This category looks at the various different software applications for Mac that can extend how the Mac works, or how your interact with your Mac.
From the ability to better control your Macs fan speeds, to dictating your typing to the Mac rather than having to manually type it. Tools to help you do things better from the command line and tools to give you more power over how your Mac runs.
2018 Edit: Although this review is some years old now, the author of Macs Fan Control has kept the software up to date and this review is still as valid as it was when it was originally written. And Macs Fan Control is still in use on my MacBook Pro even today (although it’s a …
Improvements over previous versions, but still expensive and requires a lot of time invested to get up to speed
Keeping your Mac free of clutter can help keep it running more smoothly – but does Clean My Mac 3 help achieve this goal? Find out by reading our review.
If you need to record your Mac screen, for a screencast, YouTube video, or even to put on a DVD or your iTunes library, check our review of Apowersoft Mac Screen Recorder for how.
My iPhone 4 has in general been pretty robust, slowing slightly with the iOS 7 release of Apples operating system but when I came across CleanMyPhone I thought there was possibly potential to improve it by cleaning things up and perhaps restoring it to full speed. So, before I upgraded to iOS7.1 I thought I’d …
[alert-note] Clean My Mac 3 is now released, this review is probably a little obsolete. We suggest reading our review of CleanMyMac 3 as well.[/alert-note] There are rave reviews all over the internet about CleanMyMac 2, but the question is, are these reviews really unbiased and are the claims that CleanMyMac will speed up your Mac …
Homebrew isn’t really an application as such, more of a framework for installing apps. In particular, Open Source apps that Linux users have enjoyed as packages (.deb files in Ubuntu/Mint/Debian, RPM files in the RedHat series) for years. Homebrew is similar to MacPorts, which I’ve just stopped using and switched to Homebrew myself. Why did …
If you ever need to convert some WMF (Windows Metafile) or EMF (Enhanced Metafile) files using a Mac into something sensible you can actually use then you can’t go past this neat program. I purchased this software after picking up a two CD book of clip art at a garage sale for 50c that was …
Of course, we don’t recommend anyone boots into Windows – but sometimes you just have to. Maybe you need to run QuickBooks and you’re an Australian business which doesn’t have a native Mac version. Maybe you want to play some games and they just don’t quite run as well under OSX as they do under …
If you’ve ever received an e-mail from a user of Microsoft Outlook connected to a Microsoft Exchange Server and you’re on a Mac, you may have been frustrated by the annoyance that is ‘winmail.dat’. It’s a proprietary attachment format that Microsoft developed years ago and for some reason continue to stick with today, even though …
