588: macOS Services, with Sal Soghoian

Mac Power Users

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Tech, Technology, David, User, Stephen Hackett, Sparks, How To, Help, Power, Workflow, Ios, Mac, Set Up

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 May 2021

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Stephen and David talk with Sal Soghoian on the history of Automator and Services on the Mac, both of which are cornerstones of automation on macOS today. The trio discusses how these tools came to be, and how Apple has evolved them over the years, in addition to what can be done with them.

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0:00.0	Mac Power users episode 588, Mac OS services with Sal Segoyan.
0:07.0	Music
0:14.5	Welcome back to Mac Power users.
0:16.0	My name is Stephen Hackett and I'm joined as always by my friend and yours,
0:20.0	Mr. David Sparks.
0:21.0	David, how are you?
0:22.0	I am excited, Stephen.
0:23.0	We got a great show lined up today.
0:26.0	We do.
0:27.0	It's one of those fun episodes where it's both topical but we also have a guest,
0:31.0	so I've been looking forward to this one.
0:33.0	Oh, what are we doing today?
0:35.0	We're talking about services and as we were working on the outline,
0:39.0	I kept making notes to myself like I want to send an email off to Sal Segoyan
0:44.0	to ask a couple of questions about how this happened or that happened or what we can do.
0:49.0	And the list kept getting longer and longer and finally I just sent him an email
0:55.0	like just a few days before we recorded.
0:58.0	And the nicest thing happened.
1:00.0	He said, why don't I just come on the show?
1:02.0	I actually invited him on a show and he said, I'll come on the show.
1:04.0	So welcome to the show, Sal.
1:05.0	Hey, how are you?
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