My Keycue is set for double tapping the command key.
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SCREENFLOAT - float images on all screens
BETTER TOUCH TOOL - customise your mouse, trackpad gestures and way more
CLARIFY - create quick user reference guides
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Can you select the color profile to use? Otherwise you may end up picking an “inaccurate” color.
Please note:
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@nrobertson I’m not exactly sure what you mean by “color profile”. I am not an expert on color, but I believe “color profiles” are how you control the way colors are displayed within a monitor, and they are managed through Systems > Monitor > Color. (I think some graphics apps can manage them within their preferences.)
I suspect you are asking about exact color values. MacOS comes with four built-in color pickers. Of these four, only the Slider (second from left) allows you type in exact values.
In Skala Color, you can type in your exact color value (see bottom arrow). You can also pick from over 2 dozen formats for color values (see top arrow). The image below is set for HTML Hex RGB.
It is awkward to get your color value to display within Skala. Type in your color value and press enter. Your color value is displayed in the sample in lower left. Using the eye dropper to select that color updates everything above.
If you do any coding, Skala Color will automatically convert between many formats, like CSS RGB = rgb(0, 99, 252) or CSS HSL = hsl(216, 100%, 49%), plus Objective-C and Swift formats.
See Help with Skala Color for more details.
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Bookends - a bibliographic reference manager. Very actively developed; e.g., just come out with a killer feature: double-tap the ⇧-key in your word processor (Word or Scrivener, in my case) and you get a mini-search-bar to search for an article/book, select from the best matches, and paste the citation in-line in what you’re writing. Great for keeping the flow going. I keep all my PDFs in an iCloud folder that is linked to Bookends, so I don’t have to pay for storage (beyond what I pay for iCloud). Syncs fast, also with the iPad, where it has its own (pretty good) iOS app.
HoudahSpot - for turbo-charged searching, and especially for the creation/export of saved searches as “Smart Folders” (for more on this see my discussion with David & Katie on MPU #245
FoxTrot Professional Search - for industrial-strength search. It’s expensive, but it finds everything, even in packages.
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Tap Forms is actually looking like a pretty good solution to me for student records. Too bad there’s not really an iOS URL scheme yet.
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Definitely want to make sure A Better Finder Rename gets more exposure. Although I am happy to see Finder (and, before it, Path Finder) receive some batch rename capabilities, ABFR runs circles around anything you can do in a GUI on the Mac.
I’ve had to rename thousands of files with gobbledygook names and this application is a champion. Tons of built in filters, multi-step macro building so you can tweak for several different workflows, drop icon creation, and more. I loved it so much after my first purchase that upon upgrade I bought the “forever” upgrade along with their other two utilities (which, admittedly, I use far less).
I am not a tech by trade but on the side this program’s abilities has brought me more than enough work to pay for itself and some other software upgrades. Give it a shot!
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For instance, using Digital Color Meter built into macOS, I have to pick with the correct color value selected (on my old laptop, I think it was Adobe sRGB, on my new machine Native Values), or else picking colors from web pages doesn’t match the color specified in the CSS.
An older app similar to Skala, Hues, has no color profile choices and will pick the wrong color from a web page.
I’m not sure this counts that much because Apple makes it, but Mainstage. If you are into making music or have a kid that is, you can’t get a better deal at $30 for the amount of keyboard and guitar patches alone. Plus you can run backing tracks, add effects, and even run in-ear monitors if you are so inclined. But just for the instrument packs alone, I don’t think anything else comes close.
iStatMenus is an app I’ve heard promoted on many Mac podcasts but I stayed away from it because I didn’t think I was technical enough to have a need for it.
But then I wanted something that would show the temperature and weather in the menubar, and downloaded iStatMenus and now I love it. I’m also using iStatMenus’ battery level monitor, and the widget that shows CPU, memory, and networking stats.
And I like the way iStatMenus shows the time, day and date, with a single letter for each day – R is Thursday and U is Sunday, which fills me with language-nerd glee.
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Re TapForms:
Its pretty seamless across OSX/iOS too. Its been my replacement for Bento and previous mac database apps
Picatext not available in the Australian app store for some reason…
Another vote for Unclutter for creating quick notes that are searchable and can be accessed anywhere easily when stored on Dropbox. It’s has a clipboard history feature and a temporary file drop zone.
For renaming files quickly with plenty of features I use NameChanger. Donation-ware and totally worth it.
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He sure is. I reported a bug and he sent me a beta build later that day that fixed the problem.
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Name Mangler from Many Tricks. Great Batch rename program with powerful RegEx capabilities ( that I don’t know how to use, but the dev has helped me many timesj
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Today I had the need to use Grapher, then I thought “here’s an application that even Apple power users don’t know about!” It comes on every Mac
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There’s a pretty interesting story behind the graphing calculator. I have no idea how much of it’s true, but it’s a fabulous read nonetheless!
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For years and years I have searched and experimented with replacements for the much loved, easy to use, inexpensive and versatile database from the now defunct Appleworks.
Tap Forms was the answer.
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