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Clacksmith: keyboard sounds without Input Monitoring [Developer]
Hi everyone, I’m the developer of Clacksmith, a small native menu bar app for macOS that adds keyboard sound feedback without asking for Input Monitoring or Accessibility permission. I made it for people who enjoy mechanical keyboard and typewriter sounds but do not want to give an app access...- wedontneed
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- clacksmith keyboard sounds macos privacy
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- Forum: Mac Apps
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Local Music Organizer for Mac - maintenance, metadata and audio quality tools for local Music.app libraries
Hi everyone, I’m the developer of Local Music Organizer, a native macOS app I originally made for my own Music.app library. I have been collecting music for many years from CDs, vinyl, downloads and other sources. As the collection grew, I started running into the usual problems: duplicate...- StrongTequila
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- audio audio quality cue duplicates local music macos music music app music library
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- Forum: Mac Apps
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full screen ads
Hi, I understand that MacRumors needs to make its money somehow, not complaining about that. but when did it become ok to have fullscreen ads that completely disrupt reading articles on the main page? See my attachment for what I have been seeing. It popped up twice without reloading the page...- ss2cire
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- ads macos
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- Forum: Site and Forum Feedback
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UTIdefaults – Fast, modern alternative to RCDefaultApp & SwiftDefaultApps
Hi everyone! I wanted to share a new utility I built to solve a long-standing pet peeve on macOS: changing file associations quickly and effortlessly. If you've ever tried setting default apps natively on macOS, you know the drill. You basically have to go through: Right click → Get Info →... -
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Lyra, a writing assistant that fixes your text as you type, in every Mac app, and learns how you write to each person.
Hi, I’m Pratik, a solo developer in London. I spent ten years as a lead engineer in fintech before leaving last year to build one thing properly: Lyra, a writing assistant for macOS. It’s just me,I write the code, answer the support emails, and make the coffee. Lyra is your personal...- pratikgcet
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- apple silicon grammar grammarly mac apps macos productivity writing
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- Forum: Mac Apps
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MacOS Save As Bug
Hi, for the past several versions of MacOS (including the current one) I have an issue with the Save As menu item in EVERY app so it is a MacOS issue. The Save As screen stretches to it's maximum and there is no way to do anything unless you press Esc to get out of it, then it places whatever...- HajiDiRobertis
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- bugs macos resize save save as
- Replies: 14
- Forum: Mac Apps
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App Archiver - Free disk space without deleting Mac apps
Hi everyone. I like keeping useful apps on my Mac, but I do not like deleting them just to free disk space. If I remove an app that I rarely use, there is a good chance I will forget it existed by the time I need it again. That is why I made App Archiver. Its goal is to compress apps while... -
iCloud has no Web Access
Hi, so, iCloud works on my mom's iPod touch & iPad, but not on my mom's Ventura iMac; ("K" is my mom,) here's what i Told Feedback: - I am trying to log into icloud.com using Safari iPad app, the message: "You Turned Off iCloud Data Web Access To access data on iCloud.com, you will need to...- Gravydog316
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- blonde problem? icloud ipad ipod macos ventura web access
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- Forum: Mac Basics, Help and Buying Advice
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[TestFlight] AudioRoo 2.0 – macOS audio converter built on FFmpeg
Hello: I'm a graphic/UI designer who built a Mac app, and am looking for feedback. It's a kangaroo-themed drag-and-drop audio converter called AudioRoo, because even though I acknowledge there are a lot of FFmpeg wrappers out there, when I searched through them I found that none of them were... -
Looking for users to try out a GIF making app.
Hey y'all. I'm doing a small user testing run with a GIF making app I've designed. If you're interested, check out the signup here: https://pozar.se/surveys/gifraffe-study/ From the page: I'm looking for a handful of people to sit with me for about an hour, on a video call, and try out a... -
I made GifJot to turn part of my Mac screen into a GIF I can paste (public beta)
Hi everyone! I made GifJot. I made it because I kept needing to show a small bug or workflow, and a screenshot wasn’t always enough. GifJot lets you select part of your Mac screen, record it as a GIF or capture it as a PNG, and then paste the result into another app. This public beta is free... -
MacPacker - Open Source Archive Manager for macOS
Hi everyone, I wanted to introduce MacPacker, an open-source archive manager for macOS that I've been building since 2023. It originally started as a small archive preview tool for tar.lz4 files with support for nested archives because that was exactly what I needed at the time. Three years... -
Tutti for macOS — multi-output volume, per-app routing, and device delay
Hi everyone, I’m Barry, the independent developer of Tutti, a native macOS menu bar app for managing multiple audio outputs. I started building it because I regularly use a display and a Bluetooth speaker with my Mac. Audio MIDI Setup can create a Multi-Output Device, but normal volume control...- Barrybarrywu
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- airpods audio core audio macos multi-output
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- Forum: Mac Apps
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macOS O Link(), Where Art Thou? – A SwiftUI Story
Hey : ) I have a brief SwiftUI story to share about an issue that drove me up the walls and to the brink of questioning my choices in life. You can read it here . Enjoy ; )- m.gansrigler
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- macos swiftui
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- Forum: Apple Programming
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PowerClick – A Finder Productivity Tool for creating, renaming, moving, and opening files in a better way | Dailiy users, Power Users, Developers
Hi everyone, I’m Ata, the developer of PowerClick, a macOS Finder extension that started from one very small but annoying missing workflow: creating a new file directly from the right-click menu in Finder. Coming from Windows, I always found it strange that macOS does not have a simple... -
Anybody to explain how random wallpaper works on macOS
I remember a couple years or less than 2 years ago, I was randomizing my wallpaper and the same wallpaper was always showing on each virtual desktop. However I recently tried to do the same thing but nothing, each time it is a different wallpaper from the folder in each desktop. I do not know... -
AudioRouterNow – free, open-source audio router for macOS (no kext, menu bar)
Hi everyone, I built AudioRouterNow, a free and open-source macOS app that lets you route audio to multiple outputs simultaneously — headphones + speakers, two audio interfaces, whatever combination you need — all from the menu bar. - The problem it solves: macOS natively only lets you play to...- MauricioMorkun
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- audio coreaudio free macos open source routing
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- Forum: Mac Apps
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MP 1,1-5,1 Mac pro 4,1/5,1 issues
Hi, i am new to this forum so if i did anything wrong correct me please. So i got a Mac pro 4,1 flashed to 5,1 and its been running mac os monterey with martin lo's opencore since i got it a year ago and its been running very smoothly with a rx 580 and 32gb ecc ddr3 ram and 1 xeon x5690 but...- FirewireFreak400
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- macos macpro 2009 macpro 2010 macpro4.1 macpro5.1 opencore
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- Forum: Mac Pro
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Funny: "macOS High Catalina"
I was recently looking at the website for qustodio parental controls and I learned that it is compatible all the way back to macOS High Catalina! 😭 Just thought I'd share. Mods, feel free to move this if I put it in the wrong spot -
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macOS no longer boots after shrinking a partition
On a late-2012 Mini, an APFS container held both Mojave and, via OCLP, Ventura. Linux was installed on a separate partition (Zorin). At startup, I was able to boot all three systems using the OCLP boot manager. Then I had the (bad) idea to shrink the APFS container to make room for another...
