Performa Month! Every time I hear Performa, I instantly think of “The Martinettis Bring Home a Computer” infomercial. I watched that so many times, mostly to be snarky about how cheesy it was. Years later, I tracked down the production company and wrote them to ask if I could buy a copy of it, and they were kind of enough to send me a free copy on VHS.
Back on topic: I guess I have some new apps to look into!
Just watched (well, skimmed through) this. My only thought is that if 8GB RAM isn’t enough for an Apple Silicon Mac, how good was the 8MB (1024 times less) in the Performa?
David made a brief remark that he was concerned about Bartender. Can anyone – especially David – explain.
Back in those days there was a popular utility called RAM Doubler. I had a Performa 6300 and seem to remember thinking RAM Doubler was essential.
I got a couple of useful tips out of these. I was reminded to search PopClip actions for potential gems. And I did not know that Clean Shot X does OCR.
Did I actually hear Stephen Hackett say that a US$ 96 per year subscription is a better deal than an initial US$ 29, and then US$ 19 per year should you want the updates after that, for CleanShotX? I guess, but not for me. 
Wow, memory lane!
I’ve been adding such utility programs to my setup since my 512KE, and still doing so today (from this episode PopClip is one I’ve been using). 
One thing I did not hear mentioned (although I might have missed it) is how easy it is to write your own actions for PopClip. I’ve written a couple, my most used is to highlight a word and then open the man page in preview for it. As an occasional terminal user this is of great utility to me. And highlights the value of PopClip.
I would love to have Dave and Stephen review Snippety as an alternative to Text Expander.
Snippety is not subscription based and the iOS App is actively getting updates…
Did I hear right that Stephen has a shortcut to send Cleanshot media to custom third party cloud storage? Curious how that’s implemented, or might be.
Yes I was also surprised that didn’t get a mention. PopMaker is an easy way of creating search extensions. It is officially “retired”, but I find it works fine on Sonoma.
I worked for a multimedia company called Voyager, and we tested a lot on Perfiormas with 8 MB for our titles. At the high end for some CD-ROMs (Macbeth comes to mind) 8 MB was just enough but tech support sometimes had to talk users through allocating RAM /turning off extensions.
Uploads a file via SSH on the Mac then returns the URL to the clipboard.
Why not use UpNote for this?