- This video is sponsored by SanDisk.
The newest M1 Pro and M1 Max MacBook Pros
have been pretty much universally praised by buyers,
and my opinion, they're the complete opposites
of the years where the butterfly keyboard made it
hard to recommend buying the MacBook Pro.
I have both the 14 and 16 inch M1 Max versions
and in a lot of pretty spectacular ways
they're even better than my top of the line
16 core Mac Pro desktop, and that has 768 gigabytes of Ram
and 32 terabytes of storage.
Now people always ask about apps that others use
and I figured I'd give you a rundown
of a few of the Mac apps that are essential
to my workflow when I'm using my M1 Max MacBook Pro
on the go as a full-time content creator
but I'll have several apps that I think will be great
for anyone, regardless of what you do with your computer.
Let's kick it off with Bartender.
I usually have a lot going on in my menu bar
with all the utilities and apps that I'm running.
Obviously the MacBook Pro has the notch in the center
for the camera giving even less space up there.
So I use Bartender, which allows you
to manage what shows up in your menu bar.
The way I use it is I choose which icons
I want to show all the time,
and then anything not in that list gets hidden away.
If I need to access it, I have it set to show more
when I move my mouse over that area
and I can click on the Bartender icon to see
my lower priority apps if I need to access those.
I use Bartender as part of my set app subscription
they're not sponsoring this video.
I love the service since I believe it has over 200 apps
now that you can access.
It's basically like Netflix for Mac apps.
If you wanna check it out
I'll leave a link down in a description.
Up next is Reeder.
This is my RSS reader of choice.
If you've never heard of RSS,
it's basically a way to subscribe to a website's feed
so that content shows up in your feed Reeder
allowing you to see all the articles that are on that site.
It's like podcasts, but for web content, in fact
podcasts also use RSS to deliver episodes to you.
So when you subscribe to a podcast,
the way that the new episodes just show up on your phone
or computer is through RSS really simple syndication.
And it works the same for web articles.
So instead visiting a hundred websites every day
or multiple times per day.
I subscribe to their feeds
and their news articles just show up here in Reeder.
Reeder has a really clean design that looks great
on the retina display of the MacBook Pro
and it just works really well,
especially if you're into RSS as a way to consume
all your media which I highly recommend.
Up next is Pastebot.
This is another one that I think is great
for just about anyone.
Pastebot is a clipboard manager for the Mac.
It's a really simple idea.
Whenever you copy something, pastebot saves it.
You can then access anything you've copied previously
and paste it into any app.
You can save and organize frequently used clippings
into custom pasteboard and create keyboard shortcuts
to access pasteboards and paste specific clippings.
Pastebots search capabilities help locate
specific, copied and cut items quickly.
The searches are based on content or Metadata
so you can do things like search for things you copied
specifically in the messages app
or only in Microsoft Word in December for example.
With iCloud enabled your main clipboard custom pasteboards
and filters sync across all of your computers
running Pastebot, so your clipboard
and filters will be everywhere that you work.
Now before we talk about how I protect
all the important data on my MacBook Pros,
I want to give a big shout out to
the sponsor of this video SanDisk.
One of the best features of the MacBook Pro
is that apple brought back the SD card slot
which is a big deal for anyone who shoots video
or photography, or just stores files on SD cards.
I've been using SanDisk SD cards
in all of my devices since 2006.
I'm talking about my Nintendo Switch
in my audio recorder for the geared up podcast
and of course in my camera that I shoot all my videos on.
In particular, I'm using SanDisk UHS-II cards
since they're designed to capture in high speed
and can record it up to 8K, which is great for me
since I record all my videos in 6K resolution.
Once I'm ready to transfer files over,
rather than using a dongle, I can now insert the SD card
directly into the MacBook Pro
and this SanDisk Extreme Pro SDXC card in particular
supports transfer speeds up to 300 megabytes per second.
Capacity start at 32 gigabytes and go all the way up
to 128 gigabytes for those UHS-II Cards,
giving you plenty of room for all your photos and videos.
Oh, and as a bonus SanDisk Extreme Pro SD cards
are shockproof, temperature proof, waterproof,
and x-ray proof so durability isn't an issue at all.
If you're looking to pick up new SD cards for your workflow,
I'll leave a link down in the description below.
And once again big thank you to SanDisk
for sponsoring this video.
Next something I install on all my Macs
to make sure I don't lose anything critical is Backblaze.
Backblaze provides unlimited online backup for your computer
and any external drives that you have connected
to your computer for just about $6 per month.
Not only that, but included in that price
is a 30 day version history of every file.
So lemme tell you a story
of how Backblaze absolutely saved me.
First just over three year ago,
I had my external two terabyte PCIe SSD drive die.
And I actually did a video about this which I'll link below.
Now this is a drive where I keep all of the video footage
that I'm actively working on which is too big to include
in my local time machine backup.
So it dies and I'm in the middle of a big video release.
I immediately logged into Backblaze
and downloaded the backed assets of the video I was working
on and requested that they overnight me a physical drive
with all the data from that two terabyte drive that died.
I was immediately back in business
with what I needed to work on,
and the next day my full data arrived
and I was able to restore it.
Then I sent the drive back to Backblaze
and they gave me a refund.
Incredible, I've been a paying Backblaze user
for several years and not only has it never let me down,
it saved me like that on more than one occasion.
If you use a computer for anything critical
whether it's work files or important personal files
like a photo library, I cannot recommend it enough.
Next Pulltube is another indispensable app for me.
This one is simple.
It lets you easily download video and audio
from streaming sites like YouTube, Vimeo, Facebook, TikTok
and many more.
If I need a piece of footage for a video,
I can easily use Pulltube to grab it
and it'll even transcode the video
into MP4 or HEVC formats if I need it to.
It's a simple tool but another that I install
on all of my Macs and like Bartender,
this one is part set app as well.
Again, links to all these apps are down
in the description below.
And while you're down there, leave me a comment
letting me know what your favorite Mac apps are.
Thanks for watching as always guys.
I appreciate your support.
I'm Andru Edwards, and I will catch you in the next video.