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About macOS and Applications for Apple Mac computers.

LosslessCut

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LosslessCut is a free, open-source tool for fast, lossless editing of video and audio files, enabling users to trim, cut, merge, and remux without re-encoding or quality loss. Designed for efficiency, it provides features such as track selection, snapshot capture, and metadata adjustment, making it ideal for tasks like removing commercials, extracting tracks, or fixing video orientation. The app is available for macOS, Windows, and Linux, with official versions available via app stores for easy installation and updates.

https://losslesscut.app/

macOS Needs Its Grid Back

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The author reminisces about the macOS 10.5 Leopard feature called Spaces, which allowed virtual desktops arranged in a customizable grid, enabling efficient spatial navigation that was lost when macOS Lion replaced it with a single-row Mission Control interface. To restore this functionality, the author developed GridLion, an app that recreates grid-based virtual desktop navigation on modern macOS versions despite API limitations and complex permission hurdles, emphasizing the ongoing value of well-crafted software.

https://blog.hopefullyuseful.com/blog/macos-needs-its-grid-back/

BBEdit 16

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BBEdit 16 introduces expanded macOS Shortcuts support, improved HTML5 syntax checking via the W3C checker, and the ability to search text within images using OCR. It also offers enhanced project-specific color schemes, vi keyboard emulation, an improved Language Server Protocol integration for syntax coloring, faster SFTP operations, and streamed AI worksheet responses. These updates enhance both coding and text-processing workflows, maintaining BBEdit’s reputation as a robust, versatile macOS text editor.

https://mjtsai.com/blog/2026/06/01/bbedit-16/

Kept – LLM Chat Archive

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Kept is a local-first tool that archives AI chat conversations from multiple LLM providers as plain markdown files stored on your filesystem, enabling full-text search, semantic recall, and integration with tools like Obsidian. It supports manual and automatic capture, offers a knowledge graph and topic clustering, and includes a MCP server for integration with other clients, while maintaining user data privacy by default without any cloud dependency.

https://kept.work/

Macshot

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Macshot is a free, open-source screenshot and screen recording tool for macOS that offers a comprehensive set of features including annotation, blur, beautify, scroll capture, OCR, and upload capabilities. Designed for macOS 12.3+ with support for Apple Silicon and Intel, it enables quick capture with global hotkeys, easy annotation editing, smart censoring, and instant sharing, all while being lightweight and native.

https://macshot.io/

Iris Photos

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Iris Photos is a native macOS photo library app that lets users privately manage, explore, and rediscover their photos on their own Mac without using the cloud. It scans existing folders or the Apple Photos library in read-only mode, offering features like on-device facial recognition, location mapping, timeline organization, powerful search, and multi-device viewing, all while keeping original files unchanged and user data fully private.

https://irisphotos.app/

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