Simple utilities can make a big difference in how great your Mac is to use, as these beauties prove.Īmphetamine ( £free, Mac App Store): Force your Mac to stay awake indefinitely, temporarily, or based on app/network triggers.īartender ( $15, direct): Bring sanity to your menu bar by organising items and have them appear only when needed.Ĭloud Battery ( £free or £2.49, Mac App Store): Track power levels on all your devices and get alerts when one needs charging. So also backup your Mac to the cloud with Backblaze ($7 per month, direct). Local backups alone are no good when all your kit gets nicked or destroyed in a fire. Superb apps for powering up macOS, to help you work faster, free up space, and ensure you never lose a file. Get OpenEmu (£free, direct) The best Mac essential utilities Use Ctrl-click > Open in Finder and you’ll be on your way to retro bliss. Your Mac will grumble the first time you try to launch OpenEmu. Just watch those chunky pixels don’t take an eye out. There’s also an ‘experimental’ version that adds a load of additional systems, including arcade. If you’ve previously delved into the horrors of emulation, OpenEmu’s ‘it just works’ mentality will appeal. Controllers can be configured, and then you can play. Point it at your games and it’ll download cover art. Fortunately, OpenEmu is one of the best on any platform.
The Mac’s not exactly drowning in emulators when you want to get your retro gaming on. And being able to flag books as ‘loaned’ means you should never again lose a precious volume to a forgetful friend.īuy Book Tracker (£free + £9.49, Mac App Store) OpenEmu You can track what you’re currently reading and note down what you thought when you were done. Log your collection in the app by bar-code scans or online searches, and then tag/organise as you see fit. If you often guiltily look at piles of unread books around your home, glance at digital books installed on devices, and then decide to buy yet more books (because, hey, more books), Book Tracker is a must. The app generously gives you all this for free but lob the creator a fiver and you unlock filtering options and can follow record labels.īuy MusicHarbor (£free or £4.99, Mac App Store) Book Tracker Promo videos are available too, like your own personalised MTV. The app then shows latest and upcoming releases, which you can preview or add to your library. You ‘import’ artists from Music or add them manually. Handily, MusicHarbor does that job brilliantly. MusicHarborĪpple’s Music app is fine for playback and surfacing new tunes you’ll like, but it’s rubbish at keeping tabs on favourite artists. When life shifts from work to play, use these apps to entertain yourself.
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