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Bird Bell: Monitor Your Twitter Notifications From The Menu Bar [Mac]

We’ve covered Twitter clients for Mac in the past and what they all do is let you read your Tweets, Tweet to your followers, retweet people you follow, send messages and reply to tweets. There are, however, other things that one might be interested in when it comes to a Twitter client. While many people [...] (more…)

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Houdini: Hide Apps That Have Been Idle For Too Long [Mac]

How cluttered does your desktop have to be before you decide it is time to tidy up a bit? Desktop clutter isn’t necessarily (and always) a result of too many icons; it can look like an unorganized litter of wet hungry kittens if you have too many open windows. At the best of it, you [...] (more…)

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iCal Time-Recording: Calculate Time Needed For An iCal Task [Mac]

iCal is one of the popular default Mac apps; it is widely preferred as a great way to manage tasks, events, reminders and a to-do list. If you use iCal extensively, you might have felt the need to know how much time you are spending on your tasks. Your tasks are distributed among different calendars, [...] (more…)

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XtraFinder Adds Several Useful File & Folder Options To Mac Finder

If you’ve transitioned to Mac from a Windows PC, you will probably have figured out that Finder is to Mac what Windows Explorer is to Windows. You will also find that there are some options from the right-click context menu of a file that were there on your Windows PC, but are missing in Finder. [...] (more…)

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NVALT: Create, Link, Sync & Encrypt Notes Across Multiple Devices [Mac]

The Stickies app in Mac is bare bone when it comes to features, and doesn’t sync across your other Apple devices. Similarly, you will find few other note apps out there that will let you sync notes between two devices. NVALT is a free Mac app that lets you create as many notes as you [...] (more…)

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uSketch: Apply Sketch, Color And Other Photo Filters To Images [Mac]

Apps that add effects to photos are as common as perhaps water, so if you ever decide to use one, you want to make sure it offers you both a good range of effects as well as good execution. uSketch is a free Mac app that applies filters to your photos, and its interface alone [...] (more…)

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Stop Folders From Appearing In “All Files” & Spotlight In Mac [Tip]

We recently covered an app, Easy File Hider, worth $1.99, which allows you to change the visibility attribute of a file to Hidden. In the spirit of hiding things from the world and anyone who uses your Mac, here is a little tip to keep files from appearing in Spotlight search and in ‘All Files’ in [...] (more…)

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Grid: Snap App Windows To Any Screen Corner via Shortcut Keys [Mac]

Divvy is a very popular app window manager for Mac that costs $14.99, which is more than most people would be willing to pay just to snap their app windows to the side of their screen. The app is definitely feature rich, enough for it to be ported to Windows in the form of Windy, [...] (more…)

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CLCL Lite: App Launcher, Switcher & URL Opener Using Hot Keys [Mac]

We’ve reviewed app launchers before; Chuck and Dammit are two that are worth mentioning. Chuck is a free download while Dammit will cost you $2.99. CLCL Lite is yet another app launcher for Mac, which is free and not like your usual app launchers. The app works using only two keys, and you can assign [...] (more…)

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Finch: Track App Usage In Time & Tag Them Either Work Or Play In Mac [Paid]

Some people are born workers, while others may stare blankly at a wall or have witty conversations with themselves rather than tackle the task at hand. At the end of the day, both types of people need to justify to themselves that they actually accomplished something, even if it’s just their job. For Mac users [...] (more…)

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Todoist: A Simple Project & Task Organizer For Your Desktop [Mac]

It’s never too late to get organized; unless your cat has taken to sleeping in the pile of papers on your desk, you can pretty much start organizing your life right now. Todoist is a free Mac app that lets you organize tasks and group them by projects. The app uses an online service, which [...] (more…)

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Label Files In Mac’s Finder via Context Menu, Toolbar Or Drag & Drop [Tip]

Many of you would be aware that you can label files in Mac Finder. Color labels can be applied to any file or folder, and when files are arranged by Labels, they are grouped together as per the colors assigned to them. One of the easiest and most commonly known ways of assigning a label [...] (more…)

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Screen Vault: Enable Widgets, Themes & Padlock Lockscreen On Mac [Paid]

We’ve covered a few lockscreen apps for Mac this month, out of which Screensavery and Screensaver+ Free are worth mentioning. Lockscreens may not be a very popular concept when it comes to a desktop system or even on Mac, still, Screen Vault is a Mac app worth $4.99 in the Mac App Store that is bound [...] (more…)

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How Do You Decide If An App/ Service Is Worth Your Money?

We’ve all used free apps and services, and almost all prefer them. Regardless of whether you use a Mac or Windows PC, an iPhone, Android or a Windows Phone, the vast majority of us have used the free version of an app or service either to just give it a try, or because the features [...] (more…)

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Recent Menu: View Recently Used Files From Any Folder In Mac [Paid]

Spotlight is an excellent Mac feature; you can search for any type of file saved to any location simply by typing the name in the search bar. It is a pretty good fail safe, as long as you recall the file name. Imagine having to find a file that you just accessed, and being clueless [...] (more…)