Yes, there is a fantastic app called Finder and it ships as part of the macOS! That’s right, it’s built-in, it’s just not noticed by most people.

You can copy a file or folder’s path by Right-Clicking the file or folder while holding the Option key down (as seen above) and choosing Copy “filenameXYZ” as Pathname from the contextual menu.

An even quicker way is by hitting Command + Option + C with the file/folder selected.

Doing either copies the path of the selected file or folder to the macOS clipboard—from there you can paste into any app.

Previous versions of CloudMounter cost $30. The update now makes the app and most popular cloud storage services FREE! If you need more cloud storage services, a full license is now $44.99

What’s new in CloudMounter for Mac v3.0:
– From now on you can mount Dropbox, Google Drive and OneDrive services for free;
– Encryption for aforementioned cloud accounts is also without charge;
– Box cloud storage is now supported;
– Backblaze cloud storage is now supported;
– Amazon S3-compatible storage solutions are also supported;
– “Shared with me” Google docs can be managed in Finder.

CloudMounter 3.0 runs on macOS 10.10 and later, and a 15-day demo is available for download.

Included in the bundle are CloudMounter, Commander One, Elmedia Player, SyncMate, Folx, FlexiHub and two of my favorites—PhotoBulk and Uplet. Unlike many other Cyber-sales this year, this bundle includes the latest versions of the apps… and they’re actually all USEFUL apps, not one good app with 5 or 6 other junk ones thrown in.

The recently released Suitcase Fusion 8 doesn’t turn font management on its ear like version 5, 6 and 7 did—but it does greatly improve the experience for designers in lots of little ways.

What’s new:

Extensis completely revamped the user interface of Suitcase Fusion. It’s much more consistent and looks right at home in macOS High Sierra. Gone is the third sidebar that cramped the main window. To replace some of the features found in that sidebar, Extensis added a more contextual pop-up right at the font location in the window. The pop-up allows you to view info about the font, a preview of the font, available glyphs and QuickMatch info (which searches your entire library of fonts for similar looking fonts).

Along with the typical font preview styles such as quick type, waterfall and full alphabet, Fusion now offers a tile view (see image above) to quickly find the font you’re looking for.

Extensis also added the ability to view temporary fonts in their own library, making them easy to find quickly.

Auto-activation plug-ins have been updated for the latest versions of Adobe InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop and After Effects, as well as Quark XPress. All seem to activate smoothly for me. In fact the entire application seems to work faster than ever before.

You can view all the new features here.

Other great features:

The previously mentioned QuickMatch feature is still awesome, allowing you to find similar looking fonts with a simple click.

Suitcase Fusion allows for two installations for a single user. Font Syncing is so handy when you work on two Macs. I have an iMac and a MacBook Pro that I work on, so having my entire font library synced via the cloud makes life easy.

Fusion works not only with the fonts installed on your Mac, but Adobe’s TypeKit fonts and Google Fonts are also supported.

Auto–checking for font corruption virtually removes the need for FontDoctor, but Extensis includes the app anyway.

Speaking of included apps, you also get Suitcase for iOS—allowing you to use TrueType and TrueType-based OpenType fonts on your iPhone and iPad. Perfect for customizing your Keynote presentation!

You can view a more extensive feature list here.

Complaints:

When I started writing this review, I found several things I didn’t like. But by the time I finished this article I had to re-write this section because Extensis released an update that addressed all but one.

The update includes the following fixes:

• Select an entire font family by clicking the family name.
• Activate an entire font family with single-click activation icons.
• Reveal fonts added in place in the Finder by right-clicking or Ctrl-clicking on a font name.
• Preview window “type ahead” feature now allows you to start typing the first few letters of a font name to jump to that font in the preview window.

Those weren’t necessarily bugs, but they were features that were either available in previous versions, or ones that were obviously necessary. I think it speaks to Extensis’ dedication to their users by listening to customers and implementing changes so quickly.

My only remaining complaint is that when you’re in Tile View, Fusion only displays a single font family in each row. If a font family has numerous fonts (bold, italics, black, condensed, etc.) they appear in a grid all the way across the window and down as many rows as needed. But if a font family only has one font (very typical with display fonts, and free fonts from the internet in particular), it still takes up an entire row instead of just showing the next font right next to it—allowing you to see more font tiles at a time without scrolling. It’s hard to explain, but you’ll see what I mean if you try it.

New users:

If you’re new to font management, or considering a switch from another font manager, I encourage you to watch the recent Suitcase Fusion 8 webcast Extensis did.

The last word:

Back in the day, there were several font managers for the Mac that competed heavily for the hearts, minds and hard drive space of creative users. Today, there are really only two pro-level font managers left, and Suitcase Fusion is the undisputed king of the hill. You would think Extensis would sit back and enjoy the fruits of their past labors, but every year they release an update that’s worthy of the upgrade price. This year is no exception.

You can grab Suitcase Fusion 8 for $120, or $60 for an upgrade from version 7. A free trial of Suitcase Fusion 8 is available here if you want to give it a try before buying. If you’re ready for a powerful font management app, I only recommend Suitcase Fusion!

I was on the lookout for a window manager that’s easy to use, doesn’t try to do too much and is either low-priced or free. That’s when I found Spectacle.

Spectacle is fantastic, meeting all my requirements and nothing more. It allows you to set the size and position of the active window on your screen. Like all the other window managers, Spectacle will snap your windows to half sizes on the top, bottom, left and right of your screen, place the windows in any of the corners, as well as fill the screen or center the window on the screen. Unlike the others (unless I missed it), you can also resize and re-position windows to the left, middle and right third of the screen. But what I really love is that it offers you the ability to enlarge or reduce the size of a window… all with customizable keyboard shortcuts.

Spectacle is free, open-source software. But the developer does accept donations, and I think you’ll find it’s worth tossing him a buck or two if you use it.

In short, Uplet allows you to upload your images to Instagram directly from your Mac. To my knowledge, this is the only Mac-based app that works with Instagram.

Eltima recently released Uplet 1.3 and addressed one of the concerns mentioned in my review. They’ve added the ability to upload videos to Instagram from your Mac! Drag. Drop. Done.

Along with video uploads, the latest version also adds the ability to work with multiple accounts. This is fantastic for Mac users who might manage multiple Instagram accounts for clients, etc. A single click beats logging-out and logging-back-in all day.

Priced at $20 it’s not for everyone, but it’s definitely worth it if you upload a lot of images, work as a social media manager, or just plain hate pulling your phone out when you’re already sitting in front of your Mac.

I switched to the Safari Technology Preview browser, and that helped a little bit, but not much. Pages still weren’t loading completely.

With all the discussion about privacy, tracking and ads on websites lately, which I mostly ignore because I know it’s out of my control for the most part, I found myself installing an ad blocker for the first time in a long time.

Rather than going with the most popular AdBlockers out there, I went with Ad Blocker from the Mac App Store. It’s a Safari Extension and a stand-alone app. One of the features of the app is a Website Inspector that runs a test to show you how long a page takes to load, the page size (in MB), number of Requests the site sends, number of ads, number of trackers and number of Social Media buttons & doodads it loads.

After installing Ad Blocker, I went to a variety of Mac-related websites I normally visit to compare it with my pre-ad blocker results.

My results were astonishing.

Without going into detail on each site, I’ve compiled a bunch of screenshots of the results below. Some sites are worse than others, but I think the results speak for themselves.

It’s also important to note that some of these sites load perfectly fine and appear in this list simply for context. Also, sites that subscribe to ad networks for their income often have no choice in the ads that appear and would love it if the Javascript-heavy, privacy-infringing, ad-tracking bloatware didn’t appear on their site… they just have no choice.

As you can see, MacRumors was a major offender of ads and tracking, as was AppleInsider, BGR and iMore. The worst of them all, by far, was CultofMac with a whopping 349 ads and 43 trackers. Now keep in mind that what the software considers an ad or a tracker may not in fact be an offensive ad or tracker. If the site is a WordPress site, it has a tracker, and many sites offer aside items that show a list of popular articles on the site, etc., which typically show up as ads. But by-and-large, anything that shows up in the inspector’s results is something other than the content you went to the site to view.

For context, I ran the inspector on a few other sites. Apple’s homepage has no ads, no trackers, no social annoyances, and loads extremely fast. CNN and ESPN, two sites that are typically considered obnoxious by most users, are relatively tame in comparison to the Mac-related sites I tested (see results below).

The end result for me was that all the sites I was having issues with loaded significantly faster, and loaded completely the first time when running the Ad Blocker extension.

Sites like Daring Fireball (the clear winner and model website, in my opinion), Macintouch and SixColors manage to run their site profitably (I presume) without killing the end-user’s browsing experience (see results below). All three of those pages load virtually instantly and are a pleasure to read, with or without an ad blocker—which is why I whitelisted them in Ad Blocker.

I want all of these sites to make money, it’s what keeps them offering up great content for free. But when it comes at the expense of the user experience, it’s self-defeating. If I don’t block the ads to make the site tolerable, I’m just not going to visit the site at all.

This little tutorial shows you exactly how to do it. Now whether or not you actually want or need to do it is another question… still, a fun experiment.

Elementary ships with all the basic apps, such as: browser, email, photos, calendar, text editor, terminal, music player and more. They also have an open source App Store.

Take a look at some screenshots below (click the image to imbiggify them).

Elementary OS claims to be safe, secure, stable and collects no personal info. Nor does it display any ads. Their income is solely based on what users choose to pay. Interesting. For as little as a $1, I could see buying a copy to run on an older Mac that I’m not using anymore.