Mojave Paint for Mac is a love letter to image editing programs of the past — a time before generative AI, infinitely customizable tool palettes, and online-required subscription access.
With familiar layer-based rendering and powerful typography tools, Mojave Paint works equally well for design or photography. Use masks on any filter or adjustment to get the right look on a photo, or make the best-looking flyer for a lost cat your neighborhood telephone pole has ever seen.
My thanks to NAS Reborn for sponsoring the site this week. It turns an iPhone 6s, iPad Air 2, or anything newer into a network drive for the Finder, the Files app and even Windows Explorer. Check out the TestFlight beta for iPhone, iPad and Mac at nasreborn.com.
In a kitchen drawer, between a key that fitted no door and a knot of charging cables, lay an iPhone 6s. It had once been the newest phone in the house, and it had taken more pictures of the cat than anyone would ever look at. Then one Christmas a bigger phone arrived, the old one went into the drawer “for now,” and for now lasted nine years. “We are retired, you and I,” said the key. “I am resting,” said the iPhone.
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The audio experts at Rogue Amoeba are back to sponsor 512 Pixels this holiday season with Audio Hijack, their powerful app for recording any audio on your Mac.
Audio Hijack’s tagline is short and sweet: Record any audio. With it, you can save audio from any app, any device, or even from your entire system. Record podcasts, capture streaming audio, archive audio calls, or grab sounds from games and videos. If it makes sound on your Mac, Audio Hijack can record it.
For years, turning websites into Mac apps has meant compromise - clunky wrappers, slow Electron windows, or limited Safari shortcuts.
Coherence X5 takes a different approach. It’s the first tool to use Chrome’s full power to build isolated, beautiful Mac apps that feel truly native.
With the new Liquid Glass design in macOS 26, Coherence looks right at home. Smooth transparency, adaptive color, and a refreshed creation flow make building apps fast, intuitive, and deeply Mac-like.
Quick Look is one of the most useful features on macOS. By simply selecting a file and pressing the spacebar, you can preview its contents instantly in Finder. However, Quick Look doesn’t work for folders or archive files — until now.
Folder Preview Pro fills that gap. Once installed, it allows you to preview the contents of folders and archive files using an interface that resembles Finder.
MarsEdit 5 is a major upgrade to the preeminent Mac app for editing WordPress, Micro.blog, Tumblr, and many other types of blogs.
The new microposting feature makes it as easy to post to your own blog as it is to post to social media. When MarsEdit 5 is running on your Mac, just press a configurable global keyboard shortcut, write out your latest thoughts, and instantly publish to your blog.
Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history and app usage stay private and are not harvested by ad networks.
By blocking ad trackers in Safari, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you from being followed by ads around the web.
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Clipboard managers are one of those utilities you don’t realize you need until you try one. And for years, they’ve all felt the same—catch-all junk drawers where your copy/paste history goes to die.
Quip takes a different approach. It’s a clipboard manager and text expander for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad, built to feel native, private, and actually enjoyable.
With the new Liquid Glass design in macOS and iOS 26, Quip looks like it belongs in Apple’s world of apps. Smooth animations, frosted transparency—it’s modern and responsive in a way most utilities never are.
Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac?
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Online privacy isn’t just something you should be hoping for – it’s something you should expect. You should ensure your browsing history and app usage stays private and is not harvested by ad networks.
By blocking ad trackers in Safari, Magic Lasso Adblock stops you being followed by ads around the web.
And with App Ad Blocking in Magic Lasso v5.0, it also extends protection to all apps on your device including News apps, Social media, Games and other browsers like Chrome and Firefox.