10 macOS Tips to Make Your Life Easier

10 quick macOS tips that once you start using should make the time you spend on your Mac a more effortless experience.



The family Mac mini has been bit by this bug where macOS perpetually tells you about Background Items Added, and I thought maybe it was a Rogue Amoeba thing since I had just installed Audio Hijack.

Very annoying, but hopefully fixed soon?


Dockhunt is the kind of web + Mac nerdy stuff I love - sharing the tooling or metadata on your day in front of your computer.


Nothing quite like checking your credit card statements to motivate you to send out invoices for your solo business. 😆😱


From +2C to feels like -35C in a couple days. No wonder my head feels all discombobulated.


Is upgrading your wifi router from the stock internet provider version worth the $ these days?


How has it been 3 years since I published this how to record a podcast with Audio Hijack tutorial? What is time even? Watching it and seeing pre-pandemic Chris sitting their naively unaware of what’s about to hit the world. 😞 Time to update it for @RogueAmoeba’s v4 of the app!



I dig tools like Descript for editing - but I feel like I’ve stared at audio this way for long enough that I can almost see the words as I’m editing. I’d still love a way to have a text searchable archive of shows, which is where Descript is super handy. #podcasteditor

Screenshot of Logic Pro audio wav forms from a recording.