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macOStoUSB – Free app to create bootable macOS USB installers (Intel + Apple Silicon)
Hi everyone, I wanted to share a new app I built: macOStoUSB. It helps you create bootable macOS USB installers with a simple guided workflow, using official Apple downloads. What it does Download macOS installers (official Apple sources) Create bootable USB drives in a few steps Works on... -
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macUSB v2.2 - The all-in-one USB creator for Mac. Now with Linux & Windows support!
Hi everyone, I’m the developer of macUSB. For a long time, macOS has lacked a true, native equivalent to Rufus. Creating bootable drives for older macOS versions (Catalina and older) on Apple Silicon has been a nightmare due to signing issues that tools like Mist couldn't handle. Meanwhile... -
Sonant - A native menu bar music controller for macOS
Hi everyone, I'm the solo developer of Sonant, a macOS app I'd like to share with the community. I built Sonant because I wanted a simple, elegant way to control my music without constantly switching app windows. Sonant is a native menu bar controller for Apple Music and Spotify. It shows the... -
The Swiss Army Knife for your macOS menu bar.
I created a macOS utility app called Ghostmoon. It lives in the macOS menu bar and gives you easy access to hidden system settings, essential stats, maintenance routines and other functionalities useful in everyday work. It currently has over 30 features normally found in multiple separate... -
Looking for beta testers for Burst Notes, a keyboard centric utility to quickly get your thoughts, ideas and todos into markdown files
I've just finished work on the first beta for my new Mac utility designed to capture any stray thought, idea or todo straight into a safe place, so that you can get on with what you're doing. I started writing this mostly for myself, because my head is always full of ideas while I code, write...- JorgAncrath
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- keyboard mac macos markdown osx utility
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- Forum: Mac Apps
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Universal Mathintosh 1.1 available – free calculator with no ads or data collection
New 1.1 version of Mathintosh is now available! Download for iPhone, iPad, and Mac: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/mathintosh/id6746828132 This version adds a lot of new functionality and fun new appearances, including: Apple Watch app (free!) that synchronizes your currently selected theme...- MacFloyd G5
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- app calculator convert ios ipad iphone scientific tip calculator utility watch
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- Forum: iOS Apps and Apple Arcade
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iPhone I built an app to find potential junk photos using an on-device AI
App Store Link: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/snapsweep-remove-junk-photos/id6744117746 Hey everyone! 👋 I’ve created an app that can help you clean up your photo gallery by finding potential junk photos like labels, screenshots, restaurant menus, and more. I first shared it on reddit's r/apple...- tomtau
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- clean cleaner declutter junk photo purge remover saver storage utility
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- Forum: iOS Apps and Apple Arcade
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I'm proud to introduce MacsyZones, macOS Window Manager (free and open source)
Hello fellow Apple fanboys, I wanted to share my app MacsyZones. It is an equivalent for PowerToys / FancyZones of Windows. Here is the recent version's announcement video: You can see MacsyZones Website: https://macsyzones.com What it does for you? You can create any number layouts with...- MeowingCat
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- macos macos app productivity productivity app utility window management window manager
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Macbook air disk utility issue
I tried to factory rest my macbook air 2015 didnt know what i was doing and deleted everything in disk utility used youtube now i think i messed it up more- Nathalien
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- disk help help !! macbook air macbook air 11 inch utility
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- Forum: MacBook Air
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Best Free App for Monitoring Network Connections on Macs
Hey folks, I'm looking for recommendations on the best app for monitoring network connections on a Mac. I know about Wireshark, which does a great job of capturing packet data, but I'm used to ProcMon (Windows world) and it has ability to document connection information (e.g., like inbound TCP...- flugenblar
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- capture connections monitor network procmon utility
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- Forum: Networking
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XDR Tuner: adjust your display white point and gamma and keep peak HDR luminance
Hi! I just wrote a tool in order to fix the bad white point on my 16.2" 2021 MacBook Pro. After checking in a shop I saw that there was noticeable inconsistency in factory calibration between units, leading to some displays being more red, more blue, or worse like mine with a depressing...- supercurio
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- calibration color display hdr macbook pro 2021 open source utility white point
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- Forum: MacBook Pro
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Airport Extreme Security, Dynamic Global Hostname
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- airport disable dynamic extreme global hostname safe secure security utility
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- Forum: Networking
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I'm looking for software to add sound effects to OS operations.
I want to add a sound effect when I copy/cut to the clipboard. I used to be able to do this with software. Then my Mac environment lost everything when the storage media crashed, and I had to rebuild the environment. I can't recall what that software was. My previous MacOS used MacOS X 10.1...- ZNDK
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- clipboard sound effect utility
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
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Instant, low-overhead text editor in your browser
Perhaps this is old knowledge for some of you, but it is new to me. I figure I could pass it along to everyone here. By entering the following string in the URL bar of whatever browser you use, you can render the tab/window as a basic, barebones text editor: data:text/html,<html...- B S Magnet
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- browser mozilla text editor utility webkit
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- Forum: PowerPC Macs
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Universal FoodShiner App - Best way to keep track of your food stock inventory
Hi folks, In this hard time with the pandemic it is more important than ever to keep track of our food stock inventory and cut down our food waste, in order to achieve that I’m very happy to introduce to you FoodShiner an iOS app that will help you to know what food you have and where. It also...- imrabti
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- food ios app ipados app utility
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- Forum: iOS Apps and Apple Arcade
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TabTopus - Get all your Safari tabs data, free !!
Hi to all, I just released TabTopus a lightweight macOS App that lets you export the names and URLs of all web pages in your current Safari session. This implies that all your Safari windows and tabs will be scanned in order to extract this info. This App saves the bookmarks info of all opened... -
Native programmable tooltip that can be used with any Mac OS app
Hello MacRumors, Tip (or its full name, Universal Tip) is a programmable tooltip that can be used with any Mac OS app. You can select the text and hit the shortcuts to activate the tooltip with useful info. "Useful info" is programmed by YOU using your fav programming language. For me, who...- Tanin Na Nakorn
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- productivity utility
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Sleep/shutdown/mute timer for Mac: iWannaSleep 2.0
Some of you may still remember my little sleep/mute/shutdown/... timer for Mac "iWannaSleep", which I wrote and released topping 16 years ago. Much to my surprise, it was included on many Shareware-CDs of Mac magazines from all around the globe (hey, the internet was not available / affordable...- Marco Binder
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- applescript automator mute run shell script script shutdown sleep timer timer app utility
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MP 7,1 Slot Utility App on New Mac Pro
Is anyone familiar with how the Slot Utility App functioned on the old Mac Pro? I plan on getting the new Mac Pro 2019, and want to know how bandwidth can be allocated in respect to a lot of the "Pro-Apps" that Apple has teamed up with. If I planned on adding on PCIe NVMe RAID Cards that...- alanmadzar
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- app apple bandwidth gpu mac nvme pcie raid slot utility
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- Forum: Mac Pro
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How to minimize windows by ....
How to minimize windows by clicking on the dock icon again (like in windows) . Clicking the dock icon I open the window why clicking again on the icon nothing happen? thanks- anjo108
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- dock icon mac utility window
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
