Drag and drop, broken in Sequoia
The problem is in macOS 15, and I find it almost unbelievable that Apple could release new system software with such a glaring problem.
Orange Crate Art
Apple Calendar
Does everyone already know that you can reschedule events in Calendar by moving them with a finger or a mouse?
One more kwoi
“Sequoia,” in a 1943 dictionary.
macOS Something
How to pronounce “sequoia”?
TypeIt4Me
Typeit4Me is fast, good-looking, and intuitive. It’s plainly great.
Adding links to Pinboard
On a Mac: bookmarklet by Jay Sitter, a Safari extension by Kristof Adriaenssens.
Hidden Bar
A fine free replacement to hide Mac menu bar items.
Recently updated
Alas, the Fliqlo screensaver still uses — at least on my Mac — an enormous amount of memory.
Fliqlo lives!
A new version of the Mac flip-clock screensaver Fliqlo (for Sonoma and beyond) is now available. It’s a free download, with donations accepted.
CleanMyMac X on sale
My only connection to CleanMyMac X is that of a happy user (since 2019).
Fn
For Mac users only: Adam Engst explains The Hidden Secrets of the Fn Key
Screensavers, lost
Legacy screensavers and Sonoma trouble.
Turning off Mac auto-punctuation
Auto-punctuation was on by default on my Mac with no apparent way to turn it off. But there is a way.
Mimestream out of beta
Mimestream, the great Gmail client for Mac, is out of beta.
How to delete a Tab Group in Safari
It’s a Mac problem. I’m glad someone figured it out.
The dogcow
At 512 Pixels, Stephen Hackett presents the life and times of Clarus the dogcow.
Making HTML links with Alfred workflows
I finally found a good use for ChatGPT: I had it write two workflows for the Mac app Alfred. It took the bot about a half dozen tries over several days to produce workflows that work. Thanks, AI.
Menuwhere
Menuwhere is a tiny app from Many Tricks that opens a Mac app’s menu wherever you are on the screen.
Tomito
Tomito is a free Pomodoro app for Mac. It’s beautifully designed and highly flexible.
Recently updated
TomatoBar has another sound, which was there all along.
TomatoBar
A nicely designed Pomodoro app for the Mac menu bar.
Time is money
A Mac menu bar timer costing $79.99.
Cult of Mac top 2022 apps
Cult of Mac names its top apps of 2022 — eight in all, four of them free.
iCloud Drive (Archive): delete?
I went looking for an explanation of why my Mac showed iCloud Drive (Archive), iCloud Drive (Archive) - 1, and iCloud Drive (Archive) - 2. I found the answer.
DuckDuckGo for Mac beta
“With built-in protections that make the Internet less creepy and less cluttered”: the DuckDuckGo browser for Mac is now available to all. First impression: slow. But it’s still in beta.
Safari bookmark folders and subfolders
How to get a subfolder out of a folder.
Yoink
Yoink is a nifty utility ($8.99) for macOS and iOS. It simplifies dragging and dropping files — not a complicated task, but a tedious one, as anyone who has tried to navigate from folder to folder to subfolder can probably attest.
Unshaky
Solves MacBook repeating-key problems! Free!
Streaming screenshots
For Mac: how to get screenshots from streaming movies.
Min
Min for macOS: “a fast, minimal browser that protects your privacy.”