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Dozer
Dozer, a free app for macOS, hides one or more or nearly all menu bar icons.
Fast software, best software
Craig Mod: “Fast software is not always good software, but slow software is rarely able to rise to greatness.”
Mac Open Web
Brian Warren’s Mac Open Web, “a collection of open and indie Mac, iOS, and web apps that help promote the open web.”
Deleting a podcast from iTunes
A chance discovery while tidying up: choosing Delete from Library will not remove a podcast from iTunes.
Wipr
Wipr, by Giorgio Calderolla, is a macOS and iOS app that blocks ads in Safari.
Brilliant Mac corners
From The Sweet Setup, a guide to using Hot Corners in macOS.
Bad design, Apple
Swiping with the Magic Mouse and the trackpad.
Seashore at the App Store
Seashore, an excellent free image-editor for the Mac, has moved from SourceForge to the App Store.
How to speed up podcasts in iTunes on a Mac
You can’t. But you can speed up podcasts by going outside iTunes, and without relying on a dedicated app.
In praise of indie developers
Thanks to Rubén García Pérez (Turbo Boost Switcher), Jesse Grosjean (WriteRoom), Gus Mueller and Kirstin Mueller (Acorn), and Adam Preble (SwiftText). These developers are helpful to their customers, and their apps are great. Huzzah!
⌘-V
In setting up my new Mac, I had to remember an improvement I haven’t thought about since 2011 (the last time I set up a new Mac): change Command-V, ⌘-V, to “Paste and Match Style.” The change greatly simplifies to work of copying and pasting.
A thinking-about-a-MacBook tip
For a long time I hesitated, because I couldn’t get past the keyboard. My tip, for anyone thinking about a MacBook: ask if you can try the machine of your choice while sitting. After I sat down to type, I needed only a minute or two to decide that I could be happy with the new keyboard.
uBlock Origin for Safari
If you’ve updated to Safari 12 for the Mac and are wondering where uBlock Origin has gone.
NameChanger
NameChanger is a free app for macOS and OS X that makes renaming files easier.
Mac hardware :(
Mac developer Quentin Carnicelli writes about the sad state of Mac hardware.
Mac, asleep
If you are sitting in front of a device at night, the free app f.lux (pronounced “flux”) can be very helpful.
Mac, awake
KeepingYouAwake keeps the Mac from going to sleep.
YouTube apps for Mac
Two free apps for Mac: 4K YouTube to MP3 and 4K Video Downloader.
Link Maker, a Safari extension
I have long searched for a Safari extension that can create a link with a title or selected text from a webpage — something like the now-antique Firefox extensions CopyURL+ and QuoteURLText. I finally found one.
Critteresque
A little Apple icon becomes a critter.
Another discovery
SwiftText, $1.99 at the Mac App Store.
A discovery
Being able to change the font makes the Mac app Tyke more appealing.
Tyke
“A little bit of scratch paper that lives on your Mac menu bar”: Tyke is a free app that looks extremely handy.
GrandPerspective icon
A replacement icon for GrandPerspective, a Mac app that creates a visual display of disk contents.
For Safari users only
Disabling DNS prefetch — who knew? — makes an enormous difference.
Pages ’09 spelling window fixed
The spelling and grammar window for Pages ’09, broken with macOS Sierra, works properly with macOS High Sierra.
OCR App
A free Mac app for optical character recognition.
Disable autoplay videos in Safari
Finally.
Bear, a writing app
A writing app of great simplicity, for macOS and iOS.