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I’ve added a few new shortcuts to my astounding 1 collection of macOS keybindings. You can check them all out on the project page (and, if needed, figure out what the heck I’m talking about), but

This is a post about keyboards. Well, about one keyboard, but we’ll probably go through a bunch to get there. It’s going to be long, and some of my less Tinder-profile-worthy personality traits will

MacPaw has released a new version of their excellent macOS cleanup and optimization tool: CleanMyMac X . I wrote it up for Lifehacker so I won’t go into full detail here, but there are some cool new

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

If you’ve upgraded to Mojave, you’ve probably tried out Dark Mode. Maybe you love it. I got over the whole idea years ago, back when you had to run hacks just to change the menu bar background. I

I’m releasing a minor update to PopMaker , my little tool for creating custom PopClip extensions. I hadn’t realized that the icon feature had broken, but since I was in there fixing that I made a few

I have piles of mind maps for ideas I've never started working on, probably never will, and that doesn't bother me at all. I enjoy the process, and I love having the trove of inspiration.

I mentioned Retrobatch a while back when it first went into public beta. After using it for a while now, I wanted to let you know that it’s worth grabbing and getting into. I’m pretty sure that if

I’m really excited about Hook , the latest app from Luc Beaudoin (creator of MySleepButton). It makes it possible to link together documents, photos, notes, todo items, web pages and more. Instant

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

For those of us who have shifted from folder hierarchies to search as our primary method of “filing,” Spotlight has become a way of life. And where Spotlight falls short, HoudahSpot steps in and

Despite putting time into the replacement for nvALT , I also managed to get the latest update for Marked 2 out. My meds must be working. It’s available now on Setapp, direct (Check for Updates), and

An irregularly-scheduled roundup of Brett’s favorite web discoveries.

If this note applies to you, you already know what a Hyper key is. If you don’t, go ahead and start with the post I wrote a while back on using Karabiner Elements to make your Caps Lock key more

I made you a thing this morning. It’s called Bunch and it’s a utility for launching preconfigured groups of apps and documents.

A quick update to Bunch : it can now quit apps in addition to launching them. If your bunch file has an exclamation point before the name of an app, it will attempt to quit it instead of launching it

Apparently this is just what I do early in the mornings now. Bunch 1.0.4 is out . It’s a pretty heavy code overhaul, switching most functions that were using AppleScript over to NSWorkspace, which

Yeah, this has become my morning habit. Make coffee, add something to Bunch. If you haven’t been following, Bunch is my batch application launcher for the Dock that I wrote way back on Tuesday of

I should probably eventually try to make money off of Bunch . But for now it’s just what I’m going to do to stretch my fingers (and brain) in the morning before I start my day’s work on nvUltra (I’ll

Thanks to CleanMyMac X for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! I’ve been using CleanMyMac X for a long time now, and the latest version extends it far enough to be a replacement for at least two

Thanks to Setapp for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week! Setapp is an answer to an app world with increasing subscription fatigue, and I know Setapp both as a regular user and as a developer

Ok, this one is a little embarrassing. You know how I often refer to myself as a mad scientist? This is what I’m talking about.

I’ve had this happen with several apps — some apps more than once — and maybe you’ve seen it: the app has been manually granted permissions under System Preferences- Security Privacy- Accessibility,

I usually save up my Top Apps posts for the end of the year, but I have such a soft spot in my heart for macOS utilities that I actually mentally create these lists frequently. The half-year point

As noted by Michael Tsai , in the Xcode 11 beta release notes, Apple notified us that scripting runtimes will be removed from “future versions” of macOS. I previously linked Dr. Drang’s thoughts on

Thanks to TableFlip for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week. This app is one of the coolest task-specific Markdown tools I’ve seen in years, making editing MultiMarkdown-style tables in your

Happy Independence Day to my US readers. I’m not doing any parades, nor running any special discounts on my apps. Just a silly post.

After talking about it with the panel on a recent Mac Show appearance (pretty sure this part of the conversation happened during technical difficulties), I pulled out my Griffin PowerMate. The older

Thanks to Timing for sponsoring BrettTerpstra.com this week!

I’ve been considering a general “Why I love MailMate” post for some time now, but it keeps seeming like an overwhelming project. So instead, I’m going to focus on one small part. I’ve talked a bit