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With Fluid, you can transform any website into something your Mac will treat like an app, dock shortcut and all. Personally, I like to keep some sites handy all day, but leaving the tab open in my browser just adds to the mental burden of things I need to get to. It’s not always perfect, but Fluid is a quick and dirty solution for turning a URL into a standalone app of sorts. If tabs are on the verge of driving you to madness, Fluid might be for you. Maybe that otherworldly blue glow won’t ruin you after all. Flux adjusts your display’s color temperature in relation to the time of day, taking sunrise and sunset into account. Natural light-you know, from the sun-varies throughout the day. See also: F.lux, A Hack For Your Devices And Your Sleep Schedule If you get a sense of visual fatigue (or worse, headaches) from gazing into your Mac’s glowing abyss, Flux is your answer. We can deny the deleterious effects of staring at a glowing rectangle all day, but unfortunately, the fact of eye strain remains. Like many of the tools on this list, Found can be triggered by a custom keyboard shortcut and trained to shuffle through your files in services like Dropbox, Google Drive, Gmail and Evernote. Happily, Found is considerably smarter than Mac’s native file hunter. Spotlight never really seems to dredge up the files I wanted, so in a fit of annoyance I disabled it with Terminal’s command line. If you’re not a Spotlight fan, Found might be for you. When you’re ready to deal with your digital hoarding, just toggle it back on. When you need some peace of mind, toggle Camouflage on with a shortcut and your desktop mess with be replaced with a delightfully stuff-free overlay. If you have a melange of screenshots, random unidentifiable files and other flotsam colonizing your precious desktop territory, enable Camouflage and poof-it’s gone. If you are not among their ranks, this add-on will let you fool yourself into thinking you are.

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Much like some people always properly pair their socks or maintain inbox zero, some among us keep their desktops entirely free of clutter.

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Once you’ve defined the parameters of how you like your windows arranged-maybe a half-and-half or quadrant array is far too basic for your needs-you can click and drag windows to “hot spots” that will snap them into place without any fiddling around trying to bend a window to your spatial will. At the simplest level, this Mac add-on/app lets you divvy your screen into two instantly. If you’re working with a limited amount of screen real estate, BetterSnapTool makes organizing your windows a breeze.

If you’re a multitasker, especially on a notebook, this one is indispensable. If you’re not content with OS X’s built-in notifications sidebar-and why should you be?-power up Growl and decide exactly how you want to be notified of the endless cascade of potential social and app data that streams your way.ĭecide how each pop-up will act: where it will appear, what sounds it will make when and what exactly what those should look like. More of a platform than a single purpose add-on, Growl enables customized notifications for everything from Messages to Spotify. Conjure up Jumpcut’s menu, a transparent overlay triggered by a keyboard command (in my case Command + S), and you’ll be able to scroll through a hundred items, like handy URLs, email addresses and passwords that you might need at your fingertips. There are a few apps out there that expand your Mac’s inherent copy/paste skills, but Jumpcut is elegant, simple and so well executed that your fingers will rely on its custom shortcuts within minutes. But imagine if your computer’s capacity for recall worked a little more like your brain’s working memory, scrolling through recently relevant items and surfacing the one you need. We’re used to copying and pasting one item at a time-that’s just the way it works. A handful of these add-ons can make tasks that were previously awkward at best a breeze. Most of these tools for OS X are free and the rest are cheap-and all of them are essentials in our book. If you feel like your daily computer grind could use a little oomph, we’ve got some.

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