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Five Interesting Mac Apps Worth Checking Out - June 2018

mixel said:
That does seem an odd thing to track but I'm curious now.. I know the exact hour and date i first met my wife, never thought to calculate how long it's been. :confused:
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Lets say you do the math and it comes to a number (to make my experiment easy) 100 days.

Subtract sleep hours, subtract daily commute hours (bare with me here) and hours at work for those 100 days. Yes, weekends, or vacations, etc wouldn't count but lets make the comparison easy and if you must, add in how many days of weekends. But I'm sure you get where I'm going with this.

You spend more time with people at work, than you do your spouse. Kinda depressing, to me at least.
 
I use Copy'em Paste... in addition to text and other basic clipboard captures, it will allow me to copy/paste/recall complex items (formatted lower thirds, overlays, video watermarks, etc in FinalCut Pro X). Most of the clipboard managers will allow you to copy and paste, but if the FCPx item is not the top item on the stack (I.e., most recently captured item), it cannot properly recall the time. Copy'em Paste does that... I can save the items, even between FCPx sessions and system reboots.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/copyem-paste-clipboard-mgr/id876540291?mt=12
 
Not sure about being able to tweet quickly - I think most tweets (my own included) are much better if a little time has been spent on them.
 
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Sandboxing policy has made Mac apps isolated from each other. Furthermore, too many redundant copies of files would be made. Overstretched security concern kills freedom of creativity. Mac App Store is an authoratarian nightmare.
 
The video makes it sound like uBar can only be used as a Windows Dock, which is not the case. uBar can also be used as a Mac Dock and people in the Mac environment will feel more familiar with it.
 
You are the One said:
I checked out the Privacy policy of Paste.

https://pasteapp.me/privacy?utm_source=macappstore&utm_medium=macappstore

https://mixpanel.com/legal/privacy-policy/

Personally, I avoid Apps from companies with a policy to horde and capitalise on their customers private information.
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Just turned off some outgoing 'call' to Google Adsense' something, in Little snitch. Not relevant for Paste.
Might do the upgrade on Little Snitch. Had it before and trying it on again.
 
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Baletin said:
Gemmini is overpriced graphic gimmick. Use Duplicate File Finder instead.
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I don't think there can be a perfect duplicate file finder "finder" .... They all kind of miss the mark somewhat, although there are some better than others.
 
This really took me back to the 90s where people had creative apps to do different tasks for personal use. Its sad to see that the majority uses of the computer is provided from probably just 5 major companies and everything is connected to the web with an account that tracks your every move.

Good ol' purchase and app and use it offline... no accounts or tracking. Those were the days.
 
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Lioness~ said:
Just turned off some outgoing 'call' to Google Adsense' something, in Little snitch. Not relevant for Paste.
Might do the upgrade on Little Snitch. Had it before and trying it on again.
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Yes, I consider Little Snitch the #1 app for MacOs. Buy it, use it, learn it.

I like the way the are going with the GUI for those not so experienced, you can choose from predesigned profiles for different purposes e.g.
 
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Chester Stone said:
How about highlighting apps that actually let you create something rather than merely consuming? I really like the idea behind this series, but we really don't need to hear about yet another Twitter client, yet another file manager, yet another pastebot, yet another dock & bar extension...

How about something like...
  • Scrivener that helps writers compose books & articles;
  • Acorn that helps designers create icons for their apps;
  • Aseprite for helping spriters create pixel art;
  • Blocs for building websites WYSIWYG;
  • Transmit for moving content to remote servers;
  • PaintCode 3 for crafting animations and then translating them to code?

Focus on the creators for once, instead of more consumer crap. God forbid the world needing people to tweet faster... The world won't benefit from one more tweet, there is enough noise and chatter without it. >_>
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Thanks a lot for this indeed. Hope they take this suggestion into account. At the least they could have a couple few sections: the consumerism part, creation part (which I’m more infinitely interested in) and ease of use part.
 
ForkLift - for serious filesystem browsing & FTP/SSH connections.

JumpCut - minimalist & free clipboard buffer.

LittleSnitch - this is the App I can't imagine turning my Mac on without.

Any serious VPN - I use ProtonVPN + ProtonMail (I'm on Visionary plan with all my family members).

1Password - some prefer it over others (LastPass etc), but I rather bet on Open Source and donate the money to the creators - KeePassXC has worked very well for me and my family so far.

Wire - a chat communicator we use - it's secure, fast and works on all platforms whether it's a Mac, iOS, Android, Windows or Web.

Adobe Photoshop - a long time user of Adobe products, but I just couldn't justify the monthly fee as it's not something I use on daily basis (I'm a Javascript programmer) so I moved on and purchased Affinity Designer a few years back, never looked back.

Chrome - way too much data sharing with Google, switched to Ungoogled Chromium (you can find it on GitHub) for privacy reasons, but I mainly use it for it's developer tools, as my daily browsing is handled by Safari, which is much more efficient in terms of battery life.

Flux - because it makes looking on the screen in night hours much easier.

Spotify - music stuff, I just did not find the Apple Music suggestions that good, but that's just personal taste, I guess.

Wunderlist - shame Microsoft bought it and is planning to shut it down, love the lists sharing across family members to share for example shopping list etc.

Slack / Trello (I use Wavebox for these two, looks pretty good)- work stuff we use to communicate and keep track of what's going on in our company.

SublimeText (moved to PHPStorm) - web development text editor I used before, but PHPStorm IDE is way ahead with all its tools under the belt.
 
swingerofbirch said:
I love that there are these great Mac apps, but I don't purchase any because I've had all my needs met for a long time. I wish there were something that appealed to me because I'd like to support them.

I feel like there are a few things going on. The 1980s heralded desktop publishing. Then there was the Web age which came around the same time as the multimedia CD-ROM age. Then there were apps for MP3s (eventually iTunes), and apps for creating media (iMovie, iDVD, GarageBand) along with the apps for organizing/managing your devices (iTunes, iSync, iPhoto). But all those devices are now self-servicing. And all multi-media stuff can easily be consumed on the web, or can be shared/edited from the same mobile devices from which it's captured. Web-page creation is sort of now only for pros or it's done through blogging template sites (oh how I miss GoLive--one of my favorite apps of all time). There's no real big "era" of software right now filling a need on the desktop.

When I have had to send my MBP in for repairs, I've used a Chromebook and been able to play my music from Spotify, watch Netflix, and edit documents in Google Docs. The MBP is certainly nicer for those things, but the Web being so capable has probably made native applications less necessary than they used to be. In some cases even with media, I find the Web superior. For example, scrubbing video in QuickTime is a pain. I can more easily scrub video in YouTube. And selecting clips to trim in QuickTime is also bafflingly difficult (why doesn't the playhead remain in place when you drag the yellow sliders?).

Anyhow, after being so dreary about apps, my favorites are: Chrome (bloated but works well), Spotify (love the UI), EvoCam (simple to use, unfortunately no longer supported), Sleepytime (turns off music/sound in various apps after a certain time when you're going to bed), F.lux for my sensitive pupils, Chroma (for controlling my Philips Hue lights), OneDrive (my current online storage of choice--to be honest, Google Drive, OneDrive, and DropBox seem identical to me--just using this now because I have 1 TB free through my dad's subscription to Office), Microsoft Word (it's still the best for word processing), Pages (the best for page layout--I make pretty elaborate invitations, etc., with this--but it is wretched for word processing), Pixelmator (I generally use this for making titles in iMovie), iMovie (which I actually really don't like anymore--iMovie 6 HD was the last version I really enjoyed, but it's what I still use in spite of it seeming much less user friendly than it used to), DaisyDisk (for finding what is mysteriously taking up disk space), and Tidepool Uploader (an app that interfaces with tidepool.org and lets you upload data from various blood glucose monitors and continuous glucose monitors and has an infinitely better interface than ones included with the products--if you have diabetes you should give it a try).
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Awesome to hear more people using Chromebooks! I've known some folks who ditched the desktop and laptop. I love my Chromebook (still shocked that something that only costs $200 can work so well.. yeah it's Google, but I'm not going to pay 2x to 5x more when you need to be careful about digital footprint even on OSX and iOS), but still like to do stuff on a proper desktop whenever I can. Either b/c it's better on there, or simply 'just possible'.

coolfactor said:
... and there's no way I'm paying even a single dollar to make my Mac look more like Windows with its Task Bar! :p
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I've met my fair share of Windows user in college, and still to this day where if you want to put UI interfaces and such that look like Mac, it'll be "over their dead bodies" :D
 
tooobe said:
You should really feature MacUpdater. Most amazing app in a long time. https://www.corecode.io/macupdater/index.html
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Specially like this:
“we have an industry-leading privacy policy that should keep you feeling all warm & snug.”
“MacUpdater is an one-time-purchase – without any shady memberships, subscription crap or adhesion contracts. There is no need to sell your soul or to rob the piggy-bank to use MacUpdater. Its a simple, one-time purchase”

Will check out these guys :)
 
All so gimicky, would not even really call this tools Apps. Would prefer some actual productivity apps that get some work done ;-)
 
Always really like those monthly app recommendations. Great job.
I think, dedupe and pasteboard apps can really be productivity boosters in certain situations.

However, can someone compare any benefits of Gemini and Paste to OSS dupeGuru and Clipy?

Does Gemini 2 have a comparison feature that is able to find files present in one folder, but not present in one or more other folders? That's probably the main thing I'm missing in dupeGuru. Its maintainer recently changed, so here's the link to the original developer site:
dupeGuru https://www.hardcoded.net/dupeguru/

Does Paste have any advantages over Clipy?
Clipy https://github.com/Clipy/Clipy
Clipy's predecessor ClipMenu was my favourite one, but I didn't find a comparable app. Especially I'm missing the mighty RegEx rules that hopefully will return to Clipy one day.

Thank you for feedback.
 
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