{"id":18220,"date":"2017-06-22T14:47:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-22T18:47:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=18220"},"modified":"2018-06-15T10:02:15","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:02:15","slug":"tooth-fairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/22\/tooth-fairy\/","title":{"rendered":"Tooth Fairy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/app\/mac\/tooth-fairy\">Tooth Fairy<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bwebster\/status\/877510474295787520\">Brian Webster<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/app\/mac\/tooth-fairy\"><p>Tooth Fairy helps you to switch connection of selected bluetooth devices, for example, AirPods, directly from menu bar or even global hotkey.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I was surprised that the AirPods don&rsquo;t just show up the Mac&rsquo;s menu of speakers, like they do on iOS. You have to go to the Bluetooth menu (which you may not have any other reason to have enabled), find the AirPods, and choose Connect from the submenu. Tooth Fairy lets you set a hotkey&mdash;I chose F12 because of the speaker icon&mdash;to connect to the AirPods, and it has a hollow or filled indicator in the menu bar for whether they are connected. So you can also see when the AirPods have auto-reconnected to the Mac, e.g. because it was the last-used device, and you don&rsquo;t have to manually connect to them.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2017-08-04): Version 2.4 adds a battery level indicator.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tooth Fairy (via Brian Webster): Tooth Fairy helps you to switch connection of selected bluetooth devices, for example, AirPods, directly from menu bar or even global hotkey. I was surprised that the AirPods don&rsquo;t just show up the Mac&rsquo;s menu of speakers, like they do on iOS. You have to go to the Bluetooth menu [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2018-06-15T14:02:17Z","apple_news_api_id":"21095b55-42b1-4bbf-9ad8-dc53e4c931f8","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2018-06-15T14:02:17Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AIQlbVUKxS7-a2NxT5Mkx-A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1422,95,422,30,32,1381,1687],"class_list":["post-18220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-airpods","tag-audio","tag-bluetooth","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macos-10-12","tag-toothfairy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18546,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18220\/revisions\/18546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}