BetterTouchTool is a great power user's tool, but it's strictly for power users. It's not at all intuitively designed and its usefulness requires a lot of tinkering for you to get $20 worth of value out it.
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Five Interesting Mac Apps Worth Checking Out - August 2018
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Postbox 6.0. BLAZING fast. I have 8 inboxes, some are quite large. Mail.app has crashed and been unreliable for the past several years' worth of OS updates. Postbox has been a champ but 6.0 is a game changer. It's incredibly quick and robust. I tried MANY mail clients leading to Postbox and some after - but PB is fantastic. Spark is good - looks great for sure and Readdle is a GREAT company and they make GREAT software. But ... Postbox wins for power mail use, IMO.
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CleanMyMac *
Gemini *
Radio Silence
Little Snitch
AirFoil *
Audio Hijack *
Fission *
Wallpaper Wizard *
* Any app by Rogue Amoeba or Macpaw. Seriously.
I want to love Hyper but it's just no match for iTerm's performance. I know some folks knock Electron apps for performance ... maybe that's Hyper's Achilles' heel. I think there was talk the Hyper team was going to swap out the underlying engine but ... who knows.
https://itunes.apple.com/bm/app/quickpassword/id1066194199?mt=12
For creating strong passwords, including a handy dictionary password generator (e.g. "reindeer trial tower coral").
For creating strong passwords, including a handy dictionary password generator (e.g. "reindeer trial tower coral").
Especially not on MacOS.
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iStat Menus is nice.
What? Work for 25 minutes and then have nearly as long as a break... Sign me up. Not to the app, to a job that promotes this!
Spark for iOS is not very intituitive. Specially the iPad interface. So much wasted space.
I would love to use it as my email client in MacOS but their privacy policy is not very good.
Some lesser known apps I recommend:
1. IINA. Awesome media player. Still in beta but much more stable than VLC.
2. Numi. Awesome calculator for the Mac. It supports headings, variables and comments. This makes it a very viable option for long calculations. Plus, Alfred integration is amazing.
3. OverPicture for Safari. Yes, this is a paid extension for Picture in Picture mode. You can find free extensions that do the same thing. However, this is the only one that scales the PiP button on the media controls when the video is in full screen. Good for those with OCD.
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[*]All-in-One Messenger (Free) - This is technically a Chrome extension rather than a Mac app, so it's limited to Chrome users. All-in-One Messenger is designed to combine all of your chat and messenger services into one convenient web app so you can keep up with all of your chats in a single spot. It works with a wide range of messaging apps, like WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Skype, Telegram, Slack, Discord, Google Hangouts, and more.
WUPHF clone?
Favorite Mac app? Franz comes to mind. It does everything "all-in-one" messenger is supposed to be doing, only better.
These types of apps are borderline malware. The Mac OS does all the cleaning needed. If you feel there is a memory problem, just restart your computer. I get paid to uninstall this type of app because of the problems they cause on my clients Mac's. They are not as bad as full blown malware or ransomware and they are NOT needed.
Former Apple employee, independent Mac Consultant for over 25 years and a Mac owner since they came out in 1984
Not free but quite cheap - iStat Menus. Its probably the best out there. For free (but no fans) is Intels Power Gadget.
You asked for Good and Free... Those two don’t usually go together.
I have been using iStat Menus for 5 or six years. It is great, very customizable and well worth the money for me... Developers need to eat too....
DEFAULT FOLDER is a must have for everyone. https://www.stclairsoft.com
maybe it's been featured already, idk.
maybe it's been featured already, idk.
Canary Mail looks promising... I guess I'll give that a try -once it supports Exchange.
Right, because in your country the non-furry things are potentially poisenous and deadly... ;PI vote for Canary Mail... also for the easy encryption, plus i like little furry birds
About This MAC>Storage is nowhere near as useful as a tool that can display a visual map of all your files.. It only gives a vague idea of what sort of things are using up space.
Dr. Cleaner and CleanMyMac aren’t much better but are decent for finding random big things lying around. I still think Disk Map is the best. I use it, and the similar Windows based WinDirStat a lot.
WOW, that's a real blast from the past. I'm showing my age here, but I used TE+ way back in the early 1990s because it did a whole lot that SimpleText wouldn't do, and at the same time was a lot leaner than Word. I do remember it being awesome at text cleanup.
I recommend: Beyond Compare. It makes you compare 2 directories/folders/disks to see the differences. Good to know which files are missing from where, or which are the more updated ones.
I feel sad for MacOS apps. People are migrating away from computers and more into handhelds. There are only very few apps like these that are essentials like Carbon Copy Cloner and 1password, but most of the other stuff... I am not sure if they are making any money. People are extremely stingy with paying for apps/services, not to mention in the world for subscription and monthly updates... its even worse.
Back in the 90s/early 2000s, you can buy an app and know it will work for at least 3-4 years no worries. Now days, you don't know whats going to break in the next MacOS update/grade.
Good call on iAwriter... there are others too like scrivner, Ulysses,Bear,WriterRoom, ... each is very so slightly different
I never got why Apple just doesn't include the stats option baked in the MacOS, seems a very simple thing. I mean no harm for the iStat guys, but really they are making money from such a simple missing option. That being said, its an opportunity to make money of it. For me iStat is worth it just for monitoring the CPU heat in the menubar. In Desktops it doesn't matter, but in laptops...its a whole different story.
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Isn't there something called memory pressure, if too much RAM is used performance hinders and RAM usually has to have free space as a "breathing" room ?
I feel sad for MacOS apps. People are migrating away from computers and more into handhelds. There are only very few apps like these that are essentials like Carbon Copy Cloner and 1password, but most of the other stuff... I am not sure if they are making any money. People are extremely stingy with paying for apps/services, not to mention in the world for subscription and monthly updates... its even worse.
Back in the 90s/early 2000s, you can buy an app and know it will work for at least 3-4 years no worries. Now days, you don't know whats going to break in the next MacOS update/grade.
Not sure if they've been covered yet but, iAWriter, Day One, BetterTouchTool, SwitchResX, coconutBattery, Arq, Carbon Copy Cloner, iTerm, iStat Menus ---- those are my favorite Mac Apps.
Good call on iAwriter... there are others too like scrivner, Ulysses,Bear,WriterRoom, ... each is very so slightly different
I never got why Apple just doesn't include the stats option baked in the MacOS, seems a very simple thing. I mean no harm for the iStat guys, but really they are making money from such a simple missing option. That being said, its an opportunity to make money of it. For me iStat is worth it just for monitoring the CPU heat in the menubar. In Desktops it doesn't matter, but in laptops...its a whole different story.
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Isn't there something called memory pressure, if too much RAM is used performance hinders and RAM usually has to have free space as a "breathing" room ?
I think I tried spark but my main issue is i have multiple email addresses that i need to sync through ONE account ... Canary's iCloud sync is perfect for this.