above sea level and it usually shows a reading between 100 and 200 there). ![]() below sea level (I know that altitude is not as accurate as speed and position on most GPSr's, but my neighborhood is about 150 ft. It took a good 10 minutes to get a fix and it tended to bounce my speed and position quite inaccurately (with EPE's in the high 3 and low 4 digits, like 1000 ft.) and kept showing my altitude as about 100 ft. It had the worst "out in the open" performance I had ever seen. ![]() Regardless, BeardedSpice is a free, simple way to regain keyboard control of your various media players.During Friday's sleet/snow storm here in the Northeast I took a 5 block walk from my condo to a convenience store to get a few things and took my GPS (Lowrance iFinder GO) along for curiousity. Unfortunately, while BeardedSpice recognizes media players in site-specific browsers created with Epichrome (formerly known as Make Chrome SSB see “ Make Site-Specific Browsers with Google Chrome” 6 March 2015), it doesn’t seem to be able to control them. And if you run across a player that doesn’t work, you can always ask for it to be supported. (For some reason, BeardedSpice always lists “No Track” for iTunes, though that’s not a particularly worrisome bug.)īeardedSpice can’t control every Web-based media player, but it’s likely compatible with your favorites, including Amazon Music, Google Music, Last.fm, Overcast.fm, Pandora, Pocket Casts, Rdio, Slacker, Songza, Tidal, Vimeo, and YouTube, among others. I can set whether my keyboard media keys are controlling iTunes, Overcast.fm, Spotify, or YouTube. This not only solves the problem of not being able to control Web-based media players, but also lets you specify which native apps get to use the media keys so you don’t have conflicts. From its menu, BeardedSpice lets you choose which media players your media keys control, including Web-based players in Safari and Google Chrome. Or can you? (And if you’re not sure what I’m talking about here, the media keys are usually F7 through F12, with functions for play/pause, rewind, fast-forward, mute, and volume up/down - look at the keycap labels for specific key assignments.)Įnter the oddly named but free BeardedSpice menu bar utility. But one problem with Web-based media players is that you can’t control them with the media keys on your Mac’s keyboard. Web Apps” (5 January 2015), many of the best podcast players are now Web-based. ![]() And, well, it’s iTunes, which provokes vitriol whenever it’s mentioned.Īs Julio Ojeda-Zapata pointed out in “ Mac Podcast Client Showdown: Native Clients vs. Well, there’s iTunes, but it’s a pain to use for podcasts because it lacks 30-second skip buttons. With Instacast gone, (see “ Farewell Instacast,” 16 June 2015), the only other dedicated Mac-native podcast player is Downcast.
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