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MakePass

AI Wallet Editor macOS iOS iPadOS

MakePass enhances your Apple Wallet experience with advanced pass editing and AI-driven design support. It offers a simple and efficient way to create & customize your passes with ease and precision.

HomeControl

Menu for HomeKit macOS

HomeControl is a powerful HomeKit menu bar app: check the state of your home at a glance, trigger a scene, switch the status of a device or even change you primary home directly from your Mac menu bar!

OverPicture

for Safari macOS iOS iPadOS

OverPicture is a Safari Extension that allows you to play any web video in Picture-In-Picture mode.

BrowserMask

for Safari macOS iOS iPadOS

BrowserMask is a Safari extension that allows you to browse websites as if you were using another browser by changing the User Agent sent to the websites by Safari. This way, you can make any website believe it is being shown on other browsers like Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge.

WhatsShare

for WhatsApp macOS

WhatsShare is the missing Share Extension for WhatsApp. It allows you to share text, links, photos & video from any app with share menu support like Safari, Photos or Chrome.

HomeBot

for Shortcuts macOS iOS iPadOS

HomeBot for Shortcuts allows you to automate your HomeKit setup in a powerful new way.

BrowserSwitch

for Safari macOS

BrowserSwitch is a Safari Extension that can seamlessly open any Safari page in other web browsers like Google Chrome or Firefox. BrowserSwitch supports both opening a page or switching it: opening it on an external browser and closing it in Safari.

AirWeight

for Bluetooth Scales macOS iOS iPadOS visionOS watchOS tvOS

AirWeight connects to your Xiaomi Mi Scale or SANITAS SBF70 Bluetooth scale and reads your weight in realtime, computes your body mass index and body fat percentage and saves the measurements in the Health app.

MakePDF

Document Merger macOS iOS iPadOS

MakePDF allows you to merge multiple files into a unique PDF really quickly by simply selecting or dropping documents and images.

VoiceExpress

Audio to Text macOS iOS iPadOS

VoiceExpress allows you to transcribe any voice message or audio file. It can convert voice messages to text in all languages supported by the system dictation service. VoiceExpress also supports transcribing audio files with Shortcuts!

InstaMeet

for Zoom macOS

InstaMeet is a Safari Extension that transparently and quickly redirects Zoom meeting links to Zoom in-browser web client so you can avoid installing and using the Zoom application.

InstaReload

for Safari macOS

InstaReload is a Safari Extension that allows you to auto-reload any Safari webpage with a configurable reload interval.

MenuBot

Custom Menu Bar macOS

MenuBot allows you to customize your Mac Menu Bar using shortcuts. Each Menu Bar menu added with MenuBot is powered by a shortcut that is run at a specified interval. The output text of the shortcut is then used to populate the menu. The first line of the output defines the menu icon in the Menu Bar and the rest of the lines are used to populate the menu, which can include symbols, text, action links and submenus.

QuietMeet

Auto-Pause Music macOS

QuietMeet detects video-calls in supported web browsers and apps and automatically pauses and resumes the Music app playback as needed.

ShareBot

for Shortcuts macOS

ShareBot is the missing Share Extension for Shortcuts on macOS. It allows you to run any of your shortcuts on items like files, URLs or text shared from any app with share menu support like Finder, Safari, Twitter or Chrome.

Blog

Creating Apple Wallet Passes Instantly With ChatGPT and MakePass AI

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"MakePass AI – MakePass + ChatGPT"

TL;DR

You can use the MakePass AI service in the MakePass app with the Ultra subscription to create Apple Wallet passes instantly using an input photo or document of a ticket or card:

Introduction to MakePass AI

MakePass is a mighty Apple Wallet pass editor, with it you can create and customize a myriad of passes with complex layouts including images, barcodes, colors and text fields. Now it includes a new service called MakePass AI available with the MakePass Ultra subscription that allows you to create Apple Wallet passes instantly using an input photo or document of a ticket or card. It can even design the pass using a pass description.

MakePass AI uses technologies like text recognition, barcode recognition and Artificial Intelligence powered by OpenAI ChatGPT models to compose Apple Wallet passes from photos or documents of tickets and cards.

"MakePass AI – Input Options"

Examples

Here you can see some examples of passes generated automatically with MakePass AI from some input image or document:

Input Pass
Input 1 Pass 1
Input 2 Pass 2
Input 3 Pass 3

MakePass

MakePass is available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Mac.

WWDC Sessions Archive

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"WWDC Sessions Archive"

Introduction

This archive of WWDC sessions is meant to extend the current collection of videos available on Apple Developer website with all the sessions prior to WWDC 2017 that are not available there but continue to be hosted by Apple servers.

Notes

  • The videos are hosted by Apple so you may need to login with your Apple Developer account to be able to view or download them.
  • Unfortunately, some of the sessions do not have a link since they are not currently published by Apple.
  • Recent WWDC session videos can be found directly on Apple Developer website.
  • You can find more links for WWDC sessions on this gist by IsaacXen. This archive would not be possible without its initial links so credits and thanks to IsaacXen.
  • The archive is also available in new-line delimited JSON format here.

Index

Sessions

WWDC 2007

  • Session 100 – Coming to the Mac OS X Platform – Part 1 – The Mac OS X Architecture
  • Session 101 – Coming to the Mac OS X Platform – Part 2 – Frameworks, APIs and Tools
  • Session 102 – Threading for Performance Using OpenMP and Intel Threading Building Blocks
  • Session 103 – Getting Started with Core Data
  • Session 104 – Getting Started with Mac OS X Kernel Programming
  • Session 105 – Optimizing Your Core Data Application
  • Session 106 – Fundamentals of Kernel Debugging
  • Session 107 – Students - Getting the Most out of WWDC
  • Session 108 – Mac OS X File Systems – A Walkthrough For Developers and IT Professionals
  • Session 109 – Code Hardening Techniques
  • Session 110 – Cocoa Today
  • Session 111 – Managing Schema Versioning and Data Migration in Your Core Data Application
  • Session 112 – From Power On to Login – Inside the Mac OS X Leopard Boot Process
  • Session 114 – Developing for UNIX on Mac OS X
  • Session 115 – Getting Started with Cocoa Bindings
  • Session 116 – Students-Packets of Pure Power
  • Session 117 – Discovering Network Services Using Bonjour
  • Session 119 – Managing Processes with launchd
  • Session 125 – Building a Custom Control for Your Cocoa Application
  • Session 127 – Getting Started with Core Text
  • Session 128 – Cocoa Drawing Techniques
  • Session 130 – Cocoa Scripting Enhancements in Leopard
  • Session 131 – Add WYSIWYG HTML Editing to Your Web Page or Application
  • Session 134 – Customizing the Cocoa Text System
  • Session 136 – Modernizing Your Text Rendering with Core Text
  • Session 138 – Discover Java on Mac OS X Leopard
  • Session 139 – Partitioning Your Cocoa Application
  • Session 140 – Developing Cocoa Applications with Python and Ruby
  • Session 141 – Boosting Responsiveness and Performance in Your Cocoa Application
  • Session 145 – See What’s New in HIToolbox
  • Session 146 – Sign Your Application to Increase Security and Ensure Code Integrity
  • Session 147 – Advanced Java Development on Mac OS X
  • Session 154 – Leveraging SOAP Technologies on Mac OS X
  • Session 156 – Writing an Input Method Using the Input Method Kit
  • Session 157 – Extending Your Application with JavaScript
  • Session 158 – Adding Accessibility Support to Your Application
  • Session 161 – Making Your Custom Controls, Icons, and Artwork Resolution Independent
  • Session 164 – Professional Audio Input and Output with Leopard
  • Session 166 – Improving User Experience with Effective Power Management
  • Session 200 – Mac OS X State of the Union
  • Session 201 – Effective Widget Creation with Dashcode 2
  • Session 202 – Broadcast Your Application’s Content with iChat Theater
  • Session 203 – Coding Smarter with Objective-C 2.0
  • Session 204 – Fostering User Interaction with iChat
  • Session 205 – Making Your Application Scriptable
  • Session 206 – Building Automator Actions 2
  • Session 207 – Integrating iCal Events and Tasks into Your Application
  • Session 209 – Getting Started with Address Book
  • Session 210 – Building Animated Cocoa User Interfaces
  • Session 210 – Building Animated Cocoa User Interfaces
  • Session 211 – Adding Core Animation to Your Application
  • Session 211 – Adding Core Animation to Your Application
  • Session 213 – Getting Started with Spotlight and Quick Look
  • Session 215 – Embracing Automator Workflows with Your Application 2
  • Session 216 – Time Machine In-Depth
  • Session 217 – Unlocking the Potential of Dashcode
  • Session 218 – Garbage Collection Strategies for Objective-C 2.0
  • Session 220 – Leopard User Interface Design
  • Session 221 – Handling Images with the Image Kit
  • Session 222 – Using Advanced Objective-C 2.0 Features
  • Session 223 – Adopting 64-bit Programming
  • Session 224 – Next Generation Automation – AppleScript, Automator and Scripting Bridge
  • Session 300 – Developer Tools State of the Union
  • Session 301 – Getting Started with Mac OS X Development Tools
  • Session 302 – Getting Started with Xcode
  • Session 304 – Creating Custom Installers with Leopard’s New PackageMaker
  • Session 305 – Xcode 3.0 – The New Development Workflow
  • Session 306 – Interface Builder 3.0 – Creating an Interface from Start to Finish
  • Session 309 – Getting Started with Xray
  • Session 311 – Unleashing the Power of the Xcode Build System
  • Session 312 – Refactoring in Xcode – Automatic Project-wide Code Changes
  • Session 314 – Project-Free Xcode – Mixed Language Development
  • Session 315 – Tracing Software Behavior with DTrace
  • Session 316 – Getting Started – Performance Tuning with Shark
  • Session 317 – Taking Advantage of Compiler Advances
  • Session 318 – Using Xray and DTrace for In-depth Analysis
  • Session 319 – Developing Plugins for Interface Builder
  • Session 323 – Fortran Development and HPC on Mac OS X – 3rd Party Solutions
  • Session 324 – Bug Reporting Best Practices
  • Session 400 – Graphics and Media State of the Union
  • Session 401 – Creating Leading-edge 2D Graphics with Quartz
  • Session 402 – Understanding the Architecture of Core Audio
  • Session 403 – Creating Integrated Workflow Solutions with Final Cut Pro
  • Session 404 – Queueing, Streaming, and Extending Core Audio
  • Session 407 – Extending the Aperture RAW Workflow with Export Plug-Ins
  • Session 408 – Modernizing Your OpenGL Application for Leopard
  • Session 409 – Mastering QuickTime Digital Video Techniques
  • Session 410 – Introduction to FxPlug Development for Final Cut Studio
  • Session 411 – Advanced FxPlug Development for Final Cut Studio
  • Session 414 – Creating High-quality Content With QuickTime APIs
  • Session 415 – Mastering the Quartz Composer Editor
  • Session 416 – Integrating QuickTime Support into Your Application with QTKit
  • Session 417 – Switching to Mac OS X OpenGL
  • Session 418 – Leveraging the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL)
  • Session 419 – Printing with Style in Mac OS X
  • Session 420 – Tune Your OpenGL Application
  • Session 421 – Using Quartz Composer in Your Application 2
  • Session 424 – Create Stunning Effects with Core Image
  • Session 429 – Tune Your 2D Graphics Code
  • Session 430 – Manipulating PDF Content in Your Application
  • Session 431 – Leveraging the Common Unix Printing System (CUPS)
  • Session 500 – IT State of the Union
  • Session 501 – Welcome to Leopard Server
  • Session 502 – Getting Started with Mac OS X Administration
  • Session 503 – Scripting for SysAdmins
  • Session 504 – Mac OS X Security Configuration
  • Session 505 – Discovering Wiki and Group Services in Leopard Server
  • Session 506 – Integrating Smart Card Solutions in Leopard
  • Session 508 – Building Powerful Web 2.0 Applications with WebObjects
  • Session 509 – Mac OS X Scientific Computing State of the Union
  • Session 510 – Learning to Become an Effective SysAdmin
  • Session 512 – Bending Directory Services To Your Will – Best Practices
  • Session 514 – Understanding PKI and Certificate Management on Mac OS X
  • Session 518 – Real-World WebObjects Solutions
  • Session 519 – Deploying Large-scale Storage Solutions using Xsan and Xserve RAID
  • Session 600 – Fundamentals of Digital Video
  • Session 601 – Improving Your Video With Professional Preprocessing
  • Session 602 – The Encoding Process In Depth
  • Session 603 – Delivering Your Media
  • Session 604 – Iterative Cocoa and Web Application Design
  • Session 605 – Understanding Web Accessibility for Building Better Websites
  • Session 606 – Motion Graphics Design Using Quartz Composer
  • Session 607 – Development Methods for WebKit AJAX Applications
  • Session 608 – Vector Graphics for WebKit
  • Session 609 – Dashboard Widget Design Techniques
  • Session 610 – Design Innovation behind Apple.com
  • Session 611 – AJAX Methodologies for QuickTime Development
  • Session 614 – Developing Web Sites for iPhone
  • Session 615 – Using Dojo Toolkit Power Tools to Build Rich Web Applications
  • Session 616 – Designing and Developing Hybrid-Web Cocoa Applications
  • Session 618 – Designing and Extending the Mac OS X Blog Experience
  • Session 619 – Designing and Developing Rich Media WebKit-based Applications
  • Session 621 – Advanced Concepts in Using the Prototype JavaScript Framework
  • Session 622 – Create Effective, Sophisticated Podcasts

WWDC 2008

WWDC 2009

WWDC 2010

WWDC 2011

WWDC 2012

WWDC 2013

WWDC 2014

WWDC 2015

WWDC 2016

Automate HomeKit with HomeControl Automation URLs

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"HomeControl – Automation"

Introduction

HomeControl is a powerful Mac app that allows you to control your HomeKit setup directly from the menu bar.

HomeControl also includes full automation support for all the actions available in the app (triggering scenes, switching a device or device group status, changing the primary home and also changing device properties) with “x-callback-url”-compatible Automation URLs which can be easily invoked from AppleScript, Terminal and other apps.

Automation URLs

HomeControl Automation URLs can be easily generated from the “Customize Items” section available in the HomeControl preferences window. Just right-click an actionable item like a device or scene and select “Copy Automation URL”.

HomeControl – Copy Automation URL

A HomeControl Automation URL will be now available in your pasteboard. By default, Automation URLs run the same action that is executed when clicking on the item in the HomeControl menu:

  • Scenes will be triggered.
  • Devices will toggle their status (on to off and viceversa).
  • Homes will be set as the HomeKit primary home.

You can customize these default Automation URL to unleash a lot of more actions.

Device Activation Modes

Device and device group Automation URLs can be modified so they always activate or deactivate the item instead of toggling its state by changing the activation-mode parameter to activate or deactivate instead of toggle:

  • Toggle: homecontrol://x-callback-url/run-action?action-type=switch-device-status&item-type=device&item-name=Outlet&room-name=Principal&home-name=Home&activation-mode=toggle&authentication-token=TOKEN
  • Activate: homecontrol://x-callback-url/run-action?action-type=switch-device-status&item-type=device&item-name=Outlet&room-name=Principal&home-name=Home&activation-mode=activate&authentication-token=TOKEN
  • Deactivate: homecontrol://x-callback-url/run-action?action-type=switch-device-status&item-type=device&item-name=Outlet&room-name=Principal&home-name=Home&activation-mode=deactivate&authentication-token=TOKEN

Current Home Actions

You can also remove the home-name parameter of the URL and it will be invoked on the device or scene named as the item-name available in the current primary home. This is handy if you have the same scene available in multiple homes and want to trigger the scene in the one you are at the moment the automation is triggered.

Device Property Actions

There is a forth type of automation action that is not available directly with the “Copy Automation URL” shortcut, the change-device-property action. This action allows you to change a property of a device like light brightness, light color, thermostat mode, thermostat temperature or blinds position by setting the property-type and property-value parameters. These are some examples of what is posible with this powerful action type:

  • Set lightbulb named “Light” to 70% brightness: homecontrol://x-callback-url/run-action?action-type=change-device-property&item-type=device&item-name=Light&property-type=light-brightness&property-value=70&authentication-token=TOKEN
  • Set lightbulb named “Light” to yellow color (hue 60°): homecontrol://x-callback-url/run-action?action-type=change-device-property&item-type=device&item-name=Light&property-type=light-hue&property-value=60&authentication-token=TOKEN
  • Set lightbulb named “Light” to 30% color saturation: homecontrol://x-callback-url/run-action?action-type=change-device-property&item-type=device&item-name=Light&property-type=light-saturation&property-value=30&authentication-token=TOKEN
  • Set lightbulb named “Light” to warm color temperature (3200K): homecontrol//x-callback-url/run-action?action-type=change-device-property&item-type=device&item-name=Light&property-type=light-color-temperature&property-value=3200&authentication-token=TOKEN
  • Set thermostat named “Air Conditioner” to 21°C target temperature: homecontrol://x-callback-url/run-action?action-type=change-device-property&item-type=device&item-name=Air%20Conditioner&property-type=thermostat-temperature&property-value=21&authentication-token=TOKEN
  • Set thermostat named “Air Conditioner” to “Auto” mode: homecontrol://x-callback-url/run-action?action-type=change-device-property&item-type=device&item-name=Air%20Conditioner&property-type=thermostat-mode&property-value=auto&authentication-token=TOKEN
  • Set blinds named “Blinds” to 70% open: homecontrol://x-callback-url/run-action?action-type=change-device-property&item-type=device&item-name=Blinds&property-type=position&property-value=70&authentication-token=TOKEN
  • Set window named “Window” to 30% open: homecontrol://x-callback-url/run-action?action-type=change-device-property&item-type=device&item-name=Window&property-type=position&property-value=30&authentication-token=TOKEN
  • Set fan named “Fan” to 60% speed: homecontrol://x-callback-url/run-action?action-type=change-device-property&item-type=device&item-name=Fan&property-type=rotation-speed&property-value=60&authentication-token=TOKEN

Automation & Scripting

You can easily invoke HomeControl Automation URLs from AppleScript, Terminal or other apps like Shortcuts, Keyboard Maestro or Stream Deck.

AppleScript

tell application "HomeControl" to open location "homecontrol://…"

Terminal

$ open -g "homecontrol://…"

Other Apps

Simply use an “Open URL” or “Open X-Callback URL” action and set it to launch the Automation URL. Some apps also support running Terminal scripts or AppleScript.

Creating Apple Wallet Passes in Batch With MakePass and Shortcuts

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"MakePass – Pass Batch"

TL;DR

You can download a shortcut here that parses a CSV text and generates multiple passes in batch using MakePass:

Introduction

MakePass is a mighty Apple Wallet pass editor, with it you can create and customize a myriad of passes with complex layouts including images, barcodes, colors and text fields, but its the most powerful and versatile feature is its integration with the Shortcuts app in iOS, iPad and macOS.

"MakePass – “Create Pass” Action"

MakePass includes multiple Shortcuts actions that allow you to create, preview and share Apple Wallet passes. The Create Pass action exposes all the power of the MakePass pass editor directly in Shortcuts so you can customize all the properties of your pass. The Create Pass action includes an Import Pass File parameter so you can import a template pass file whose properties can be overridden by the action parameters.

Process

First you should create a pass file which will be used as a template. This template file will be set in the Import Pass File parameter of the Create Pass action which uses it as the base canvas over which to override any other parameter. If you do not import a pass file, the Create Pass action will use a blank template by default. You can create your own pass template file in MakePass or use this one as an example.

Afterwards, to create multiple Apple Wallet passes in batch you should import the information which will be inserted in the pass template for each new pass. To do so, we can use the popular CSV (comma-separated values) format:

John Appleseed,CD-0000001,2021-01-01 12:00
Chandler Bing,CD-0000002,2021-01-02 12:00
Mario Gómez,CD-0000003,2021-01-03 12:00
Ursula von Köriet,CD-0000004,2021-01-04 12:00
Alejandro Couñago,CD-0000005,2021-01-05 12:00

In this example CSV document, each line represent a pass which will be generated. Each line includes 3 components which will be added to the pass template (a name in a text field like "John Appleseed", a QR barcode payload like "CD-0000001" and a relevant date like "2021-01-01 12:00"). To load this CSV in Shortcuts we can use the Text action, load the contents from a file or use the shortcut content input. In this example we will use the Text action.

Once we have the CSV text loaded in the shortcut, we can split it by line and iterate over them. In each iteration we can split the line by commas and we can extract each of the pass components needed to fill the pass template:

"MakePass – Batch Shortcut – 1"

After extracting the components we can simply set our pass template file in the Import Pass File parameter and fill the other custom parameters in the Create Pass action to complete the template:

"MakePass – Batch Shortcut – 2"

And voilà!, running the shortcut will generate 5 passes, each one with its own custom properties:

"MakePass – Batch Shortcut – 3"

To complete the shortcut, we can add an action to open the passes in macOS or share them with an app in iOS and iPadOS. You can also use the Save File action to store the pass files in your device.

"MakePass – Batch Shortcut – 4"

Shortcut

You can get the complete shortcut here.