal. The UN doesn't throw the term genocide around lightly. And I thank the OP for linking directly to their site to give as unadulterated a reporting as possible.
Global warming isn’t a function of nuclear weapon testing.
This reminds me of something I learned in climatology. Those who did pioneering work studying ocean circulation which became instrumental later in formulating the general circulation models used today discovered they could measure the currents by tracking radioisotopes from open air nuclear tests done back in the 60s. So ironically, nuclear weapons testing has furthered our understanding of climate and global warming.
It always feels weird to me when I'm in California and the ca is in the middle of the url, like whatever.ca.gov.