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I have prepared 12 mac apps that are worth installing right away. I recently discovered
some of them, and I am eager to share them. Some are paid, others cost less than a coffee,
and the rest are free. Let's not waste a second and start with the
oldest one on my list, called Page screenshot for Safari. This is more like a Safari extension,
but it's worth it, especially for a single payment of $2.99. Once installed, you get
a simple camera button next to the address bar that allows you to grab a screenshot of
the entire website. Many feature-packed alternative apps come with such functionality as part
of the arsenal. Still, none of them are as quick and straightforward to use. Plus, in
the world, of subscriptions, a one-time 3-dollar payment is clutch. Once you click on the icon,
you get the most essential basics. The screenshot format is one of them - png, jpg, pdf, or
all of them at the same time. You can start the screenshot from the top, from wherever
you have scrolled through, or just the visible part. Just the visible part is better than
the built-in Mac options, BTW. You can even choose the Max height of the screenshot. Once
you make the selection, the rest is a few seconds of the joy of how the app scrolls
and stitches together the screenshot. The next visually pleasing and surprisingly
useful Mac app is called Airbuddy 2. This app gives you a similar interface and controls
when activating your AirPods to the iPhone, but instead on the Mac. Aside from the beautiful
and easy-to-activate interface with battery levels, the menu bar showcases an overview
of all of the nearby devices. You can even see the status for your other nearby Macs
running AirBuddy alongside the peripherals. Prompt battery alerts whenever a device is
running low on battery are greatly appreciated. Switching between noise cancellation or transparency
mode can be triggered with a shortcut but what's more impressive here is something called
Magic Handoff. This is a bit like Universal control but for devices not under one iCloud
account. For example, I can share my keyboard and mouse with a colleague of mine in a second
without having to unpair and pair peripherals like a caveman. Airbuddy 2 costs $10, and
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Before we get to the more powerful apps and tools, I'd like to pay homage to another simple
yet convenient app called Jettison. This app has one purpose in life - eject drives,
sd cards, and other things safely. Long gone are the annoying "forgot to eject warnings
of the Mac". The app's slogan is "just close your MacBook, unplug and go!". Once installed,
if I want, I can click on the eject icon in my menu bar and eject everything that I have
connected to the Mac. What's more, Jettison can eject external disks when the Mac goes
to sleep, then remounts any disks that are still connected when the Mac wakes again.
You can choose what types of disks it works with and include or exclude specific drives.
The app costs as much as a Starbucks coffee, yet if you'd like to test it before you buy
it, there is a 15-day trial. One app that I regret not knowing about earlier
is Numi. Numi costs about $25, and I can describe it as the simplest and most fun calculator
one can use. Think of it as Siri but with written commands. For example, you can write
a simple calculation or even a complex one. You can create multiple calculations on numerous
lines. There's even a Totals output at the bottom, yet we are just getting started. Conversions
are the most fun here. Weight, height, imperial vs. metrics system, currency conversion...you
name it, Numi has it. I love that all my calculations stay safe and in place whenever I move away
from Numi and return to it. You can even use it as a quick notes pad if necessary.
Moving on to Paste - BTW, if you end up enjoying this video, subscribe...because WHY NOT?!?.
This is one of the few subscription-based apps that I wouldn't hesitate to invest in
because, for $10/year, it can literally save me hundreds. Paste is a visual clipboard manager
that, by default, stores and organizes all my copied items - text, images, or files.
By pressing CMD+Shift+V, I can summon Paste and go through my entire copy history for
the past month. It has an excellent and intuitive interface that I can easily browse through
or even search in. There are many tweaks and settings to play with, one of my favorite
being the option to always paste as plain text. I started to use it recently, and I
have already begun creating my own pinboards for often-used texts. For example, long addresses
that I usually have to fill in when making payments can be stored as pinboards. The app
uses iCloud for synchronization, and it can save you from potential disasters like lost
or deleted files. What's best is that it has an iPhone companion that I can easily refer
to even when my Mac is not around. Remember that all files have to be in their respective
place, though. You won't be able to paste an image missing from its original location.
The only downside here is the subscription model. Still, I think the annual price is
easily digestible given its benefits. Dropzone turns out to be a very popular app
that I recently heard of - SHRUG. If you haven't, it's a helper for faster and easier copying
and transferring of files. Think of it as a temporary drop location where you can accumulate
stuff to later send to someone or upload or Airdrop. It's convenient, mainly if the files
that need to be sent or organized are scattered around the hard drive. It saves time when
I don't have to manually drop files into a single folder to collect them from various
locations before sending them over or archiving them. The app in question is version 4, and
it's by a company called Aptonic. It's free for 14 days and then, unfortunately, comes
with an annual or monthly engagement of $2 per month. It's not a steep price, primarily
if you deal with many files daily. Suppose you come from a Windows operating
system, or you simply don't like the default tabulating functionality of the Mac. In that
case, Alttab is a free app that you'll find very handy. It's precisely like command+tab,
but alt+tab. Instead of seeing the app icons when circulating between them, you can see
the actual contents and windows of everything that is opened - similar to Windows. Here's
why it's better than the default Mac options. If I happen to have 3 finder windows opened
and 2 Safari windows simultaneously, I can Alt-tab and precisely decide which window
I'd like to land on. I really like this little app to the point where I've replaced my default
command tab shortcut with it. It comes with many other aces up its sleeve, including changing
the look of the previews. What's best is the fact that it's free.
Moving on to yet another free app called Color System Picker. This app is exactly what its
name implies - it helps me color pick any color throughout my system. Honestly, I am
not sure how I've lived without this app. I actually know. I was used to taking a quick
screenshot and then color picking whatever I required with Affinity Photo - total waste
of time. Color System Picker uses the built-in OS system picker, which is great because you'll
be able to create pallets that can be used all over MacOS. You can change the preferred
color format in settings and record shortcuts to speed things up. Quick tip - if you want
to delete something from your pallet, simply drag it to the trash. You are welcome.
Next up is Things - this is my to-do app. Things has been around for a long time, and
it's an app that has won numerous Apple awards throughout the years. It's not the most featured
pack to-do app, but whatever it can do, it does it great. Even better is that it's not
subscription-based. However, all its individual versions - Mac, iPhone, and iPad may seem
steep when purchased all at once. Spread across the months, however, I think it pays off and
then some. I have created various task lists in it, and I use it daily to collect all my
ideas and keep track of my chores. One Mac feature that I appreciate is the quick task
creation shortcut, which is OPT + Space. As we've discussed in my last video on how to
save an hour a day which I'll link at the end of this one, reducing friction to a minimum
is vital. I am also using a Things widget on my iPhone's home page to quickly collect
my commitments. Raycast is a new Spotlight replacement app
that I am currently testing. I've used Alfred before, but I've noticed that I am not using
it to its full potential over the last year. Raycast is free, and just like Alfred, it
has a lot to offer, including extensions. I believe the extensions are what caught my
interest in Raycast. One that I immediately took advantage of was Google translate. Instead
of opening Google translate in the browser every time, I can just type Translate and
take it from there. Another extension that I took advantage of is the integration of
Apple Music, where I'd simply type Playlist and choose which playlist I'd like to listen
to. Of course, Raycast has many other features and thousands of extension downloads, so I
won't have the time to go through them, so feel free to explore it on your own. I'll
put links below. TinkerTool is number 12 on my list, and it
is the app that I think should come by default on any Mac. As you can guess, it allows you
to tinker with your Mac settings beyond what Apple offers. Instead of going through the
list of options you can tinker with, let me share some of the current settings that I
find very useful. I am a big fan of auto-hiding the dock, but I stopped using it at one point
because the animation effects and wait time for the dock to appear takes too much. From
the dock settings of TinkerTool, I've disabled the animation effects and delay time to where
the dock now appears faster than the Flash. Another thing that I have been fighting with
for years is the shadow when taking a screenshot of a window. I've disabled the shadows of
window screenshots, and now I hate myself for not finding TinkerTools earlier. Removing
the recording time of screenshots is bliss too. One more thing - you can select some
apps to appear in light mode even if dark mode is enabled. And you know what - it's
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