Raja

Raja. I run The Useful Tech, the #1 Apple blog on Medium (78K followers), and build apps with Claude. Newsletter below. Sponsor:

[Raja @UsefulCreator_]

Do you bill clients by the hour and forget to start the timer every time you switch tasks?

Timing records the apps, sites and documents you use on your Mac, then rules sort it into projects. No timer to forget.

Free for 30 days, then from $9 a month billed yearly.

https://t.co/yaQ9GvIl2k

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Why not just position the image carousel slightly at a lower position instead of this needless animation? I mean its cool and all but still

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@_yukungao Have planned something like this!

[Raja @UsefulCreator_]

I launched my first Mac app on Product Hunt on Thursday. It got 1 upvote.

2 followers. 0 comments. 0 sales from the launch code.

I'm not a developer. I built it with Claude Code in 12 days, starting 1 October.

[Raja @UsefulCreator_]

I own 30+ watches and kept wearing the same 3.

So I built an app that picks one from my box every morning, logs the wear with 1 hold and shows what each watch costs me per wear.

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Your Mac quietly removes the photos people text you.

With Messages in iCloud on and storage running low, old attachments get offloaded to iCloud.

On my Mac, only 54 of 2,624 attachments were still stored locally. The rest only exist in the cloud.

Did you know your Mac does this?

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Cleaning your Mac desktop is a waste of an afternoon. It's a mess again by Friday.

These 6 apps keep it tidy without deleting a single file.

[Raja @UsefulCreator_]

Your MacBook sits at 100% on the desk all day. That's hard on the battery over the years.

AlDente holds it at a limit you pick, like 80%. Apple's Optimized Battery Charging only guesses at your routine.

The charge limit is free.

https://t.co/SIPMTVevFP

[Raja @UsefulCreator_]

Do you bill clients by the hour and forget to start the timer every time you switch tasks?

Timing records the apps, sites and documents you use on your Mac, then rules sort it into projects. No timer to forget.

Free for 30 days, then from $9 a month billed yearly.

https://t.co/yaQ9GvIl2k

[Raja @UsefulCreator_]

Typing long emails is slow. Talking is fast.

Willow Voice: hold a hotkey, speak, and clean text lands wherever your cursor sits. Filler words gone, punctuation fixed. Works on Mac, Windows and iPhone.

The free desktop plan keeps dictation unlimited on a lighter model.

https://t.co/yhRuGJ5ajb

[Raja @UsefulCreator_]

Your MacBook sits at 100% on the desk all day. That's hard on the battery over the years.

AlDente holds it at a limit you pick, like 80%. Apple's Optimized Battery Charging only guesses at your routine.

The charge limit is free.

https://t.co/SIPMTVevFP

[Raja @UsefulCreator_]

MacBook users, you'll stop reaching for the F keys after this.

EdgeBar turns the edges of your trackpad into sliders. Right edge for volume, left edge for brightness, with a light haptic tick under your finger as you slide.

One-time purchase, no subscription. via @bhardwajshash

https://t.co/uX3YTDe3TO

[Raja @UsefulCreator_]

I launched my first Mac app on Product Hunt on Thursday. It got 1 upvote.

2 followers. 0 comments. 0 sales from the launch code.

I'm not a developer. I built it with Claude Code in 12 days, starting 1 October.

[Raja @UsefulCreator_]

The glowing Apple logo is back on the new MacBook Pro, and Settings has no switch to turn it off.

Lowering the screen brightness dims it too. Useless if you need a bright screen.

Apple's support docs put the off switch in Terminal:

sudo defaults write https://t.co/dd9rIUDjsy.CoreBrightness LEBacklightMode -int 0

Enter your password and the lid goes dark, for every account on that Mac.

Changed your mind? Swap "write" for "delete" and drop the "-int 0".

[Raja @UsefulCreator_]

@VadimYuryev Makes sense

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@denk_tweets @beehiiv Do you have any metrics like how much percentage of the people who open your newsletter have tipped so far or something? I would love to get the early access but my newsletter is like 4-5 months old with less than 1500 subscribers so not sure how helpful will this be for me!

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@Denche2005 Your profile says you have 12k posts and you’re saying you posted a maximum of 20 posts a day and grew from 0 to 4K followers in 40 days which means either you didn’t get a single follower for your first 11200 posts or you’re lying…

[Raja @UsefulCreator_]

thank me later, MacBook users
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thank me later, MacBook users
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@Thealfredalv Mostly to my newsletter audience and medium blog, planning to submit it to some directories as well. Do you have any suggestions?

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@rauchg @aisdk Can people actually click buttons and complete actions inside Slack or Teams, or is it mostly for displaying the model's response?