Useful (Mac) App Roundup
Recently I have spent some time on the project 'catalogue all the apps' which meant that I've been digging through my stash and installing some of them. This is the problem with bundles where one or two apps provide good value - you then have five or six others on your drive you paid for and you don't know what to do with.
Some of these are things that would not have occurred to me that I might need or want.
Sip lets you sample any pixel and gives you a huge array of code choices. This not only includes HTML (so useful), but numerous Swift options, both for UIKit and Cocoa. Very, very useful.
HazeOver dims non-active apps on your screen. I strongly dislike FullScreen mode; I *like* seeing other apps in the background, but sometimes, they're distracting. This is a perfect solution - you can still see what's going on, but it's not in your face. *Surprisingly* useful, would buy again.
Mac DVD Ripper Pro (not MacX DVD Ripper Pro, which is a completely different app by completely different people). For all those 'I might want to watch this after all' DVDs - they can now physically leave the house, and I can watch them on my iPad. Win.
Life is billed as a personal journal. It's kind of Twitter for one: you get to jot down things with icon and mood (a far too limited set of moods). There's no 'export' feature, and no push to blog or Facebook, it's just for yourself.
I've been using it for the last week, and I'm finding it surprisingly useful to jot down things in short form which won't get lost amidst general blogging noise. I'm trying to hold myself a bit more accountable and get a few more things done; I've looked at the bulletJournal concept, but I am so not going back to paper!
Also posted at http://green-knight.dreamwidth.org/1079696.html where it has gathered
comments. If you're reading at both sites, I'd prefer comments at DW.
Some of these are things that would not have occurred to me that I might need or want.
Sip lets you sample any pixel and gives you a huge array of code choices. This not only includes HTML (so useful), but numerous Swift options, both for UIKit and Cocoa. Very, very useful.
HazeOver dims non-active apps on your screen. I strongly dislike FullScreen mode; I *like* seeing other apps in the background, but sometimes, they're distracting. This is a perfect solution - you can still see what's going on, but it's not in your face. *Surprisingly* useful, would buy again.
Mac DVD Ripper Pro (not MacX DVD Ripper Pro, which is a completely different app by completely different people). For all those 'I might want to watch this after all' DVDs - they can now physically leave the house, and I can watch them on my iPad. Win.
Life is billed as a personal journal. It's kind of Twitter for one: you get to jot down things with icon and mood (a far too limited set of moods). There's no 'export' feature, and no push to blog or Facebook, it's just for yourself.
I've been using it for the last week, and I'm finding it surprisingly useful to jot down things in short form which won't get lost amidst general blogging noise. I'm trying to hold myself a bit more accountable and get a few more things done; I've looked at the bulletJournal concept, but I am so not going back to paper!
Also posted at http://green-knight.dreamwidth.org/1079696.html where it has gathered
comments. If you're reading at both sites, I'd prefer comments at DW.