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Vivaldi, My Favorite Browser Just Got Some Updates

I switched to using Vivaldi late last year after being all in on Microsoft Edge because of work. I am trying to leave as many big tech companies behind as possible, and I grew tired of having AI shoved in my face all day. Vivaldi is a Chromium-based browser designed for the technically proficient, who form the core of its 3.1 million user base. Through the years I've used Netscape, Internet Explorer, Camino, Safari, Chrome and Edge. None of them ever provided the customization options that Vivaldi does. The ability to group tabs and save them as browsing sessions is...

February 6th, 2025 Universal Apps

Tapestry by Iconfactory on Day 2

Announced a year ago on Kickstarter, Tapestry by Iconfactory was released on February 4. Tapestry is an aggregator that creates a combined timeline from a long list of possible sources including : • RSS feeds • YouTube channels • Podcasts • Mastodon • Bluesky • Micro.blog • Tumblr • Reddit Items in your timeline are shown in chronological order. There is no algorithm. Searching within Tapestry searches across all feeds. Likewise, setting a mute filter for terms such as "Elon Musk" will block content from every source. Content from different sources is color coded to make readily apparent which resource...

February 5th, 2025 iOS Apps

Privileges - Operate Your Mac Safely

As much as you may not want to hear it, using an administrator account on your Mac as your daily driver is absolutely not the best practice. It's bad because it provides full access rights across the system to every application and process running in that account. If malware or a bad actor gains control of the administrator account, they could potentially install unwanted applications, alter system settings, or access or delete sensitive data. Limiting the use of an administrator account helps to mitigate these risks. Unfortunately, most people consider it a huge hassle to use the standard Mac method...

February 4th, 2025 Mac Apps

Latest Apps of Note from Mac Menu Bar

Luuk over at Mac Menu Bar has been busy as usual, keeping up with the latest releases of new Menu Bar apps for the community. Here are my favorites from the recent additions: AutoShot - Automatic screenshots in set intervals - This app automatically takes a screenshot of your workspace at intervals you specify and even if you are using multiple monitors. You can choose the file format you want to use for the screenshots and where they are kept in your file structure. You can alleviate concerns about excessive disk usage by setting auto-delete parameters. (Free) Sprinkles – Customize...

February 3rd, 2025 Mac Apps

Quick Reviews - For Sharing and Reference

If you're looking for a quick and easy way to share you general opinion and ratings of movies, TV shows, games, books or whatever, Quick Reviews, a new app by Indy developer, blogger, YouTuber and podcaster, Matt Birchler can generate a graphic for you in just a few clicks. The free version lets you create unlimited reviews and allows you the leeway to control all the design elements: accent color, font, theme, rating icons, light/dark mode, default review type. Quick Reviews also has clipboard detection and will use the graphic you've copied to automatically illustrate your review. You can also...

February 2nd, 2025 iOS Apps

Rego - An App for Bookmarking Places

I've been using Rego to bookmark locations for the last eleven years, using seven different iPhones. I have over 600 places saved in various categories, including: • Restaurants • Coffee Shops • Accommodations • Parks • Residences (friends and family) • Bookstores Whenever we travel, it's easy to find places where we've enjoyed eating in the past. The same with coffee shops and hotels and rental properties. Adding a new location can be done onsite, from an address or pulled from the metadata from a photograph. Bookmarks contain GPS coordinates, street address where applicable, notes, date added and a stock...

February 1st, 2025

AppAddict Free App List #3

This is the third collection of free apps reviewed on AppAddict. Links to the first two collections are posted below. I've downloaded and installed each of these on my own laptop. In many cases, I've added them to various workflows for my day job and blogging pursuits. I'm sorry for the recent double post to your RSS feeds. This post may also go out twice, but after that I hope the problem is solved. A Curated Collection of Free Apps Another Curated Collection of Free Software Shareful - A Free App I Use Every Day Two Free Apps for Mac...

January 31st, 2025 Mac Apps

RsyncUI - a GUI for the powerful CLI Utility

RsyncUI is the successor to Rsync OS X. It is a graphical user interface for the powerful command line utility, rsync, a file synchronization utility that has its roots in the Linux world. RsyncUI is an Apple native app, 100% written in Swift. All of the actual work is still done by rsync, buy you can skip much of the learning curve involved in using the CLI. Pure rysnc can sync files between remote and local servers. Rsync has many options that can help you define the connections you make, and allow you to specify files that should be excluded...

January 30th, 2025 Mac Apps

Raycast Quicklinks - Power Searching from the Keyboard

There are various Internet search tools available for Macs, but if you are a Raycast user, you can search just about any website without having to install an extension if you take the time to set up Quicklinks. Raycast is a Mac automation tool that extends the power of Spotlight and can replace other utilities, like clipboard managers, emoji pickers and window managers. (See use cases) Raycast offers a few preconfigured site searches in its own library, but you can add your own by adapting the search URL and using a dynamic placeholder. To configure Quicklinks, open Raycast with your...

January 29th, 2025 Mac Apps

Krisp - AI Meeting Assistant for Noise Cancellation and Transcription

If you have online meetings using apps like Slack, Microsoft Teams. Zoom or Google Meet, you can get free noise cancellation via AI as well as meeting transcripts and recordings via Krisp, a business app with a generous free tier. Make sure you clearly understand the privacy policy before doing so. Noise CancellationThe AI-powered noise cancellation is bidirectional. It removes any extraneous sounds, background voices and echos. If you elect to use only this feature, none of the data from your calls is recorded on Krisp's cloud servers. Users of the free plan get 60 minutes of cumulative noise cancellation...

January 28th, 2025 Mac Apps

Integrity - Free Link Checker

Use the free tool, Integrity, to quickly crawl an entire domain or subdomain and check every link on each page within. See a report listing the URL of each page and see the server response code for all internal and external links found. From within Integrity you can quickly jump to any page within the domain and with the text of the broken link highlighted. As corporate owned social media becomes more toxic and advertising invades every space available, more and more people are adopting the ethos of the Indie Web movement and creating their own websites in the form...

January 27th, 2025 Mac Apps

DEVONagent Lite - Free Tool to Increase Search Productivity

If you do much research in your browser, and you're past the stage where you just use Google everything, DEVONagent Lite gives you keyboard quick access to seventeen different categories of reference material, most of them with multiple sources to choose from. No longer do you need to find your browser bookmark for the website you want to use for search. You type your query right in the menu bar of macOS, choose the category and site you would like to search, and press enter. The resulting page opens in your default browser. The search categories and some of the...

January 26th, 2025 Mac Apps

The RSS Feed for AppAddict Has Changed

For those of you who are regular readers of AppAddict, I changed the domain name to something easier to remember . Old links will still work but if you use an RSS reader, you’ll need to resubscribe. I really appreciate everyone who stops by.

January 25th, 2025

Video Converter - All-in-One Video Conversion

One of the websites I keep an eye on for new to me software is Thriftmac, which currently has a library of 428 categorized free Mac apps with short descriptions and links to developer sites or the Mac App Store. That's where I found today's app. If you need a nice, simple , easy to use GUI front end for FFMpeg, , the free offering from developer Justin Bush, Video Converter - All-in-One Video Conversion is an easy to access choice, Available in the Mac App Store this app has a simple drag and drop interface. To use the app,...

January 25th, 2025 Mac Apps

Session - Free and Open-Source E2E Decentralized Cross Platform Messaging

For anyone looking for an anonymous messaging system, that requires no account, email or telephone number to set up, Session may be what you are looking for. With clients for macOS, iOS, Windows, Android and Linux, you can communicate with just about anyone through a network of 2000 decentralized servers. If a server goes down, the network stays up, eliminating any one node as a single source of failure. Session's encrypted messages are sent through an onion routing network. Onion networks encrypt messages with multiple layers of encryption, then send them through a number of nodes. Each node ‘unwraps’ (decrypts)...

January 24th, 2025 Universal Apps