https://roonlabs.com/ - Depends on your home set up, but its pretty nice.. It's expensive but it supports a bunch of stuff itunes doesnt.
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Five Great Apps for Your Mac - February 2018
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I’m not who you asked, but I also use Chronosync. I use it to keep two different Macs in sync automatically; a friend does the same, but his second Mac is remotely located at his summer home. When I make changes to one, the other is updated. I also use Chronosync to back up various external drives onto other various and off-site but web-connected backup drives. In short, CCC is great for straight clone backups. But Chronosync is better for “complex” and remote syncing/backups.
Hey bud! This is a great tip, I never knew that. I did a search for a tutorial and it was using an older version of preview - where do you invoke the instant alpha tool from now? My selection is only giving me magic wand - I presume I need to have a png which contains transparency?
This! These lists are very good. To be fair, I am not interested in most apps here, but one suggestion is enough to make them worth it
I’ll have to send you steps when I’m home. But if memory serves, download an item, any picture at all. After selecting the standard edit, click the wand looking icon at the top (second across I think).
Then you click some white space and click & drag upwards with your mouse. The white space will turn redder to indicate which white it will remove. Then press backspace/delete to get rid of that.
Going on memory, drop me a message around 6PM if my steps are poor and I’ll send you a GIF/PM with screenshots when I’m back from work
Love it as well.
Use Sip too once in a while, it's good.
So many great small apps, out there. Especially outside app-store.
Thanks to all small devs
I also use both apps for the reasons you say. CCC is great for creating and maintaining bootable clones, but it won't sync two computers (i.e., propagate changes to any subset of folders/files bi-directionally). ChronoSync does that well. I used to use FoldersSynchronizer for this, but it seems not to work properly with High Sierra and APFS.
BTW, although I'm not particularly interested in the apps listed in the story, it sparked posts mentioning apps that I hadn't heard of that I may check out.
I’ll have to send you steps when I’m home. But if memory serves, download an item, any picture at all. After selecting the standard edit, click the wand looking icon at the top (second across I think).
Then you click some white space and click & drag upwards with your mouse. The white space will turn redder to indicate which white it will remove. Then press backspace/delete to get rid of that.
Going on memory, drop me a message around 6PM if my steps are poor and I’ll send you a GIF/PM with screenshots when I’m back from work
Ah yep, you're right that is how it works now - thanks!
Yeah I was amazed, stumbled on it by accident. It's infinitely more intuitive than doing it in Photoshop.
As a side note, I bleeding hate Photoshop in general. Some people "get" it, with all those layers and editing - it just doesn't click with how my brain works and the simplest things seem mega frustrating. That's more a me problem than an Adobe problem though.
If you really want inbox as a stand alone app just install the Gmail chrome app and make sure under your settings in inbox to have gmail.com redirect to inbox. Alternatively, you can use webcatalog (https://quang.im/webcatalog).
Thanks for doing this MR it's hard to find new apps these days because there are so many. I make websites and videos, I'm always on the lookout for ways to boost productivity and create efficient workflows. So please keep tossing out new apps!
1, An app that stops my Mac logging out of everything all the time.
2, An app that can download any video from any website with one click.
3, An app that can eradicate any memory of Ive.
Thank you for this insightful addition to this thread. It really helped.
The funny part is that if you bothered to read the posts, you would have found a solution to #2.
I actually appreciate that MacRumors is trying to give some attention to these apps. That 60% of them are free suggests it's not advertising.
Microsoft Office 365, Scrivener, Todoist, Aeon Timeline, Evernote, Coda 2, and Xcode are all must-haves but fairly obvious.
Scapple for mind-mapping.
Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer for a replacement for Photoshop.
Steam for gaming.
Yummy FTP Pro for, uh, FTP.
Paprika Recipe Manager for recipes.
ReadKit for RSS feeds.
Wordpress for editing Wordpress sites.
Those are the ones off the top of my head. Great thread! Let's keep it going.
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HA!!!! Affinity Photo is a viable alternative, but it might be too viable in this case, it also has layers, etc.
You could look into Pixelmator perhaps?
Scapple for mind-mapping.
Affinity Photo and Affinity Designer for a replacement for Photoshop.
Steam for gaming.
Yummy FTP Pro for, uh, FTP.
Paprika Recipe Manager for recipes.
ReadKit for RSS feeds.
Wordpress for editing Wordpress sites.
Those are the ones off the top of my head. Great thread! Let's keep it going.
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Yeah I was amazed, stumbled on it by accident. It's infinitely more intuitive than doing it in Photoshop.
As a side note, I bleeding hate Photoshop in general. Some people "get" it, with all those layers and editing - it just doesn't click with how my brain works and the simplest things seem mega frustrating. That's more a me problem than an Adobe problem though.
HA!!!! Affinity Photo is a viable alternative, but it might be too viable in this case, it also has layers, etc.
You could look into Pixelmator perhaps?
I recently discovered Music-to-XML from musitek.com
http://www.musitek.com/m2xml.html
I use it to import scans or PDFs of sheet music right into Finale (my music notation program). It works with any other music notation programs too. Amazingly accurate and reasonably priced.
http://www.musitek.com/m2xml.html
I use it to import scans or PDFs of sheet music right into Finale (my music notation program). It works with any other music notation programs too. Amazingly accurate and reasonably priced.
I entirely agree and I also avoid the subscription model. I also am happy to pay once for something and get paid upgrades as I see fit, but constantly paying for something just makes no sense to me and is utterly unsustainable. I do not want subscription and I do not want free, I just want a fair one off price for a given feature set. I've been trying the app for a couple of weeks and was surprised when I read this article and went back to check.
So far, Agenda seems very good and I only struggle with not needing any of the premium features. I feel I want to pay for the app anyway and probably will do so. Maybe they'll add a premium feature I find useful within the year!
I use Chronosync for backing up photos/documents on a daily basis to multiple drives. In the old days I would manually drag images from disk to disk as I once had a problem with a backup program that didn't sync everything for some reason.
Chronosync is awesome for worry free backup of different folders etc. I really don't use it to the full potential as there are a ton of features. I probably use it for 5% of what it can do. The new version also has new setup assistant that is a lot easier for people starting out.
I use CCC for backing up disk images or to make bootable drives. I got CCC way before Chronosync and Chronosync does that too.
I am glad to support these two developers and feel guilty that Chronosync has free updates for life. I backup 5-20 gb of images a day and love Chronosync.
Chronosync is awesome for worry free backup of different folders etc. I really don't use it to the full potential as there are a ton of features. I probably use it for 5% of what it can do. The new version also has new setup assistant that is a lot easier for people starting out.
I use CCC for backing up disk images or to make bootable drives. I got CCC way before Chronosync and Chronosync does that too.
I am glad to support these two developers and feel guilty that Chronosync has free updates for life. I backup 5-20 gb of images a day and love Chronosync.
Cheatsheet reminds of the awkward keyboard symbols that chronically (decades) plague MacBooks. Does a upward exponential sign mean the shift key or the esc key or the shift 6 key? What on earth is a backslash with itty bitty tails and a minus sign? Would it pain Apple software writers too much to alter the menu choices with better clues? Would it pain Apple hardware designers too much to put these crazy symbols on the keyboards? Surely the Apple people know these symbols by heart, but the occasional user doesn't! Why is an app like Cheatsheet even necessary? Seriously, Apple people need to sit behind ordinary users and find out what the frustrations are.
Call Recorder for Facetime or Skype from Ecamm.com!!
I love this app for facetime. It records split screen or single end of facetime calls on mac. I have some treasured video of family members who live in distant lands.
I also like ecamm Phoneview as I can offload voicemails, photos etc. independent of itunes backup. It really allows you to dig deep into your iphone.
For web browsing privacy I also really like cookie and wifispoof.
https://sweetpproductions.com/
Almost forgot: KEYBOARD MAESTRO from https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
i cannot live without the combo of textexpander, alfred and keyboard maestro.
they really automate repetitive tasks. i use textexpander for shortcuts of common used words/phrases, alfred for multi item clip board as well as awesome workflows that allow me to activate/deactivate apps/group of apps via function keys. and keyboard maestro is amazing for a ton of macros.
I love this app for facetime. It records split screen or single end of facetime calls on mac. I have some treasured video of family members who live in distant lands.
I also like ecamm Phoneview as I can offload voicemails, photos etc. independent of itunes backup. It really allows you to dig deep into your iphone.
For web browsing privacy I also really like cookie and wifispoof.
https://sweetpproductions.com/
Almost forgot: KEYBOARD MAESTRO from https://www.keyboardmaestro.com/main/
i cannot live without the combo of textexpander, alfred and keyboard maestro.
they really automate repetitive tasks. i use textexpander for shortcuts of common used words/phrases, alfred for multi item clip board as well as awesome workflows that allow me to activate/deactivate apps/group of apps via function keys. and keyboard maestro is amazing for a ton of macros.
