Know when to buy your Mac
This page provides a product summary for each Apple model. The intent is to provide our best recommendations regarding current product cycles, and to provide a summary of currently available rumors for...
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Day-O
Day-O is a menu bar clock replacement with a simple icon and a simple calendar. A feature in OS X that I’ve been missing from the start. Created by the ingenious Shaun Inman. Day-O →
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Mac OS X Developer Color Picker
A custom color picker designed specifically for developers. Makes getting colors out of Photoshop/Acorn mock-ups quick and easy. Currently supports NSColor, UIColor, CGColorRef, CSS and HTML styles....
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PlugBug
PlugBug is made exclusively for all MacBook Power Adapters, including current and previous models. Snap PlugBug onto your MacBook Power Adapter and you now have the first ever device that lets you...
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CodeKit
CodeKit automatically compiles Less, Sass, Stylus & CoffeeScript files. It effortlessly combines, minifies and error-checks Javascript. It even optimizes images, auto-reloads your browser and lets...
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From an intriguing but impractical high-end niche to the industry standard in just four years. — John Gruber (★)
View ArticleMac OS X Flashback Trojan
Two months ago, a new variant of the Flashback Trojan started exploiting a security hole in Java to silently infect Mac OS X machines. Apple has since patched Java, but this was only on April 3rd. More...
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Office for Mac 2011 Retina update not working — Fix!
Today Microsoft released a Retina update for the entire Office for Mac suite. After installing it however the apps still opened in non-retina mode. A reboot didn’t help either. Turns out Microsoft...
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Impressive video of how the new Mac Pro is built/assembled: Here’s the direct link in case the embed above shouldn’t work.
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Bartender
Bartender lets you organize your menu bar apps, by hiding them, rearranging them, or moving them to Bartender’s Bar. You can display the full menu bar, set options to have menu bar items show in the...
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Emoji in Chrome on Mac / OS X
Over the weekend an important set of commits (this one amongst others) landed in Chromium, enabling Emoji in Chrome on OS X, and – after 4 years – marking the bug “Emoji does not display in webpage...
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CURVED/labs: A Facelift for the Macintosh
The Macintosh is a computer with history: with its first desktop computer “Lisa” Apple showed more than 30 years ago not only what was technically possible – the design of the iMac & Co. regularly...
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Day-O 2
Yesterday Shaun Inman released version 2 of the aforementioned Day-O for use with the most recent macOS versions. It’s been five years to the day since I released the original Day-O, a simple menu bar...
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TouchBar Nyan Cat
Stupid Nyan Cat animation on your +$2k MacBook Pro’s Touchbar. Enjoy. TouchBar Nyan Cat → UPDATE 10/11/2016: Of course it didn’t take too long either for a TouchBar Farting App to appear in the wild
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Using Subsurface with a Suunto Vyper on macOS (OS X)
Profile of one of the dives I did in the Maldives, displayed using Subsurface Download the Virtual COM Port Drivers and reboot your iDevice. After that Subsurface should recognise your Suunto Vyper. As...
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Hide menu bar icons on your Mac with Vanilla
Like Bartender, but – as far as my experience goes – with a few quirks: After having redragged some items you’ll have to open the options for it to collapse properly When having a dual-display setup,...
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The new Mac Pro is a design remix
Arun Venkatesan takes a deep dive into the design and engineering behind the new Mac Pro: Apple held its annual developer conference, WWDC, this week in San Jose. In the keynote, aside from a slew of...
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Six professionals review the Mac Pro
I like this review of the Mac Pro by The Verge. Very nuanced, something you don’t come by often these days. In short: It’s a hell of a machine which costs a ton. Adobe’s software is not taking...
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