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Happy Independence Day to my US readers. I’m not doing any parades, nor running any special discounts on my apps. Just a silly post.

After talking about it with the panel on a recent Mac Show appearance (pretty sure this part of the conversation happened during technical difficulties), I pulled out my Griffin PowerMate. The older

Thanks to Timing for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week!

I’ve been considering a general “Why I love MailMate” post for some time now, but it keeps seeming like an overwhelming project. So instead, I’m going to focus on one small part. I’ve talked a bit

First off, I promise an nvUltra update this week. You deserve it. In the meantime…

Hook is a productivity app from CogSci Apps that connects your files, emails, web urls, and other digital breadcrumbs to each other. I’ve mentioned it here and there, but my most detailed writeup was

Looking back at last year’s picks, almost every one of them is still in regular use. I’ll skip repeating most items from that list this time, with the exception of apps that had notable updates in

Thanks to VirtualHostX Pro for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve been using VirtualHostX for what must be a decade now, and this latest version has some downright amazing capabilities for

In case you missed the big launch, there’s a new version of my favorite calendar app for Mac and iOS, Fantastical . Fantastical, which is almost 10 years old now, is a gem of a calendar app with fast

Correction: This post originally stated that Spotlight was also unable to index Simulator. It was quickly pointed out to me on Twitter that this is incorrect and Spotlight is indeed able to find the

I was a big fan of the Simplify music controller for Mac (and its companion iOS app). Since it died I’ve gotten along without it, but I definitely miss my Sideshow jacket I’d built for it. So I’ve

As part of my Marked 2 documentation update over the weekend, I ended up putting some more time into my (admittedly insane) NiftyMenu project. This project made me look crazy when I first posted it

Thanks to PDFpen for supporting BrettTerpstra.com again this week!

This is one of those things that is likely common knowledge, but I stumbled across it accidentally today while doing some studying on web accessibility.

A big thanks to SoundSource from Rogue Amoeba for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. I’ve used almost every app Rogue Amoeba has made, but SoundSource has become an especially indispensable tool

So I needed to update my menu screenshots for the nvUltra documentation, which meant revisiting my NiftyMenu setup. In case you haven’t been raptly following the progress on that little side project

It’s time again for the SummerFest Artisinal Software sale . Featuring 13 first-in-class Mac apps including Tinderbox, DEVONthink, and TextExpander, every app defines their own discount and is

Ok, so here’s the deal. Marked works on Big Sur. If you’re using it for previewing your Markdown or exporting HTML, it should continue to work perfectly for you. But if you, like a majority of my

I’m usually a good sport about macOS updates. I find stuff to like, and deal with the bugs as they get worked out. I’m not feeling as generous about Big Sur. Among many annoyances I have is a

Happy New Year’s Eve! As has been my tradition for almost a decade now (since 2011!), I’ve compiled some of my favorite apps and things for the last year. Not a complete list, of course — I like a

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

Ok, so we’re all in Zoom way too much these days. We’re clicking links in calendar entries, Slack messages, and emails. They’re opening a browser tab every time, which then opens Zoom. I wrote a

Bartender has long been a contender for Most Valuable Utility on my Mac. I’ve mentioned it a lot . It’s up there with TextExpander and BetterTouchTool . And I can’t believe it, but it somehow keeps

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

I was working on Systematic show notes today and, as always, making good use of SearchLink for quickly adding links to my notes. Then I ran into a LinkedIn handle and decided I needed a faster way to

Thanks to Loopback and Rogue Amoeba for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! When I first tried out Loopback I was immediately astounded by what it could do for me. With my current audio setup —

I had previously bemoaned the fact that the proxy icon is now hidden behind a hover delay in Big Sur. In that post, I mentioned that you could remove that delay in Finder using the command . But that

There used to be a defaults write trick that would allow you to select text in Quick Look previews, but Apple curtailed it back in 2015. Since then, dragging your cursor on any Quick Look plugin just

Well, I finally updated the Jekyll instance that runs this blog. If everything went to plan, this post will be the inauguration of a new era. One that looks a lot like the last era, hopefully.