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Five Useful Mac Apps Worth Checking Out - April 2018
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Do you have multiple airports set up? I have a couple around the house and always found that Airfoil started getting "out of sync" over the course of a couple of songs. I haven't tried it in a few years, but would go back if the sync issue is fixed.
The dev includes an uninstaller, works perfectly. Just removed the app from a few Macs that I'm selling.
Mac hard drive > Library > Application Support > iStat Menus 6 > iStat Menus Uninstaller
I've been using Airfoil for a few years now, and the only issues I have is with the Airplay speaker in an area of weak wifi coverage cutting out. More of an Airplay issue than Airfoil. No audio sync issues for me. If you need to fine tune the sync between several speakers there are options to adjust that.
Nice. Thanks for mentioning those options. I'll give it another try. Just opened and updated the app after a few years of disuse. Fingers crossed.
I usually only stream to one speaker at a time, so I can't comment on it staying in sync. The app has received many updates in the past few years, so I suspect the sync issue you had is probably gone now. Also, as woodlandtrek mentioned, you can manually adjust the sync.
I do not find 1password pricy compared to some of their competitors.
Especially considering you can buy a licens and not have a subscription. + 1password 7 is in beta at the moment so there is a discount (39.99$ compared to 64.99$ when released) for Mac license (and windows, since it is also in beta at the moment)
https://blog.agilebits.com/2018/03/28/the-1password-7-beta-for-mac-is-lit-and-you-can-be-too/
iStat looks so much better in its Dashboard form (iStat Pro). It's a shame in some respects that Dashboard wasn't better supported.
Sure. Hazel is an extremely powerful way to automate repetitive file management. My personal primary use case is filing, but it can do pretty much anything you like with file manipulation. An example I can think of is filing online bills. So, I have a set folder where I store all of my digital paperwork. Within that folder is the usual folder tree to separate by type of bill, date, etc. So, what I've done is have Hazel 'watch' my downloads folder. When I download a bill from either a web site or email, Hazel watches for it. It does so based on criteria that I myself have set up. It can search based on the expected name of the file (as most companies have naming conventions that are easy to spot) or it can search within files like PDF files for the name of a company. When it matches, it can automatically rename, tag, and then move the file to the folder I designate within the tree. It does all this without my even thinking about it. All I need to do is download and it files for me. You can set up as many rules as you need, and as many criteria as necessary. The software is virtually invisible, eats no resources that I've seen and is rock solid. If you want to know more, I suggest going to the web site and checking it out. I can't even imagine how much time Hazel has saved me in repetitive tasks on my Mac.
I prefer Disk Inventory X, but sadly, it’s 32-bit and hasn’t been updated since like 2003(?). So, I’ve started getting the warning on my Mac that I’ll soon no longer be able to use it in a future system update. =(
[doublepost=1524990070][/doublepost]I've been using Little Snitch for years too and as you say, it works very unobtrusively and unlike a malware scanner which has to rely on a database to compare and is therefore vulnerable to anything new, it detects when something tries to ring out and is therefore much faster to react and very difficult to circumvent.
I block google analyticals independently though, and several hundred links with the words 'ad' or 'click' in the line.
You are right that it is amazing how many connections your machine calls out to. Even the BBC seem to use ip addresses in Poland and sometimes there are connections to what seems to be a rock, or ship in the atlantic.
You might also like to check out 'Oversight'. https://objective-see.com/products/oversight.html
It monitors your camera and audio informing you if they become active so giving you warning if you have been Ratted of hacked in some way. It's free although they ask for contributions and I would be happy to pay but annoyingly, they only offer the option of setting up a monthly payment and I'm never going to do that.
I also give a big thumbs up to 'Better' as a unique and very competent ad and tracker blocker. Definitely someone I like to support.
https://better.fyi
Is any application better than Spotlight to index contents of files (pdf, txt ..) ? I missed boolean operators AND OR NOT astericks searc* searc? and last but not least embedded context analysis with stemming (lemmatization) in most important languages and synonyms (thesaurus) support
Maybe easyfind does most of what you are looking for?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/easyfind/id411673888?mt=12
I've used it for years and it hasn't been updated for a while but still works.
TotalFinder - iStat Menus - Little Snitch - Evernote
Screenshot Auto-Rename > Screenshot Previous Selection
EasyFind > Extensive search also on network volumes
CalcTape Paper Tape calculator > great calculator with TAX options keys
Art View > Quick Look inDesign docs
Sync Folders Pro
MediaHuman YouTube Downloader & Audio converter
Screenshot Auto-Rename > Screenshot Previous Selection
EasyFind > Extensive search also on network volumes
CalcTape Paper Tape calculator > great calculator with TAX options keys
Art View > Quick Look inDesign docs
Sync Folders Pro
MediaHuman YouTube Downloader & Audio converter
Moom is the best 10$ I have ever spent on an app. I almost always refuse to and got lucky with this one. It's "Windows Snap" on steroids. Watch a video. It's great.
Interesting... I use Divvy, but Moom looks even better.
Also a huge thanks to the people who mentioned Station (and even Franz). I had no idea those kinds of apps exist!
As others have already pointed out in this thread, this functionality is already built into OSX.
About This Mac > Storage > Manage > Reduce Clutter > Review
I'm a big fan of Fluid, which lets you build a separate single-source browser for each web app you use -- which means you can command-tab right to something like Gmail or any website you use regularly and want to create an app for. You can also optionally pin apps to the menu bar or set them to "float" above other Finder windows. It also stores its cookies separately so you can very easily use it to, say, access a secondary Gmail account or something. The website explains this all a lot better than I can.
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Rogue Amoeba makes great stuff. I use Audio Hijack Pro a lot to record various audio bits from the web, and have for years been using it to record the morning radio news automatically so I can listen later. The older version even post-processes files so you can send them to iTunes or, as I used to do, a Dropbox folder for remote access. (The newer version sadly doesn't do post-recording scripts.)
Also very fond of Fission for a fast, lightweight audio editor. Great for quick edits, and it even saves iTunes-compatible tags and can save sounds as .m4r ringtones for iOS devices.
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Dashboard is potentially so much better than that lame Notification Center strip. Sad that Apple has let it languish. I'm still running iStat in Dashboard and it works fine except for the "processes" module which died some time back.
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no idea... Bought it years ago and just upgraded my licens as time went on and new version were released.