Bean lives!
A word-processing app for Mac. Bean is small and fast, like this sentence.
Scratchpad for macOS
Adds a scratchpad to the menu bar or the Today widget.
DropCopy for Mac and iOS
DropCopy and DropCopy Mobile allow for easy transfer of files and folders between Macs, iPads, and iPhones on the same network. If your Mac is too old to for AirDrop with your phone, use DropCopy.
elementary OS
A rather Mac-like variety of Linux.
Turbo Boost Switcher
A tiny app that enables or disables OS X’s Turbo Boost.
Aware for Mac
A nifty (and free) Mac app.
WordService
For Mac, from Devon Technologies.
XMenu
A free Mac app from Devon Technologies.
Recently updated
TextExpander, a price cut and other changes.
TextExpander, aText
I like aText.
Rev. Robert Palladino (1932–2016)
Steve Jobs sat in on his calligraphy class.
ImageOptim
ImageOptim is a free app for Mac that applies lossless compression to images.
GTmetrix
A useful tool for those who write online: GTmetrix clocks the speed at which a webpage loads and gives recommendations to make things faster.
OS X El Capitan
Things haven’t felt this good on my Mac since 10.8 (Mountain Lion). But an old bug remains.
The Mac app Acorn
A far friendlier app than the free (and, like Acorn, powerful) GIMP.
aText
A wonderful Mac app.
iPhoto lives
If you prefer Apple’s iPhoto to the new Photos app (as I do), you should know that it’s still possible to use iPhoto in OS X 10.10.3.
SafariSort
A tiny free app to sort Safari bookmarks.
Marco Arment on Apple problems
“They’re too busy working on the new to fix the old.”
Recently updated
A Yosemite bug. Fixed? No, still broken.
X does not mark the spot
It happened again: holding a MacBook Pro in front of me to show some photographs to students, I ended up touching the screen to close out the slideshow.
µBlock for Safari
Raymond Hill’s ad-blocking extension.
Paparazzi!, an OS X app
Paparazzi! takes a shot of the page, not the screen, saving the work of stitching screenshots into a larger whole.
Another Yosemite bug
“It’s more and more difficult to agree that ‘It just works.’”
A Yosemite bug
“I called Apple with a problem, and it turns out that I had discovered a Yosemite bug. Call it sempervirens.”
Helvetica, eww
Helvetica Neue. Eww.
OS X Text to Speech inhalations
Hey, Apple: I noticed.
Mac timers
Apps for Mac, cool, free.
WindowMizer
Rolling up Mac windows.
TextExpander discount
On sale, half-price, through Monday.