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While not a killer feature of macOS Mojave, Dynamic Wallpapers are a cool customization tool limited only by the fact that Apple only provides two, and offers no built-in way to create your own.
Dynapaper changes that.
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Use TouchSwitcher to launch and switch between apps on the new MacBook Pro with TouchBar. The most recent apps are right next to the TouchSwitcher icon. Juggling several apps is fast and easy.
Read more “Turn the MBPro TouchBar Into the Dock”
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If you have numerous servers or external drives connected to your Mac, you’ll appreciate what a little more control over mounting and unmounting volumes can mean.
Read more “Eject Volumes From the Menu Bar”
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Apple has given us Night Shift and True Tone. Both excellent apps to make using your Mac easy on the eyes. Then they announced Mojave with Dark Mode. The problem with all three of these awesome features is that they all work independently of each other.
Read more “Take Control of Night Shift, True Tone & Dark Mode”
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After using Apple’s News app on macOS Mojave for a few weeks, Two things are abundantly (un)clear to me. Neither of these things is a bug or conflict with some other app I have installed on my Mac. These problems are the direct result of choices Apple made for me that they believe are in my best interest.
Read more “Apple News… “I Can’t See It. I Can’t Share It.””
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Eternal Storms Software announced the immediate availability of Yoink v2.0 for iPad and iPhone and Yoink v3.5 for Mac, two major upgrades to the company’s popular drag-and-drop-improving “shelf” app.
Read more “Yoink for macOS/iOS updated”
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If you have a modern MacBook or MacBook Pro that offers Turbo Boost —a feature that allows your MacBook’s processor to speed-up when under heavy load, it’s nice to get the speed boost, but it also heats up your Mac and drains your battery at a more rapid pace.
Read more “Increase Battery Life & Run a Cooler MacBook”
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If you’ve been on the Internet long enough, you no doubt remember how popular RSS feeds were, and how RSS readers were all the rage. Late in the game, an app called Reeder made its way to the top of the list of popular RSS readers.
Read more “Reeder for Mac: Free for limited time”
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For those who simply must have notes and reminders always in front of them, most Notes and Reminders Apps don’t work because they require you to actively open them to view the notes and reminders. Even the apps that don’t require you to open them rely on notifications that you dismiss and forget about. It can be a real problem.
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I suspect most people use the Function Keys as the default that Apple prints right on the keys. After all, adjusting the brightness, switching windows, and controlling multi-media are pretty useful. But there’s a large contingent of power-users who want to customize their F-Keys to do various tasks… particularly designers using InDesign, Photoshop and Illustrator, where you might assign any number of tasks to them.
Read more “App Highlight: Fluor”
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When I came across MagicPrefs a few weeks ago, I didn’t think I would use it beyond a quick peek at what it could do. It just seemed like the sort of app that was too good to be true, be difficult to work with and make a general mess of a simple thing.
Read more “Control your Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad or MacBook trackpad like a boss”