Barcode Studio 16 has now been released and guess what? It’s been fully upscaled to Retina resolution and that’s not all. Barcode Studio 16 also supports macOS dark mode. It’s a paid upgrade so you can imagine there are improvements to the actual barcode creation functionality as well.… Read More Barcode Studio 16 is an important upgrade
Rogue Amoeba’s SoundSource is total sound control for Macs. It offers three distinct functions, i.e. the ability to control audio coming from individual applications, sound improvement or alteration using audio effects and instant access to all of the Mac’s connected audio devices. … Read More SoundSource 5, total sound control for Macs
Plugable is well-known for its inexpensive — if not cheap — products of well above average quality. After a few nasty experiences with Thunderbolt 3 cables and a USB 3.2 Gen. 2 C-type to SATA adapter by a company who charges a hefty premium for its products, I decided to see if Plugable’s products are any better.… Read More Test: Plugable Thunderbolt 3 cable & USB-C to SATA adapter
OWC Digital’s ThunderBlade is a speed demon that is absolutely silent as it lacks any sort of ventilator. The downside is that it is quite expensive. OWC fixed that by coming up with something that comes close but is about one-fifth the price of the ThunderBlade. It’s the OWC Express 4M2.… Read More As fast as a thunderbolt: OWC Digital Express 4M2
There is a difference between a data archive and a backup. Backing up data is a safety measure. You ideally do it every day to safeguard against data loss due to power outages, stupid mistakes, etc. In contrast, archiving is storing your data on external media to save it for history. You can archive for legal reasons, to free up space on your workstation or to make sure you will still be able to recall and reuse what you created/saved today ten or 20 years from now.… Read More Archiving images, video footage and audio on a Mac: best practices (long read)
I’ve been wondering how you can set up a scheduling system with a calendar app since I reviewed Sorted 3 a couple of weeks ago. I have Fantastical on my system from its early days, but although the upgrade to the latest version — which was free — enabled some of its Premium subscription features, not all were included and to use Fantastical as an automatic scheduling system you do need a few Premium features such as the proposed meeting time feature and custom colours. However, Premium comes with more good stuff.… Read More Better than a task manager or a calendar: Fantastical 3 Premium
You know Scrivener, don’t you? Well, Scrivener is a lovely and very powerful editing app, but it somehow falls short in the user-experience and user interface department. But, honestly, Scrivener did have a few advantages over Ulysses, such as the ability to have research notes that are excluded from export. And yes, I did write: “did have”. Read on…… Read More Ulysses 19 hits the streets
Many of us use a task manager to manage our daily workload. Sorted 3 takes a unique approach others don’t. Instead of managing your workload with what are in essence lists, Sorted 3 uses scheduling and claims it’s based on a number of — disputable — psychological effects of procrastinating. Currently, Sorted 3 is available… Read More Sorted 3 vs Fantastical 3
CalDigit recently released the second model Tuff Nano, a 1TB version. I got the tomato red one and was curious to see how it would perform in relation to its smaller sibling, the 512GB version. With the Tuff Nano 1TB, you can backup an entire iMac’s built-in Fusion drive and take all that data with… Read More Put your Mac’s drive in your shirt pocket with the CalDigit Tuff Nano 1TB
With a price of $1379 for my test unit, I don’t need to be clairvoyant to assume you’ll be one of the not so many who process large files on a high-end workstation like the iMac Pro or Mac Pro. Such an assumption could be wrong, though, because the throughput figures — as impressive as they are — don’t tell the whole story.… Read More The fastest external NVMe SSD drive: OWC ThunderBlade
