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With Loopback, moving audio between applications goes from impossible to trivial. Loopback can combine audio from any software application and any hardware device, to make a virtual source usable anywhere.

Enhance the sound of your mic on Zoom calls, or pipe in music and sound effects. Podcasters can combine a mic with audio sources like Music.app or our own soundboard app Farrago, so remote guests all hear the same thing. Gamers can record gameplay videos with both game audio and commentary. With an easy-to-understand wire-based interface, Loopback gives you all the power of a high-end studio mixing board, right inside your computer!

Download the free trial of Loopback to take a test drive! Through the end of October, 512 Pixels readers can save 20% with coupon code HACK20LB.

Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac?

Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. It’s easy to setup, blocks all YouTube ads, and doubles the speed at which Safari loads.

Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high performance ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac. It simply and easily blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances in Safari. Just enable to browse in bliss.

By cutting down on ads and trackers, common news websites load 2x faster and use less data.

Over 280,000+ users rely on Magic Lasso Adblock to:

• Improve their privacy and security by removing ad trackers
• Block over 10 types of YouTube ads, including pre-roll video ads
• Double battery life during heavy web browsing
• Lower data usage when on the go

And unlike some other ad blockers, Magic Lasso Adblock respects your privacy, doesn’t accept payment from advertisers and is 100% supported by its community of users.

Join over 280,000 users and download Magic Lasso Adblock from the App Store, Mac App Store or via the Magic Lasso website.

TextExpander’s customizable and shareable snippets of text allow your team to fly through repetitive tasks quickly by expanding the things you type regularly — all you have to do is type a short abbreviation and TextExpander does the rest of the work for you.

Here’s How It Works:

• Create It: Collect your most commonly used emails, phrases, messaging, URLs, and more to create snippets and templates in TextExpander that are always accessible with a quick search or abbreviation.
• Share It: Give your team or different departments across your company access to the content they need to use every day.
• Use It: Expand the content you need with just a few keystrokes on any device, across any app you use — no APIs or integrations needed.
• Optimize It: Add customizations like fill-ins and optional sections to keep that human touch. Anytime you make changes to snippets they update everywhere so your team is always on the same page.

It’s that easy!

Check out TextExpander and say goodbye to repetitive typing.

The future of web-based macOS apps is about to change. Unite 5, the next generation of the popular Unite app is launching next week. Building on its lightweight, WebKit-powered browser backend, the new version offers groundbreaking features that make your Mac even more versatile.

Unite 5 takes customization to the next level, with an array of new modes that allow you to use web apps like never before. Whether it’s a personalized Gmail client or a high-performance workspace for resource-intensive apps, Unite 5 offers a solution that fits seamlessly into your workflow.

In its first significant update since launching Unite 4 in 2020, Unite 5 offers dozens of major new features and a new vision for how the web and macOS can coexist.

Stay tuned for more details at bzgapps.com/coming-soon.

Do you want to block all YouTube ads in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac?

Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you.

It’s easy to setup, doubles the speed at which Safari loads and now blocks all YouTube ads.
Magic Lasso is an efficient, high performance and native Safari ad blocker. With over 4,000 five star reviews; it’s simply the best ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac.

It blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances – letting you experience a faster, cleaner and more secure web browsing experience.

The app also blocks over 10 types of YouTube ads, including all:

• video ads
• pop up banner ads.
• search ads
• plus many more

And unlike some other ad blockers, Magic Lasso Adblock respects your privacy, doesn’t accept payment from advertisers and is 100% supported by its community of users.

Join over 280,000 users and download Magic Lasso Adblock from the App Store, Mac App Store or via the Magic Lasso website.

TextExpander’s customizable and shareable snippets of text allow your team to fly through repetitive tasks quickly by expanding the things you type regularly — all you have to do is type a short abbreviation and TextExpander does the rest of the work for you.

Here’s How It Works:

• Create It: Collect your most commonly used emails, phrases, messaging, URLs, and more to create snippets and templates in TextExpander that are always accessible with a quick search or abbreviation.
• Share It: Give your team or different departments across your company access to the content they need to use every day.
• Use It: Expand the content you need with just a few keystrokes on any device, across any app you use — no APIs or integrations needed.
• Optimize It: Add customizations like fill-ins and optional sections to keep that human touch. Anytime you make changes to snippets they update everywhere so your team is always on the same page.

It’s that easy!

Check out TextExpander and say goodbye to repetitive typing.

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 Twitter.” 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.

MarsEdit supports editing posts in rich or plain text, and the latest update is especially great for Markdown fans. Now when you’re writing Markdown in plain text mode, MarsEdit applies live, beautiful syntax highlighting to make it easier to focus separately on the content and style of your posts.

MarsEdit is used by top bloggers to maximize their productivity and enjoyment of blogging. It’s great for pros like John Gruber of Daring Fireball, and yours truly, while also being simple enough to remove the mystery of blogging for everyday folks who just want to share their thoughts with the world.

New this month: MarsEdit has a new beta featuring preliminary support for publishing to Mastodon! Now you can use the same app you use to write and publish to your main blog, to write and publish to your Mastodon microblog. Check out the beta at this link

One app, limitless publishing opportunities.

Download MarsEdit today, and see what all the hype is about. It’ll make you a better blogger!

Unite 4 for macOS allows you to turn any website into an app on your Mac. Using a lightweight, WebKit-powered browser as a backend, you can easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site.

Unite 4 includes dozens of new features, including support for native notifications, new customization options, and much more. Unite apps also serve as a great alternative for resource-hogging Electron apps or half-baked Catalyst apps.

Some examples of apps you could create in mere minutes with Unite:

• A Gmail web client that behaves like a native mail client.
• A status bar app for Apple Music or Overcast
• An isolated workspace for apps that may track you like Facebook
• A Google Meet app that works efficiently without using Chrome
• A fully featured Instagram app that has a resizable window, unlike the M1 version.
• A Robinhood, Figma, or Roam Research app for your desktop.

512 Pixels readers get 20% off this week when you purchase Unite 4 at bzgapps.com/unite512 or when you use the promo code ‘512Pixels’ at checkout.

You can also try Unite for 14 days absolutely free or use it as part of your subscription if you’re a Setapp subscriber!

With Audio Hijack, you can record any audio on your Mac. Save audio from individual applications such as Safari or Zoom, record from hardware audio devices like microphones and mixers, or even capture the audio output of the entire system. Whatever you need to do with audio on your Mac, Audio Hijack can help.

• Record conversations from Zoom, FaceTime, and other VoIP apps
• Save streaming audio from the web
• Create podcasts, both remote and in-studio
• Digitize vinyl
• And so much more

Audio Hijack 4.2 just shipped with three powerful new effects (Speech Denoise, Parametric EQ, and FIR Filter) to enhance your audio, alongside over two dozen improvements. Check out the latest version of the award-winning Audio Hijack today.

And through the end of August, 512 Pixels readers can save 20% when you purchase with coupon code HACK20. Learn more and download a free trial on the Audio Hijack site.

Want to experience twice as fast load times in Safari on your iPhone, iPad and Mac?

Then download Magic Lasso Adblock – the ad blocker designed for you. It is easy to setup, blocks all YouTube ads, and doubles the speed at which Safari loads.

Magic Lasso Adblock is an efficient and high performance ad blocker for your iPhone, iPad and Mac. It simply and easily blocks all intrusive ads, trackers and annoyances in Safari. Just enable to browse in bliss.

By cutting down on ads and trackers, common news websites load 2x faster and use less data.

Over 280,000+ users rely on Magic Lasso Adblock to:

• Improve their privacy and security by removing ad trackers
• Block over 10 types of YouTube ads, including pre-roll video ads
• Double battery life during heavy web browsing
• Lower data usage when on the go

And unlike some other ad blockers, Magic Lasso Adblock respects your privacy, doesn’t accept payment from advertisers and is 100% supported by its community of users.

Download today via the Magic Lasso website, the App Store and Mac App Store.

TextExpander’s customizable and shareable snippets of text allow your team to fly through repetitive tasks quickly by expanding the things you type regularly — all you have to do is type a short abbreviation and TextExpander does the rest of the work for you.

Here’s How It Works:

• Create It: Collect your most commonly used emails, phrases, messaging, URLs, and more to create snippets and templates in TextExpander that are always accessible with a quick search or abbreviation.
• Share It: Give your team or different departments across your company access to the content they need to use every day.
• Use It: Expand the content you need with just a few keystrokes on any device, across any app you use — no APIs or integrations needed.
• Optimize It: Add customizations like fill-ins and optional sections to keep that human touch. Anytime you make changes to snippets they update everywhere so your team is always on the same page.

It’s that easy!

Check out TextExpander and say goodbye to repetitive typing.

Unite 4 for macOS allows you to turn any website into an app on your Mac. Using a lightweight, WebKit-powered browser as a backend, you can easily create isolated, customizable apps from any site.

Unite 4 includes dozens of new features, including support for native notifications, new customization options, and much more. Unite apps also serve as a great alternative for resource-hogging Electron apps or half-baked Catalyst apps.

Some examples of apps you could create in mere minutes with Unite:

• A Gmail web client that behaves like a native mail client.
• A status bar app for Apple Music or Overcast
• An isolated workspace for apps that may track you like Facebook
• A Google Meet app that works efficiently without using Chrome
• A fully featured Instagram app that has a resizable window, unlike the M1 version.
• A Robinhood, Figma, or Roam Research app for your desktop.

512 Pixels readers get 20% off this week when you purchase Unite 4 at bzgapps.com/unite512 or when you use the promo code ‘512Pixels’ at checkout.

You can also try Unite for 14 days absolutely free or use it as part of your subscription if you’re a Setapp subscriber!