Decoding the analog Mind in a digital World.
While macOS always comes along with a bunch of productivity tools (and always was a synonym for being productive and creative!) there is always space for improvement. Besides, standard apps from the well-known giants like Microsoft 365, Microsoft Teams, Adobe Lightroom or Parallels Desktop do always find their way on my „Macintosh HD“.
There are apps you may have never missed before but once you got to know them, you can hardly live without them.
As with each problem, there is a solution — before macOS Big Sur, this was Bartender in version 3 by developer surtees studios.
While I love my 2020 MacBook Air with Apple’s outstanding M1-SoC, the disability of addressing more than one external display was the grain of salt in Apple Silicon’s great first appearance.
Working from home is no kind of extravagance nowadays: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that, once work must or should be done remotely, it CAN be done from wherever you are.
In my post on Little Snitch 5 some time ago, I already stated that „a firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly used as the perimeter to and of your network, dividing the Internet from your intranet, there are also software firewalls which can be installed on Macs and PCs.
In the meantime, the year with the probably biggest impact on the post-World War-generations is finally over. The new decade has just begun but definitely nobody will shed any tear anyway: Too many bad experiences have been manifested into everybody’s life in 2020.
While many of you already enjoy your M1-based new Macs powered by Apple Silicon SoCs, my BTO-MacBook Air still needs to make its way to me. For everyone who is luckier than I was so far and is using the well-known Microsoft 365-apps, native M1-support is now for real as Microsoft has just released the specific app-updates.
The choice of a proper Office-suite is a difficult one and needs to fit to the personal needs which are, as we know, often different. While Microsoft Office is surely THE standard for many, there are good alternatives around and especially when you are working with Nextcloud, two Office-solutions may be the ideal fit for you.
A firewall is a nice and essential security building block. While it is mainly used as the perimeter to and of your network, dividing the Internet from your intranet, there are also software firewalls which can be installed on Macs and PCs.