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It is never a better time to give or receive a new Mac, with the new MacBook Pros, iMacs, and M1 MacBook Air all offering incredible performance and battery life.
As more and more people shift to remote work, your laptop or computer needs to do more than ever. We rounded up some of our favorite Mac apps that are designed to help you be more productive or just make using your computer and navigating day-to-day life a little more enjoyable.
The Pixelmator Pro is a device.
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The Pixelmator Pro is a device.
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Adobe Photoshop is a key tool for image and photo editing, but it is expensive thanks to its monthly subscription. The one-time fee of $19.99 for Pixelmator Pro is more than enough to cover the cost of the powerful editing tools. The latest update added a number of useful new features, including the ability to instantly remove the background from an image and improved masking and selection tools.
Adobe's app is more expensive than the Pixelmator Pro, but it has tons of powerful tools for editing photos.
It was spark.
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It was spark.
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The company's Mac app is just as great as the mobile app, offering a fastUI, helpful automated sorting, and tons of customization for power users. It supports a number of popular work services, along with integrations for popular work services. No one likes dealing with email, but it's easier to do MzElled with Spark.
The company's Mac app is just as great as the mobile app, with a fastUI, helpful automated sorting, and tons of customization for power users.
The robot is a social media tool.
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If you spend a lot of time on the social networking site, you should use the official app and not the free one. The paid app has no ads or suggestions of what to do with your time, instead it shows all the people you follow in chronological order. The interface of the app is simple and makes reading it enjoyable.
Alfred 4 is for Mac.
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Alfred 4 is for Mac.
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Alfred does something that one of Apple's built-in apps already does, and that is to search your computer. Alfred is a better search tool and app launcher that supports virtually endless customization, including automated workflows, custom searches, and whatever else you can think of. You will never be able to use Spotlight again once you use it for a few days.
Alfred is a fast and easy to use search and app launcher.
DaisyDisk.
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DaisyDisk.
Software Ambience.
After a few years of accumulating photos, videos, music, and other random documents, you start to get notifications that you are running out of room on your hard drive. DaisyDisk scans your computer and shows you how much storage you have, broken down by files and folders in colorful rings that make it easy to clear out unneeded space.
DaisyDisk scans your computer and shows you how much storage you have, broken down by files and folders in colorful rings.
1Password
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1Password
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Your passwords are not secure enough. 1Password can help you fix that, by generating ultra-secure passwords and keeping track of everything. It is a one-stop shop for securing your digital life, with deep integration into both browsers, a cleanUI, and tons of useful added features for protecting not just passwords but credit cards, documents, and more. If you have more than one person in your household, the five-person family subscription for $60 per year is a better option.
Authy desktop.
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Authy.
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If you don't use two-factor authentication for your passwords, you should. Authy is one of the better two-factor setup apps, with cross- platform apps on both the iPad and the phone. The mobile versions of the Mac app give you your 2FA codes when you log in. It is more helpful because it is on the computer that you are trying to log into.
Authy is one of the better two-factor setup apps, with cross- platform apps on both the iPad and the phone.
MonitorControl.
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MonitorControl.
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Home offices and using an external monitor have become more popular as more people shift towards working remotely. If you have built-in speakers, MonitorControl can be used to control your external display's brightness and volume using your Mac's function keys.
MonitorControl is a menubar app that lets you control your external display with your Mac's function keys.
There is a hand mirror.
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There is a hand mirror.
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Video calls are a bigger part of the workplace. Hand Mirror is a simple app that lives in your Mac menubar and is designed to help you look your best on calls: a single click, and it launches a quick window that shows what the current view from your webcam is, letting you double-check that you have moved all.
Hand Mirror is a simple app that lives in your Mac menubar that is designed to help you look your best on calls.
Dozer.
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Dozer.
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If you just installed any of the menubar apps that we recommend here, managing them can get out of hand very quickly. It has become a bigger problem because of Apple's new MacBook Pro models, which eat up a big chunk of your menubar real estate with a hefty webcam notch. Dozer is here to help. It is a free app that makes it easy to hide menubar icons for things that you don't want to see all the time. If you prefer a more flash design, there is also Bartender, which costs$15 but has a nicer design.
It is possible to hide menubar icons for things you want to open, but not necessarily all the time.
Meeter.
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Meeter.
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Meeter is a menubar app that helps with one thing: wrangling all your different video calls into a single place, with one-click links to join whatever meetings you have scheduled. The free app links to your Mac's built-in Calendar app and can pull in any video calls it sees, putting them in a handy drop-down menu, with notifications to remind you to join before your call starts.
Meeter is designed to help with one thing: wrangling all your different video calls into a single place, with one-click links to join whatever meetings you have scheduled.
It's a video
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It's a video
VideoLan
Local media is no longer a critical function thanks to the rise of streaming as the main way of consuming movies, TV shows, and music. For those times when you need to play a local audio or video file, there is still no better app than the one you already know, the one you haven't heard of, the one that can handle virtually any file format or codec you have ever heard of. It is completely free.
A free audio / video app that supports a variety of codecs should play anything you throw at it.
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