Keene on Tech

With a comfortable cash horde numbering in the tens of billions on hand, it would seem that Apple needs to go grocery shopping sometime soon, especially since Google seems to be the first one to the express checkout as the search giant snaps up just about everything thing in sight. These are not Microsoft sized companies with sometimes just one or two developers. But, smaller is better and these apps and their respective companies should be saluted for their efforts. The help make our daily computing a little better.

Here are seven apps for the Mac that are so good, Apple should really make the developers an offer and roll them into the OS. I picked these because they seem to have a good grasp of UI elements, provide good functionality and are practical for things we do everyday on computers. These are not media creation tools, just workhorse apps that help keep the wheels spinning on the silicon. With the exception of Dropbox, these are all Mac only apps. I won’t go into detail about all the features of these apps (gotta leave more to write about later!), but here is a laundry list. Feel free to add more in the comments.

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If you read this, chances are that you spend a good bit of your waking time online. The double edged sword of the World Wide Web brings us the world at our fingertips and also a world of distractions. Our attention is fragmented and increasingly there are many things vying for our attention online (thanks for giving me some of this!). This is something that I deal with everyday and I know many people who also feel their time and focus is splintered among the many outlets of content and information that are just a click away on the web.

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