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MacUpdate Review of Ortelius 2.1.2
Ortelius is a case study in making something that appears to require extreme skill – 'vector-based cartography' – accessible to the novice user. My background in vector-based drawing is as limited as...
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MacUpdate Review of Scenery 1.0.2
Scenery is a wonderful tool for developers that are trying to showcase their work in its best possible light. Designing and developing a distinguished application is an endlessly challenging task – no...
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MacUpdate Review of Noiseless CK 1.3.2
Macphun’s latest app offerings, Noiseless and Noiseless Pro, slot neatly into their long line of approachable photo editing utilities. Scrolling through the endless Camera Uploads folder in my Dropbox,...
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MacUpdate Review of Paragraphs 1.1.4
Hemingway’s whiskey and vermouth, Nabokov’s index cards, Austen’s ink recipe; these are the forefathers to setting up cloud syncing, organizing app sheets and notebooks, tweaking font sizes and styles....
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MacUpdate Review of Squash 2.0.4
What a nice little app! It does exactly what it says it does: drag a photo onto the app and its filesize is reduced. There is no setup, there are no settings... it just works. I duplicated a 4.5 MB...
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MacUpdate Review of GhostNote 1.9.6
What do you do when you need to make a quick note? You might reflexively jot notes down in simple TextEdit files. You might have a neatly organized plethora of Evernote notebooks, or meticulously...
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MacUpdate Review of SmartDown 1.0.4
SmartDown is an intriguing, thoughtful option in an increasingly crowded field of web-focused text editors for the Mac. It features full Markdown support to maximize speed and intuitiveness in text...
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MacUpdate Review of Bleep 1.1.5
Some apps sell themselves on a promise. Bleep is a peer-to-peer messaging app that promises unparalleled security. It offers this security by eschewing cloud servers for storing and delivering messages...
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MacUpdate Review of EverMail 1.2.5
Evermail is a simple, richly-featured plugin for Mail that can convert any email into a note and sync it with your Evernote account. Evernote’s ubiquity has spawned a whole universe of unique software...
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MacUpdate Review of PopKey 0.30.0
PopKey gives you direct access to a seemingly limitless supply of animated GIFs. It’s a menu bar application with a no-frills interface that first presents a curated list of the PopKey team’s favorite...
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MacUpdate Review of Helium 2.0
Helium is a translucent, floating browser window. Some great ideas are self-evident, requiring only a brief explanation for their impressive qualities to take hold and excite. But more often than not,...
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MacUpdate Review of Lucid 1.0.5
Athentech’s new consumer photo editing app, Lucid, pairs a slick, post-Yosemite interface with tasteful, natural image enhancement options to create a product that is as easy-to-use as it is helpful....
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MacUpdate Review of Orb 1.1b6
Orb is a simple radial contextual menu that appears slickly when a file or document is clicked and dragged in Finder, allowing you to then open the file in a particular app. In a crowded field of app...
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MacUpdate Review of Divvy 1.5.1
While window management on a Mac desktop has become an increasingly crowded field, Divvy’s visual, intuitive layout keeps it in the upper echelon of these utilities. As soon as the layout grid is...
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MacUpdate Review of Divvy (Mac & Windows) 1.4.2
While window management on a Mac desktop has become an increasingly crowded field, Divvy’s visual, intuitive layout keeps it in the upper echelon of these utilities. As soon as the layout grid is...
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MacUpdate Review of Bevy 1.1.2
The developers at Apple are known for rolling existing 3rd-party software into OS X releases; every major release features some previously niche software solution integrated into the fabric of the OS....
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MacUpdate Review of Hider 2.5.1
We’ve arrived at a world in which the data we generate is as much a part of who we are as the things we do or the relationships we keep. Keenly aware of this fact, the developers of Hider have given us...
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MacUpdate Review of Persecond 1.5
Having used various platforms for editing and creating timelapses, it's become clear that Persecond is the way to go. It's an extremely easy application for getting your final product done quickly. The...
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MacUpdate Review of EditReady 2.7.2
EditReady is a professional-grade video transcoder that launches you from Production to Post Production as fast as possible. Literally. The proliferation of cameras shooting QuickTime movies means that...
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MacUpdate Review of HyperPlan 2.10.5
HyperPlan takes the familiar kanban project planning and management strategy and presents in a no-frills, highly customizable package. All the best aspects of real-life, sticky-note-on-whiteboard...
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MacUpdate Review of Astropad 3.6.0
Astropad turns your iPad into a graphics tablet. When the iPad was introduced many were intrigued by the device, but measured its worth by comparing it to the desktop experience. Luckily, innovative...
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MacUpdate Review of LensFlare Studio 6.8
LensFlare Studio is one of those rare apps that states its intentions up front and delivers unequivocally. You know what you're in for with LensFlare Studio by the time you're done reading the...
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MacUpdate Review of Micro Snitch 1.5.1
Although I have never had the displeasure of discovering I've been spied on through my webcam, the days when I could scoff at such a notion are long gone. Marginally skilled hackers have long found...
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MacUpdate Review of Newton 10.0.72
CloudMagic Email is a beautiful hybrid application: at its core, it’s a full-fledged email application in the vein of Airmail, Mailbox, and many other 3rd party apps, but it comes in a package that is...
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MacUpdate Review of Endurance 3.2
Endurance explores some well-worn territory, but it does so in a way that feels new, refreshing, and truthfully useful. So many battery life extension applications are, at best, benign, and at worst,...
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MacUpdate Review of Seasonality Core 2.7.3
Seasonality Core is an information-packed weather monitoring application for diving deep into local and global weather conditions and patterns. The app grabs its weather information from the...
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MacUpdate Review of uBar 4.2.1
It isn’t wrong to love uBar. With an interface eerily reminiscent of the Windows start menu and conjoined active task tray, uBar mines some well-worn territory and comes up with something interesting...
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MacUpdate Review of Vitamin-R 4.16
Vitamin-R is an all-in-one task management powerhouse. At first glance, it’s a simple time keeper, affording the user the ability to quickly and easily time their work session. You can extend your time...
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MacUpdate Review of KeyCue 10.2
So few tasks on a Mac require actual point-and-click cursor behaviors, but for the uninitiated, navigating apps and OS X using only the keyboard is like learning a new language. Keyboard shortcuts can...
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MacUpdate Review of LaunchBar 6.18.5
LaunchBar is often grouped with most file launchers, but it’s really a full productivity suite shrunken down into a single-line search bar interface. While it’s true that the most common system-level...
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MacUpdate Review of HoudahGeo 6.4.3
HoudahGeo brings travel photos taken with non-GPS cameras together with GPS location data in order to swiftly and easily make these photos easier to track, organize, and share. With a large...
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MacUpdate Review of iShowU Instant 1.4.18
iShowU Instant is a remarkably capable application that gets you from on-screen action on your Mac or iOS device to full-fledged screen recording production in just a few quick steps. With a handful of...
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MacUpdate Review of SongKong 10.2
SongKong is an automated tagger for your music collection. As music listeners gain access to what increasingly feels like every song ever, the notion of a collection of music begins to feel remote....
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MacUpdate Review of beaTunes 5.2.34
BeaTunes is approachable as a general music playback app while remaining a robust and novel DJ library management utility that is initially unassuming for the novice but still expansive and delightful...
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MacUpdate Review of Marked 2.6.33
Marked is a Markdown application that transforms simply written documents into full-blown pieces of content ready for the web. Write your document in Markdown and Marked can format and convert it all...
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MacUpdate Review of Airmail 5.6.16
Airmail is an endlessly customizable improvement over the conventional Mail.app. My identity can be tied back to my inbox. Reach me at one address and you'll get a different version of me than you...
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