I’d consider myself to more or less be a “power” user and I learn something I never knew from almost every one of Gary’s videos. It really is excellent.
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Just got my MPB 16 Max and now I am sort of lost what to do...
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Have you personally compared BBEdit to the built in Text Edit?I like Al Dente to limit the max battery charge to 80%. Mine spends a lot of time plugged in.
AlDente
AlDente – Charge Limiter The ALL-IN-ONE charge Limiter App for MacBooks. Download Free Get AlDente Pro AlDente gives you the tools you need to extend the life of your MacBook battery. Why do I need this? Li-ion batteries (like the one in your MacBook) last the longest when operated between 20%...apphousekitchen.com
I also like iStat Menus. Can put a lot of useful info in the top menu bar.
iStat Menus
The ultimate system monitor for your menu bar, with CPU, GPU, memory, network, disk usage, disk activity, temperatures, fans, battery info and more.bjango.com
Another app I like a lot is BBEdit for text editing. It's sort of the Mac equivalent of NotePad++
Apparently, people like Sublime Text for text editing as well. I've never tried it but here's a comparison / list.
5 Best Text Editors for Mac
A good text editor is worth its weight in gold. We take a look at some candidates for the best text editor for Mac in this guide.www.groovypost.com
Are you assuming that I haven't? Does the built in text editor compare two files side-by-side for differences?
No need to get defensive, I didn’t mean to trigger any sort of emotional response, I was just genuinely curious what people, you in this case, do with a text editor that the default app on Mac doesn’t account for. I didn’t assume anything I was just wondering what text edit can’t do that you like BBEdit better for
personally I just use text edit for some note keeping that includes fonts, sizes or colors that I either can’t use Notes for or don’t want Pages for because it’s more cumbersome and a simple text file on my desktop is more useful than a pages document.btw I agree on Al Dente and iStat, use them both myself and with an Intel MacBook custom fan rules are really handy, together with a great inside into system stats but that’s besides the point
Its like someone saying they like Photoshop, and you asking them if they've directly compared it to MS Paint.
Of course I'm aware there's a default text editor. And it's just as bare bones as Notepad on Windows.
If it isn't already obvious to you why people need more features in a text editor, I'd say don't worry about it. Keep using the built-in.
I have heard a lot of people like this browser. Safari recently had a big update with Sonoma and I fell in love with profiles and tab groups to keep my browsing clean. Can Arc do this too?
Paste App (pasteapp.io) really is the best clipboard utility out there. It syncs over iCloud between your Apple devices. It has beautiful UI and UX that feels at home with Apple’s aesthetic. You can save your own reference clips and organize them and search them if you often reference certain things in your work. It’s really useful, and the iPhone App has a custom keyboard you can add that gives similar functionality, though not as streamlined.
That being said, it’s $29.99/yr which is kinda bonkers. When I first bought it, it was $9.99 one time purchase, then at some point they forced us early adopters onto a $9.99/yr plan that left a bad taste in my mouth because it refused to continue to work unless you upgraded, and it wasn’t even one of those things like “now it won’t work on a new version of macOS” it just stopped entirely. But at least I’m on the grandfathered plan for a third of the price. They’ve barely added anything to the app since then, even though they claimed the recurring revenue model was for new feature development.
It’s still fairly basic but so freaking useful. I use it a hundred times per day at least for web design and development and copying code snippets and blank code templates and various server commands. It even formats things differently based on content like previews or hex colors show up as solid color blocks making for quick and easy reference and I’ll pin things like that for different projects. Probably worth the price if you find yourself researching a lot copying different things for lawyerly duties or referencing case law, statutes, etc (I used to work for a law school designing and building their websites once upon a time, lol, so I’m somewhat familiar).