Quick Tips for App Installation Using Hazel
In this post, I show you how to automate the installation of Mac apps in the two post popular formats ZIP and DMG, so that...
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2025
Facescreen - Useful Add-on for Screencasting and Presentations
I often have to create screen recordings on my job to distribute to the people I support for tutorials. Occasionally I do screen sharing through...
Disk Drill Revisited - Recovering 87K Files from a Drive That Finder Could Not Read
I first wrote about Disk Drill several months ago. The review is below. I recently had a chance to put the paid version of the...
Using Google Photos on iOS Makes Leaving Meta Easier
If you've had enough of corporate owned social media, specifically Facebook and Instagram, and are investigating how to preserve your photographic memories, the quickest and...
Recent Additions at MacMenuBar
One of the websites that stay open in my browser at all times is MacMenubar.com. It's a deep resource for new Mac apps in multiple...
FSNotes - A Free and Open-Source Successor to NValt
FSNotes is a plain text note editor with the two-pane interface of Brett Terpstra's classic Nvalt, which ceased development in 2017. FSNotes has an extensive...
Unsplash Wallpaper App - Free Unlimited Wallpapers at Your Fingertips
Unsplash is one of the largest providers of royalty-free images in the world. Without an account, you can search for, download and use any one...
Background Music - Per App Volume Control and More
When I am at work, I like to leave my system volume setting in the midrange. I want to be able to hear incoming mail...
Cheatsheet - Mac, iOS, WatchOS
I have hundreds of contacts and I know almost no phone numbers. My job requires me to gain entrance to numerous rooms secured with keypad...
Datacever - Simple Data Control When You Have to Tether Your Mac
I don't know about you, but whenever I have to tether my laptop to my iPhone, I get nervous about the possibility of some unknown...
Lossless Cut - Save Time When Editing Videos
The command like application, FFmpeg is remarkably powerful but it is also overly complicated for people who don't use the terminal much or who don't...
Open Source Doesn't Mean What You Think It Means When It Comes To Safety
โWhat about open-source software?" I hear you say. "I'll just review the source code and determine whether it's malicious".โ "I would make several points in...
Radarr - Movie collection manager for Legal Usenet and BitTorrent users
When I was a younger man, I'll admit to living the pirate life for music and movies. I was around for the original Napster and...
Resilio Sync - Secure, Private Peer-to-Peer File Sharing
The easiest way to share files between computers or with other users is through a commercial cloud service like iCloud, Dropbox or Google Drive. The...
Making App Wishlists
Because I like checking out new to me software and writing about it, I usually install something new just about every day. Reading r/MacApps and...
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Putting Mac Apps to Work - Image Management Workflow for Writers
In blogging and in creating instructional documents at work, I go through plenty of screenshots, stock photography and open-source images from the web. In the...
SwitchResX - Granular Resolution Control
As multiple monitors become more and more common and as the typical user is much more likely to use a laptop than a desktop, dealing...
Replacicon - Customize Your Mac
Mac users are notorious for being sticklers for aesthetics. Luckily, customizing the appearance of your device is made easier by various third-party utilities. One of...
Quotemarks - Quote Notebook
I have collected quotes for years. When I'm reading a book, watching a movie or listening to music, if I come across a line I...
2024
Mac Automation Roundup
I'm a big fan of automation apps for macOS but I'll admit, even the best ones can have a steep learning curve. If you've loaded...
