11 Plugins for QuickLook
One of my favorite features of macOS is QuickLook, activated by pressing the spacebar when you have a file highlighted in the Finder, it enables...
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A Few GUI Tools for the Homebrew Curious
If you'd like to explore some of what's available in macOS through Homebrew, the command line package manager but you are a little intimidated by...
The Most Underrated Native Mac Utility
The native Mac tools are great but most of them can be replaced with third-party apps that add extra features. Even the geeky apps like...
ImageOptim - Free and Open-Source Utility to Reduce File Sizes
ImageOptim is a tiny utility that every Mac user should have in their toolkit. It integrates a half dozen image optimization tools behind the scenes...
Mind Node for Mind Maps
I've used the Mac and iPadOS versions of Mind Node mind mapping software for about 10 years. I checked my documents folder and found mind...
24 Hour Wallpaper from Jetson Creative
I don't see my desktop during my working moments, but when I lock my computer, I have a different wallpaper displayed on each of my...
Start from Innovative Bytes
Start by Innovative Bytes is an app launcher with extra features that make it different enough from FolderPeek and XMenu to be worth checking out....
Almighty - Tweaking and Utility Collection
Almighty, a collection of tweaks and utilities bundled into one app is by Khoa Pham, the same developer behind the popular low-priced clipboard manager PastePal. ...
FlowVision - Image Viewer
After seeing the developer of FlowVison, a free image viewer for macOS, post about his new app on Reddit, I downloaded it and have been...
Folder Peek FTW
Folder Peek by heroic Indy Developer Sindre Sorhus is the GOAT of menu bar access apps. I liked XMenu from Devon Technologies, but Folder Peek...
App Tamer from St. Claire Software
St. Claire software makes an app that can help control heat and fan noise, extend your battery time and increase the amount of CPU power...
BatchMod - Classic Utility, Abandoned But Still Partly Functional
Back in the days when Apple still made hardware servers and an operating system to go with them (at $1K a copy) we used to...
SilentKnight - Free Security Checks for Your Mac
SilentKnight from The Eclectic Light Company is a free utility to check the security settings of your Mac. it will let you know of any...
Paletro - Add a Command Palette to Any App
Paletro, by appmakes.io, is a $6.99 utility that gives you a command palette in any app. Large, multifunction apps with many commands like VScode, Sublime...
Quick Note Taking – Type
Type is a menu bar app designed with one purpose in mind, to capture time-stamped notes in plain text or Markdown format quickly and to...
Meteorologist - Free and Open-Source Menu Bar Weather
Keeping track of current weather conditions and forecasts is a breeze (no pun intended) with the free and powerful menu bar app. Meteorologist, an open-source...
Twos App Users Really Love It
Every once in a while, an app is so well received that an entire community grows up around it. Evernote used to be like that...
Onyx for Mac
Since 2003, Titanium Software has been issuing its free system maintenance and tweaking utility, Onyx for every major release of macOS. Currently there is a...
Software for Mounting and Writing to NTFS Drives on a Mac
I need to write to external NTFS formatted drives from my M3 iMac on a regular basis for my job. I investigated the free options,...
Dynamic Lake Pro - An App for the Notch
In my ongoing search for an app to take advantage of the notch on my M2 MacBook Air, I bought Dynamic Lake Pro today after...
