The Mac operating system is sleek and easy to use. But under the polished exterior lies a wide range of features and tweaks that can enhance your experience and boost productivity. The trick is finding a way to get at them.
Macs aren’t immune to aging — just like us, they get slower over time. One of the main causes is clutter and malware, but luckily there’s a cure called CleanMyMac X. And this is your last chance to get it at a 24% discount.
Want to get more from your Mac? We’ve rounded up four apps so you can do just that. From uncovering hidden MacOS features to translating text, voice and images, to an enhanced toolbar and more.
Like many other machines, computers typically get slower with age. Often, that slowness results from digital clutter that accumulates over time. CleanMyMac X targets the data that drags down Macs, giving them more space and a new lease on life.
Right now, you can get a lifetime subscription to this powerful Mac tool at a big discount.
Macs come with plenty of power and potential, but getting the most out of your machine means getting the right apps. Power users know this best, and that’s just who this bundle of seven great Mac apps is for.
Any Mac user can benefit from the apps included in the 2020 Mac Power User Bundle. With an 86% discount from Cult of Mac Deals, the whole thing costs just $29.99. Even better, all seven apps comes with lifetime access.
Here’s what the bundle includes:
COVID-19 lockdown certainly brought a swift change from the norm for many people. We’re dealing with the added stress of different working situations, the struggle to get groceries, and in many cases, even acting as teachers or child care providers.
All of that can make it really challenging to feel accomplished and productive. Luckily, I finally found my groove in the last week or so, thanks to a couple of really useful apps (and some self-imposed rules).
Ulysses, the outstanding writing app for Mac and iOS, just got its big version 19 update. It brings full mouse and trackpad support on iPad, as well as a number of neat improvements to things like keywords and Files integration.
It also boasts a new feature dubbed Material sheets, which allows you to mark sheets you’ve used for brainstorming and research, and have them excluded from counters, goals, and exports.
Everybody loves a good sale, so we rounded up the biggest price drops currently offered by Cult of Mac Deals. We’ve got a powerful iOS alternative, noise-canceling headphones, language courses and five years of at-home exercise, all discounted by 75% or more.
Google Translate is great, but good luck if you want to read anything more than an email or a short article. Recordings, websites and images often show up in languages we can’t read. A tool that deciphers them all is handy indeed.
This week we collaborate on songs in the “Google Docs for music,” edit video in Darkroom, block the Touch Bar from accidental taps, and gain other essential tools. These are the best apps and updates of the week.
It’s now easier than ever to keep track of what’s happening on Twitter in real-time, thanks to instant timeline streaming. The feature is available now in the official Twitter client for Mac.
This week we switch on our lights with a tap of the iPhone, customize our Finder’s menus, track our health with HealthChampion and more.
Service Station is the Mac app I didn’t know I was waiting for. It lets you customize the Finder’s right-click contextual menu to put essential functions just a click away. It’s also from the Mac App Store, and uses the official Finder Extension framework, so you don’t need to worry about running some weird hack on your machine.
Unfortunately, it only runs on macOS 10.14.4 or later, so I can’t use it on my old iMac. (That’s a sad-face emoji right there.)
If you’re comfortable with the Apple ecosystem, using a Windows machine can feel a little alien. But with iPadian iOS 13 Simulator, you can get the sleek, familiar iOS experience even on a PC.
The app re-creates the mobile Apple experience on Windows desktops or laptops. (It works on Macs, too.) And right now, you can download it for less than $10.
Ever plug your iPhone into iTunes and realize you have no idea how to get your music from one device to another? You’re not alone. iTunes is clunky and confusing. Luckily, apps like iMazing stepped in to offer easier and more intuitive iOS management.
Right now, you can get this powerful tool at a gigantic discount.
Being stuck at home doesn’t mean you can’t hustle. In fact, you might be hustling more than ever. We rounded up four great entrepreneurial Mac apps to up your game, and we’re slashing the prices on all of them by 50% or more.
Soulver is my favorite Mac calculator app, because it doesn’t act like a normal calculator. Imagine that you have a piece of paper on which you jot calculations. Then, the paper works out the results for you. Soulver is like that — you type in the sums, and it solves them. You can rework the problems, just like you could on paper, and you can save the whole sheet. And now, in v3.3, the app’s maker added a brand-new Spotlight-like QuickSoulver popup panel that lets you perform instant calculations.
If you’re a stuck-at-home musician, or just someone who would like to learn to make music with their Mac, then maybe you’ve just downloaded the generous, lockdown-era, three-month free trial of Ableton Live. And if you’re a GarageBand (or Logic Pro X) user, you may be feeling a little lost.
Fear not. I did the same thing last year. At first I was overwhelmed just trying to do basic stuff, like routing my guitar into Ableton or trying to work out why the app offers at least three record buttons.
So, as a relatively fresh Ableton user, I thought I’d make a list of handy tips for new users coming from Apple’s music apps.
This Mac data recovery post is presented by Remo Software.
You may prize your Mac for its security and reliability, but that doesn’t mean you’ll never face a need to recover data. Damaged and corrupted hard drives happen. And sometimes it pays to supplement Apple functionality with third-party choices. That’s why you need an award-winning product like Remo Mac Data Recovery Software.
Let’s face it, staying productive is hard these days. We’re all spending our time at the computer, so that’s where adding new time-saving tricks and tools can make a real difference. This bundle of 9 Mac apps has something for anyone looking to make more of their daily screen time.
The all-new Facebook Messenger app for macOS made its official Mac App Store debut on Thursday at a perfect time for those working and interacting more from home.
Messenger for the desktop first appeared in early March, almost a year after Facebook announced it at its F8 conference, but was then on offer in only a handful of countries. It is now open to all — and free to download.
Cloudflare on Wednesday began beta testing a macOS version of Warp, its virtual private network currently offered only on iPhone. The VPN encrypts all internet traffic for the Mac it’s installed on, helping to protect the user’s privacy.
VPNs add security, but are often slow. Cloudflare promises its service is fast. And it’s free.
A fresh update to Pixelmator Pro, an affordable macOS alternative to Photoshop for everyday users, includes an all-new color picker intended to let users choose and manage colors more easily. Plus, version 1.6 also makes it easier to select multiple objects.
The popular Pixelmator for iPad app is also getting its own update soon.
When you work with text from various sources, it’s easy for little errors to slip in. Extra punctuation marks, misspellings, useless characters, miscapitalized letters and similar sneaky slip-ups can make your text look less than professional. And correcting errors can take as long as writing itself.
Highly rated Mac app TextSoap removes unwanted text, fixes carriage returns and sorts out loads of other text-based formatting problems. Grab this time-saving tool now — and a hefty discount — and let it take care of those nasty text artifacts for you.
This week we stay in touch with Slack, show appreciation with Props Love, download YouTube with ViDL, and more.