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  • Aboutu0026gt; bio I grew up in San Diego, and I lived there from the day I was born to the day I moved up to the Bay Area for college. SD’s a wonderful place to visit and live, with great beaches, beautiful weather, and a relaxing laid-back style to it. If your only impression of Southern California is Los Angeles, you owe it to yourself to visit San Diego! I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems. My focus was in human-computer interaction. Name: Adam Tow Year of Birth: 1975 Hometown: San Diego, CA Current Residence: SF Bay Area Education: See Curriculum Vitae Myers-Briggs Type: INFP Riso-Hudson Type: 7 – Enthusiast I was most recently a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, where I am creating technology that enables the developing world to access Internet information and applications. Currently, I’m working on numerous projects in digital media, photography, videography, and online journaling. Previously, I led the MyPalm client team for the i705 handheld at Palm, Inc.. Prior to Palm, I founded and ran Foundation Systems, a software development and consulting firm specializing in mobile computing. I wrote and sold a number of acclaimed software packages for…
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    LaunchCuts available for pre-order, launching 1/8/2020

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    December 29, 2019

    I’m excited to announce that pre-orders are now available for LaunchCuts. Priced at $7.99, it will be released for download and purchase on January 8, 2020. Pre-Order LaunchCuts on the App Store here: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/launchcuts/id1489780246 People will benefit greatly from the sorting, filtering, and organizational capabilities that #LaunchCuts brings to Shortcuts.…

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  • Shortcuts, Software

    Coming Soon: LaunchCuts for iOS – A powerful, customizable, and elegant launcher for your shortcuts

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    December 18, 2019

    A powerful, customizable, and elegant launcher for your shortcuts, LaunchCuts has been completely rewritten as a native iOS app using SwiftUI. It has begun final testing and will be available on the App Store in early January. Notable features include: Folders : Organize your shortcuts into folders. Smart Folders :…

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  • Shortcuts

    ActionCuts – Easily embed shortcuts into other shortcuts, extract action blocks, view differences, and more!

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    October 25, 2019

    ActionCuts is a powerful tool for embedding shortcuts within shortcuts and extracting actions from existing shortcuts. ActionCuts can: Insert complete shortcuts or action blocks inside of other shortcuts. Extract action blocks from shortcuts. Save expanded shortcuts back to your iOS device. Save action blocks in the ActionCuts Action Blocks Library…

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  • Apple, Shortcuts

    PromptKit and The Dark Dungeon Featured on the Automators Podcast, Episode 29

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    August 2, 2019

    I was interviewed on Episode 29 of Automators, a podcast on Mac and iOS automation hosted by Rosemary Orchard and David Sparks. We talk about my long history using Apple products, MsgFiler, my wireless photography workflow with the Canon 5D Mark IV, and the various shortcuts that I’ve written to automate…

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  • Shortcuts

    Run Shortcut, an Elegant Launcher for Your Shortcuts from the Notification Center Widget

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    June 2, 2019

    Run Shortcut lets you access all of your shortcuts from the Notification Center widget. Use your voice to search for, run and edit shortcuts on your device, or trigger shortcuts to run on remote iOS devices using NoteCuts. Its delightfully colorful interface even matches the colors you’ve chosen for your…

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  • Shortcuts

    NoteCuts, Automatic, Background Triggering of Shortcuts on Local or Remote iOS Devices

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    June 2, 2019

    NoteCuts NoteCuts continually monitors shared notes on Apple Notes, Dropbox, and Evernote, enabling automatically running of shortcuts, even when the iOS device is locked and sleeping. Download NoteCuts from RoutineHub.co With NoteCuts, you can: Run shortcuts automatically, no tapping on notification banners required! Integrate with popular third-party services like IFTTT…

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  • Shortcuts

    Introducing PromptKit, an advanced dialog engine for Shortcuts and iOS

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    May 16, 2019

    PromptKit is an advanced dialog engine for Shortcuts and iOS. PromptKit creates powerful, interactive, multilingual, and multi-step prompts featuring speech, dictation, menus, dialogs, and automatic language translation. For shortcut developers, the PromptKit API facilitates the creation of interactive prompts with branching logic, input validation, history, state, external shortcut support, and…

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  • Shortcuts

    Localization Helper

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    February 11, 2019

    One of the less heralded but extremely important features of my shortcuts is their full support for localization out of the box. It’s something that I wanted to have from day one with my apps, as retrofitting an existing app can be extremely tedious. To assist others with localizing my…

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  • Shortcuts, Uncategorized

    Cronios, WatchCuts, and GeoCuts

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    February 10, 2019

    Really jazzed about releasing two new shortcuts and an update to Cronios this weekend. I now have developed three distinct methods for running shortcuts automatically in the background: Date and Time: Cronios Remote Trigger from iCloud-connected device: WatchCuts + Cronios Location: GeoCuts + Cronios Cronios 1.3.0 adds a new Cron…

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  • Shortcuts

    Cronios 1.1.0 with Keep-Alive Beep and Cronios Watcher

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    January 18, 2019

    The full-featured shortcuts scheduler for iOS just got a lot better with Cronios 1.1! Configure your shortcuts to run automatically in the background on the dates, times, ranges, and intervals you specify, without any interaction on your part! What’s New in Version 1.1 Cronios 1.1 introductions some exciting new features:…

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  • Aboutu0026gt; bio I grew up in San Diego, and I lived there from the day I was born to the day I moved up to the Bay Area for college. SD’s a wonderful place to visit and live, with great beaches, beautiful weather, and a relaxing laid-back style to it. If your only impression of Southern California is Los Angeles, you owe it to yourself to visit San Diego! I graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Symbolic Systems. My focus was in human-computer interaction. Name: Adam Tow Year of Birth: 1975 Hometown: San Diego, CA Current Residence: SF Bay Area Education: See Curriculum Vitae Myers-Briggs Type: INFP Riso-Hudson Type: 7 – Enthusiast I was most recently a Reuters Digital Vision Fellow at Stanford University, where I am creating technology that enables the developing world to access Internet information and applications. Currently, I’m working on numerous projects in digital media, photography, videography, and online journaling. Previously, I led the MyPalm client team for the i705 handheld at Palm, Inc.. Prior to Palm, I founded and ran Foundation Systems, a software development and consulting firm specializing in mobile computing. I wrote and sold a number of acclaimed software packages for…
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