BarCuts Brings Order to Your Shortcuts Menu
I make extensive use of shortcuts all day long on my Mac. I use them to import data into Obsidian, generate alt-text for images I...
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2025
A Mac Guy Gets Into Self-Hosting
Before 2025, my self-hosting experience had been limited to running the media server software, Plex, on a 2009 iMac. When I retired that machine, I...
Five New to Me Apps for a New Week
iDrive Cloud Backup From Assaf at Labnotes - IDrive Cloud Backup I started looking into Backblaze alternatives, and so far iDrive is a strong contender....
How to Check All Your Apps for Homebrew Availability
I don't think there is any question on how useful the free Mac package manager, Homebrew, can be. You can download and install an app...
Glide — A Reading Aid for Those With Concentration and Perception Challenges
Luckily, I don't have a diagnosis of ADHD or dyslexia, although anyone who spends much time online quickly becomes aware that those challenges are common...
NameQuick Comes in Handy
No matter how consistent you are, your computer is more consistent. One of my hobbies requires me to do frequent file exports, and I've just...
It Might Be Time to Get Rid of Backblaze
Backblaze offers two products to Mac users. The first and oldest is an always on backup service that backs up your entire hard drive to...
Make dupeGuru Part of Your Maintenance Toolbox
As a non-developer, I appreciate how difficult writing good software must be. There are a few tasks that it seems are nearly impossible to prefect....
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...
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...
