Thread by @eliseomartelli

Are you on #macOS? Here are some of my favorite #opensource tools I recommend.

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🎞 For your goto videoplayer, other than the built-in QuickTime or the classic VLC, you should consider IINA.

It uses mpv under the hood but provides a beautiful, macOS-friendly UI and plays everything you throw at it.

github.com/iina/iina

🧹 When your menu bar needs decluttering (and trust me, macOS bars gets cluttered when you have a lot of handy apps) and you feel the urge to hide everything under a carpet, there’s Hidden, an utility that lets you hide menu bar icons.

github.com/dwarvesf/hidden

☕️ The right amount of coffee can do wonders for you but also for your computer. KeepingYouAwake with its cute coffee cup icon adds a shortcut to your menu bar to manage your Mac’s sleep settings.

github.com/newmarcel/Keep…

📰 Wouldn’t it be cool to have a central place to catch up with blogs, news, Reddit and Twitter?
There’s an app for that. NetNewsWire can give you a single pane of glass on top of all your news sources.

github.com/Ranchero-Softw…

🖥 Picture this: your screen starts to feel cramped and you connect to a shared external monitor that was left with settings that you don’t like. Now you have to navigate the monitor’s OSD and boy… that thing sucks.
You could use MonitorControl!

github.com/MonitorControl…

📊 Are you a stats nerd and you like to keep everything under control?
Use Stats to add gauges for CPU, RAM, Battery, you name it, to you menu bar.

github.com/exelban/stats

🪟Lifting your fingers from your keyboard to manage windows breaks your workflow?
Rectangle brings window snapping, keyboard-based window management and pinning to your Mac!

github.com/rxhanson/Recta…

A big thank you to all these developers!

IINA (Twitter handle not found ☹️) @dwarvesf
@newmarcel
@NetNewsWire
MonitorControl (404 here too ☹️)
@mitrovtsiy
Ryan Hanson (can’t find the handle ☹️)

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