Hi everyone Aaron here for Zollotech and many of you have asked me to share what's on my mac
and so this is what's on my mac early 2021 and so we'll start with the dock and the dock is pretty
straightforward i don't keep a whole lot of things here this is my main editing computer it's a mac
pro you'll see more about that in a little bit but you can see here i just have finder and launchpad
safari google chrome now i use chrome only for a couple things i use it mostly just
to upload videos and handle doing things like that since it seems to be a little bit better
with handling that overall otherwise i don't use chrome a whole lot i normally use safari
due to its privacy and security now other than that i'm using the stock mail app messages of
course and then twitter to be on twitter all day and then photos notes music and final cut pro
many of you have asked what do i use to edit my videos well normally i use final cut pro
and then also i have some videos about final cut pro if you want to learn how to get started and
things like that the app to the right of that is called piezo this is a simple application to
record audio so if i open it up here this can actually record audio from whatever
you're recording in you'll see i recorded this audio for the iphone 10 and 2021 app
or video in this app and it just you hit record it records from whatever source you choose and you're
good to go not a whole lot more to do with that but that's all it does it creates an mp3 file or
whatever you set it to so you'll see mp3 256 kbit per second vbr and then i'm recording this video
with screenflow this is capturing the screen right now it's making the cursor smoother things like
that so that's what i'm recording the screen with now before we go in and take a look at the launch
pad and things like that at the top i have a bunch of apps and i get asked probably the most about
these apps so i'll start from right to left here so this one is magnet this actually allows me to
snap different windows to different areas so if i open safari maybe we have apple open and i want to
snap that to the right you can see here magnet lets me do that i can bring it out snap it to
the full screen to the left and just have it sort of separate the screen that way and it's easy to
use so you just click on it and you can change any of the configurations on it it's in the app store
and it's definitely worth checking out if you want to sort of organize your windows especially if you
have an ultra wide monitor or a very large monitor this is a pro display xdr that's 32 inches so i
like to organize things like that it just makes it a little easier the next one is called air buddy
this is an application that's very simple gives you your status of all your different devices when
you want to connect say your air pods for example it measures that it's even telling me my ipad pro
status so it's pretty simple there and if we go to settings you'll see it says air buddy so
you can enable it it looks at the system you can increase the battery battery indicator font size
it will show you if you're close to it with air pods for example and if you want to connect you
can click a window so it's a really helpful utility it just adds to what you have so
you've got my keyboard and trackpad and ipad iphone and iphone 12. anything that's nearby
and reporting back their status will it'll let you know the next is for remote desktop it's
called screens connect i don't really use it that often but it's there if i want to use it
i have a little one password helper but then to the left of that here is a status of all
of the different things on my computer from the gpu temperatures to the different pcie
slot temperatures to the memory temperatures and things like that so this is an interesting app we
can go to more you can see more about it it's called tg pro this particular app and there's
some others i'm using as well i probably have too many of these but you can see the different fans
you can flip them to max if you want to spin them up faster you can put them on auto
or we can put them back to system so it's really nice you can adjust that as need be this is for
color calibration i don't really use this right now so i'll actually exit it so i i don't know
why that's starting but here we have what's called istat menu and this is actually telling me a bunch
of information from my solid state drive because we're recording right now it's using it heavily
so i'm recording to that drive and you can see it here everything that's being written to the
drive and how much is free i should empty this a little bit as i have a four terabyte drive
video takes up a lot so here we have memory it tells what's in use as you can see here
there is almost 80 gigabytes of ram free then here are the cpus this is a 16 core cpu
mac pro so it tells all of that information and then you've got all of that now up here
is part of istat menu and this is actually giving me my temperatures of everything
so similar to what the other app over here did where i was showing you temperatures before right
here this is actually doing the same sort of thing telling me my cpu core proximity three temperature
all the way to my ssd temperatures and then the fans in the max so you've got the blower fan
the bottom fan middle fan and top fan and then of course my cpu frequency so all of that is included
here and again it's all part of istat menu now my favorite application for monitoring your mac and
seeing more about it is called sensei and that can be found in launchpad so if i go into the
launchpad you'll see here we have all my different apps we'll go over in a moment but here's sensei
so this application is one of my favorites for telling what's going on with your mac so not only
does it give the name it has a nice little visual representation of the mac you're using it even
tells the origin of where it was made and when it was manufactured so it's got all that information
then it shows you the ssd your cpus the dual gpus that i have and the ram and the ram pressure how
much is being used basically so i have 96 gigs of ram in this and it's really nice that it's there
so it's got all of that information and if we go over to optimize you can do things like optimize
different items you can see your storage click on it gives you more information you can benchmark it
see more about the storage it's really in depth and it's not very expensive
but as you can see here there's the display even showing the wallpaper that's on the display
the two graphics cards and more so there's lots of information here if you really like to dig
down deep into this see all the fans things like that you can see even the power supply temperature
so it's got all of that information and it's one of my favorite apps for that now in the launch
pad i do have some other apps as well this is my main editing machine so i don't do a whole lot of
gameplay or anything like that but i do have a couple things so as you can see here pixelmator
pro that's what i usually use for thumbnails and things like that that's the application that
i create my thumbnails in and i've used it for many many years it's an alternative to photoshop
it's inexpensive you pay for it once not monthly and as long as it does everything you need it to
it's faster than photoshop in many things and it's probably the best one out there for me
anyway so we have motion and compressor these go along with final cut pro i don't use them
too often but i have them if needed and then firefox is a separate browser it's
just a backup i don't really use it that often but sometimes to test things i do
so if we go through these next rows here you won't see anything really really exciting just intel
power gadget that has to be installed for some of these monitoring apps to work istat menu like
i said and these are benchmarking applications blackmagic disk speed test cinebench and heaven
here are all benchmarking applications along with geekbench up at the top as we get closer
to the bottom you'll see a few other things like telegram imazing discord and then amazon music i
don't really use that anymore but it's just there and soft raid i have installed because i was
testing a different drive inside this computer i have a separate video on that from last year
i probably should uninstall this the same is true for google chrome and google hangouts and play and
things like that these these two don't really need to be here but they are and then m installer m
installer are effects that i use for final cut pro so when you see different menus and things they
actually pop in all of those different effects and things so they it's a plug-in for final cut pro
now if we go over one you'll see that i have android file transfers so if i need to move some
photos off of android phones for example izip i don't even know why i have it i probably should
uninstall it the same is true for bitdefender virus scanner i don't really need that it's just
something that's here i check out for people when they're asking me questions about things
hype 4 is for making html 5 animations for websites i don't really use it a whole lot
but it's there and then don't sleep is something i use a lot to stop my display from going to sleep
or stopping the computer from going to sleep it's free in the app store and you can see put
it on don't sleep it won't go to sleep and you can say forever or how long have it started login and
things like that so something i use quite often when i'm recording videos and then of course i
have tweetdeck i don't really use too often vlc and handbrake if i need to convert files i don't
use them often but they're here app cleaner to actually clean apps and then catalyst browsers
for sony cameras it actually helps with different footage and sony cameras with stabilization and
things like that fx factory and echo remover these are things i don't really use but they're built-in
plug-ins for final cut pro they sell things like that and then camera settings for my webcam so
i actually have a webcam in my office let's see if i can get it to work here
see if it'll open there we go you can see the office here a little bit without me being
centered or anything like that i can move this up or down and i have the light off while recording
this but i think you get the idea so let me go ahead and close that and then that's really it
this is not really a packed computer when it comes to anything else it's a very focused
editing computer is what i use it for so if i'm editing anything for videos for youtube this
is what i'm using i use it for social media and that's about it it's not for gaming it does have
that one game on here sid meier railroads which i've played many times in the past but i rarely
use that and it's just for the occasional break if i want but other than that there's not much more
to talk about that's every single thing on my mac pro so not a whole lot more to talk about with it
but hopefully that helped you out deciding if any of these apps are right for you some of them are
free some of them are not istat menu and sensei is not free but i think they're well worth the
10 to 15 cost and you never have to buy it again so it's pretty reasonable there let me know if
there's any apps you think i should check out i'd love to check them out let me know in the comments
below and of course i'll link this wallpaper if you're interested in having it on your mac as well
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