PC WEENIES

Tech Musings and Comics.

A webcomic and blog about technology, digital life, creative frustration, and the weird humor of living with machines.

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  • FrugalMac: Dipping My Toes into Making Bespoke Automation Tools

    In spite of my engineering background, I’ve never considered myself to be a coder. In college, I took a few required programming courses in both Assembler and C++. Those two classes, while informative, were never my cup of tea. (I also took a Fortran class as a freshman, and let’s just say – my very…

  • FrugalMac: Do I Need to Install Standalone Microsoft apps?

    At work, our college uses Microsoft products, such as Word, Teams, and OneDrive. In the past, I have begrudgingly installed these items as stand alone apps on my Mac. Why the begrudgement? Simply put: These apps are big, bloated and stacked with performance inefficiencies.  With my FrugalMac build, I asked myself one question: “Do I…

  • FrugalMac: Text Expansion

    Text expansion is my most frequently used Mac automation. Instead of typing in the same phrases over and over again, I can distill them into text expansion macros.  For example, if I were to type a small snippet, such as: it will expand to: In a nutshell, I simply type in a few characters, and…