It's not "inconsistent", it uses "copy and move" instead of "cut and paste" for a very good reason, which I explained to you but I guess you can't or won't understand. Oh well, I tried.
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Useful Mac Apps Worth Checking Out - April 2022
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In case you don't already know, there's a handy way to maximize a window (not full screen). Hold down "option", hover the mouse over one of the corners of a window and then double-click. Note that this is not the same as holding down "option" and then clicking on the green "+" (which sometimes only maximizes in 1 dimension).
Nothing that seems essential to the vast majority of users. And paying a subscription for a screenshot app, really. Or one time $29 for a screenshot app?
Moom is great for sizing and positioning windows in macOS. You get a customisable GUI menu appear when you pass the pointer over the window control buttons. Leagues ahead of Apple’s unintuitive system. It’s another app I can’t do without.
Raycast - nice UI, but Alfred still is king.
WebCatalog - this is similar to Rambox. I don't see the point of using another app to group webapps when browser tab groups do this perfectly and it's out of sight, but YMMV.
AltTab - great little tool, enhances the mediocre tab switcher on Mac
MonitorControl - it's good that it's free, but Lunar has way more features even in its free version.
CleanShotX - must have utility. Apple should take notes and build this into the system.
WebCatalog - this is similar to Rambox. I don't see the point of using another app to group webapps when browser tab groups do this perfectly and it's out of sight, but YMMV.
AltTab - great little tool, enhances the mediocre tab switcher on Mac
MonitorControl - it's good that it's free, but Lunar has way more features even in its free version.
CleanShotX - must have utility. Apple should take notes and build this into the system.
I have been trying to find something similar to the Windows world “Everything” or “Search Everything” but in Mac.
The consensus seemed to be Alfred, but in no way matches the speed, found hits, simple expressions… Everything is insane instant and IT REALLY finds everything, *.jpg on the search bar will flood millions of files on a scroll list, **/jpg/* all folders named jpg, etc etc but like, won’t have time to snap your fingers.
I remember some time ago Alfred had somewhat mixed results, too big of a floating display, a list of 10 files already maxes out the height, it would hang often for some reason on my machine, etc… not saying that it’s bad but it didn’t work for me at that time, definitely not a replacement for the app.
If anybody happens to know a replacement for Search Everything, the unassuming classic old-windows looking application, I’m looking for suggestions. Maybe I should try Alfred again?
This app is from Rogue Amoeba as well. I thought it might be good for the exact same reason, but I think LoopBack is the only one that can do the redirect to another app (QuickTime in my case). But they offer free trials for both apps so you could give the new app a try to see if the functionality is there. If so, it is cheaper at $40.
I've been using Moom for probably 10+ years. It. Just. Works.
My issue with Lunar is ironically that it tries to do too much, and is a bit bloated and buggy at least for my monitors.
MonitorControl really only seeks to adjust brightness and volume on an external monitor, so it’s more or less bringing Apples native system of brightness control to 3rd party screens.
Lunar adds a lot of extra features, but if you don’t need ambient light tracking, or scheduling, etc, then MonitorControl is nice and light weight to use.
Personally, I've been using Alfred for YEARS, and I've got the Power Pack, too. I'm not a programmer, and I don't know a lot of coding, so I haven't gotten into workflows. My experience with the Alfred community, though, is that the app will do just about anything you ask it to; you just have to know how to ask it.
For example, and this is super basic, I need to go back and remember how to find a file, select, and send it to someone all from within Alfred, and within a few steps. I can be done, but the menu options are LONG, so it takes a bit to navigate to it. But there may be a simpler way?
Anyway, I'm not an Alfred apologist, but I am a longtime user, and when I try Launchbar, I just end up back at Alfred.
All that said, if someone re-launches Quicksilver, I'll move back to that in a minute because the power and the UI of that app was just amazing.
I've heard of it and tried it, but prefer (and use) BetterTouchTool to solve this. Green button instantly maximizes the window and dragging a window to the top maximizes it as well. Dragging a window to either the left or right makes it half the size of the screen and dragging it to the corner makes it 1/4th the size. It's really really fast.
It's not consistent across all apps. Plus, it often doesn't maximize to the full screen, it will only maximize to the area needed for the window itself to be in 100% view, no larger.
Regardless, Apple's got very VERY stupid ideas about window management.
Windows uses Alt+Tab to cycle though both apps and child windows, whether you both or not.
macOS separates these and uses Cmd+tab for apps and Cmd+~ (tilde--the key above Tab) for child windows of the active app.
It's very much a personal preference thing, but you absolutely CAN cycle through child windows natively on macOS.
Sounds pretty cool. Out of interest does it allow you to configure open borders around and between windows? That's one of the things I like about Moom. That and the grid-customisable window size & placement rather than just fixed divisions of the display area. Sounds good anyway. Anything is better than the Apple solution...or rather problem ?
I agree - I think the Cmd + tilde feature is helpful.
Sometimes I prefer the visual aid that appears when pressing Alt +Tab once on Windows (it shows all open windows of every app, as well as folders), but it's subjective, and the Windows Alt + Tab can also be visually cluttered / annoying if there are too many things open at once.
I think that the windows version also steps through individual open windows in each app. You can do that on Mac with cmd-tilde.
I guess the Mac OS way to switch with previews is to use Mission Control (F3 or swipe up 3 fingers). For me most of the previews are too small to be that useful so cmd-tab and cmd-~ are sufficient.
Thanks for the great info. Looks pretty awesome.
ETA: @blazerunner is this the same thing as Better Snap Tool available on the Mac App Store?
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Same developer but different app. I've never used it though.
I assume CleanShot X can't screenshot apple store movies. Is there any screenshot utility that does? Or do you pretty much have to capture via Blu-ray or some other source? I'm just wondering how youtube video reviews and such get captures, as there are legitimate uses for commentary, etc. Maybe they just use Windows....
Hm, afaik, it should work across all apps ? Are you sure you're holding down "option" and then double-clicking on the corner (and not the edge)?
Cmd+` does this on mac. Just one key up. Lets you separate whether you want to go through apps (tab) or windows within an app (tilde).