Stickier - Free Notes App with Power User Features

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Stickier

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Stickier is a free sticky notes app that ticks a lot of boxes when it comes to useful features.

  • iCloud sync for use on multiple devices
  • Quick notes feature with custom hotkey for quick text entry
  • Custom note color, text color and background image if desired. You can set a default for all notes and change individual notes to make them stand out
  • Custom text, text size and margins
  • Import and export notes
  • Clickable links
  • Checklists
  • Menu bar and/or dock access

Stickier keeps a history of changes to each note, allowing you to revert to an earlier version or recover data if you need to. You can share the text of any note via the Mac share sheet. When it comes to pinning notes, you can leave a note open at its regular size, or you can collapse it so that it shows only the first line of text. You can choose the size and location of each note, moving it anywhere you’d like on your display.

Custom formatting includes bulleted lists as well as bold, italic and strike-through text. You can use the return key to create a paragraph break in a note, or a button in the interface to create a new line without the paragraph break.

You can get the app from the Mac App Store for free. The iOS app is $4.99.

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Stickier - Free Notes App with Power User Features

Stickier
Stickier


Stickier is a free sticky notes app that ticks a lot of boxes when it comes to useful features.

  • iCloud sync for use on multiple devices
  • Quick notes feature with custom hotkey for quick text entry
  • Custom note color, text color and background image if desired. You can set a default for all notes and change individual notes to make them stand out
  • Custom text, text size and margins
  • Import and export notes
  • Clickable links
  • Checklists
  • Menu bar and/or dock access

Stickier keeps a history of changes to each note, allowing you to revert to an earlier version or recover data if you need to. You can share the text of any note via the Mac share sheet. When it comes to pinning notes, you can leave a note open at its regular size, or you can collapse it so that it shows only the first line of text. You can choose the size and location of each note, moving it anywhere you'd like on your display.

Custom formatting includes bulleted lists as well as bold, italic and strike-through text. You can use the return key to create a paragraph break in a note, or a button in the interface to create a new line without the paragraph break.

You can get the app from the Mac App Store for free. The iOS app is $4.99.

Thanks to @dhry@mastodon.social for the tip on this app.

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Opting for Mac Apps That Are Immune to Changes in US Privacy Laws

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Many people have become concerned that changes in the US politics, the FCC and attitudes in the big American tech companies may result in less reliable privacy protections in the software they use. One solution is to move to using apps and services provided by European and Canadian companies. Australian writer Joan Westernberg did a deep dive on her tech stack recently, and here are a few apps she recommended, some of which I have featured previously on AppAddict.

ToDoist - Europe

ToDoist is a privacy first task and calendar app available for macOS and iOS available on the App Store. Todoist is a simple yet powerful planner tool that organizes both your life and work. It can also be used a habit tracker. Subscription based.


iAWriter - Switzerland

iAwriter a markdown/plain text editor designed especially for writing and document creation. It isn't a text editor in the fashion of VS Code or BBEdit. If you aren't a markdown wiz, all the commands are accessible from the menu bar. The simplified interface is its hallmark, but it has various powerful tools behind the curtains. Your documents are local by default, with options to use end-to-end encrypted storage solutions. More information

Proton - Switzerland

The Proton Foundation offers a list of encrypted services including email, cloud storage, a password manager, a calendar, and a VPN. None of its products are subject to US surveillance laws. It markets itself on its privacy features and isn't likely to follow the VC funded pattern of using your data to maximize profit.

Joplin - France

Joplin is an open-source notes app that offers a local only option or syncing on servers based in France. You can also opt for syncing on your choice of end-to-end encrypted services. It offers importing from various formats including Evernote, Markdown and plain text. It has a powerful web clipper and a plugin architecture, making it an extensible choice with support for multiple platforms.

Vivaldi - Norway and Iceland

Vivaldi is my browser choice for its built-in privacy and tracking protections and its extreme customization options. It has powerful security, power consumptions, appearance and tab management features as well as a built-in calendar, email and feed reader. There is a companion app for iOS.

LibreOffice - Germany

LibreOffice is a full-featured open-source office suite used by millions. It features a word processor, spreadsheets, presentations in an open format but can also open and save in Microsoft Office formats. Microsoft products are infamous for being telemetry filled and AI influenced. This is a solid privacy protecting alternative.

Cozy Cloud - France

Cozy Cloud is a personal cloud to gather all your data like bills, notes, and passwords. It's GDPR, privacy-focused, open source, and hosted in France. It has a limited free plan for you to investigate.

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If you like finding out about interesting and useful software, I’m making it easier for you to get detailed updates about what is available.

I started posting reviews of Mac and iOS apps in April 2024. To date, I’ve reviewed over 300 apps, posted several roundups of free Mac software and offered advice on Mac automation. So far, I’ve been able to respond to every message from readers with personalized advice when asked. 

I decided to newsletter to enable me to provide reviews to people who would like to receive them in newsletter form. I’ve had several requests and this appears to be an easy to manage method of getting the news about the latest apps to anyone who wants it in their inbox.

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Each of my reviews contains a link to where you can download the software, as well as its cost - if there is one. I am not affiliated with any developer or commercial publisher. I’ve been downloading, testing and using Mac software since the days of the classic OS. Most of my reviews are recommendations, but I occasionally post a “stay away” warning if I find something egregious that I think folks should avoid.

If you are a developer and would like me to review your app, contact me through the blog. I don’t review every app I’m presented with, but if you’ve made something unique and helpful, I’ll be glad to take a look and give you some feedback.

Hyperspace Frees Up Disk Space Without Deleting Files

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Developer, writer and podcaster, John Siracusa, has a new app you should try out if disk space on your Mac is starting to become scarce.

I’m not convinced that anyone, anywhere, including Cupertino, truly understands the relationship between the disk space you actually have on your Mac and what the system reports. Cloud storage totals show what’s in the cloud, not on your hard drive. Then there is the whole purgeable space concept. Another factor that contributes to the mystery and one that I just learned about is what happens on AFPS formatted drives when you duplicate a file. I’ll let the legendary Mac developer, John Siracusa, explain:

Today, most Mac users don’t even notice that using the “Duplicate” command in the Finder to make a copy of a file doesn’t actually copy the file’s contents. Instead, it makes a “clone” file that shares its data with the original file. That’s why duplicating a file in the Finder is nearly instant, no matter how large the file is. Despite knowing about clone files since the APFS introduction nearly eight years ago, I didn’t give them much thought beyond the tiny thrill of knowing that I wasn’t eating any more disk space when I duplicated a large file in the Finder. But late last year, as my Mac’s disk slowly filled, I started to muse about how I might be able to get some disk space back. If I could find files that had the same content but were not clones of each other, I could convert them into clones that all shared a single instance of the data on disk. I took an afternoon to whip up a ...scrip... to see how much space I might be able to save by doing this. It turned out to be a lot: dozens of gigabytes.

There are plenty of Mac apps that will save disk space by finding duplicate files and then deleting the duplicates. Using APFS clones, this app can reclaim disk space without removing any files.

If you have technical questions, there is extensive documentation on Siracusa’s blog - Hyperspace

Siracusa went on to convert the script he wrote into a native Mac app, written in Swift. You can get it from the App Store for free and run it against your Mac’s file system to see how much disk space you can reclaim. If it’s a significant amount, you have several subscription and purchase options:

  • $9.99 a month
  • $19.99 a year
  • $49.99 lifetime

Captin Solves a Major Mac Annoyance

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Unless you are an accomplished touch typist, which I am not, you probably spend a lot of time looking at the keyboard when working at your computer. Occasionally, those of us who type in this manner inadvertently hit the Caps Lock key unknowingly. When we finally check the display, we see a long string of text IN CAPITAL LETTERS. Fixing this is a PIA.

Enter Captin, a free little utility that lets you know in every way possible when you have turned on Caps Lock, and not just visually. You can set a sound warning too.

Notification Methods

  • HUD - Instant visual feedback
  • Menu-Bar Icon - Customizable LED color
  • Dock Icon - Theme-aware Dock-icon style
  • Customization - Color, duration, size, and sound
  • Multiple Displays - Adjust position for each display

Libation - Audiobook Downloader and Converter

Libation
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Amazon recently announced its intention to prevent customers from being able to download copies of their purchased ebooks, a feature it had supported since the inception of the Kindle. Amazon is also the company behind Audible, the popular vendor of audiobooks. Although they have not said they will be revoking download access to this service, it is a possibility and audiobook owners looking for a way to back up what they have purchased are looking for a solution to make this content useful outside the Amazon walled garden.

The solution I am using is Libation, a FOSS title available on GitHub. Libation is a bare-bones application without a fancy UI, but it is fully functional and takes only a few minutes to set up and use. After it converted my audiobooks into M4B files, a standard audiobook format which allows bookmarks, I was able to play my books using VLC and various iOS apps like the free Audiobooks MP3 and M4B Player.

One warning - the file sizes are large. If you have a sizable collection, I would advise against downloading to your internal hard drive unless you have a lot of free space. Saving to an external drive would be a better option.

Download Libation on GitHub.

Features

  • Import library from Audible, including cover art
  • Download and convert all books to other audio formats (M4b and MP3)
  • Download accompanying PDFs
  • Add tags to books for better organization
  • Powerful advanced search built on the Lucene search engine
  • Customizable saved filters for common searches
  • Open source
  • Supports most regions: US, UK, Canada, Germany, France, Australia, Japan, India, and Spain
  • Fully supported in Windows, Mac, and Linux

My Obsidian Plugin List

Obsidian is the GOAT!
Obsidian is the GOAT!

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I’m not one of those people who tell others that the only or best way to use Obsidian is by eschewing plugins and going with a vanilla version of the app. If that works best for some people, that’s fine, but in my experience, the real power and enjoyment of the Obsidian experience comes from finding plugins to extend the functionality of the app.

My primary uses for Obsidian are:

  • Where I do all my writing
  • As a life record/journal
  • Personal database

The plugins I use are the ones that help me with those tasks. I don't leave all of these turned on all the time. For example, I leave the importer plugin turned off unless I am going to use it immediately. Since I use Obsidian on multiple devices and sync with Obsidian Sync, I am able to use different plugins on each device, a feature you don't get with DIY syncing. I can also have different settings for plugins on different devices. I only use my primary computer with the plugins that sync with external services like RSS and Raindrop.io

You can generate your own list of plugins to share with Share my plugin list by Benature

My Plugins



Everyday Apps

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I never realized this blog would become as popular as it has. I picked up blogging as a hobby to accompany the other joy in my life, which is the never-ending process of refining my workflows to use the absolute best software for every task. Somehow, I ended up with three blogs, this one, Living Out Loud, Linkage and another that is a combined fire hose of everything put together. I’d be lying if I told you that I’m always able to remember what I’ve written on each platform. In 2024, I wrote 500K words. I’m too old to keep all that straight.

I don’t think I’ve ever shared the actual list of apps that I used to get work done here on AppAddict. These aren’t the coolest or the most powerful or the best bargains, not necessarily. They are the workhorses that allow me to do what I need to do. I’m not saying they are the best for everyone. If you do a lot over email, you need something more specialized. I don’t do much with spreadsheets or presentations, so I’m not even listing those.

Most (not all) of the links here describe my use cases or what I like about the app and why I use it. All links contain download info.

Privacy Badger Extension from the Electronic Freedom Foundation

Privacy Badger
Privacy Badger

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Protecting your online privacy is an ongoing game of whack-a-mole with big tech. Google is making a big deal out of eliminating tracking cookies at the same time is implementing tracking based on digital fingerprinting for which few protections exist. One organization working on privacy protection solutions for this invasive technology is the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF). It’s free privacy tool is a browser extension, Privacy Badger, available for Chromium and Firefox browsers. A Safari version is under development. Since tracker blocking is an ongoing struggle, it’s good to know that the developers at the EFF are actively working on meeting the challenges of emerging invasive practices by big tech.

Privacy Badger is not a traditional ad blocker, and it will not replace whatever you are currently using. The extension is focused on preventing companies big and small from tracking where you go on the Internet and what you do there. It doesn’t work off a list of URLs. Instead, it uses an algorithm to determine if you are being tracked and takes action to block offending sites. For tracking sites that you want to have a relationship with, such as Meta or X, it provides clickable links to connect to them from external sites when you choose to. I like that it creates an opt-in situation for you.

Privacy badger is compatible with native tracking prevention found in more secure browsers like Librewolf, Firefox and Vivaldi. As the political situation evolves in the US, protecting your browsing habits will become more important than ever. Take the steps needed to keep yourself safe from big tech and the government.

Sandkorn - Comprehensive Information on Your Apps

Sandkorn Report
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Sandkorn, from developer Peter Borgas, is a free app that provides you comprehensive information on the apps installed on a computer, particularly sandboxed apps and what those apps are entitled to access.

Every app you obtain from the Mac App Store today is sandboxed, isolated from other apps and information sources, however, the apps have certain entitlements to different resources on your computers, some of which, but not all, you can see in System Settings > Security and Privacy. On a Mac, what you see in your applications folder are actually bundles you can right-click on an app and select View Package Contents and see what is contained in the bundle. Some apps have plugins and XPC services bundled with them that have their own entitlements. BBedit has 18. Xcode has a whopping 90!

Entitlements are things like:

  • Calendar
  • Contacts
  • Location
  • Bluetooth
  • Camera
  • Microphone
  • Printing
  • Incoming Network Traffic
  • Outgoing Network Traffic
  • Folders in your home directory

Although I only have six apps showing in my Security and Privacy Settings that have permission to access my camera, there are 56 apps that are capable of using it. Theoretically, they should ask before I access a feature that requires its use, but I'm just a guy on my couch with a laptop. If you are analyzing software in a highly sensitive area, knowing these entitlements is vital information.

Aside from the information I have already described, Sandkorn is the best app I’ve found for generating lists based on certain criteria, like architecture. If you’re one of the people that recoil in horror over the prospect of using Rosetta on your precious M-series Mac, Sandkorn can tell you if you have any Intel apps installed. It can generate lists of pure Apple Silicon and Universal apps. If you keep apps in a non-standard location, such as an external or secondary hard drive, you can have Sandkorn scan those locations too.

Get additional information on Sandkorn at the developer’s website. Check out his other apps like Lingon X and Smultron while you’re there.

You can download Sandkorn from the Mac App Store.

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Automation Quote
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I have a couple of downloads for you in this edition of AppAddict.

Automation

Although I am in no way a developer, I have created a couple of repositories on GitHub and placed some files there you may find useful. I am a big fan of Mac automation apps. There are plenty of tools that are inexpensive and relatively powerful for making the work you do easier and more streamlined. With the help of timed triggers, you can get your Mac to do things for you while you are asleep or away from the keyboard.

Take a minute to look over the tasks I accomplish with just three apps, and then head over to GitHub and download the configuration files for each of the apps. You can download the macros, rules, and triggers I have already written for these three powerhouse apps. Use them. Take them apart and examine them. Improve on them. It won’t be hard! AppAddict Automation Settings

Keyboard Maestro
My Top 10 Keyboard Maestro Macros

Hazel
My Favorite Actions for Hazel, the Preeminent File Management Software for the Mac

Better Touch Tool
Better Touch Tool Favorites


Quotes

I have collected quotes for years. I am still nursing an iOS app that was deprecated nine years ago to manage the portable version of my quotes library. I also have over 500 quotes saved as Markdown notes on Obsidian. You can find various Mac and iOS apps to manage quotes that extra features like tagging, biographies of the authors and room for links to the source material. You can download my collection here

For your Mac, try this - Quotemarks - Quote Notebook

For iOS, this one is great - Thoughts

Battery Monitor: Health, Info

Battery Monitor
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In the modern era, a time when most people us laptop computers as opposed to desktops, keeping up with your battery’s remaining charge is something we’ve trained ourselves to do. There are apps that let you make extremely detailed plans to carefully manage how your battery charges. These apps provide a wealth of information about your battery’s lifespan and electrical data. In normal operation, they keep your battery from charging past 80% to help prolong its lifespan. They will also run a calibration cycle to allow your battery to come close to fully discharging and the fully charging. These practices are reputed to be necessary to get the longest lifespan for your battery. The two most widely used apps for this type of management are: BatFi and Al Dente.

Not everyone believes these practices are needed or, indeed, are beneficial. They are satisfied with just monitoring their battery’s health. A good free app for providing the information you need is Battery Monitor: Health, Info from Rocky Sand Studio, Ltd. It has a simple but useful feature set.

Features

  • Charge percent and time in menu bar
  • Detailed battery information
  • Configurable low and full battery alert
  • Configurable Themes

You can get Battery Health Monitor from the App Store.

FlexiBackup Solves Real World Problems

FlexiBackup
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I faced a concerning issue last year when it was time to replace my iPhone. For some reason, neither Apple nor I could solve. For over two years, my phone had failed to back up to iCloud. Over the 16 years I’ve been using Apple’s flagship product, I’ve had to perform restores on multiple occasions. I’m not comfortable going without a backup of any technology device I rely on. The old school solution when iCloud doesn’t work is to connect your phone to a Mac and back everything up to the computer’s hard drive. The location where the backup is hard-coded, however. You don’t get to choose a location for the save files. It’s going on your hard drive whether you like it or not. My problem was that I only had a 256 GB hard drive and the backup from my phone consumed over 90 GB. After doing a lot of research and doing some hacking, a janked together a system using symbolic links to get the backup on to an external hard drive. It was a pain.

If I’d had FlexiBackup from indy developer, Kah Seng, things would have been much easier. Seng’s new app takes care of setting an external drive as the repository for iOS and iPadOS backups when you do them locally. If you have multiple family members using the same small iCloud storage account, this is an ideal app to add to your Mac, as long as each person has physical access to a computer where it is installed. You can do a backup and a restore by connecting a device to your Mac, launching FlexiBackup and running the native Mac utility.

FlexiBackup requires macOS 14.6 or later and is compatible with all iPhones and iPads, regardless of the iOS version installed. The app is available for $5.99 on Gumroad. There is no free trial, but it comes with a 30-day money-back guarantee.

Improve your Google Searches

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I am in the process of moving all my Internet research to Kagi, but I wrote this for someone who needed these instructions today.

Google, the advertising company that also has a search engine, is more interested in having you click on things it gets paid for than it is showing you the information you are looking for. Of course, it is also tracking every breath you take in case it figures out how to extract money from the very air you breathe. There are a couple of steps you can take to generate more useful information from the company’s search results.

Use a Different URL for your searches

Google is the default search engine in most browsers. It pays billions of dollars for that privilege on iOS alone - one of the reasons your choice of search engines is limited on Apple products. Everyone knows the standard address for a Google search is just https://google.com. When you search there, you get a bunch of useless AI crap and ""suggested links". If you want the good old 10 Blue Links of yesteryear,  add “udm=14” to your default search URL, so it reads as “https://www.google.com/search?q=%s&udm=14” instead of Google dot com.

To set this up in Chrome, go into Settings, then Search engine > Manage search engines> Site search.

You can also do this in other browsers and in launchers like Raycast for Mac. Other search utilities like DevonAgentLite also support it.

Filter SEO Churn With Ublacklist

Ublacklist is an extension that totally blocks certain domains from appearing in your Google search results. You can also get it for other browsers. Once you have the extension installed, head over to this Codeberg page to subscribe to lists of sites to exclude from your search results. These lists were inspired by the article How Google is killing independent sites like ours on HouseFresh and Detailed.com's How 16 Companies are Dominating the World’s Google Search Results.

There are more specialized but still helpful lists at Subscriptions | uBlacklist

File List Export for Mac

File List Export
File List Export

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One of the apps I recently picked up from the new Bundlehunt sale is File List Export by developer  Georgios Trigonakis. This simple but surprisingly powerful utility is available for just a dollar right now. The normal price in the App Store is $7.99. You can get a trial version at the developer’s website.

I tested the app by having it create a spreadsheet of my Obsidian vault containing 9722 files and 1843 folders. You can choose an output file in either csv or xlsx format. By default the app does not calculate folder sizes to speed up the analysis, but you can toggle it on if you want the information. On my M2 MacBook Air, the process was still relatively fast.

The most useful feature of the app is its ability to export metadata from files, particularly helpful for photos, video and music. Because the data ends up in a spreadsheet, you can manipulate and sort it in all kinds of ways. If you have album artwork associated with your music files, it even gets exported into  your spreadsheet. You also get the path of every file in your analysis, which can be helpful if you need to operate in the terminal.

For Every File, You Can Get This Info:

  1. File name
  2. Date modified
  3. Date created
  4. Kind
  5. Size
  6. Path (the location of the file)
  7. Comments
  8. Tags
  9. Version
  10. Pages
  11. Authors/Artist
  12. Title
  13. Album
  14. Track NO
  15. Genre
  16. Year
  17. Duration
  18. Audio BitRate
  19. Audio Encoding Application
  20. Audio Sample Rate
  21. Audio Channels
  22. Dimensions
  23. Pixel Width
  24. Pixel Height
  25. Total Pixels
  26. Height DPI
  27. Width DPI
  28. Color Space
  29. Color Profile
  30. Alpha Channel:
  31. Creator
  32. Video Bit Rate
  33. Total Bit Rate
  34. Codecs
  35. md5
  36. sha256

Exif Metadata for Your Photos

  • Camera Make
  • Description
  • Camera Model Name
  • Owner Name
  • Serial Number
  • Copyright
  • Software
  • Date Taken
  • Lens Make
  • Lens Model
  • Lens Serial Number
  • ISO
  • FNumber
  • Focal Length
  • Flash
  • Orientation
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Maps URL
  • Camera Make
  • Description
  • Camera Model Name
  • Owner Name
  • Serial Number
  • Copyright
  • Software
  • Date Taken
  • Lens Make
  • Lens Model
  • Lens Serial Number
  • ISO
  • Fstop
  • Focal Length
  • Flash
  • Orientation
  • Latitude
  • Longitude
  • Maps URL

My Raycast Extensions

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Raycast

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A Mastodon friend asked me to list the Raycast extensions I have installed. Raycast is a replacement for Spotlight that has considerable superpowers in its vast extension library. I use Raycast as my clipboard manager, emoji picker, window manager and I do quite a lot of image modification with it. As you can see, there are many more features available.

90% of the feature set is free. The $10 a month pro subscriptions buys the ability to sync your settings between computers, interact with AI advanced features and some more options with Raycast notes. You also get regular backups of your settings.

You can see a categorized list of extensions here.

89 installed extensions

Basic Bookmarks https://raycast.com/rauno/bmrks

2FA Code Finder https://raycast.com/yuercl/imessage-2fa

Alt-Text Generator https://raycast.com/jack_casica/alt-text-generator

Amphetamine https://raycast.com/gstvds/amphetamine

Apple Reminders https://raycast.com/raycast/apple-reminders

Auto Quit App https://raycast.com/koinzhang/auto-quit-app

Battery Health https://raycast.com/o1y/battery-health

BetterTouchTool https://raycast.com/dnnsmnstrr/bettertouchtool

Bing Search https://raycast.com/maver1ck/bing-search

Bing Wallpaper https://raycast.com/koinzhang/bing-wallpaper

Bitly URL Shortener https://raycast.com/blessanm86/bitly-url-shortener

Bluesky https://raycast.com/dharamkapila/bluesky

Brew https://raycast.com/nhojb/brew

Browser Bookmarks https://raycast.com/raycast/browser-bookmarks

Browser History https://raycast.com/crisboarna/browser-history

Browser Tabs https://raycast.com/koinzhang/browser-tabs

Change Case https://raycast.com/erics118/change-case

ChatGPT https://raycast.com/abielzulio/chatgpt

CleanShot X https://raycast.com/Aayush9029/cleanshotx

Clipboard Editor https://raycast.com/pomdtr/clipboard-editor

Clipboard Formatter https://raycast.com/joshtemple/clipboard-formatter

Close All Open Apps https://raycast.com/guide/close-apps

Coffee https://raycast.com/mooxl/coffee

Color Picker https://raycast.com/thomas/color-picker

CopyQ Clipboard Manager https://raycast.com/andrewcincotta/copyq-clipboard-manager

Day One https://raycast.com/AntonNiklasson/day-one

Downloads Manager https://raycast.com/thomas/downloads-manager

Drafts https://raycast.com/FlohGro/drafts

Dropover https://raycast.com/jag-k/dropover

DuckDuckGo Search https://raycast.com/tegola/duck-duck-go-search

Easy OCR https://raycast.com/Rafo94/easy-ocr

Emoji Search https://raycast.com/FezVrasta/emoji

Fantastical https://raycast.com/devahschaefers/fantastical

Flush DNS https://raycast.com/rasmusbe/flush-dns

Folder Search https://raycast.com/GastroGeek/folder-search

Font Awesome https://raycast.com/dutzi/font-awesome

GIF Search https://raycast.com/josephschmitt/gif-search

Google Drive https://raycast.com/vishaltelangre/google-drive

Google Gemini https://raycast.com/EvanZhouDev/raycast-gemini

Google Maps Search https://raycast.com/ratoru/google-maps-search

Google Search https://raycast.com/mblode/google-search

Google Workspace https://raycast.com/raycast/google-workspace

Hide All Apps https://raycast.com/peduarte/hide-all-apps

Iconify — Search Icons https://raycast.com/destiner/iconify

Image Modification https://raycast.com/HelloImSteven/sips

IMDb Search https://raycast.com/ryan/imdb

Installed Extensions https://raycast.com/pernielsentikaer/installed-extensions

Keyboard Maestro - List Macros https://raycast.com/eluce2/list-keyboard-maestro-macros

Kill Process https://raycast.com/rolandleth/kill-process

Link Cleaner https://raycast.com/MisakiCoca/link-cleaner

Lorem Ipsum https://raycast.com/AntonNiklasson/lorem-ipsum

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Use Calibre to Back Up Your Kindle Books Before February 26

Calibre
Calibre

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Amazon just announced that you have until February 26, 2025, to download your Kindle content. After that date, you will no longer be able to access the books you’ve paid for if you have a legacy device or a Kindle that has experienced wireless issues. The only way to load what you’ve paid for onto a device will be through wireless sync.

Thankfully, using the free ebook manager, Calibre, you can convert your Kindle content into formats readable on other ebook readers or into PDFs. You will be protected if Amazon ever removes books you’ve paid for. You do not need to download the Kindle app on your Mac to accomplish this.

Log in to your Amazon account. In the account section, select Content Library>Books. You’ll have to download each title you want to back up as a separate files in azw3 format.

Download Calibre directly from the developer. To gain the ability to convert the books into other formats using Calibre, you will need to download a plugin from GitHub.. Make sure to install and set up the plugin before importing your books into Calibre. You will need the serial number from your Kindle to do this. You can get this information from the Amazon website or from the device itself.

For detailed instructions, see this article.

Metadata Lab - Exif Editor

Metadata Lab
Metadata Lab

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Modern DSLR cameras and cell phones add extensive data to every photo they take. The information recorded includes camera settings like ISO speed, shutter speed, focal length, and other details. Including GPS location. After a photo is taken, and you’ve downloaded it to your computer, it’s possible to add other information to its metadata, including a description, keywords and licensing/copyright information. Some of this information is more important to professional photographers than it is to regular people, but there are reasons why anyone might want to edit the details of a photo.

Some higher end photo management applications have metadata editing capabilities, but if you are piecing together your own workflow, the free app, Metadata Lab is a quick and easy way to add, remove or change information on any photo you have. The app is compatible with RAW, JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and many other formats (including video/audio files). You can import photos from the Mac Photo’s App into the Metadata Lab. Not only can you edit the EXIF data, you can also edit IPTC, PDF, PNG and QuickTime metadata.

Use Cases

  • Correcting date and time data if it was incorrect on the camera
  • Adding GPS data for later personal reference
  • Removing GPS data for images shared with third parties or on the Internet
  • Adding keywords for cataloging purposes

More information is available on the developer's website. You can download Metadata Lab on the App Store.

Librewolf for Security and Privacy

Librewolf
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If you become more concerned with privacy and surveillance regarding your online activities, moving to a more secure browser is a definite step in the right direction, along with using a reputable VPN, a privacy focused DNS setup and good ad and tracker blocking extensions. The ultimate in privacy for most users is probably using the TOR browser and network. That comes with a significant performance hit. If you are looking for more privacy without the usability issues of TOR, Librewolf is most likely your best option for a daily driver.

LibreWolf is a privacy-focused fork of Firefox. Its primary benefits include:

Tracking Protection

  • Strict default settings protecting against trackers, ads and scripts
  • uBlock Origin included by default
  • Fingerprinting resistance, including protection against canvas, font, and WebGL fingerprinting.
  • Encrypted SNI:preventing your Internet Service Provider (ISP) from seeing which websites you visit.

Privacy

  • No telemetry or data collection
  • Privacy-focused search engine, DuckDuckGo enabled by default, although you can change it to Kagi or the engine of your choice:
  • Cookie AutoDelete to automatically purge tracking cookies after each browsing session
  • HTTPS-Only Mode on by default

Security

  • Blocks known malware sites through disconnect.me's list of over 5000 tracking and malicious domains
  • WebRTC disabled by default to prevent IP address leakage
  • Strict default settings for website permissions for your location, camera, and microphone

Open Source

  • Open Source
  • Ethical community members
  • Removes sponsored content, distracting elements on the home page, and search suggestions
  • Wide range of customization options

The most important element in your security setup is you. No amount of consumer technology can protect you as much as limiting what you share online. Making use of encryption technology to share highly sensitive data can be a necessary step if you are engaged in conduct that hostile actors could intercept.

The recommended way to install Librewolf is using Homebrew. You can download a DMG, but you will lose access to automatic updates.

brew install --cask librewolf

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