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A black overlay extending from the menu bar showing the currently playing track (Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division) and the current volume.
You Should Try 'MediaMate' to Control Audio and Video on Your Mac
 
A Mac screenshot with a very clean menu bar. The Ice preferences window is also open, partially obscuring some wildflowers (my wallpaper)
Use This Free App to Clean up Your Mac’s Menu Bar
 
A screenshot of Setapp, which is like an app store full of apps you've already paid for.
Setapp Gives You Access to More Than 240 Useful Indie Mac Apps
 
A screenshot of my "Bluesky" profile, which is really a bridge of my Mastodon account.
Use 'Bridgy Fed' to Connect Mastodon and Bluesky
 
A screenshot of MarsEdit. I'm working on a blog post about AI, as I do sometimes.
This Is the Best Blogging App for Mac
 
The Ventoy boot screen, which offers a variety of bootable operating systems and installers
Ventoy Is a Better Way to Make a Bootable Disk for PC and Linux
 
An illustration of a giant monitor with the word "Google" on it and a winding oversized power cord leading to an outlet; a small woman is struggling to unplug the cord from the outlet
How to Quit Google, According to a Privacy Expert
 
A screenshot of Applite offering downloads including Chrome, Brave, Firefox, and Discord.
You Should Try 'Applite' for Mac
 
A screenshot of Homebrew downloading and installing Firefox
Use 'Homebrew' on Mac to Make Installing and Updating Apps Much Easier
 
The Mighty 3 sitting on a railing in front of a forest.
The Mighty 3 Is the iPod Shuffle for the Spotify Era
 
A google search page with inverted colors
The Best Google Search Alternatives for Most People
 
A screenshot of a Mac desktop. The center window, which is the only one not dimmed, is an early draft of this article. There are some dimmed windows behind it. The menu bar icon for the application shows a variety of potential background sounds.
FocusedOS Combines Several Focus-Boosting Apps in One
 
A screenshot of Aiko. It's a very clean macOS application with a toolbar and a text field, which currently says "Why hello, hello. This is a test. Thank you."
Use This App on Mac, iPhone, and iPad for Free AI Transcription
 
The menu bar icon for Maestral on Mac. There are options to open your Dropbox folder, to launch the Dropbox website, and to change the preferences. Notably it's a native Mac app, not a weird website like the official client.
How to Use a Simpler, Less Intrusive Version of Dropbox
 
An illustration of someone looking at a smartphone displaying a "you've got mail" icon
Email Is Now the Best Social Network
 
A pop-up window says "Hey, (blank), my name is Justin Pot and I'm a freelance journalist. You can find my work at JustinPot.com". The field can be filled. There is a submit button.
Use This Free App to Make Custom Text Shortcuts
 
Two Chrome windows showing a search for "What is the best piece in chess". The left shows AI paragraphs; the right shows actual search results.
This Hack Disables Google’s AI Search Results by Default
 
The Slack company logo on a building
Slack Is Using Your Private Conversations to Train Its AI
 
To the left is the appearance section of System Settings on macOS. To the right is a search bar, in which you can type in order to find and "click" on any option.
This App Lets You Use Your Mac Without Ever Touching the Mouse
 
Focus Pro, a Pomorodo timer, is shown here running on a MacBook, an iPad, an iPhone, and an Apple Watch.
This App Will Sync a Pomodoro Timer Across All Your Apple Devices