Apps For Travelers
When I travel, my phone ceases to be an entertainment and diversion device and turns into a real tool. Whether I'm staying in town or...
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2025
Get Plain Text - Adds a Feature the Mac Lacks
People who work with text a lot are familiar with the Mac shortcut to paste the clipboard as plain text - Command + Shift +...
Quick App Launcher - Pro, A Well Thought Alternative
There are various ways to launch apps on a Mac. The most obvious and the one used most by new Mac users is clicking icons...
Free App List Number 4
This is the fourth collection of free apps reviewed on AppAddict. Links to the first three collections are posted below. I've downloaded and installed each...
Opener Feels Like iOS
Opener is so integrated into the way I use my phone that I forget it's an app and not built into iOS. When you're browsing...
MyApplications - An App for App Lovers
For the avid app collector there are a few tools available to help catalog and curate the assortment of programs that accumulate over time. You...
Pareto Security - Quick and Easy
I recently noticed an app on Setapp that I'd never tried, Pareto Security, so I investigated it. It's a basic application that checks the settings...
SmartBackup - Free, Fast and Foolproof
While I have long used Time Machine as my primary backup for my Macs, it does have some drawbacks. If you go looking for a...
Change the Location of Notifications With PingPlace
One of my favorite tech writers, Justin Pot, who publishes a lot over at Lifehacker, reviewed a new to me app today called PingPlace. If...
Safari Extensions Worth Paying For and A Couple of Worthy Freebies
One of my current strategies to minimize the ability of tech companies, starting with Google, to use browser fingerprinting to extract information from my browsing...
Some App Finding Resources for You
It truly seems like there is an unending river of new Mac apps to check out. I once worried that I would not be able...
PhotoSync to take Control Over Your Images
For anyone who wants to eliminate as much friction as possible in creating backups of their iPhone photos outside of iCloud, most people have long...
Digikam is Replacing Apple Photos, Google Photos and Amazon Photos For Me
Apple Photos is fine for backing up the pictures I take with my iPhone, but its proprietary database that keeps users from accessing their files...
Stop the Madness Pro Extension for Safari, Chrome and Firefox
To preserve more of my privacy, I am now using different browsers on a rotating basis. This helps to cut down on fingerprinting to an...
One For the Techies - SwiftDefaultApps
The problem of the day for me was finding an extension for Safari to automate opening paywalled websites at the Internet Archive. Unfortunately, the only...
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Delimited - Quick and Easy Way to Work with CSV Files
In trying to stay away from proprietary formats, like spreadsheets from Excel or even Numbers, I opt for using comma separated value (CSV) files as...
A New World of Automation Possibilities
One of the most frustrating situations for me when traveling is being locked out of remote access into my home computer. If my remote access...
Hop to Desk, a Free and Open-Source Encrypted Remote Access Solution
I have been using Chrome Remote Desktop when I need to remote into computers in my home when I am away. It's free, requires practically...
5 Small Gems I Found This Week
Here are a few small apps I found this week from my usual sources and tips from Internet friends: Sentinel - from indy dev, Alin...
AppAddict's One-Year Anniversary
One year ago I posted my first app review on AppAddict. I'd recently subscribed to a new blogging service and I was trying to figure...
