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I am in the process of moving all my Internet research to Kagi, but I wrote this for someone who needed these instructions today. Google, the advertising company that also has a search engine, is...
on Feb 16
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The macOS finder is a decent enough file manager, but there is a considerable market for file managers with extra features. I've been a dedicated Path Finder user for a couple of decades, but every...
on Feb 17
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Can You Help Me Find the Photos App I Need?
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I'm going to turn the tables today. Instead of giving YOU information on software, I'm going to ask you to give me some recommendations. Specifically, I am looking for a photos app. Since I am eliminating Google and Amazon from my online life, I won't have access to their photo management...
on Mon, 10PM
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Keyboard Centered Apps for Power Users
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A global keyboard shortcut is a combination of keys you can press while in any application on your Mac to execute an action belonging to a background process. I typically have a half dozen or more apps running in the background that use glocal keyboard shortcuts. Some of these include: Keyboard...
on Sun, 5PM
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rclone - An Easy to Use and Powerful CLI
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There are quite a few apps with GUIs available for Macs that let you connect various cloud services to upload, download and move files. Most of them are costly. Today I needed to move files from Google Drive to a kDrive, a cloud storage company in Switzerland, Instead of using one of the...
on Sat, 1AM
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When it comes to the new breed of social media, I prefer the federated and independent nature of Mastodon over everything else. I want nothing to do with Threads or anything else tainted by Meta. I like the atmosphere at Bluesky, but we have to face that it is a company founded by a...
on Thu, 10PM
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Browser Extensions Are a Secret Weapon
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This is a special edition of AppAddict. Tonight, I'm covering one of the best sources of computing functionality that often goes overlooked in the hunt for productivity enhancements and better work flows. There are many browser extensions that replace or enhance apps you use every day. This is...
on Wed, 10PM
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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 you access your...
on Wed, 1AM
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KeyKeeper Checks All the Boxes for Tracking Software Licenses
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I've been working on getting all my software licensing information into KeyKeeper, an app by the same team that operates Bundlehunt. I've been buying Mac software since the days of the classic OS. Believe it or not, some apps I purchased as far back as 2004 are still functional, requiring the...
on Mar 25
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Almighty - Tweaking and Utility Collection
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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...
on Mar 25
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For anyone with a home lab or who is invested in the Internet of Things, the ability to scan your network is a tool that you want in your management arsenal. Additionally, if you live in an urban environment, being able to monitor the devices on your Wi-Fi network is important if you suspect...
on Mar 24
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I recently converted my Windows laptop to Ubuntu. I don't rely on Windows for anything personally any longer so I didn't need a dedicated machine for that OS. However, as the extended family tech support guy, there are occasions when I need to use Windows 10 and Windows 11 to troubleshoot...
on Mar 23
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Koofr - European Based Cloud Storage Provider with a Generous Free Tier
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I am in the process of de-Googling. I already moved my email to Fastmail. I changed my default search engine to Kagi. I am moving my photographs to Ente. Today, I took advantage of an ongoing sale at Stack Social to purchase a lifetime deal on 1 TB of cloud storage with the Slovenian company,...
on Mar 23
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Zotero as a Free PDF Library Manager
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I recently crowd-sourced ideas for a better way to catalog, annotate and search my collected PDFs, mainly software and hardware user manuals with a few odds and ends thrown in. The top suggestions were: • Zotero - the app I chose • DevonThink - expensive when all I want is PDF searches • Eagle...
on Mar 21
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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 the display size. Unlike Finder,...
on Mar 21
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Permissions Reset 2 - Free Troubleshooting Tool
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One of the first steps in troubleshooting a misbehaving Mac for many years has been to repair the disk permissions, currently a feature of Disk First Aid, accessed through Disk Utility or the terminal if you are savvy. That can be a bit of overkill if you are primarily concerned with a single...
on Mar 21
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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 bar. You can make a...
on Mar 20
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Setapp is an app subscription service ($9.99 a month) owned by the Ukrainian company Macpaw. It has approximately 1 million subscribers, which is a good testament to its usefulness. Here are some of the things I've learned in a year and half of being a customer. Unfortunately, Macpaw is a...
on Mar 20
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Apps for Photo Archiving Workflow
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I'm in the process of removing my data from most of the big US based tech companies in favor or smaller, more privacy focused companies. I do not want my files to be subject to US government subpoenas or other invasive security threats from which Google, Amazon, Meta or Microsoft can profit....
on Mar 18
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SilentKnight - Free Security Checks for Your Mac
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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 Update in...
on Mar 18
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After using Gmail for twenty years, I recently decided to move to a more privacy focused provider I could use with my own domain. I've finally reached the tipping point with surrendering my data to big tech in exchange for free services. I chose Fastmail as my new provider. Fastmail works with...
on Mar 17
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Paletro - Add a Command Palette to Any App
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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...
on Mar 17
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When it comes to Mac utilities, there are things that are helpful to have, but that are not absolutely required. Many of the "nice to have" features can be gained through installing various free, well regarded applications. For people who don't want the hassle of assembling a toolkit piece by...
on Mar 16
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Battle of the Bookmark Managers
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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...
on Mar 16
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SiteSucker for Mac - Affordable and Powerful
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Today I downloaded and tested an app that's been on my radar for a while, SiteSucker for Mac by developer Rick Cranisky.. You can give this app a top level URL, specify how many layers deep you want to go and it will download an entire web site, complete with supporting files like images and...
on Mar 15
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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 have native...
on Mar 15
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CharmBar - Easy Dock Customization
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Like many Mac users, I enjoy customizing the look of my operating system. I particularly like the look of older, vintage icons from Mac history, having spent a lot of memorable and enjoyable times on older machines. There are several apps that let you make changes to program icons, Replacicon...
on Mar 14
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New File Finding App, Cling, Is Not Everything
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I recently saw a new Mac file finding app, Cling, announced on Macupdate and Thriftmac. The description of the app said that it brings fuzzy search to a utility with a GUI. Searches with partial...
on Mar 14
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In Search of the Perfect Quotes App
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I have collected quotes for years, using various apps, Obsidian Notes, spreadsheets and Google Docs. I am still in search of the elusive perfect, feature packed app. Here's what I would like the app to...
on Mar 12
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Swinsian Music App - The Answer to Feature Bloat
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Swinsian is an app for playing music that ticks every box in what a Mac based music player for local libraries sgould be. I can think of no other app that exemplifies bloat like Apple's...
on Mar 11
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If You Need to Bake a Cake - Get Mela Recipe Manager
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I've got cake on the brain today, for some reason... I've extensively tested four different recipe management apps, all available in the App Store: • Paprika • Anylist • Crouton • Mela All of them...
on Mar 10
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App Tamer from St. Claire Software
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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...
on Mar 10
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Every night my Obsidian Vault is synchronized to a folder on Dropbox. I use an app called Sync Folders Pro, in which you can schedule tasks. The only problem is that in order for the...
on Mar 9
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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...
on Mar 9
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Using Joplin as a Reference Tool
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Joplin is a free and open-source notes app. It's available for Macs, Windows, Linux, iOS and Android. You can pay for Joplin E2E encrypted synchronization on its servers which are located in France for those...
on Mar 9
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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,...
on Mar 8
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When you have a lot of time to kill and nothing but your phone, what apps do you turn to as time killers? My wife is running a 10-hour race this weekend. As usual, I'll...
on Mar 7
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Meteorologist - Free and Open-Source Menu Bar Weather
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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 utility available on Sourceforge. I've user Meteorologist for years and...
on Mar 7
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Local Send - Easy to Set Up and Easy to Use
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I am in the early stages of setting up a home network environment consisting of three Macs, a Windows 11 Thinkpad, an Ubuntu 24 Thinkpad, two iPads, an Android tablet and two iPhones. The quickest...
on Mar 6
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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...
on Mar 6
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Cog - Free and Open-Source Local Only Music Player
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Cog is a free and open-source music player that can read and display metadata from dozens of formats, including AAC, MP3, ALAC, FLAC, Ogg, and WMA. It features playlists, ratings and a mini player. No...
on Mar 5
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I spend a fair amount of time looking for apps to test and review. While, I seem to concentrate heavily on apps for macOS, I am also fascinated by the solutions developers come up...
on Mar 4
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Using Kagi Search Engine on a Mac - Software and Tips
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For those not familiar with it, Kagi is a subscription based, no-ads, privacy-focused search engine that provides an extreme level of customization. Unlike DuckDuckGo, which relies on Bing for most of its results, Kagi has...
on Mar 3
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Lots of Updates from Sindre Sorhus
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Whether you know who Sindre Sorhus is or not you still may be using one of his many popular and mostly free apps. Sindre is a full-time open-source developer currently based in Thailand who is...
on Mar 2
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Pieoneer, by developer Martin Lexow, is a pie menu app with three primary use cases. App SwitcherUsing any hotkeys you like, you can summon a round (pie) menu with the icons of all your running...
on Mar 1
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Stickier - Free Notes App with Power User Features
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Stickier is a free sticky notes app that ticks a lot of boxes when it comes to useful features. • iCloud sync for use on multiple devices • Quick notes feature with custom hotkey for...
on Feb 28
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Swift Shift - A Free Tool to Move and Resize Windows
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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...
on Feb 28
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Opting for Mac Apps That Are Immune to Changes in US Privacy Laws
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Many people have become concerned that changes in the US politics, the FCC and attitudes in the big American tech companies may result in less reliable privacy protections in the software they use. One solution...
on Feb 27
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Musebox - A Photographer's Bargain
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Musebox, a digital asset (photos, graphics, videos) management application by brushedpixel is a remarkable and affordable (one-time purchase of $15 for now) substitute for multi-featured programs like Adobe Lightroom, Apple Photos or Mylio. It has...
on Feb 27
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Announcing the AppAddict Newsletter
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If you like finding out about interesting and useful software, I'm making it easier for you to get detailed updates about what is available. I started posting reviews of Mac and iOS apps in April...
on Feb 26