Tag: Mac (page 7 of 25)

Charlie Sorrel, writing for Cult of Mac:

This one may already be enabled on your Mac. Try it now. Just place your thumb and fingers onto your trackpad, and spread them out. It’s as if you’re pushing away all those windows with your fingers, and that’s exactly what happens. The windows fly off to the sides of the screen, revealing your desktop.

If you’re minimizing apps to get to your desktop, or swiping to an empty space, there’s a quicker way. The shortcut keyboard combination described in the Cult of Mac article was new to me, and I always forget about the trackpad gesture. Not mentioned in the article is that if you have a MacBook Pro with a Touch Bar, you can also set up a virtual key to take you to your desktop.

Romain Dillet, writing for TechCrunch:

And the numbers are quite impressive after just a year. Over 200,000 people tried Setapp and 15,000 are paying. It represents around $1.5 million in annual recurring revenue (even though a large portion of this revenue goes back to app developers). Setapp could represent a breath of fresh air for many independent Mac developers. Instead of relying of [sic] big income spikes around major releases, they could get some money every month from Setapp users.

If you’re on the fence about Setapp, I recommend trying it for a few months. The big advantage if you’re someone who already owns many of the apps the service offers: discovery and use of apps you might not even try.

I had actually gone through the trial of Setapp, and then dropped the service for several months because I already owned many of the apps. But when an app I owned came out with an update, I decided to give Setapp another try instead. As it turns out, I’m now using several apps that I wouldn’t have otherwise even tried. This was a surprise to me.