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...
View ArticleMacUpdate Review of Newton 10.0.18
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...
View ArticleMacUpdate 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....
View ArticleMacUpdate Review of iShowU Instant 1.2.12
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...
View ArticleMacUpdate Review of LensFlare Studio 6.6
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...
View ArticleMacUpdate 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...
View ArticleMacUpdate Review of EditReady 2.6.2
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...
View ArticleMacUpdate 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...
View ArticleMacUpdate 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,...
View ArticleMacUpdate Review of Astropad 3.2.1
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...
View ArticleMacUpdate Review of Airmail 3.6.71
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...
View ArticleMacUpdate 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....
View ArticleMacUpdate 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...
View ArticleMacUpdate Review of Micro Snitch 1.3.1
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...
View ArticleMacUpdate 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...
View ArticleMacUpdate Review of Persecond 1.4.5
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...
View ArticleMacUpdate 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...
View ArticleMacUpdate 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...
View ArticleMacUpdate Review of HoudahGeo 5.3.3
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...
View ArticleMacUpdate 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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