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CleanMyMac X: Finally a Mac-Cleaning App That Doesn’t Suck!

Published on Mar 2nd, 2019 By Admin

According to its website, CleanMyMac X is:

…an all-in-one package to awesomize your Mac. It cleans megatons of junk and makes your computer run faster. Just like it did on day one.

I’m skeptical of such hyperbole and, quite frankly, I’ve never used any “clean up your Mac” app I liked enough to recommend.

CleanMyMac X Changed my Mind

MacPaw’s new CleanMyMac X is the exception to the rule. To augment its namesake feature—cleaning up accumulated cruft on your disks—it has a total of 14 different tools that can help optimize and protect your drives.

The signature feature is called Smart Scan; it scans your disk for obsolete and orphaned files, detects malware, and runs a suite of Mac maintenance scripts with a single click.

Smart Scan in action.

A recent Smart Scan of my startup disk uncovered 110.33GB of potentially unneeded files including more than 90GB of cache files for photos, music, screensavers, and websites.

Results of the Smart Scan.

Cache files are a double-edged sword. They can speed up the performance of Photos, iTunes, screensavers, websites, and many other operations. That being said, cache files can also grow to gargantuan proportions.

After the scan it organizes the files it thinks might be unneeded into five categories: System Junk, Photo Junk, iTunes Junk, Mail Attachments, and Trash Bins. Each category has a list of potentially unneeded files, each with a checkbox,

In my case, an assortment of cache files (System Junk) were using more than 10% of my 1TB drive.

Some (not all) of the “System Junk” CleanMyMac X found on my startup disk.

I didn’t notice any effect on Photos, iTunes, or Safari’s performance after deleting the cache files, and I loved having more than 100GB of new-found free space on my boot drive.

This before (left) and after (right) shot tells the story of my 100+GB of cruft.

But Wait! There’s More!

In addition to Smart Scan, there are several other useful tools:

Uninstaller uninstalls applications properly by deleting all of their related files, even files that are hidden from view.
Updater checks your non-App Store apps and identifies those with updates available.
Large and Old Files* identifies large and forgotten files and allows you to easily delete them.
Privacy cleans your browser history including auto-fill forms and other data saved by popular browsers.

*I used the Large and Old file scan to ferret out another 50+GB of large files and files I hadn’t seen or even thought about in years. I archived ones I wanted to save to another disk, and trashed the rest. The net result was another 50+ GB of additional free space for a grand total of more than 150GB!.

And Even More…

CleanMyMac X also includes a menu bar item that displays a ton of useful information including available disk space and memory; battery status with battery-hogging apps; size of all items in Trash; and current CPU load.

CleanMyMac X’s menubar app provides useful stats.

While I already have most of that information in my menubar courtesy of Bjango’s iStat Menus, it may be useful to you and save you the $14.99 for iStat Menus. (I run ’em both.)

Finally, CleanMyMac X can alert you when:

Free disk space falls below a specified threshold.
Trash exceeds a specified size.
An application is hung in the background (i.e stopped responding).
Free memory (RAM) is low.

This is the first Mac “cleaner” app I actually like using and am comfortable running full-time on my daily driver Mac. But I feel obliged to say that while I’ve had no issues whatsoever with CleanMyMac X over many weeks of testing, you should absolutely, positively back up your data, back it up again,) and then test both backups before using CleanMyMac X or ANY OTHER utility that deletes data, changes files, and/or modifies system files.

I did it before running CleanMyMac X. If you’re smart you’ll do the same.

CleanMyMac X. MacPaw. One Year Subscription $39.95. One-Time Purchase $89.95. It’s also partof SetApp.

The Best Video Editing Software to Buy for Mac in 2019

Published on Feb 16th, 2019 By Admin

Macs and video editors have long been up a tree, K-I-S-S-I-N-G. Professionals were editing in Avid back in the late 1980s, and iMovie debuted in 1999 alongside the FireWire-enabled iMac DV.

Today’s Macs are much more powerful than their ancestors, and that means even free apps are capable of doing some amazing things with video. It’s surprising how much you can do without spending any money: in some cases the only difference between free apps and their extremely expensive siblings is a handful of features only pro editors will need. That’s a smart business strategy; the tinkerers of today could be the pros of tomorrow.

There’s one editor we’re disappointed not to include: VideoLAN Movie Creator(VLMC). It’s based on the VLC editor – one of our must-have apps – but it’s still in alpha, which means it’s not reliable enough or finished enough for prime time just yet.

If you want a video editing software that you can use even if you don’t have much experience (and you plan on growing as a video editor while using it), then Final Cut Pro X is well worth your consideration. It may take a few tutorial videos to really get yourself ready to start doing much, but once you get your feet wet, you can do basic editing and learn more and more advanced tricks over time.

While Final Cut Pro X is a professional video editing tool, it’s approachable enough for hobbyist videographers to get on board with. And it has a bit more reasonable price than some of the other serious pro video editing software. As a pro software, it comes packed with handy features to help you realize your vision.

The latest version of Final Cut Pro X has the multi-track timeline needed for editing but brings in the future of video and pro features. It supports 360-degree video, graphics, and effects. You can edit together video from multi-cam recording setups and easily switching between multiple angles. And, you can create HDR content. That’s just the tip of the iceberg.

Apple offers a free trial so you can see if this one is up your alley before you dive all the way in.

Most Accessible Apple editor: Apple iMovie

If you really just want to get started editing videos on your Mac, or even on your iPhone or iPad, then the easiest way is to get Apple iMovie. This is Apple’s free video editing software, and it runs on both Mac OS and iOS platforms, so you can do you video editing just about wherever you go.

For hobbyist and amateur filmmakers, Apple iMovie will have approachable tools to help you easily take your footage and edit a video with a clear flow. You’ll be able to combine multiple video files, layer different video and audio tracks, and add title screens to your video without much fuss. It even includes video filters and some special effects, including picture-in-picture.

The latest version of Apple iMovie keeps up with the trends in video, supporting 4K video editing. So, all that 4K video you capture on your iPhone can be turned into a movie in iMovie. If you haven’t done video editing before, this is a good place to get started before moving on to more serious software.

Best for Pros: Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Adobe’s Premiere Pro CC (Creative Cloud) software is a powerful video editor for professionals putting out movies, short films, and the like. Of course, it’s also a viable option for hobbyists looking to sharpen their teeth on a video editor that gets used in professional positions. If you’re not trying to go professional with your editing quite yet, you may want to check out the next pick.

Adobe Premiere Pro CC is a constantly evolving video editing software, as Adobe rolls out updates over time. Rather than buying a single edition of the software, you pay for a subscription as long as you’re using it. An added perk is that the software isn’t exclusive to Mac, so you can switch between different computers with different operating systems if you need to.

That subscription gives you access to Premiere Pro for editing all sorts of video, from 3D and even 8K. You’ll also be able to handle audio tracks, add graphics, manage light and color, and effectively put together whatever video you can imagine. If you use Adobe’s other software, like Photoshop or Illustrator, then Premiere Pro will be a great option for easily integrating different workflows.

Easiest-to-Use Cross-Platform Editor: Adobe Premiere Elements 2018

Adobe Premiere Elements 2018 is almost exactly what it sounds like. It’s a stripped down version of the pro Premiere software. This does make it a little less capable, and new features aren’t constantly rolling out to it, but it works as an easily approachable video editing software for those just getting started. And, without a subscription model, you can pay for the software once and you’re set.

If you’re an amateur just getting started with video editing, and especially if you’re not planning on going pro, then Premiere Elements 2018 will be an excellent pick for you. While Premiere Elements does give you plenty of tools for putting together multiple video, image, and audio files into one complete video, it also has some tools to help you make a better video if you’re not a savvy editor already. Plus, the software is available on both Mac and PC.

Premier Elements 2018 helps you organize the files you’ll be using in your video, and it can guide you through the editing process from beginning to end. It will also let you add in some fun little effects to spice up your video. And, in keeping with the times, it supports 4K video.

Best Open-Source Software: Shotcut

Shotcut is highly versatile free video editing software available on Mac and PC. Once you get past the somewhat steep learning curve, you’ll find you can do quite a lot with Shotcut. And, since it’s a free software, you have the option of seeing whether or not you like it without having to pay a cent.

Shotcut is a multi-track editing software like any other serious software, and you can readily rearrange the workspace to suit your editing needs. Shotcut supports a wide variety of file types for both input and output, including 4K video. Plus, you can edit audio, color, and lighting effects in Shotcut.

Though Shotcut isn’t the easiest software to just pick up and start editing videos with, the nature of being a free software means plenty of people are using it and making incredibly helpful tutorial videos or guides on how to use it. And, if you want a readily portable option, Shotcut is it, since you can run it directly off an external storage drive.

Best Starter Freeware: Lightworks

Lightworks blends the offerings of a free editing software with a paid one. Compared to Shotcut, it has an easier learning curve, but some of the features that you’ll want may be part of the paid Lightworks Pro version, such as the ability to export your final product in more video formats and higher resolutions.

Whether or not you need the free or paid versions is a question you can answer for yourself later on though, as either will let you import a wide range of file formats, easily edit together multiple files, manage your audio, add titles, and tweak your visuals.

The free version of Lightworks will be a fine option for anyone who isn’t concerned much about video resolution, as you’ll still be able to output web-ready 720p videos. But, if you try out Lightworks, like how it works, and want to stick with it as your video editor of choice, you can upgrade to the Pro software and start putting out high-quality video. Plus, Lightworks is available on Windows, Mac, and Linux, so you’ll be able to stick with Lightworks even if you stop using a Mac later on.

Best Freeware: DaVinci Resolve 15

If you’re ready to get started editing all kinds of videos and putting out the final product in a high-quality, 4K format without having to pay a cent to do so, then DaVinci Resolve 15 is a great option. While there is a paid Studio version, you’ll really only need to go with that if you’re planning to do some collaboration or want access to a few of the software’s more advanced tools and effects.

For the most part, DaVinci Resolve 15 is going to give you plenty of functionality to take your footage, organize it with data to help you find what you need, and edit it all together. Once you’re done, you can output in just about any format you need, whether you want the highest quality or something that’s ready to upload quickly to YouTube.

If you want a video editing software you can get serious with, then DaVinci Resolve 15 fits the bill. It’s just a bonus that the free version is so capable because it’ll give you a chance to try it for yourself and see if it feels like something you can really use.

Best for Tutorial and Presentation Videos: Camtasia

Camtasia is particularly handy if you’re planning to make videos that will use footage captured from your computer screen. That’s because it’s a screen recorder and video editor built into one product.

With Camtasia, you’ll be able to record the screen and audio of your computer or even your iOS device. If you’re putting together tutorial videos, this capability will be incredibly useful. Plus, you have the option of adding webcam footage on top of the screen-captured video.

Beyond screen-capture, Camtasia also gives you multi-track timeline editing and tools for transitions, animations, audio and video effects, and annotations. If you want to make a presentation video, you can also add in a PowerPoint. So, whether you’re an educator, business professional, or just trying to put some tutorials up on YouTube, Camtasia offers tools you can use to capture and edit the video you need. A free trial will give you a chance to see if its tool and features a good fit for you.

Best Paid & Free Screen Recording Software for Mac

Published on Feb 16th, 2019 By Admin

Screen Recording Software for Mac is designed to capture all screen activities while you work on the Mac display. The best screen recording software should be able to capture videos in HD quality that is critical for coding tutorial and game demonstration videos. There are several paid and free Mac screen recording software available in the market, and the basic features can be found on free screen recorder apps.

Here we listed some basic Mac screen recorder software for free and a couple of paid recorder apps that has some extended features best for professional use.

1. Free Screen Recorders Apps for Mac

When you go for Mac free screen recorder, please keep in mind, many of them will come with time-limited recording, or some features will be missing. But these apps will be a good choice for those who don’t want to spend money on these apps.

QuickTime Player

Mac users know that Quick Time Player is the default video player on Mac. QuickTime can also be used for the playing different media files present on the system and support a wide range of video formats. Despite being a video player it can also perform screen recording software easily and you can choose the entire desktop or the selected area for recording. There is an optional feature to show the mouse and add microphone audio in the recording video.

Download from Apple

Monosnap

Monosnap is a free Mac screen recording software coming with the option of turning on your webcam, mic and system’s audio all before the recording. You can your Mac’s inbuilt camera or an external camera for the recordings on the software. MonoSnap records the screen in 60fps to ensure an ultra-smooth playback to meet the need in the demanding situations. For screenshots, Monosnap can capture full or part of the screen delayed screen capture and hotkey setup to trigger the screenshot.

monosnap The video recording support to capture screencasts, blur private information from the screen and also let you highlight the important information with text, marker or arrows. This Mac Screen Recorder is ideal for students and professionals with its integration with the cloud. You can connect the cloud drives such as Dropbox, CloudApp, Yandex.Disk, Box.com, Google Drive or FTPs to upload screen recorded videos and screenshots to share with other PCs and smartphones. Monosnap is mainly good for one-off recordings that are short and can be shared quickly.

Download from Apple Store

Icecream Screen Recorder

You can easily use Icecream Screen Recorder to capture any area of the screen. Capture as well as save the area in the form of a screenshot or video file over your system. Record your games, webinars and Skype video calls in HD quality in a quick and simple manner.

Record the screen in a window as well as in full-screen mode to display the content in the best possible manner. You can easily add your own watermark while capturing the screen of your desktop or laptop. Set your video quality output and record the entire screen in that manner.

Download from Website

OBS Studio

OBS Studio is an open source and free software for video recording and live streaming for Windows, MAC & Linux. You can get high-performance real-time video/audio capturing and mixing, with unlimited scenes. The additional filters available for video sources such as image masking, color correction, chroma/color keying, and more. The built-in audio mixer is coming with filter functions such as noise gate, noise suppression, and gain.

Download from Website

Jing

Jing is an interesting free screen capture application from TechSmith, different from all other screen-capture software. The captured video can be saved in SWF format or stored in the screencast. Coming with a five-minute video recording with the option of using the mic while recording, it is a good option for narrating the steps to solve a problem.

Download from Website

Screen Recorder Robot Lite

This is one of the simplest tool presents for screencasting and edits the recorded video to perfection. Unlike many free recording tools it doesn’t include any watermark on the video and every mouse click can be detected easily with the tool. The videos recorded through the tool can be a minimum of 200 seconds and maximum of 600 seconds. You can record over and over then edit the video to make a big video.

Download from Apple Store

Recordit: Instant Screencasts

Recordit allows you to make a quick video of yourself doing something interesting on your Mac. You can easily turn the recorded video into a GIF and share them instantly without any trouble encountered. From the software, you can record the screen for 5 minutes and create a GIF from the recorded video. The screencast is uploaded to the software’s servers from where it can be shared to other platforms.

Download from Apple Store

Apowersoft Screen Recorder

Apowersoft Screen Recorder is a great professional tool for screen recording. The program is quite rich in features and gives more control to the user during the screen recording process. Create a vivid tutorial that includes your feelings along with the recording.

Record in the best possible manner with the three recording modes as well as use different audio inputs for recording. Configure the mouse style for recording the screen in the manner that you find suitable for yourself.

Download from Mac App Store

Record it

Record it is a good and professional tool that allows you to record your screen for displaying the software as well as giving video tutorials. You can capture the screen for iOS devices with the tool through Airplay / Wi-Fi. Access the custom recorder feature of the tool to capture the videos at full screen or any size.

You can easily export the screen video to other online sharing platforms and also export it as a GIF. The one-click feature of the tool makes the screen recording process quite simple for the beginners. The interface is smooth allowing the people to have more control over the screen recording process.

Download from Mac App Store

2. Paid Mac Screen Recorder Apps

As you know, the paid Mac screen recorder apps are good for customer support and packed with a lot of features as well as no restriction for maximum recording time.

Snagit

Another great Mac screen recording software from TechSmith, Snagit is premium screen recorder software which can download at a one-time cost of $49.95. Combining some of the best editing features; it is an easy to use software to record desktop.

The recorded video is saved in MP4 format and comes with a large 1 GB file limit. After doing the recording, you can send the video to any suitable application service offering a great level of reliability.

Download from Website

Camtasia

Camtasia 2 is one of the most famous and professional screen recording software for Mac OS and is offered for a price of $99. With the extensive layout, the user can make smooth editing and mix on the recorded video.

camtasia-2 Add titles, annotations, transitions and panning animations on the recorded movie to increase the effect of the video. The tools of the software are huge time savers for the people who record screen regularly.

Download from Apple Store

Screen Record Studio HD

It is a professional screen recording software that can be purchased for $4.99. Screen Record Studio supplies some good text and image logos along with screen recording feature. The people can mix two audio sources and add mouse click animation along with the click count. You can record for a particular time by setting a timer for recording. The software can only record for only 120 seconds.

Download from Apple Store

AV Recorder & Screen Capture

AV Recorder & Screen Capture allows you to capture everything and anything on your screen. It offers a max resolution of 2800 by 1800 for recording video. Make gameplay tutorial with its perfect FPS option and auto stop recording at a fixed time. If you want to shorten the recording then you can trim the video easily from the software. The recording software is offered to people at a cost of $9.99. The sharing of videos can be done online with ease.

Download from Apple Store

Capto Screen Capture

Bring out the creativity present in you by capturing informative and compelling videos with Capto Screen Capture. Record your entire screen or selected portions in Full HD at 60 FPS with clear audio. You can also record your emotions during the screen recording process with system’s camera or through an external recording device.

The powerful video editing suite of the tool gives you all the features to make the recorded video better. The file manager of the tool offers easy storage as well as retrieval of the projects. Just sort the recorded videos in efficiently labeled folders that are customizable in every manner.

Download from Mac App Store

Screen Recorder Movavi

Get the unique possibility for capturing the screen in high quality with Movavi Screen Recorder. You can easily capture the gameplay, video as well as audio streams through the tool available for the purpose. Capture the movement of the mouse along with the keyboard actions for recording a tutorial or how to do video in a better way.

Coming with automatic monitor area, the recorder can be adjusted into any specific manner preferred by you. You can add system alerts, keyboard types, cursors types as well as custom sounds on clicks. The tool also comes with a timer allowing you to add a timerand relax on your chair, while recording is going on its own.

Download from Mac App Store

Screen Recorder Pro

Record the screen of your Mac at 30 frames to 60 frames per second with optimum performance result through Screen Recorder Pro. Choose to record the computer audio or record it from the internet, app or any game. With custom scaling, you can easily scale down the recorded video to get the necessary result in the video.

Compress the video after the recording process to make it small for uploading on social networking sites. Record the screen with no time limit and save the file in MOV or MP4 format. With the tool, you can add mouse click animation with your logo as well as your signature to the recorded video.

Download from Mac App Store

Perhaps the most prominent use of Mac Screen Recording Software is for showing off the solution to a system problem and upload on Youtube. When you use the screen recorder software for Mac, rather than just recording the screen, you may have a bunch of features that will improve the productivity.

These features include audio recording, selected window recording etc. The screen recorder software available in different names ‘screen capturing’ or ‘screen recording’ or ‘desktop recording,’ they all are doing the same job with some additional features like point zooming, area highlighting, video subtitle, etc.

With these top pick Mac Screen Recorder software, you can easily make screencast videos, make tutorials more explanative and clear. You can choose the best screen recorder from the paid or free ones in order to have the features as well as the characteristics needed to make a great tutorial video.

10 Best Mac Cleaner Software to Optimize your Mac

Published on Feb 20th, 2019 By Admin

Have you already updated your OS X to macOS Sierra? Well, might be quite happy with its all new super awesome features. But wait…how about the disk space? You might get saddened with its tiny storage space left. Now you must be wondering where the hell all its memory has gone? Again hold on…we can analyze its usage for you.

The entire disk space is taken away by the apps you have installed, the files you have stored and of course its OS also has a share of it. But these are not the real culprits. If there’s anything you can blame it on, then its duplicates, cache files, unused apps and many more files like this. Worry not, we have listed top 10 Mac optimization apps for your help. These are the best mac cleaning software that will allow you to remove all unwanted apps and files in no time.

10 Best Mac Cleaner and Optimizer

1. TuneupMyMac:

This is the best Mac cleaning software. As manual decluttering eats lots of time & effort, you need a dedicated optimization tool that helps clean out unwanted clutter in a jiffy. TuneupMyMac by Systweak Software is one such cleaning app that offers plethora of advanced features & powerful tools to effortlessly improve your machine’s performance. It’s a one-stop solution to boost your system that features several optimization modules like One Click Cleaning, Logs Cleaner, Uninstaller, App Optimizer, Startup manager, Duplicate Finder, Shredder utility and much more. It’s quick “One Click Cleaning” feature makes it one of the best Mac optimization app in the market right now! Get rid of unwanted mess in a flash!

2. CCleaner:

This Mac optimizer is available in three versions, namely free, professional and professional plus. Successively each version adds up more features for users to analyze their disk usage. For anyone who is looking for free version, the app will only fasten your Mac and protect privacy. Apart from its versions, the app does fine with figuring out unwanted files from various drivers.

3. DaisyDisk:

Developed by Software Ambience Corp., DaisyDisk is an app that shows up scanning results in pie chart. Upon launching, the app asks you to select a disk and scans it. It also gives you a clear disk usage figures when clicked on specific colors. Further, the app come up with files that are occupying this space and you can delete these files from there.See Also:-

4. Disk Inventory X:

This is another disk cleaning software for Mac. It scans the disk to figure out its usage and shows it up in treemap format which is also indicated with different colors. Users can click on each section and preview all files in each folder, prior to deleting them.

5. CleanMyMac X:

CleanMyMac X is a later version of CleanMyMac app, developed by MacPaw. Upon launching, you need to scan the disk with this Mac cleaning software. It then comes up with results in different categories like System Junk, iPhoto Junk, iTunes Junk, Trash and more. Once you have previewed your files in each section, you can proceed to delete all unwanted ones.

6. Dr. Cleaner:

Dr. Cleaner app sorts the disk usage results in categories and sub-categories, after it has been scanned. Like others, this software also let you preview your files and delete them afterwards.

7. MacCleanse:

Developed by Koingo Software, Inc., MacCleanse is comprehensive software. It scans your disk thoroughly and lists it results in various categories. The software’s Cleanup chiefly focus on Cache, Logs, Recent Files, Blacklists, Trash, Web and Others. Along with this, it also tells the estimated total usage of disk for better cleaning.

8. Disk Doctor:

Disk Doctor is another app in ‘the best Mac cleaning software’ list. Once Disk Doctor has scanned the disk, it separately mentions its usage in numbers. Along with this, it also lets you recover storage space in a few clicks. The app mainly categories results in Application Caches, Application Logs, Browser Data, Trash Can, Downloads, Mail Downloads and Large Files groups.

9. Data Rescue 5:

Developed by Prosoft Engineering, Data Rescue cleans Mac even for partially functioning drives. It is an easy-to-use software with clear and smart interface. Along with all other of its functions, Data Rescue can also scan external drives to optimize them. Apart from all its good features, the application sometimes lacks in recovering all data in complete. Other than this, it’s a fine application to clean and optimize Mac.

10. OnyX:

OnyX is another free software to analyze and optimize a disk on Mac. The software has basic interface; with which you can figure out the remnant files on your Mac. The application runs good on Mac but it requires different versions to run on different Mac OS Xs.

These are the top 10 cleaning and optimization apps for Mac. Most of them are free, accurate and easy-to-use apps. We’d recommend users to select the application which has intuitive interface along with accuracy, just like Disk Clean Pro.

Best Apple Watch Apps in 2019

Published on Feb 16th, 2019 By Admin

Apps might not be the first things that come to mind when you think about the Apple Watch, but many developers have put a great deal of time and effort towards creating great experiences for the smallest screens that Apple makes. These apps often emphasize quick actions — getting in and getting out.

From fitness to productivity, here are 10 of the best Apple Watch apps that you can download right now.

Things

Things is a great task manager on the iPhone, and its Apple Watch app makes tracking the day’s tasks simple. The primary screen in Things puts your day’s tasks in front of you, which you can check off as you complete them right on your watch. You can also tap on each task to get a little more detail or to move that task to the next day. In an excellent, if small, piece of visual feedback, a circle under Today shows how many tasks you’ve completed, and continues to fill as you finish more to-dos.

Adding an item to your list is also dead simple. Just tap the + button and speak to your watch. When that task is created, you can tap on it to add a start date or deadline.

$10 – Download Now

Overcast

Overcast lets you control podcast playback on your iPhone from your Apple Watch. You can also go through your collection of available podcast episodes to play something new, with all of your playlists available to peruse. Controls for play/pause, skipping forward and backward, opening your playlists, and recommending an episode are all located on the same screen, but in a way that doesn’t feel busy.

Recently, Overcast added the ability to sync downloaded podcast episodes to your Apple Watch. This allows you to take your podcasts with you while leaving your iPhone at home. You can just tell Overcast to send a particular episode to the watch and after a few minutes, the episode will be available for standalone listening through your watch, either through Bluetooth headphones or the Apple Watch’s speaker.

Free, IAP – Download Now

Dark Sky

Dark Sky is all about your forecast, letting you know what the weather will be like in your immediate vicinity, and warning you up to an hour in advance of rain or snow. As with the iPhone app, Dark Sky for Apple Watch offers a visual timeline of how much rain you should expect and how far into the future you should expect it. With Dark Sky’s most recent major update, the watch app received a major overhaul alongside the iPhone and iPad app, bringing everything onto a single screen that you scroll down, rather than multiple panes through which you need to swipe.

$4 – Download Now

Spark

Spark is one of our favorite email apps for the iPhone, and it’s still great in its translation to Apple’s smallest screen. While some apps that combine email and calendars try to jam pack their watch apps with everything from the iPhone app, Spark keeps it simple, electing to focus on email in an effort to give you the best mail management experience on your watch.

On Apple Watch, Spark takes advantage of its iPhone counterpart’s intelligent mail sorting, letting you see at a glance when you have emails waiting that are personal or newsletters. Each of these sections gets a big colorful button that lights up when there’s a relevant message in that category. You can open and read each email, then quickly decide if you want to reply to it, snooze, archive, or delete it. In addition to these sections, you can also see you whole inbox, pinned emails, your archive, and your sent messages.

Free – Download Now

Carrot Fit

Another in the long line of Carrot apps, Carrot Fit tries to inject personality into your workouts — and by personality, we, of course, mean a hostile robot that yells at you and calls you a “meatbag.” Carrot Fit specializes in small workouts with “7 Minutes in Hell,” which condenses multiple high-intensity exercises into just seven minutes.

Just tap the big red Start button to begin your seven-minute workout. Carrot will threaten, insult, and, when it’s in a nicer mood, try to bribe you to get the results it wants to see. You can customize a bit of what 7 Minutes in Hell throws at you, determining how long each exercise lasts, as well as how long the rest period is. When you’ve successfully completed a workout, you’ll be treated to app upgrades and funny rewards.

$4, IAP – Download Now

WaterMinder

While not as flashy as other workout-tracking apps, WaterMinder still fulfills an important fitness function: keeping track of your hydration. Getting in a nice long run is great right up until you collapse on the sidewalk because you forgot that humans need water to survive. WaterMinder keeps you on top of that, letting you easily log your water intake with a single button tap on your Apple Watch.

Based on your existing health data, Water Minder determines how much water you should be drinking on a given day. With each entry in the app, you’ll be able to watch your progress towards your goal. The app has pre-filled buttons for eight, 14, and 17 ounces per entry, while you can also set a custom smaller or larger amount.

$3 – Download Now

AutoSleep

Keep track of not just how long you sleep, but how well you’re sleeping with AutoSleep. The app automatically tracks your sleeping once you’ve set it up, and you don’t really need to do anything else if you wear your watch to bed. The app will track both how long you sleep and the quality of that sleep, and when you get up in the morning and unlock your iPhone, AutoSleep will send you a notification with the results of the previous night. You’ll get a detailed breakdown of how long you slept, how long you were awake for, and your average heart rate while you slept.

If you don’t wear your watch, AutoSleep will only track how long you slept. When you put your watch on in the morning, the app will know that you’ve finished sleeping.

$3 – Download Now

Just Press Record

Record something on the fly without even needing to break out your iPhone with Just Press Record. Just open up the app and tap the big red button with the microphone on it to start your recording. You can browse your recent recordings and make new ones. You can even record when you’re not connected to your iPhone. When you reconnect, just tap Outbox and send your recordings over to your phone.

Once on your iPhone, everything you recorded on your Apple Watch can be synced with iCloud so you can access on your iPad and Mac as well.

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Fantastical

Fantastical on Apple Watch offers a clean, simple interface while taking calendaring to the next level. While Apple’s own Calendar app lets you view and delete events, Fantastical lets you create new ones, giving you more flexibility and reducing the number of times you need to pull our phone out of your pocket.

If you use Apple’s Reminders app regularly, Fantastical is also great for its built-in Reminders integration. You can view all of your reminder lists, and check off tasks as they’re performed.

$5 – Download Now

1Password

Already a great password manager, 1Password offers a great companion for its iPhone app on the Apple Watch. While not a full-featured password manager on your wrist, 1Password for Apple Watch shows you the one-time login key for accounts that use two-factor authentication. If you do a lot of work with those types of accounts, 1Password is definitely an app you need to check out.

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Top 5 iPhone Cleaner App: Free to Clear iOS (iOS 12 Supported)

Published on Feb 16th, 2019 By Admin

Gadgets from Apple are always loved by all of us, and if these exotic devices are within our reach, we would have had all the devices at our home. iPhone is one of the best and the most loved smartphone in all over the world. This exotic device suffers from only one single drawback, that is: its internal memory is limited, causing too many memory problems.

To help you from all the memory frustration, we have listed 5 best iPhone cleaners iOS which can easily help your in clearing out unwanted files so as to free up memory space.

Top 5 Best iPhone/iPad Cleaner App (iOS 12 Supported)

In search for something to help you free up iPhone space, you might have passed by hundreds of apps, but all of them turned out to be useless. Well here are the 5 best iOS memory cleaners that will help you to get free space quickly.

1 iMyFone Umate iPhone Cleaner

With 25+ advanced space saving analysis technologies, this iPhone cleaner thoroughly scans your iPhone and analyze how much used space can be cleaned. It offers you 1-click to remove all useless files at once.

1,000,000+ Downloads

Key Features:

Thoroughly clear 30+ junk and temporary files which slow down your device – Free Trial.
Losslessly compress iPhone photos to save 75% photo space.
Back up photos & large files to computer and delete them from iPhone.
Also clean iPhone messages, contacts, note, WhatsApp/WeChat data, cache, browsing history, etc.
Permanently delete iPhone data, 100% unrecoverable.
Erase incomplete third-party apps fragments to save space and boost iPhone.

Try It Free

This iPhone memory cleaner is fully compatible with iOS 12 and receive lots of positive reviews from macworld.co.uk, Makeuseof.com , Cultofmac.com etc., and we have kept it as a bonus, if you are having troubles with your iPhone eating too much memory and slowing down, just download this software and have a free trial. Alongside cleaning junk and unwanted files, the software allows you to free up massive amount of disk space.

Steps to Clear iPhone Junk Files with iMyFone iPhone Cleaner

Step 1.Download the iPhone cleaner on computer. Connect your iOS device with a USB cable.

Step 2.Hit “Quick Scan” button at the home interface to run a complete scan to know the total amount of space that can be freed.

Step 3.Choose from a list of options including “Junk Files, Temporary Files” etc. And refresh your device with this best iOS cleaner.

Note

If you still need more space, you can also manage music/video space easily. With iPhone Data manager, you can back up iPhone music/video and delete them from iPhone to save space. Of course, you can restore backups anytime.

2 iFreeUp iPhone Cleaner

Sometimes our iPhone need more than just a regular cleanup, you might have heard about the apps that help you to optimize your smartphone and iFreeUp App is one such great app made for iOS, this iOS memory cleaner for iPhone diagnoses your device and removes unnecessary files briskly.

Key Features:

Clean useless files created by iOS apps to free up available space.
Clean hidden files to boost up iPhone.

3 CleanMyPhone

Though someone may say that no iOS iPhone cleaner can easily clear all junk that iPhone have, but still this app has gained a good reputation for its simple interface and ability to clear out residue and temporary files thus creating more space in your device.

Key Features:

Deep scan of iPhone space and analysis of how much space can be saved.
Find out and quickly clean large files from iPhone.

4 TenorShare iCareFone

You can call it an easy alternative to iTunes itself, the app now seamlessly allows you to clean data, ads, cache in browsers but also allows you to transfer music, photos, videos etc. The best feature about this software is that it allows you to block ads within your browser with just a click in settings. It is available for windows and mac both.

Key Features:

Quickly clean photo cache, crash logs, cookies, iOS app cache, etc.
It blocks and removes ads in apps from iPhone/iPad.

5 PhoneClean

This is a short, minimal and simplistic iOS cleaner for iPhone that allows you to free up memory on your iOS device with ease. All the cluster and deep rooted junk files can be cleared away within a grasp of a click.

Key Features:

Not only cleans up disk memory but also fixes small errors on your iOS.
Feature in 20+ data anyalyzing technologies to clear 30 types of junk files.

Which iPhone Cleaner App Do You Prefer?

	iMyFone Umate iPhone Cleaner	iFreeUp	Clean MyPhone	Tenorshare	Phoneclean
How many types of junk can be cleared	30+	25	18	20	30
Speed of Cleaning Cache	About 30s	About 1 min	More than 1 min	About 1.5 min	More than 2 min
Clean up “other” storage
Compress photos losslessly
Mass delete multiple photos
Fully support all iOS devices
Permanently erase current/deleted Data

Final Cut Friday: 10 transition tips for FCP X [Video]

Published on Feb 16th, 2019 By Admin

Transitions are key building blocks for putting together cohesive videos in your NLE of choice. In Final Cut Pro X, there are many shortcuts, tips, and tricks that can be used while inserting or editing transitions. In this week’s episode of Final Cut Friday, I share 10 transition tips to help you master this vital part of the editing process.

10 transition tips for Final Cut Pro X

Insert a default transition
How to change a default transition
Change the default transition length
Trim a transition
Ripple edit a transition
Slip edit a transition
Insert a transition between two clips
Insert an in and out transition
Replace a transition
Find transitions using the Index

Final Cut Friday Video tutorial

Inserting a transition between two clips is a fundamental part of the video editing process, but as you’ll see in our hands-on video walkthrough above, that’s just the beginning. Final Cut Pro X allows you to establish default transitions that you can insert with a simple keyboard shortcut. Users also have the option of changing the default duration for a transition by visiting the app’s preferences.

Trimming a transition is another basic fundamental of the editing process, as different transition lengths help evoke different types of feelings from your videos. Once you master trimming, you can begin to use intermediate techniques like ripple editing while keeping a transition in place, slip edits, and more.

In our hands-on Final Cut Friday video tutorial, we also showcase how to wield the Timeline Index in Final Cut Pro X to quickly identify and instantly move between the transitions on the timeline. Needless to say, there are many techniques to master when it comes to effectively using transitions, but this list is a good starting point.

What are your thoughts? Sound off in the comments below with your observations.

Amazon Prime Video’s X-Ray feature comes to Apple TV

Published on Feb 16th, 2019 By Admin

One for the movie and TV buffs out there!
Photo: Jim Merithew/Cult of Mac

Apple TV now supports the X-Ray feature for Amazon Prime Video. X-Ray provides additional information on the movies and TV shows you’re watching by giving extra details on the cast, characters, and production.If you’re the kind of person who likes a dose of trivia, or additional context, with your entertainment, this could be the feature for you.

To access the X-Ray feature, simply press the “pause” button the Apple TV remote or tap on the touch surface and then swipe up while a video is playing. In both instances, the X-Ray information should appear in the bottom left corner of your television.

You can then transition through the categories — including “In Scene,” “Bonus Content,” “Cast,” “Music,” and “Trivia” — by moving left or right.

While X-Ray has been around for a few years now, its arrival on Apple TV is certainly good news. It’s not going to be something that appeals to everyone, but if you’re someone who rushes to IMDb to look up movies or episodes as soon as they’re finished, or who will sit through director’s commentaries of the films you like, this is probably going to add to your Apple TV experience.

If, for whatever reason, Amazon Prime Video doesn’t seem to offer X-Ray yet, either try waiting a few days for the rollout to be complete, or try reinstalling the app.