If you’ve bought a pair of Bluetooth headphones because you don’t have a headphone jack on your phone, this app makes it much easier to use them with your computer. The ultimate “saved you a click” app, it toggles connections to Bluetooth headphones and also shows you their connection status right in the menu bar. Why Apple hasn’t seen fit to build this function in like Microsoft did with the System Tray is a mystery surpassing human understanding. It’s cheaper and simpler than Bartender, which I used before. Vanilla, free / $4.99 for pro version.I use Karabiner-Elements (free) to remap the Caps Lock key to trigger Alfred. It feels more native to the web searching I do than Spotlight or Siri, and it’s easier to customize. My all-singing, all-dancing, command line-style search utility and clipboard history tool. Perhaps the version I use will eventually just be replaced by CloudApp. This is still my favorite screenshot annotation utility for the Mac, though an acquisition by CloudApp means that it can no longer integrate with Dropbox. I don’t think it worked very well, so this little utility just forces those keys to control playback to a specific app. Apple tried to make the Play / Pause and transport buttons on the Mac more useful by letting them control more things depending on context (e.g., stopping video in Safari). So instead of having to find the corner of a window to resize it or the title bar to move it, you can just hover your mouse anywhere in the window, hold down some keys, and move or resize it. It lets you set a little key combo that works in conjunction with your mouse to move and resize windows. Flexiglass can do that, but I use it for a different reason. I don’t love window managers that simply let you tile your apps in grids on the screen. It’s one of many window management tools.
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