Change Mac Play/Pause Key to Control Spotify Instead of iTunes/Music (2022 solution)

If you use Keyboard Maestro, you’re good to go – you’re 90% of the way to remapping your function keys to control Spotify instead of Apple Music. Let’s do it: Step 1 Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Keyboard and check “Use F1, F2, etc.…”. This will disable all the icon meanings of your… Continue reading Change Mac Play/Pause Key to Control Spotify Instead of iTunes/Music (2022 solution)

How I control my Hue lights from my Mac: Automatically turn on lights when waking Mac from sleep

Here’s a Keyboard Maestro macro I put together to automatically turn on my office lights when I get to my computer each day. The sequence itself is very straightforward: See if this macro has already run today by checking the sinceLastRun variable. If it hasn’t run today, turn on the lights then update the variable.… Continue reading How I control my Hue lights from my Mac: Automatically turn on lights when waking Mac from sleep