All students probably know Quizlet and other vocab trainers and how they charge 7$ per month. I just published my first app on the Apple AppStore. It's called TurboTerms and it charges 99ct or 1.99$ ONE TIME depending on your region. After that you never have to pay again and you receive constant updates.

I also have an important question to ask you guys: Which features would you like to see in a vocab trainer? Or what would you except from it?

If you're interested, heres the link:

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/turboterms/id6479650868

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Hi all when I go to Apple support for Photobook options I see the following show up - PrestoPhoto, Shutterfly, Mimeo Photos. When I tried PrestoPhotos, their software was last updated in 2021. I was wondering if anyone has actually use some of the other services and printed glossy wedding albums or Travel books or Bird photography books and if you could recommend one app and why?

Anyone else using QSpace? I like the app but I'm wondering why it's using so much CPU, often idling at 1-5%, sometimes spiking up to 8% doing absolutely nothing.

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I'm building my app https://textbeat.vercel.app/ for iOS(soon in MacOs). The MVP beta version is ready and soon I have to do an official launch. But I'm curious to know about the launch day traffic affecting the growth of the product. Should I do the product hunt launch on the same day?

I've started to make a conscious effort to use more text snippets in TextExpander. I'm running the latest V5.x.x version -- I didn't upgrade to V6 so I didn't have to pay a subscription.

One thing I've started doing is using the cursor positioning feature, where after it expands the text expansion, it positions your cursor at the designated place within the snippet.

For example, say I replace "rty" with this expansion:

Received, thank you!  %

 - Rare_Pin9932.

---
Offices of Rare_Pin
9932 1234 Pin St
Rare City, CA 92123 
voice 555.123.4569 fax 555.321.9654 
rare_Pin99932(at)rare.pin
www(dot)rare(dot)pin

In this case, "rty" is replaced with the text, and then the cursor is moved from the end of the snippet to where "%" is -- but by basically replicating holding down the left cursor key to get there from the "m" in "com".

This takes a while -- a second or two -- as opposed to being instant. So I can't just expand the "rty" into the snippet and immediately start typing, but first have to wait for the cursor to be positioned in the correct place.

Is this how other, similar software work? Or are they more instantaneous? I'd be willing to get Alfred's PowerPack, or another alternative (Typinator? Atext?) if they are more instantaneous. Or even upgrade to the latest version of TextExpander.

I understand that this may be a limitation for how such apps interact with MacOS, but wonder if someone more clever than I figured out how to get around this limitation to provide cursor positioning capability.

I have been really struggling to adjust for the newish policy of purging deleted messages every 7 days.

How can I copy all of my deleted (and sent) items to a local archive (without using the POP server) before Yahoo (or any IMAP provider) deletes them every 7 days? Mail isn't capable of complex enough logic to do this with "rules". I know there is a way with AppleScript and/or Automator, but I can't find a script simple enough to modify for this purpose.

Any suggestions for a workaround would be appreciated!

Hello!

I used Gemini 2 to delete duplicate files on my external drive samsung t7 (exFAT).
After that, it dont work to copy or move or do anything with the folders.
I get error code -43 and also if i try to zip the folder down it says "xxxx file dont exist".

It feels like after I used Gemini 2 to delete some files the Finder has not understood it.

What can i do to solve this?

Tested reboot.

Thank you.

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Most people realize that one of the secrets to becoming more productive on a Mac is the ability to control the computer and its applications from the keyboard using the shortcuts native to most programs. Most people also realize there is no way in hell they can remember more than a handful of their most used shortcuts without help. That's where KeyClu steps in. Once installed and running, all a user has to do is press the command key twice to bring up a cheat sheet with all the keyboard shortcuts for the app listed on the display.

KeyClu Interface

Hey everyone! Still very much new to the Mac Ecosystem, and wondering whether the Setapp is really worth it? For $10 a month, how many apps can I use and are there any limitations to it?

TIA.

I am seeking a native Mac application that offers a comprehensive suite of features for managing notes, calendar events, and reminders in a single app. Additionally, I require the ability to synchronize this application with my iOS devices and Apple's default reminder and calendar apps.

Is there any Mac application that meets these requirements?

Is there an applescript or something that just takes the copied text and turns it into an ICS file then adds it to the Calendar?

I like the simple n easy video enhancement from this app, probably the best alternative to Topaz, but they don't have a Mac version. Any suggestions would be much appreciated :)

Need your suggestion on an app that:

• Can popup by a shortkey, use highlighted text for the prompt and whole opening page/file/screen as the context. E.g: Explain this paragraph with more details, rewrite this section (with same writing style with the rest)
• Can support Gemini Pro API. I’ve that MacGPT is good but only support OpenAI. MacBot support Gemini Pro API but I can’t get the global mode working (can summon the pop up). MindMac is too expensive and looks so bloated
• Can support system instruction (prefer to have placeholders like {selectedText} or {wholeContent}, prefer to support presets as well so I can switch between purposes quickly
• Free or cheap (less than $10 lifetime)

So, I’m collecting infos from all over the internet. Mac OS Sonoma and what would be the best VM solution for playing with Linux? Thnx.

I often listen to Spotify while working. If I want to watch a video, I use the play/pause key to stop the music first. But when I want to listen to music again, pressing the play/pause key often restarts the video.

I could get around this problem by closing the window the video is in, but this isn’t always convenient, e.g. if it’s on a social media feed that I want to keep scrolling.

Is there an app that lets you decide which sound to play and pause? For example, I’d love to be able to press shift + play and the system would resume the sound that was last paused.

Custom Shortcuts by Houdah Software is a free application that allows you to assign your own keyboard shortcuts to any menu item in any application. In these days of do-it-yourself progressive web apps, you may have many applications without any native keyboard shortcuts and this small utility is the solution to that problem. The minimum requirement is macOS 10.13. It is fully compatible with Sonoma.

Hello. I've been building a little app that puts a sticky note on your app windows.

To get to the point:

• Each app has its own note, one for Chrome, one for Xcode, one for ..., etc.
• The note follows your apps around
• This is a BETA which is free to try. Functionality is limited, but the core is there and works well. Can download the beta from here: https://jontelang.com/monkeynotes/

Current beta state

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Active note

And in action, it looks like this.

https://reddit.com/link/1cbs6um/video/9yut4mhzpdwc1/player

Future

My first priority is to get is stable, I know some bugs are present (eg. note sticking around when you minimize a window). If there is interest, I have plans to build it out more.

Some ideas I plan/want to add:

Multiple notes:

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Colored notes:

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Ability to make notes for not only apps - but specific websites with selectable granularity. For example a note can be for Chrome. Or Chrome>Youtube.com. Or Youtube.com/somesite or even super specifically youtube.com/somsite?someid=ASG51Sq1 (think a specific note for a specific Youtube video). Or for specific documents, eg. "Pages.app > Budget2025.pages", you get the idea.

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And some more:

• A "main" app of sorts where all notes are listed, categorized by which app they are in (and domain, etc).
• Secret notes that require a password
• Ability to place them in more locations
• Markdown, to make lists and TODO lists

It will be a paid app, because I like to be able to sustain development of my apps. Likely it will have a trial or a free limited version. If you want to partake in beta, again you can download here: https://jontelang.com/monkeynotes/. Feedback is welcomed, in DM, here or Twitter, or in my email (can find in website).

Thoughts and ideas?

FloatBrowser is a browser that could stay on top of the all other windows or sit in the menubar.

With FloatBrowser, you could

• Always-on-Top Window: Launch a browser window that stays on top of all other windows using a shortcut. This ensures your current tasks remain uninterrupted.
• Auto-Refresh: Set your webpages to refresh automatically, eliminating the need for manual refreshes.
• Pin to Menu Bar: Keep your favorite webpages just a click away by pinning them to your menu bar, making them easily accessible at any time.
• Transparent and Borderless Design: Enjoy a browser window that is transparent and borderless, blending seamlessly into your workspace.
• Multi-Space Display: Choose to display the browser window across all your virtual desktops, or confine it to just one for focused work.

Give FloatBrowser a try, and it will never let you down!

We appreciate your feedback, you could drop us a line whnenevfer you have any questions, problems or suggestions.

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Hey everyone, im building the most extensive directory of productivity tools and online business/personal growth resources. (There’s a Mac App section inside)

If you have/or are building a tool focused on one of these areas, or just want join the waitlist for when we launch, sign up here: https://idk.tools/waitlist

I wrote below post over in Craft's community but have gotten zero responses. In the hopes of learning from the Reddit community, I'm reposting it here with slight edits:

The UX of Craft is mind-blowing. It’s beautiful, fast and has the right amount of sound and animation. It oozes style and one can feel that the developers love their craft.

I’ve tried so many note-taking and document creation apps, but nothing else comes close.

One thing I’m still missing, and which no other app has been able to create so far, to my knowledge, is auto organization.

Let me explain.

I use craft mainly for notes of all kinds. That means I fire it up, hit command + N and start typing, then resume whatever I was doing. The consequence of this style of use is that I end up with a ton of open notes along the top in my Craft window. None of it is organized. There could be a quick technical note, a recipe, a thought… it’s all over the place.

What I’m wondering is.. what could Craft do to help with this?

https://mem.ai/ is trying to solve this problem, sort of.

So is https://fabric.so/, kind of.

http://mymind.com maybe comes closest.

I’m sure there are others, like Obsidian + plugins.

None of these have the amazing native apps on Apple platforms that Craft does.

Basically, I’d like to be able to just keep dumping stuff of all kinds into Craft and have it auto-organize everything for me in the background. This would probably work by auto-recognizing the content and context of my notes, creating automatic tags for them and also bidirectionally auto-linking related notes with each other to enable a knowledge graph, for example.

The thing is.. I don’t want to spend any time on all this automation. I want it to “just work”—and of course tweak it to help out when things are off.

It should get better and smarter over time, learning from my manual edits.

Does this exist? I'd love to hear about it.

I'm looking for an app like Beamer that can stream any video to my iPad from my Mac.

I known apps like Plex can do this, but they're designed for setting up a video library. I am looking for something more impromptu.

Ideally something that can play DVDs!

What is everyone using for GUI based compression software?

Edit: Like Winrar

Is there an app that when i walk away from my MacBook lock it down or make it go to sleep?

Hey r/macapps fam,

I'm mulling over the safety of streaming movie torrents via an external HDD connected to my router. Specifically, I want to watch these flicks on my Apple TV and other Apple gadgets, like the MacBook Pro, iPad, and iPhone (as a lot of my personal stuff in there).

My main concern is whether this setup might expose my devices to viruses. Has anyone here downloaded torrents directly to a router-connected HDD and then streamed them on macOS? I'd appreciate any tips on maintaining a virus-free setup while enjoying movies.

Let's dive in! 🎥🍿