Apps
Today on App Addict - Air Battery - A Free App to Monitor Battery Levels - My search for a good multi-device battery monitoring app ended today when I discovered Air Battery. In just a few minutes I had a widget installed in notification center with accurate battery readouts of my Macbook, iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch. I didn’t have to install any client apps, just… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/air-… #MacApps 📝
A Curated Collection of Free Software
A Curated Collection of Free Software - A collection of reviews and links to free Mac software - linkage.lol/a-curated…
Today on App Addict - A Curated Collection of Free Apps - Free Apps• Apparency - The Apps That Opens Apps • ToyViewer - A Preview Replacment • Chrome Remote Desktop - Free Remote Control • BBEdit - It Doesn’t Suck • Blip - Free Cross Platform File Transfers • FreeTube - Maybe the Most Underrated App • Bean - A Free,… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/a-cu… #Mac Apps 📝
Today on App Addict - Widget Wall - For the first time in years, I’ve started using my Mac’s desktop as a place to check for information and interact with my computer. For a long time, I kept the desktop hidden behind windows and full screen apps. I don’t save files to my desktop or launch applications from… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/widg… #Mac Apps 📝 #Blaugust2024
Today on App Addict - Screen Memory - I recently purchased the single purpose utility, Screen Memory on sale from Bundle Hunt for $6. On the developer’s website it goes for $27 and can be used on up to three computers. The app takes screenshots of your entire monitor (or monitors) at a predetermined interval. The default is… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/scre… #Mac Apps 📝 #Blaugust2024
Going to Texas
✏️ Going to Texas - I have a trip planned to Austin, TX where I’m going to eat Tex-Mex and barbecue, visit HEB and Half-Price Books and enjoy my family. - louplummer.lol/going-to-… #Blaugust2024
What's In Your Menu Bar
Today on App Addict - What’s In Your Menu Bar - What is in your menu bar?
At Macworld 2014, Mac Developer Brett Terpstra turned heads when he revealed what he had running in his menu bar while sharing his screen. In all, he had 42 menu bar icons and people were amazed because he was on a MacBook Air with… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/what… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Sportsball
📝 Sportsball - I’m a cranky sports fan with standards and judgements galore, but I still enjoy them. - louplummer.lol/sportsbal… #Blaugust2024
My 10 Favorite Cross-Platform Apps
📝 Today on App Addict - My 10 Favorite Cross-Platform Apps - Here are my favorite apps that have both a macOS and an iOS/iPadOS version. Drafts I use Drafts for a great number of tasks. I collect quotes there until I am ready to process them into my collection. Whenever i need to convert HTML into markdown, it’s as simple as… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/my-1… #Universal Apps #Blaugust2024
Battle of the Bookmark Managers
Today on App Addict - Battle of the Bookmark Managers - Aside from browsers, I have several apps on my hard drive for collecting and organizing bookmarks: • Goodlinks (also has read it later features) • Bookmarks • One Bookmark • Raindrop.io
There are many more with Anybox and Pinboard and its various clients also being very popular.
My personal favorite,… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/batt… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
I’m a little late this week, but here’s my /now page with a funny-ass book, a bloody TV show, lot’s of blogging goodness, links and app reviews plus a gift idea for your favorite #ultrarunning enthusiast.
My Backup Strategy
📝 Everyone eventually suffers a data loss, either from a hardware failure, a rouge application, user error or some mystery cause. The only effective solution is a good backup strategy. It’s up to you how much energy and time you want to put into it. The way you use your computer will dictate what kind of tools you want to use.
Everyone who uses a Mac should have a Time Machine backup drive. My primary home computer is a laptop, so I don’t leave the external Time Machine connected all the time, but i do connect it every night. This gives me a restore point for every day on the calendar if I need to recover some missing files, as well as a way to restore my entire computer in case of drive failure.
Once a month I use the drive cloning app, SuperDuper to make a bootable backup of my entire hard drive. I keep that in my car when I am not using it in case something catastrophic happens to the house.
I also take full advantage of cloud storage accounts. All of my photos are copied to iCloud Photos, Google Photos and Amazon Photos. My documents folder is synced with iCloud and while there is a difference between backup and syncing, it does provide a second copy of what’s currently on my hard drive.
One of my most valuable (to me) sets of documents are my blog archives. I have multiple backups of them, including a synced copy on Google Drive, a copy on Obsidian Sync and a copy on GitHub.
Aside from my personal laptop, I also use a Mac at work. I use Google Drive and One Drive to sync files between the two devices, primarily my downloads folder to save myself the hassle of having to download things on both machines.
Avoid Mackup If Running Sonoma or Later
Today on App Addict - Avoid Mackup If Running Sonoma or Later - A couple of weeks ago I saw a post on r/MacApps for a utility that purported to back up your preferences for a large number of apps, including perennial favorites Keyboard Maestro, Hazel, Bartender, Text Expander and others. The name of the utility is Mackup and it is available on… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/avoi… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Rambox - A Browser for Apps
Today on App Addict - Rambox - A Browser for Apps - I took advantage of an offer at AppSumo this week to get a lifetime license to Rambox Pro for $5 (discontinued). It’s normally $5.83 a month, although the free version has most of the paid features minus extension support and syncing between devices. Rambox is a specialized Chromium browser designed… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/ramb… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
11 Plugins for QuickLook
Today on App Addict - 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 you to view the contents of a file without having to open an application. The problem is that there are many file types that don’t… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/11-p… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
A Few GUI Tools for the Homebrew Curious
Today on App Addict - 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 terminal, you are in luck. There are some apps with graphical user interfaces to help you see what’s available, what you have installed and… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/a-fe… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
The Most Underrated Native Mac Utility
Today on App Addict - 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 Terminal and Activity Monitor have apps like iTerm and Smotrite to serve as alternatives. There is one app though that I think is perfect the… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/the-… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
ImageOptim - Free and Open-Source Utility to Reduce File Sizes
Today on App Addict - 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 to quickly and efficiently provide an optimum file size without quality loss, including MozJPEG, pngquant, Pngcrush, 7zip, SVGO and Google Zopfli. As part of the… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/imag… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Mind Node for Mind Maps
Today on App Addict - 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 maps for deploying different versions of Mac OS X server when that was a thing, plus deployment plans for new laptop models, tech support documents… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/mind… #Universal Apps #Blaugust2024
24 Hour Wallpaper from Jetson Creative
Today on App Addict - 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 monitors. I also have a Keyboard Maestro macro that runs when I unlock my computer and hides all open apps for privacy reasons in case… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/24-h… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024