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Mac Apps
2024
Widget Wall
For the first time in years, I've started using my Mac's desktop as a place to check for information and interact with my computer. For...
Screen Memory
I recently purchased the single purpose utility, Screen Memory on sale from Bundle Hunt for $6. On the developer's website it goes for $27 and...
What's In Your Menu Bar
What is in your menu bar? At Macworld 2014, Mac Developer Brett Terpstra turned heads when he revealed what he had running in his menu...
Battle of the Bookmark Managers
Aside from browsers, I have several apps on my hard drive for collecting and organizing bookmarks: • Goodlinks (also has read it later features) •...
Avoid Mackup If Running Sonoma or Later
A couple of weeks ago I saw a post on r/MacApps for a utility that purported to back up your preferences for a large number...
Rambox - A Browser for Apps
I took advantage of an offer at AppSumo this week to get a lifetime license to Rambox Pro for $5 (discontinued). It's normally $5.83 a...
11 Plugins for QuickLook
One of my favorite features of macOS is QuickLook, activated by pressing the spacebar when you have a file highlighted in the Finder, it enables...
A Few GUI Tools for the Homebrew Curious
If you'd like to explore some of what's available in macOS through Homebrew, the command line package manager but you are a little intimidated by...
The Most Underrated Native Mac Utility
The native Mac tools are great but most of them can be replaced with third-party apps that add extra features. Even the geeky apps like...
ImageOptim - Free and Open-Source Utility to Reduce File Sizes
ImageOptim is a tiny utility that every Mac user should have in their toolkit. It integrates a half dozen image optimization tools behind the scenes...
24 Hour Wallpaper from Jetson Creative
I don't see my desktop during my working moments, but when I lock my computer, I have a different wallpaper displayed on each of my...
Start from Innovative Bytes
Start by Innovative Bytes is an app launcher with extra features that make it different enough from FolderPeek and XMenu to be worth checking out....
Almighty - Tweaking and Utility Collection
Almighty, a collection of tweaks and utilities bundled into one app is by Khoa Pham, the same developer behind the popular low-priced clipboard manager PastePal. ...
FlowVision - Image Viewer
After seeing the developer of FlowVison, a free image viewer for macOS, post about his new app on Reddit, I downloaded it and have been...
Folder Peek FTW
Folder Peek by heroic Indy Developer Sindre Sorhus is the GOAT of menu bar access apps. I liked XMenu from Devon Technologies, but Folder Peek...
App Tamer from St. Claire Software
St. Claire software makes an app that can help control heat and fan noise, extend your battery time and increase the amount of CPU power...
SilentKnight - Free Security Checks for Your Mac
SilentKnight from The Eclectic Light Company is a free utility to check the security settings of your Mac. it will let you know of any...
Paletro - Add a Command Palette to Any App
Paletro, by appmakes.io, is a $6.99 utility that gives you a command palette in any app. Large, multifunction apps with many commands like VScode, Sublime...
Quick Note Taking – Type
Type is a menu bar app designed with one purpose in mind, to capture time-stamped notes in plain text or Markdown format quickly and to...
