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...
Mac Apps
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Bartender - Still Best in Class
For years, Bartender was one of the most highly recommended utility apps in the Mac space. There were many highly complementary recommended reviews in the...
Zero Duplicates Free Duplicate File Finder
Zero DuplicatesĀ is a free utility that finds and removes duplicate files based on some smart intelligence features. It finds identical files if the content, file...
Presentify - An App for the Future
When I started working in EdTech, instructors were still using transparency based overhead projectors. When interactive white boards arrived, incorporating connected computers for use instead...
Orange Card - Get Info Easily for Free
Orange card is a tiny (less than 1MB) free utility, available on the Mac App Store. It has a simple drag and drop (or paste)...
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...
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...
