{"id":21819,"date":"2018-06-15T10:34:40","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T14:34:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=21819"},"modified":"2019-02-11T23:03:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T04:03:28","slug":"a-new-home-for-toothfairy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/15\/a-new-home-for-toothfairy\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Home for ToothFairy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/toothfairy\/\">ToothFairy<\/a> has been one of my favorite little Mac utilities since I first heard about it <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/22\/tooth-fairy\/\">last year<\/a>. If you&rsquo;ve used AirPods with a Mac, you know that they don&rsquo;t <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/airpods-switching-limitations\/\">auto-switch<\/a> the way you might expect. ToothFairy fixes that, as much as third-party utility can, by letting you click a menu bar icon (or press a hotkey) to connect the AirPods to your Mac. It also shows you the battery level and can help ensure that you&rsquo;re getting the best audio quality. I keep referring to AirPods because that&rsquo;s what I use, but it also works with other Bluetooth headphones and headsets.<\/p>\n<p>I use ToothFairy nearly every day, so I was sorry to see that it had been removed from sale. The developer, <a href=\"http:\/\/robin.github.io\">Robin Lu<\/a> (whose <a href=\"http:\/\/robin.github.io\/swift\/ios\/2017\/01\/23\/1-Local-Receipt-Validation-in-Swift-3\/\">code<\/a> is also in the IAPKit that I mentioned <a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/14\/iapkit\/\">yesterday<\/a>), got a new job and was no longer able to work on it. Happily, he&rsquo;s let me acquire the app so that I can ensure that development continues. I&rsquo;m pleased to report that ToothFairy is now <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robinlu\/status\/1007427785386676225\">back<\/a> in the <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/store\/mac-app-store\/toothfairy\">Mac App Store<\/a> (exclusively, for now), and I&rsquo;ve released a <a href=\"https:\/\/c-command.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/14\/toothfairy-2-4-5\/\">maintenance update<\/a>. My thanks to Robin for developing ToothFairy in the first place and for trusting me with his creation.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ToothFairy has been one of my favorite little Mac utilities since I first heard about it last year. If you&rsquo;ve used AirPods with a Mac, you know that they don&rsquo;t auto-switch the way you might expect. ToothFairy fixes that, as much as third-party utility can, by letting you click a menu bar icon (or press [&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":"2018-06-15T14:35:24Z","apple_news_api_id":"704332b4-e02d-4b1a-83bf-a3bfa47cad87","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2019-02-12T04:03:31Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAQ==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AcEMytOAtSxqDv6O_pHythw","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":[66,1422,95,422,30,32,39,1529,1687],"class_list":["post-21819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-acquisition","tag-airpods","tag-audio","tag-bluetooth","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-10-13","tag-toothfairy"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819","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=21819"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21821,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21819\/revisions\/21821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}