I got tired of reading those posts where people say they got tired of searching for an app to do x so they built their own. So I wrote my own post to reflect this.

Can I get an amen???

https://redd.it/1pu921g
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Compression Programs - which is the best?

I remember my first zip program ever was WinZip. It was king of the jungle back in the day. Then WinRar came up. A new competitor.

Fast forward to today. There is a mind boggling number of compression programs.

Some people swear by Keka. It got me looking to see what is exactly unique about every program and what am I looking todo.

1) The most important thing for me is quickview/preview in bloom and finder.
2) Opens many different formats.
3) Has a nice interface

Those are top 3. I always uncompress and rarely compress.

So based on what I can see, better zip has the most quickview abilities and is very feature rich, edit items in the zip.

Peazip has over 200+ supported formats, which is great for some people.

Finally, one thing I have no given much thought about is mobile experiece. Keka appears to have a well rated mobile app.

I’d like feedback on what makes you chose the compression program you picked, was it well thought out, from a recommendation on here?





https://redd.it/1pud99f
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Looking for app ideas

Hey folks, I’m bedrotting for the weekend. Hence, i’m looking for ideas that potentially solve a huge gap/problem for you, something you’d willingly pay for.

Any ap ideas, that you potentially would have a native desktop app, or a minimised tray app for.

https://redd.it/1puei4i
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Is free lifetime access for honest feedback worth it? (Not promoting)

I need 1 advice.

I built a tool & I want honest feedback on UX, bugs and overall use.

Instead of asking for free feedback, I am thinking of giving free lifetime access in return.

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My question is:
Does this actually work? Did you tried something like this?

Will people still give honest feedback or will most people just take access and stay quiet?

I am not promoting the tool here, I am trying to decide if this is a good way to collect real feedback or a bad ide.

If you have tried something like this please I would love to hear what happened.

Thanks in advance 🙌

https://redd.it/1pukwiu
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Pages keeps misnumbering pages. Does anyone know of a more elegant workaround?

I was recently forced to move from the 09 version of Pages due to my old computer finally giving up the ghost. Since then I have been struggling with a number of missing features (no advanced search/replace, and limited options for headers and footers), but the one that is currently driving me crazy has to do with the fact that when I insert a section break and instruct the program to start in the next right side page, leaving a blank page in between it ignores that page in the page count, which leaves me with an even page on the right side (which is not how printed texts are supposed to work). To address it I keep adding blank sections in between. This brings the page numbers back to where they should to be, but it is a pain, and in some instances it messes with the headers and footers of the next section. Is there a more elegant workaround?

(crossposted to r/pages)

https://redd.it/1pulw6g
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Quick Exposé is now FREE. Activate App Expose by simply hovering over Dock
https://noteifyapp.com/quick-expose/

https://redd.it/1pun6by
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Hammerspoon 1.1.0 Released and a discussion about the future
https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/releases/tag/1.1.0

https://redd.it/1puo0w5
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Sandwich Proxy - A developer friendly, free burp-like proxy

Hey folks, I made a local proxy app for Mac - Sandwich Proxy (website). It is a proxy that can export requests as curl and detect secrets, pretty similar to Burp and to chrome developer tools but it can sit between requests and do MITM TLS intercept.


Burp is great but too expensive for my limited usage. Wireshark and macros are too complex.

I've built sandwich to help me on red team exploration for apps and at my own development cycle and as part of my journey to learn Swift and SwiftNIO.


The security alerts feature is inspired on another project of mine, https://github.com/gleicon/mcp-osv which is a plugin to assist teams using Ai Copilots to have their repo checked by vulnerabilities and credentials at development time.

Sandwich is geared at production and deployed apps but can serve a similar purpose.

https://redd.it/1pupct2
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"Adopting" apps into Homebrew - Is it worth doing?

I use a lot of mac apps and very often after I install a new one via a .dmg file or something like that, Cork and Updatest prompt me to adopt them with homebrew.

What's the point of doing that? Is there still any good reason to do it. Updating tools like Updatest have become "agnostic" about how you installed your apps, in most cases, it seems like.

For context, my setup: M3 Max 16 inch MacBook Pro with macOS 26.2

https://redd.it/1puqk3z
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QSpace Pro Users - Are You Blocking Access To Their Servers in China?

I use QSpace Pro ("QSP") and I also use Little Snitch.

Being a bit obsessive about security, I normally block QSP from accessing QSP's servers in China but it's a wee bit of a nuisance because I have to temporarily unblock that in order to check for updates.

How do other QSP users handle this?

https://redd.it/1puqvzx
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Need tips to easily migrate from Raindrop.io to Anybox

As noscript says, I decided to move away from Raindrop after experiencing performance issues. I became hit or miss whenever I tried to save a bookmark. So I have been trying Anybox for a week now, and found it to be super polished, visually appealing and more importantly, doing the 1 thing I wanted to do with precision.

I think I missed the BF sale on Pro, but tbh I don‘t know whether I need it or not. so maybe I buy LT if I need it next year.

Does anyone know of any easy migration tips/tricks to move my saved data from Raindrop to Anybox? Any help is appreciated 😉

Edit: I have around 600 saved links so doing it manually is actually hard 😅

https://redd.it/1puwjcw
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Let It Snow Desktop App - App Store [FREE, NO SUBS]
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/let-it-snow-desktop/id6755482420?mt=12

https://redd.it/1pv09xc
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Bookmark Manager that archives webpages & videos

Hello! I am looking for a bookmark manager or pkm app that allows me to give it a url of a website and it will create a copy of that website. I know a lot of bookmark managers already do this, but I am looking for something that also works well with YouTube videos if possible.

https://redd.it/1pv152d
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Created a Free & Open-source Floating App widget with Focus/Pomodo Timer. In case someone has any use for this.

Hey there, wanted to share Madda Floating Clock and Pomodo/Focus Timer with you all.
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I have a 55" OLED TV screen as my main monitor and couldn't look at the very top to see the time. Also needed a floating focus timer app to tally how much time I spent working each day.

It's very customizable and remembers the position you set it in for each monitor setup. Also compared to Dato, it can be moved to be next to the dock.

I didn't find anything that fit my requirements exactly so decided to create my own. Hope someone finds this useful and please feel free to fork it or do whatever you want with it.

Open to feedback so please let me know if you're missing a setting or have a usecase that's not supported currently so I can add it.


It's coded with Claude Opus but I guided it a lot and checked every line and wrote some parts by hand (so it's not "vibe coded", more like "agentic coded")

Also it shows the day name and number in the menu bar.

Instructions to install it are in the readme on Github.

https://github.com/maddada/MaddaFloatingClock


Hope the admins don't mind I didn't sign it because I don't want to pay $99 for a dev license.



Screenshots (with optional timers shown - can be disabled):

Pomodoro timer \(click on the clock to show it or hide it\)

Focus timer \(click on the timer to pause it, click on the clock to accumulate focus time for the day\)

Almost everything about the clock can be configured


Thank you



https://redd.it/1pv0el2
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Best CD player?

Im looking for a CD player that has gapless playback and a good UI and runs on macOS 13. Any recommendations please? Thanks.


Also burning and ripping doesn't matter too much. Maybe it does but not as much as listening.

https://redd.it/1pv3sqk
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End of the year 50% discount special for My Wellness Framework Templates for Apple Notes- use "WELLNESS50" at checkout - valid till end of year.

https://redd.it/1pv13wq
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