Apps

"There is an app for everything" - what was once used to be called an "application" is now an "app" and a (mostly) versatile piece of code on many different systems. This category is for our beloved apps serving our daily computing!

Smart Home

How to easily deploy Home Assistant on your Synology-NAS

There are many ways to deploy Home Assistant in your home environment but once you own a Synology-NAS supporting Docker, putting it there is accomplished in nearly no time!

Apple

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, whose Face are you showing?

Fortunately, there is also an app not just for „everything“, but especially designed to meet this use case from a smart developer named Rafa.

Apple

Sleeve: Stick the music you play right to your macOS-desktop

The number of apps and features I’d already expected to be in macOS from the scratch steadily increases

Apple

Yet some additional and useful apps for your Mac-related life

While I wrote about the „Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine“ a while ago, I discovered that ...

Microsoft

How to disable Windows 10’s News and Interests taskbar newsfeed

There are lots of interesting features in Windows 10 but what if suddenly a new one appears and you don’t need it at all?

Apple

Useful apps to enlighten your daily Mac-routine

There are enough factors in life preventing your from being productive. The following apps ease up my daily Mac-experience and increase my…

Apple

App-dated: TextSniper is aiming to put your images into words

There are apps you may have never missed before but once you got to know them, you can hardly live without them.

Apple

Bartender 4: The best thing for a sense of order is a clean menu bar on macOS!

As with each problem, there is a solution — before macOS Big Sur, this was Bartender in version 3 by developer surtees studios.

Microsoft

Microsoft is going to release Office 2021 later this year

Most of us embrace the cloud and the features therein. But while we don’t mind renting our Office, there are kinds of user searching for a…

Microsoft

The latest stable release of Microsoft Edge is ready for M1 Macs now

Recently Microsoft surged ahead to adopt our favorite Microsoft 365 desktop-apps for the Apple Silicon-platform. Now, Microsoft Edge…

Apple

LuLu by Objective-See: Yet another powerful firewall for your Mac

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…

Microsoft

Microsoft plans to replace Outlook with a single cross-platform app

Outlook is a monolith on the Windows-Desktop and it’s hard to imagine the modern workplace without it. Over the years, Microsoft brought…

Apple

Little Snitch 5 makes the successful switch to macOS 11 Big Sur

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…

Apple

Apple seemingly pulls „Remote App“ for Apple TV from the App Store

Just hours after the initial release of iOS 14.1, an old companion seems to have dropped the mic: It seems as if Apple has pulled its…

Microsoft

Microsoft forcingly pushes Office web-apps in Windows 10

Although Microsoft does many things right, there are always a few aspects ruining the good overall impression.

Microsoft

Mac Microsoft Office 2016-users will lose M365-functionality in October

Every road has its end and this also counts for software lifecycles. One ending cycle has a severe impact on Office 2016 Mac-users…

Apple

New Apple-app for Windows may be launching soon

There are tough tasks for developers on this planet. And there is the task of finally getting rid of the bloated iTunes-app on Windows…

Nextcloud

Using Nextstats to monitor your Nextcloud-instance on iOS

„There’s an app for that“ is one of the famous slogans we know in this age of apps. Sometimes it just needs a good idea (and the skill of…

Services

Services — It’s all about them… now?

Some months ago, Apple has announced the possibility of paying your Apple Care+ plan not just by an upfront payment, the time of services…