MacBook Air is on sale $100 off on Amazon right now. Very tempting…
With all the talk of ARM Macs it might be time to ditch Virtual Machines and buy a PC. Microsoft Remote Desktop on Mac and Screens on IOS both work great. I’ve seen HP refurbs for as little as $120 in recent days.
I have one of these, cost me AUD 179 as I recall, & I’m tempted to buy another. I love having a portable battery for my MacBook.
One more thing on SnipNotes, the iOS app is also 33% off at the moment.
The free trial is 7 days.
There’s a new Mac bundle on sale called the Back on Track bundle, featuring Unclutter (which I love), Klokki, Squash 2, Rocket Typist, uBar 4, Captor’s, Boom 3D, Pagico 9, Luminar 4, and Prizmo 4.
You can get an individual app for 50% off (except Luminar–that’s only 25% off by itself) or get all the apps in the bundle for 80% off.
I definitely recommend Unclutter. I’ve heard good things about Rocket Typist as a simple alternative to TextExpander. I have mixed feelings on Boom 3D but others love it; Capto I haven’t used but have heard is good, and Prizmo 4 is excellent.
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Hey folks - Summerfest is back. Lots of great apps on sale, including Tinderbox, DEVONthink 3, HoudahSpot, HoudahGeo and more!
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Take Control Books
is participating in Summerfest too.
30% off with code summerfest2020
Ouch I bought recently and missed out discount
Fledgling 20%-off sale
Fledgling has a sale, code is JUNESAVE20
They sell SSD upgrades for Apple computers, external enclosures, etc.
A “gotcha” with using Remote Desktop to access a Windows computer is that that computer must be running the Pro and not the Home version of the software. So add, I guess, another $150 to the cost?
My plan here is to take an old Mac mini (I’ve got several), max it out, and use it to run old 32-bit Mac software and a Windows VM. Access the Mac with Screen Sharing and the VM with Remote Desktop. I’ve successfully done this before so I know it works.
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Duh, that never occurred to me. I had an IBM 8088 but never owned a Windows PC. Always used company equipment.
Are you using a non-Catalina OS to run 32 bit software? How are you running a Windows VM (vmware, parallels, something else)?
I’ll certainly be running pre-Catalina on the old Minis! The Windows VMs I run under Parallels. The RAM and SSDs are due to arrive later this week.
[MacOS] Color Folder Master: One-click change folder colour, is free from $4.99.
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Nice thing about this Color Folder Master is that once you have set up the color, you don’t need the app to be running for it to be in effect.
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I was so excited to hear about this but I just tried it and misunderstood what it could do. Although it does what it says, what I was hoping for is that it would color folder icons like what I have on my desktop.
I keep 3 folders on my desktop that I use frequently. Does anyone know how I can color-code those?
It does do that, it’s just an automated version of pasting in a graphic in the Get Info pane of a given file/folder.
It’s a decent app, I downloaded it the other day. I have many similar apps I grabbed when free from the MAS, like Foldery, FolderMarker, FolderMarker Emoji, Folder Library. Some color standard, some offer custom icons
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