• Wd Drive Utilities For Mac

As Apple has tweaked and improved its Mac operating system, the need for third-party utilities just shifted—it never went away. A lot of the fiddly missing stuff we used to need an app for is built in, but Apple aims for the simplest experience for the most people, which leaves more advanced users or those that want a choice of how they carry out a task looking for alternatives. I’ve used many hundreds of Mac utilities over decades, and still rely on them to make my computing life better. Here’s the top 10 I recommend, a mix of free software, donationware, and inexpensive paid products. (I’ve cheated a little; I list more than 10 as I offer a couple of alternatives.) Some of the paid products might seem pricey on their own, and the price tag altogether may be too much for many people’s budget to buy all at once: it’s over $300 if you purchase all my main recommendations. Opt for alternative recommendations of utilities below and omit a couple you don’t need, like file-transfer software, and the price tag comes down closer to $100.

The app was another one that people worried El Capitan’s SIP would render impossible to update, but the developer thoroughly revised it to work in the new model, and released a Sierra update in a timely fashion, too. LaunchBar I have many, many apps installed on my Mac, and my preferred way to launch them isn’t by invoking Spotlight and typing part of the name and selecting a result, or using Mission Control or the Applications folder.

The latest version of Mac Office still doesn't supports COM add-ins. ASAP Utilities consists of two type of add-ins. The first is a common 'Excel Add-in' (ASAP Utilities.xla), the second is 'COM Add-in' (ASAP_Utilities.dll), which is faster then a general Excel Add-in and less easy to crack and for these reasons contains nearly all of the macros. Power Utility Pak (PUP/MAC v1) is a useful collection of add-ins that brings significant new functionality to Excel 2011 for the Mac. When PUP is installed, you can do things with Excel that you never thought were possible.

Wd Drive Utilities For Mac

For whatever reason, Apple doesn’t make it easy for Mac users to know about such functionality without digging around to see what’s new with every OS X upgrade.

ASAP Utilities consists of two type of add-ins. The first is a common 'Excel Add-in' (ASAP Utilities.xla), the second is 'COM Add-in' (ASAP_Utilities.dll), which is faster then a general Excel Add-in and less easy to crack and for these reasons contains nearly all of the macros. Unfortunately this second type of add-in still isn't supported by the Mac edition of Excel. ASAP Utilities System Requirements Workaround to run Windows (and ASAP Utilities) on your Mac From the website: 'Have a Windows application you need to use once in a while? Every new Mac lets you install and run Windows at native speeds, using a built-in utility called Boot Camp.

Whenever I want to check something, a quick glance shows me what’s happening. Clicking any of these graphs displays more information. For example, if I see that my Mac’s CPU is running hot, or there’s a lot of network throughput, I can click to view a menu and find which app is the culprit. IStat Menus also offers better menu extras than Apple’s for my MacBook’s battery status and for the date and time. Sizzling Keys I listen to music a lot while I work, and iTunes runs all day on my Mac in the background. When I want to pause music, change the volume, or skip tracks, I don’t like to have to switch to iTunes and click its buttons; I prefer doing it more quickly.

Having a permits you to downgrade to your system to an earlier version if something goes wrong, or import data and applications as needed if you are doing a Manual Mac System Migration. Cloning utilities can also be useful in copying data which the Finder balks at, such as items with mixed permissions or disk errors. If you’ve already run DiskWarrior or Apple Disk Utility on a drive and you still can’t copy some files, try using Carbon Copy Cloner or SuperDuper!

Bartender My system menubar is a mess! I’ve tried scrubbing, I’ve tried washing, and nothing works! ($15), take me away! Declutter an unusable system menubar with Bartender. If you’re anything like me, you have a slightly ridiculous number of drop-down and status menus in your system menubar from Apple and third-party apps and system components. Some of Apple’s items you can’t hide, even if you want to.

1Password TextExpander When you write a lot, anything you can do to save keystrokes saves time. Saves me a lot of time by allowing me to set up abbreviations that the app, working in the background, expands to longer bits of text. I have dozens of “snippets” set up in TextExpander, for quick replies to email (“Please remove me from your list,” for example, for all the junk I get from PR people), app names I type often (iTunes, iTunes Match), my address, my phone number, bits of HTML code, and more. TextExpander also reminds me when I type something frequently and suggests that I create a snippet to save even more time. TextExpander 5 watches for and suggests ranges of text you type repeatedly. SpamSieve SpamSieve I get lots of email, and much of it is spam. I’ve tried using server-side spam filters, but there are too many false positives; messages marked as spam that aren’t.

Last, one of my other secret weapons is Witch. Witch works as an app switcher but also allows you to select from multiple open windows within an app. For $15 bucks you can’t go wrong.

Accessing Disk Utility RELATED: To access the Disk Utility in macOS, just press Command+Space to open, type “Disk Utility” into the search box, and then press Enter. You can also click the Launchpad icon on your dock, click the Other folder, and then click Disk Utility. Or, open a Finder window, click Applications in the sidebar, double-click the Utilities folder, and then double-click Disk Utility. RELATED: To access the Disk Utility on a modern Mac—regardless of whether it even has an operating system installed—reboot or boot up the Mac and hold Command+R as it boots. It’ll, and you can click Disk Utility to open it up. In Recovery Mode, macOS runs a special sort of recovery environment. This allows you to use Disk Utility to wipe your entire drive—or repartition it.

• In the sidebar, select the disk you want to repair. • Click the First Aid button. If Disk Utility tells you the disk is about to fail, and replace the disk. You can’t repair it. Otherwise, continue to the next step. If Disk Utility reports that the disk appears to be OK or has been repaired, you’re done. You can click Show Details to see more information about the repairs.

Keeps me appraised of some important data, such as how much RAM my Mac is using, how busy its CPU is, how much data is entering or leaving my Mac over the network, and more. IStat Menus adds menu extras to the menu bar.

ResetRecentAddresses (): This utility allows you to reset recent addresses Outlook stores. This will delete recent addresses at once instead of one at a time by clicking the X next to an address suggestion when addressing an email. To use: Why use it: Whenever you compose an email and add people on the To:, Cc:, or Bcc: line, Outlook will suggest names as you type characters. The list of names Outlook uses is a combination of contacts, company directory, and recent contacts. Recent contacts appear with an 'X' next to each name. You can click the 'X' to remove the contact from the Recent Address List. This utility will clean out all recent addresses at one time instead of having to click the 'X' next to each name.

Adobe flash player update for mac os x 10.6.8. And?Photo Booth.? I pick one (with my arrow keys) and hit Enter, and bob?s your uncle. This is exactly like Spotlight works (except the shortcut has ctrl instead of cmd)! I mean really! Maybe they’ve removed Spotlight or seriously nerfed it in Mountain Lion (I’m using Snow Leopard), otherwise I just don’t get it. The best programs by far for searching for files are HoudahSpot (primarily) and Punakea.

Links: With one of these workarounds you are able to run the Windows version of Excel. And then you can benefit from all the tools in ASAP Utilities to help you otherwise perhaps with the tedious and time-consuming tasks. Alternative add-in: Power Utility Pak for the Mac, Add-in Tools for Excel 2011 As an alternative for the Mac, you can also try the following add-in, written by John Walkenbach and Ron de Bruin, both well respected Excel developers: Follow ASAP Utilities on Facebook.

Disk Utility can tell you the type of device, where it's located, which file system it uses, its capacity, and more. Notice in the above screenshot that I have clicked on the startup volume of my Mac — the one at the top of the sidebar is always the startup volume. Also, I've clicked on the top line of the disk's entry; here you can see a disclosure triangle, and, if you click on the entry below that, you can see the volume, in this case, named Mac SSD.

There’s email tracking, email notes, attachments to the cloud for storage, email signatures, and the one feature that makes it all worthwhile, email scheduling. That’s right.

By • 4:00 am, January 7, 2011 • • • Advertisement Working as a Mac consultant brings me in contact with several dozen different Macintosh systems every month. Many needs and tasks are common – OS upgrades, backups, system slowdowns, troubleshooting startup or WiFi problems. Like any good mechanic there are a few items in my toolbox which I favor above others.

You want it now. Okay, isn’t for everyone. This utility lets you move windows around your screen quickly, and I use it all the time because I keep switching between using my MacBook Air 13″ screen and using it in clamshell mode with a humungous monitor. For example, I’m in Word on the laptop at a cafe* then I get home and plug in? The Word window is tiny, so I hit a shortcut (or use the sizeup menu) to make it: fill the left side of the screen, or the right side, or center it, or fill the whole monitor. Similarly, I’ll jump to some other app that I want to keep my eye on, and move it (with a shortcut) to fill just the lower-right corner of the screen. *Joke made up by my son this morning: What are the basic elements of coffee?

Most of the files in the list have aliases in a DamagedFiles folder at the top level of your disk. • If you can replace a file or re-create it, delete it. • If it contains information you need, open it and examine its data to make sure it hasn’t been corrupted. • If Disk Utility can’t repair your disk or it reports “The underlying task reported failure,” try to repair the disk or partition again. If that doesn’t work, back up as much of your data as possible, reformat the disk, reinstall macOS, then restore your backed-up data. If your Mac has a Fusion Drive and you see a flashing question mark or alert, see the troubleshooting section of the Apple Support article. If you continue to have problems with your disk or it can’t be repaired, it may be physically damaged and need to be replaced.

Setup is simple and safe for your Mac files. After you’ve completed the installation, you can boot up your Mac using either Mac OS X or Windows. (That’s why it’s called Boot Camp.) Or if you want to run Windows and Mac applications at the same time — without rebooting — you can install Windows using VMware or Parallels software.' Links: With one of these workarounds you are able to run the Windows version of Excel. And then you can benefit from all the tools in ASAP Utilities to help you otherwise perhaps with the tedious and time-consuming tasks. Alternative add-in: Power Utility Pak for the Mac, Add-in Tools for Excel 2011 As an alternative for the Mac, you can also try the following add-in, written by John Walkenbach and Ron de Bruin, both well respected Excel developers: Follow ASAP Utilities on Facebook.

• – Always run your images through ImageOptim before upload them on to your website. The Mac app will crush the size of your image files without affecting the visual quality.

Working on a Mac is so much more efficient with DFX. I’m going to give TotalFinder a try, but for years I’ve used Path Finder, a highly intelligent Finder replacement. You can set it to either completely replace the Mac Finder, or work alongside it at the same time (which is what I do).

It might be the extension that improves photos the most. It works with native 16-bit RAW photo processing, handles layers with ease, and, very importantly, gives you access to the dozens of presets for one-click enhancements. That includes grain, lens effects, textures, frames, even authentic film effects to give photos a retro look with little more effort than a click. Though they’re not a good comparison of apples to Apples, the of apps is a bargain when compared to Creative Cloud or the Photoshop-Lightroom combo ($10 a month forever) and the extensions are free. Apple has a good which displays how to enable and disable extensions on your Mac, but they work much the same as extensions on iPhone and iPad. The only issue I have with any such extensions is the same basic one that applies to many of Apple’s features. Out of sight, out of mind.

• – A download manager for your Mac that splits the file into multiple parts and downloads the individual parts simultaneously for faster downloads. Can pause and resume downloads too. • – Time tracking software for your Mac that sits in the status bar for quick access.

Status of any internal hard drives, providing a (potentially) useful indicator of pending drive problems. Network Utility An all-purpose application to check basic connectivity status, Network Utility lets you check Ethernet, Airport or Bluetooth Port Info, Ping, Lookup, and Traceroute internet addresses, and scan for open ports and vulnerabilities. Using these tools can help determine where a problem lies when you can’t get online. Does your ethernet or Airport card (port) have an IP address? If not, you aren’t on the network at all.

Whenever I set up a new Mac, I install a number of utilities that make me more productive, that save me time, or that protect my data. I bought a new MacBook recently, and, as with every Mac, I installed some essential utilities.

It's important to understand some of these terms, so you can be aware of how OS X's Disk Utility works. I've simplified these explanations for the purpose of this article. • Drive: A drive is a physical device that can store data: a hard drive, an SSD, a USB flash drive, an SD card, or other types of media. A drive is not, however, a CD, a Zip cartridge (remember those), or a floppy disk. • Volume: A volume is a logical storage device. Since a drive can have more than one volume, this term represents a part of a drive that appears, to the user, as a single unit. A volume also contains a file system, which allows a computer to keep track of where files are stored.

Even on my wider of two displays, an app’s menu items often crowd out the leftmost menubar icons. (.) Bartender 2 brings a delightful and simple management approach. With this app, you can choose to leave a menubar item alone, hide it entirely, or drop it into a secondary dropdown Bartender menu. Even if you’re hiding the item, you can set Bartender to show it whenever the icon displays activity.

From built-in tools like Disk Utility, Network Utility and Console to third-party tools like DiskWarrior, FileSalvage and iStumbler, these items help get the job done. Mac OS X Built In Utilities Apple provides a slew of utilities as part of Mac OS X, many of which are useful for troubleshooting and maintenance. All of these items can be found inside Applications/Utilities on your Macintosh hard drive. Disk Utility Most Mac users are familiar with Disk Utility. It’s used to format hard drives, create RAID arrays, mount volumes, burn disk images (.dmg files), and fix basic disk problems. The Repair Disk function can be used on any non-startup drive and can fix simple volume or filesystem errors.

It lets you log into online accounts that require without requiring the phone. • – An easy-to-use screen measurement app where you take a screenshot of an area and then use the built-in controls to measure the dimensions of any element inside no matter how tiny it is. • – You can easily publish status updates, share links and photos to in one go from the menu bar itself.

(, just in case.) About Kirk McElhearn Kirk McElhearn writes about Macs, iPods, iTunes, books, music and more on his blog. He is co-host of the, The Next Track, and PhotoActive, and a regular contributor to The Mac Security Blog, TidBITS, and several other websites and publications. Kirk has written more than twenty books, including Take Control books about iTunes, LaunchBar, and Scrivener. Follow him on Twitter at. This entry was posted in, and tagged,. Bookmark the.

• – If your 256 GB SSD on the Macbook is running low on space, use the Disk Inventory app to quickly discover large files and folders that are hogging up the space. • – From the makers of BitTorrent, Sync helps you keep files and folders on all your computers and mobile devices in sync with each other but without using the cloud. There are no size limitations either. • – If you have too many app icons cluttering the menu bar of your mac, Bartender can bring some order. It lets you hide the menu item you don’t need or you can push them to the secondary bar that will not show by default.

When you go to export a file from indesign (and most other Adobe apps) it will not save the tags with the exported file, it will save the tags with the native Adobe file however. I have talked with the folks at default folder and they put in a big effort to try and fix the problem but they ultimately where not able to fix it. One of my indispensable apps is by It was a bit inactive for awhile, but has in recent years been taken up by a talented group of people. It works much like LaunchBar and is extensible through plugins for many additional apps and functions. The key difference between it and Spotlight is the ability to do things with what you type/find.