Hello and welcome to another episode of App Stories.

Today's episode is brought to you by Rogue Abiba.

I'm John Voorhees and with me is Federico Vittici. Hey, Federico. Hello, John.

How are you? I'm doing really well. I'm doing really well. It's a good day here. We're recording

on a Friday. I always enjoy recording on a Friday because I feel like the weekend's about to begin,

a little relaxation. But we got a great topic today. What are we talking about? We are going to talk about the utility

grab bag. We have gone to the utility grab bag. I went and looked back a couple of times before,

but it's been a good five years since we've done this. And I know you and I have both been using

a lot more utility apps and testing a lot of things recently. So I thought we would share some of those.

But before we dive in, I do want to mention something because a couple of episodes ago,

I was talking about if you remember bar cuts by Carlos Zatman.

And I mentioned that I had had some trouble with it.

Turns out that it was a shortcuts bug that was impacting me. It sounds

like it was a bug that was not impacting all users, but because that app was using commands

to send terminal commands, that was broken for a lot of users, myself included.

Carlo went and changed the way bar cuts works.

So it's more, it avoids that bug.

So if you want to check out the beta of bar cuts, it now is working for me. And I have only just begun setting up a set of shortcuts that when you click on the item in the menu bar,

it's, you know, it's, they're tied to particular app.

So you can have a set of shortcuts that only appear when you've got Safari as the active window or maybe mail or whatever it happens to be.

So yeah, that's, I just wanted to mention that in case anybody wondered whether

the app was still broken. It is not. I've been using it. So you should check it out when you

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