Apps
Start from Innovative Bytes
Today on App Addict - 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. Like the other two apps, it offers a way to access your favorite apps, folders, files and URLs from the menu bar. It also lets… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/star… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Almighty - Tweaking and Utility Collection
Today on App Addict - 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. There are 50 different settings and utilities in the app, and you can enable and disable at will. They can be launched from the menu… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/almi… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
FlowVision - Image Viewer
Today on App Addict - 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 using it for the past week. The app has a Finder style interface similar to what you see when you enable icon view and enlarge… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/2024… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Folder Peek FTW
Today on App Addict - 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 has more features and is just as rock solid in performance. Folder Peek lets you put folders full of whatever you want on your menu… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/fold… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
App Tamer from St. Claire Software
Today on App Addict - 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 available for you frontmost application. App Tamer comes preconfigured to automatically reduce the CPU and battery usage of Safari, Firefox, Google Chrome, Spotlight, Time Machine,… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/app-… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
BatchMod - Classic Utility, Abandoned But Still Partly Functional
Today on App Addict - 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 have to deal with hundreds of user home directories in my line of work as a K-12 system admin. Most users files got deleted at… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/batc… #Blaugust2024
SilentKnight - Free Security Checks for Your Mac
Today on App Addict - 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 uninstalled security upadtea you may be missing and offer to download and install them from you. It’s often better to run these updates from Software… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/sile… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Paletro - Add a Command Palette to Any App
Today on App Addict - 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 Text or Obsidian can have dozens of menu commands and good luck to the intrepid user who tries to remember them all. That’s why those… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/pale… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Quick Note Taking – Type
Today on App Addict - 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 get out of your way. It’s fast and more versatile than using the fn+Q Apple Quick Note feature which doesn’t time stamp and is available… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/quic… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Meteorologist - Free and Open-Source Menu Bar Weather
Today on App Addict - 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, a free and open-source utility available on Sourceforge. I’ve user Meteorologist for years and have been impressed by a steady stream of updates.
To save on… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/mete… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Twos App Users Really Love It
Today on App Addict - 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 before it started to suck. Obsidian is like that, just look at the YouTube videos and blogs. I’ve recently discovered that Twos, a combination calendar,… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/twos… #Universal Apps #Blaugust2024
Onyx for Mac
Today on App Addict - 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 mature version of Sonoma and a beta version of Sequoia, although you can still download versions going all the way back to Jaguar, Mac OS… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/onyx… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Software for Mounting and Writing to NTFS Drives on a Mac
Today on App Addict - 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, primarily Mounty and found them to have a little too much friction for me on a computer running Sonoma with the aforementioned Apple Silicon. I… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/soft… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Dynamic Lake Pro - An App for the Notch
Today on App Addict - 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 the developer offered a 20% discount on Reddit. The app provides a variety of information from system controls and applications.
General Controls You can elect… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/dyna… #Blaugust2024
NotchNook - Not Ready for Prime Time
Today on App Addict - NotchNook - Not Ready for Prime Time - After reading about NotchNook on Reddit and seeing the 35% off offer from the $25 purchase price, I purchased it to test it out. I reenabled the notch on my MacBook, which I had turned off with Better Monitor. The installation was straightforward, requiring access to the camera, microphone and… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/notc… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Swift Shift - A Free Tool to Move and Resize Windows
Today on App Addict - Swift Shift - A Free Tool to Move and Resize Windows - Using keyboard shortcuts you define, Swift Shift allows you to easily move and resize windows without searching for the title bar or waiting for tiny arrows to appear. On my Mac, I set the hyperkey (CapsLock) to activate move mode. Now, when I press the key, whatever window is under… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/swif… #Mac Apps #Blaugust2024
Musebox - A Photographer's Bargain
Today on App Addict - Musebox - A Photographer’s Bargain - Musebox, a digital asset (photos, graphics, videos) management application by brushedpixel is a remarkable and affordable (one-time purchase of $10 for now) substitute for multi-featured programs like Adobe Lightroom, Apple Photos or Mylio. It has a variety of import, export, editing and management features.
You can import photos from digital… - apps.louplummer.lol/post/muse…
Today on App Addict - Karabiner Elements to the Rescue - After an unexplained failure of a previous workflow, I used the free keyboard mapping utility, Karabiner Elements, to reenable my hyperkey and turn of CapsLock when macOS baled at letting me do it.
apps.louplummer.lol/post/kara… #Mac #Blaugust2024
Today on AppAddict - Word Service from Devon Technologies - provides commands for working with text. Extend your word processor, email app, or web browser by reformatting text paragraphs, cleaning up tabs, quotes, or line endings. Remove unwanted text parts, sort lines or paragraphs, change case
Got my 100,000th visitor to my Micro.blog today. People really like to read about Obsidian, LOL. I’ve learned a lot since January and have had so much fun.
