Macs are truly amazing machines. They are equipped for performing like a massive while looking to a great degree very much composed. That is exactly how Apple functions: be gainful, look great.
We believe it’s essential that Mac clients turn out to be increasingly beneficial with these devices. All things considered, higher efficiency prompts better picks up and more opportunity to seek after the recreation exercises of your picking. Keeping that in mind, we have accumulated a rundown of 10 profitability applications for Mac that we cherish utilizing, and surmise that you will, as well.
1. Spectacle
In the event that one component has been prominently absent from Apple’s list of capabilities when contrasted with Windows’, it’s the capacity to snap windows to corners and edges, arrange different windows close by each other, or stack them on top of each other. Apple introduced this component (or a subset of this element) in OS X Yosemite, yet it just works when the applications are in full screen mode. Not exceptionally clever, and not in any way what we have generally expected from the tech monster everybody partners with meticulousness.
However, as they say, “there’s an app for that!” – It’s called Spectacle.
Spectacle is an open source application developed to fix this small, but annoying missing feature, in the otherwise pretty well thought-out OS. It offers a fully customizable set of key-combinations/shortcuts that you can use to arrange windows in your workspace in pretty much any way you might want to. It is also free, and only around 5 MB in size, when installed.
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2. Ulysses
Regardless of your identity, or what you do, there is definitely no chance you don’t sort things out on your Mac. Regardless of whether you’re composing the following top rated novel or essentially taking notes in an address, a great word processor never goes out of order. Join that with minimal design that stays out of your way, markup editing, and live preview, and you’ll wind up with Ulysses.
Ulysses is by a wide margin the best content tool I have utilized. It has a clean UI that does not occupy you while you’re writing. It underpins fare of records in different configurations:
- Plain Text
- HTML
- ePub
- DOCX
The exports look great no matter what format you export to. All your formatting is rendered perfectly.
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That really is the interface of Ulysses. It’s THAT clean.
Ulysses also has a built-in preview window that updates with the proper rendering, as and when you type. It can show you what your final export will look like in any of the supported formats in real time.
Obviously, not everyone knows, or is comfortable with, markup. Ulysses easily sorts that out. All you need to do is press Command + 9 and a drop down with all the formatting keywords appear.
It might sound discouraging at first, but once you get the hang of it, (and it’s really not that difficult) you’ll realize that markup is actually a much faster way to format text.
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3. Bartender
It will, however, let you re-arrange or even hide the menu bar items on your Mac.
System menu bar items could always be repositioned in OS X by pressing down Command and then clicking and dragging the items around. However, Bartender takes it one step further and allows you to relocate third party apps’ menu items as well. Not only that, Bartender can let you completely hide the items from the menu bar if you want.
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4. Near Lock
Don’t you wish that your Mac could automatically lock itself when you walked away from the screen and unlock itself when you came back? It’s the kind of seamless functionality that appears minor, but can improve productivity by a lot. This is exactly the problem that Near Lock solves.
Near Lock uses a Mac app and a companion iPhone app. Using Bluetooth 4.0 LE, the apps communicate with each other and constantly monitor the distance between your phone and your laptop. When this distance increases beyond a set threshold, your Mac automatically locks itself. Come back within the threshold and your phone will ask you if you want to unlock your laptop, and voila! You’re in.
Near Lock has both a free option and a paid option. However, the free app does not work in background. This means that the app needs to remain open on the screen of your iPhone for it to work.
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5. f.lux
I am sure that I’m not the only one who doesn’t like the way my screen looks at night, in the darkness. Its too blue, and honestly, its puts a lot of strain on the eyes. f.lux is, in my opinion, the best app to counter this issue. It works by automatically reducing the blueness of your screen once the sun starts to set. It does so gradually, over time, without attracting attention to itself.
It comes with a pretty decent configuration by default, but it can be modified endlessly to suit your personal need.
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6. Short Menu
Short Menu is an app that automatically creates shortened version of URLs, right in your menu bar. It allows you to shorten links with well identified prefixes, such as bit.ly, goo.gl and the likes. If you share a lot of URLs with people, this app will come in handy for you.
All you need to do is copy any URL that you want to shorten and you’re done. Click on the Short Menu item on the menu bar and it will display the last copied URL along with the shortened version, all ready to go.
Download Here (Free trial, $2.99)
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7. Apptivate
How often have you howled about having to go to launchpad, swiping through the screens and selecting the app you wanted to run? Even with Spotlight, you need to press Command + Space and then type at least a part of the application’s name to launch it.
Apptivate lets you assign key combinations to any app you have on your Mac. Choose the combination that feels right to you, assign it to the app you want and that’s it.
This is especially useful for apps that you open very frequently as it will save valuable time that would’ve otherwise been spent looking for the app in the launchpad, or typing out its name in Spotlight.
Download Here (Free)
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8. Fantastical
If you have used the Calendar app on Mac, you’ll probably agree that it’s a decent application. Fantastical is basically a super powered Calendar application that allows you to create events using natural language queries.
This means that you could type “Lunch with team at 2” and Fantastical will automatically fill the form from your sentence. The natural language system that Fantastical uses is quite good. It can understand when you’re typing “at” in the context of a place, or when you’re typing it in the context of time, and fill the event details up accordingly.
Download Here (Free trial, $45)
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9. 1Password
Let’s be honest, every one of us has forgotten passwords at one point in time or another. If you’re like me, you probably forget yours once every month. That’s what the “forgot password” option is for, after all. We can’t remember every password we create, and we can’t remember the details to our credit and debit cards.
1Password will make your password woes a thing of the past. You can create separate groups (“vaults”) for different items and you can store passwords, card credentials etc, in the vaults you create. It makes entering passwords on every website you enter completely unneeded. Just open the website and 1Password will automatically key in your password and you’ll be in. 1Password is also a paid app and will cost you either $5 per month, or $64.99 one time. However, with the one-time option, you will not receive any upgrades. It will only be for a single person and only the desktop client will be provided. With the $5 per month option, you will get access to free upgrades, mobile and desktop apps, web access and sharing. All this for 5 people.
You can use a trial version of 1Password to make up your mind about it.
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10. Alfred
Alfred is a highly-improved version of Spotlight with a lot of extra features. Once you start using it, it’ll soon replace Spotlight as your go to app for looking up files on your mac, searching the web or even looking up definitions. Alfred has both a free and a paid version with varying feature sets.
Apart from allowing you to search for files and apps on your Mac, Alfred can help you accomplish a whole lot more. With Alfred, you can issue system commands directly into Alfred. You can say things like “Empty trash”, “shutdown” and “sleep” and a lot of other commands. While Spotlight can define words for you, Alfred takes it one step further and even allows you to ask it to spell the word for you.
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