![]() ![]() When Outlook is pinned to your Task Bar in Windows 7 or Windows 8 or added to the Quick Launch bar in Windows Vista, you can open Outlook by pressing the Windows key on your keyboard and the number representing its position within the bar. I’m also glad to have the words “psychovisual difference” in my vocabularity so I can read more about this field! Already I’ve found this article that looks interesting from Cloudinary, Detecting the psychovisual impact of compression related artifacts using SSIMULACRA.Is there any way I can quickly open Outlook via a keyboard shortcut or switch back to Outlook when it is already running? On the other hand I’m glad I didn’t because now I can just use the squoosh v2 CLI instead of trying to incorporate it on my own. ![]() I should have guessed there was something like this. The CLI also offers auto compression, where it tries to reduce the quality of an image as much as possible without degrading the visual fidelity (using the Butteraugli metric). WELP turns out there’s an algorithm for that™! I saw this blog post about the Squoosh v2 release (by Mariko, one of my BrooklynJS co-conspirators back from when we could pack 100 people into small rooms lolsob) and it has this line: I previously talked about keeping images ugly and mentioned that I considered automating image compression but decided against it because visually inspecting is the only way to know I’m right above unacceptable. Autoexpanding snippets also seem nice, and a blessed path for preference syncing using Dropbox. One of the things that was keeping me on LaunchBar was clipboard history and it looks like Alfred added that in 2016. Writing this up is making me think about giving Alfred a shot, though. I think I upgraded OS versions and something didn’t work, so I switched to LaunchBar and just stuck with it since. I’ve used some kind of keyboard-driven command launcher for as long as I can remember-back in the year of Linux on the desktop, I used Katapult and when I switched to OSX I used Quicksilver. I’m trying to remember what made me choose LaunchBar. Cmd+Tab: switch application (until I find Firefox).Cmd+L: focus the location bar and select everything in it.Before I just lived with links opening in the wrong place and moving them over manually every time using Cmd+L Cmd+X Cmd+W Cmd+Tab Cmd+T Cmd+V ⏎ I searched for “change default browser commandline macos” which led to StackOverflow, which pointed to a CLI called defaultbrowser, which is exactly what I need even better, someone already added it to homebrew so I could brew install defaultbrowser.Īside: I love that top answer from 2018 says, “I found this tool” when the first comment on the question, from 2014, is “I built something quickly” and it’s the tool that other person found.Īnyway, now I can go Cmd+Space db ⏎ firefox ⏎ (where “db” is a trained shortcut for “Default Browser”). I’m on macOS and LaunchBar is my preferred command-palette and figured I could write an action if I could find a UI-less way to change the default browser. Outside of working hours, I want links opened in Firefox. During the work day, most of the links I click are gonna be work stuff, so I want that to open in Chrome. I use Chrome for work and Firefox for everything else. ![]() This inspired me to fix something in my everyday workflow that is more annoying than it should be. One of the drafts from the newsletter that turned into a post is about everyday workflow automation, In Praise of AutoHotKey. I subscribe to the newsletter and read a lot of the content already, but it’s great to have a collected PDF version I can read and annotate in LiquidText. □ posted □ back to index Automating default browser switchingĪ few days ago I picked up Hillel Wayne’s collection of newsletters, Computer Things 2019-2020. Automating default browser switching ugly images redux ![]()
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