MacTracker - Can You Call Yourself a Fanboy If You Don't Have This Installed?
When I began my career in Mac support, my first task was replacing hard drives in hundreds of Mac LC 575s along with adding an...
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2024
Flyleaf - An Elegant Read It Later Solution
There are lots of read it later apps and services available for Mac users. Some, like Instapaper and Pocket require you to create an account...
Two Apps To Use if You Work in Markdown
I do almost all of my writing in Markdown, a lightweight and human-friendly markup language used for formatting plain text. Created in 2004, it uses...
Free Security Apps for Mac
Clyde is an app that sounds an alarm when someone shuts your laptop, so that when you walk away from it to order coffee or...
Drafts Pro 50% Off for New Users
For new users, Drafts Pro is 50% off the first year. Drafts was the first app I installed when I became interested in iOS and...
Access: Secure Passwords Companion
One big feature missing from Apple's new Passwords App is secure notes to store data besides passwords. While you can make notes within the app,...
Cronica - A Free, Privacy Focused Media Tracker for Mac and iOS
There are many paid options to discover and track movies and TV shows, most of them being subscription-based. Cronica, donation-ware from Egger, Inc., full-featured right...
Sloth - Activity Monitor on Steroids
Sloth is a free and open-sourced app that's been around for twenty years. It provides an app by app breakdown of all open files and...
Ente Auth - The Free Authy Replacement for Your Mac and iPhone
If you miss the Authy 2FA desktop app, and you would rather not use Apple Passwords, since if you were to lose access to your...
SingleFile - For Safari and Other Mac Browsers
Attempting to save a web page to your local computer often results in multiple files and folders downloaded. A recently updated plugin for Safari, Chromium...
Mac Translation Apps - Offline, Google and DeepL
Most modern browsers have multi-language translate built in. Vivaldi even has a separate panel for it. Sometimes, though, we encounter text in other languages in...
iCollections - A Desktop Centric Workflow Manager Similar to the Classic Dragthing
The late, great Mac app, Dragthing reached end of life in 2019. It was a point and click workflow manager for those who preferred that...
mtop - A Resource Monitor for Crowded Menu Bars
I regularly check MacMenuBar.com for new additions. Today i found a nice little app called mtop. It's a monitor for each CPU core, your GPU...
Simplenote - Free, Rock Solid and Dependable for Over a Decade
Simplenote by Automattic is a free cross-platform plain text / Markdown notes app for macOS, iOS, Android, Windows and Linux. It's been around for over...
Commander One as a Finder Replacement
The Mac Finder is fine for casual users, but if your use cases involve a lot of file management to handle photography or videography related...
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Cloud Storage Management Apps
The longer you use a computer, the more access to resources you accumulate. I'm old, so I have more accounts than I know what to...
Royal TSX for Remote Management
In my day job, I provide IT support at a small private university. Because I have a good boss, the computer I use as a...
Remote Helper for Mac
Remote Helper for Mac is the companion for the iOS app, Remote Mouse and Keyboard. When used together, your iOS device can control a Mac,...
Four Single Purpose Apps - Cheap/Free
There's something to be said for apps that do one thing well. Here are a few that I've found lately. FNable - If you use...
Browser Deputy from the Folks at Anybox
These days, it is not uncommon for someone to have hundreds of open tabs in as browser. I usually run about 40-50 myself. I've tried...
