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News

• Apple’s rumored 2018 iPhone lineup

Productivity Roundtable

• Todoist – task manager
• Todoist Education Pricing
• Things – task manager
• Drafts – Drafts lets you turn text into action – it’s a quick notebook, handy editor, and writing automation tool, all in one.
• Copied – A Full Featured Clipboard Manager for iOS and macOS
• Paste – automatically stores everything you copy across all your devices and keeps your clipboard history organized.
• macOS Automation
• Automators – automation podcast
• GoodTask – task manager

Misc

• Your heart rate. What it means, and where on Apple Watch you’ll find it.
• Runmeter Running & Cycling GPS – Run, Ride, and Walk Tracker
• Nike Says Its $250 Running Shoes Will Make You Run Much Faster. What if That’s Actually True?

News

• How to reinstall macOS
• New MacBook Pro models
• Here’s how you can download all the 5K wallpaper loaded on the demo iPad Pro models

How to save and share in iOS

• How to use action and share extensions on iPhone and iPad
• How to Turn Any Webpage Into a PDF on iOS
• How to use the Magnifier on iPhone and iPad
• How to edit with third-party apps and extensions in Photos
• Best photo extension apps for iPhone
• ViewExif – view photo metadata
• TouchRetouch – photo retouching
• MetaGear – photo metadata editor
• Drafts – lets you turn text into action – it’s a quick notebook, handy editor, and writing automation tool, all in one.

Misc

• Patriot 64GB Spark Series Micro-sized USB 3.0 Flash Drive
• LifeProof Backpacks
• Netatmo – smart home devices

News

• macOS Mojave
• iOS 12

Safari Extensions

• Safari Extensions Gallery
• Install and manage Safari extensions on your Mac
• 1Password – password manager
• Disconnect – lets you visualize & block the invisible websites that track you
• Adblock Plus – Blocks banners, pop-ups, tracking, malware and more
• Safari Keyword Search – change the default Safari search engine and enables keyword searching from the address bar
• JS Blocker – An open source, indie developed, Safari extension that protects your privacy on the web
• Evernote Web Clipper – Searchable website screenshots, saved from the web and available anywhere
• AdBlock – Block ads. Browse faster.
• The Camelizer – makes it easy to view the price history of any product sold by our supported retailers
• Fakespot – analyze the reviews of a product
• Honey – automatically applies the best coupon code at checkout
• LastPass – password manager
• 1Blocker X – Make Safari browsing fast, safe and productive

Infect a Mac Challenge

• OpenDNS – features such as phishing protection and optional content filtering in addition to DNS lookup.
• Bitdefender – anti-virus
• DetectX – a lightweight, on-demand dedicated search and troubleshooting tool, probably the fastest of its kind, that can identify malware, adware, keyloggers, potentially unwanted apps and potentially destabilizing apps on a mac.
• App Fixer – quickly gets apps like Safari, Photoshop, or any other app that’s misbehaving back up and running again when their preferences or window states have become corrupted or you just want to return to a defaults launch.
• Malwarebytes – malware/adware checker
• Avast Security – anti-virus
• AVG – anti-virus
• Trend Micro – anti-virus
• Objective-See – security tools
• SpamSieve – spam filtering to the e-mail client on your Mac.
• Google sets roadmap for phasing out and removing Adobe Flash from Chrome by 2020
• Little Snitch – monitor network connections
• Radio Silence – monitor network connections
• AV-TEST – anti-virus & security software reviews
• ClamAV – anti-virus

Tips & Tricks

• Resolutionator – makes it simple to use any of your display’s available resolutions.
• Path Finder – Finder replacement
• Synology – Network Attached Storage

Catastrophic loss prevention

• Surge protection
• Backblaze – online backup
• ChronoSync – synchronize, backup, and create bootable backups to almost anything you can connect to your Mac
• ChronoSync $20 off coupon
• Carbon Copy Cloner – disk cloning and file backup
• SuperDuper! – disk cloning
• The Evolution of Data Storage
• Apple’s iOS through the years

Apple Pencil apps

• Apple iPad
• Apple Pencil
• Apple Notes
• Notability – Combine handwriting, photos and typing in a single note to bring your projects to life
• Evernote – Capture, organize, and share notes from anywhere
• PDF Editor – Read, annotate and edit PDFs
• PDFpen – Edit your PDFs anywhere you are
• Nebo – Take, edit and convert notes
• Microsoft Word
• Microsoft OneNote
• Adobe Photoshop Fix – enables powerful, yet easy image retouching and restoration
• Adobe Photoshop Sketch – Draw with the power of the Photoshop painting engine and a variety of built-in brushes, pencils, pens and markers
• Astropad – turn your iPad into a drawing tablet
• Paper by FiftyThree – sketching app
• Linea Sketch
• Adobe Illustrator Draw
• Pigment – Adult Coloring Book
• Procreate – Sketch, paint, create
• Pixelmator
• Morpholio Trace
• Autodesk SketchBook

Q&A

• macOS High Sierra
• Apple File System (APFS)
• MacDrive – access Mac drives on Windows