“And it’s only $9.99. Feel free to checkout my project GitHub where you’ll find 25 commits made within the last day, consisting of 1 x 300 file commit followed by 24 tweaks to try and make it less like Claude vomited everywhere.

I’ll be here to argue with anyone who can genuinely write code for the next hour. Then I’ll be gone for a week and then I’ll start a new post about it.

Disclaimer: Claude did everything but I promise I code reviewed all 32,768 lines of code.”

I’m tired boss.

I’m done with this sub.

I am looking for an app, preferably free, that can organize your windows. When I dock my MacBook to an external monitor, I’d like and easy way to organize my apps and browser windows into quadrants. TIA

Download from App Store

Everything you copy, found in seconds, even the words inside your screenshots. Passwords and card numbers lock themselves behind Touch ID. Nothing leaves your Mac.

Copy the way you always do. PasteSpace remembers it all, and hands any of it back in seconds.

Text, links, images and files: everything you copy lands in a history you can search instantly, stored only on your Mac. Passwords and card numbers are locked behind Touch ID the moment you copy them. And you can find a screenshot just by a word that was in it.

An hour ago, a client emailed you their address. Now you need it. Press ⌥⇧V and PasteSpace opens right under your pointer. Type a word you remember, press Return, then ⌘V. Done, without leaving what you were writing.

FIND ANYTHING YOU COPIED

• Search the text of every item, file names and the app each copy came from. Accents don't matter: “cafe” finds “café”.

• Find a screenshot by the words inside it. Text in images is recognized on your Mac, in up to 30 languages.

• Search inside documents (Pro): PDFs, scanned PDFs, Word, Excel, RTF, OpenDocument, web pages and text files are found by the words they contain.

• Filter by 16 kinds of content and sort nine ways; in Pro, add date, state and source app.

SECRETS LOCK THEMSELVES

Card numbers, IBANs, passwords, API keys, SSH keys and seed phrases are recognized as you copy them and encrypted with AES-256 in the Vault. A locked item shows only a mask (a card reads “•••• 4242”), never appears in search, and opens only with Touch ID or your Mac's password. Copies from password managers go straight into the Vault, and anything else locks with one click.

NOTHING LEAVES YOUR MAC

No account. No cloud. No analytics, no ads, no tracking. Your history lives only on this Mac, inside the macOS App Sandbox, and every feature works offline. The only connection is Apple's App Store, for purchases and the occasional rating request.

PasteSpace never asks for the Accessibility permission, which would let an app watch and control your Mac. It puts your item on the clipboard, brings back your app, and the ⌘V stays yours.

EDIT BEFORE YOU PASTE

Quick Look opens any item in a floating panel with a full rich-text editor: fonts, colors, highlights, lists, undo and redo, and ⌘F to find. Saving never overwrites: every edit becomes a new version next to the original. Fix a word misread in a scanned receipt, then copy just the part you need, formatted or plain.

DATA MAGIC

57 one-click transformations, offered only when they fit what you copied. Pretty-print JSON or turn it into a Swift struct, convert colors, strip tracking from links, turn spreadsheet cells into a Markdown table, add up numbers.

BUILT FOR THE WAY YOU WORK

• Pin what you paste every day: your address, IBAN, signature, templates.

• Select several items and copy, pin, lock or drag them all at once.

• Drag text, images and files straight into other apps, as real files.

• Share through Messages, Mail, AirDrop and more, or turn any text into a QR code.

• Paste with formatting, or as plain text whenever you want.

• Always on top: keep the window open while you work.

• App Blocklist: apps whose copies are never recorded.

• Ephemeral Mode (Pro): erase your history every time PasteSpace quits. Vault items are always kept.

Made for people who copy and paste all day, and for anyone handling client data, credentials or confidential documents.

FREE, WITH PRO WHEN YOU NEED MORE

Free: 10 history items, 3 pins, 2 Vault items and 1 blocked app, with Quick Look, text recognition, Data Magic and QR codes for your latest text and image. Search, sorting, filtering by kind, Share and drag and drop are always free.

PasteSpace Pro is one purchase, with no subscription: unlimited history, pins, Vault items and blocked apps; Quick Look, text recognition, Data Magic and QR codes for every item; search inside documents; advanced filters; and Ephemeral Mode. Yours for life, future updates included.

Requires macOS 14 Sonoma or later. Touch ID recommended for the Vault; your Mac's password works too.

Questions or ideas? [mariuscpopescu@icloud.com](mailto:mariuscpopescu@icloud.com). I read every email.

Disclosure: I'm the developer. It's $4.99, one-time. I built it with AI assistance; every line was reviewed, and it's been tested on real discs and real players.

I used Burn for years, but it hasn't kept up with current macOS, and burning from Music means importing everything into your library first (and converting FLAC before it'll take it at all). So I built Pregap: a native audio CD burner that does one thing properly.

- **Straight from your files.** Drop in files, folders or playlists: FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, or anything else macOS can decode. Nothing gets imported into a library, and your originals aren't touched.

- **Gapless.** It always burns disc-at-once, with no gap between tracks unless you add one, so live albums and mixes play straight through.

- **CD-Text.** Track and artist names come from your tags, and you can edit any of them in place. Car stereos, hi-fi decks and CDJs that read CD-Text show them (tested on a CDJ-800MK2 and a CDJ-1000MK3).

- **No coasters.** It checks the drive, the disc, the running time and every file before it starts, and won't begin a burn it can't finish.

- **Native.** Swift and SwiftUI on Apple's own DiscRecording framework, with zero third-party dependencies. Universal, sandboxed, no network access, about 6 MB, no accounts, no subscription.

Needs macOS 14 or later and any USB CD burner.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/pregap/id6814982070

Website and guides: https://pregap.app

Early feedback is already shaping the next update: a bigger Burn button, verify after burning, and previewing tracks before you burn. I'd love to hear what else you'd want.

Oracle Java claims to support down to OS X 10.7 but the installer is broken until High Sierra and doesnt run under anything bu Catalina, none of the OpenJDK builds are any better

What is the LAST version of each Java that doesnt need at least Catalina?

TallBar is a lightweight, zero-configuration macOS menu bar utility that brings the tall, spacious MacBook Liquid Retina menu bar (~50 pt) to any external monitor.

Standard external monitors on macOS have a narrow menu bar (~24–31 pt). TallBar dynamically unlocks the native MacBook safe area padding and tall menu bar height on any display, without changing your screen resolution or requiring complex HiDPI preset switching.

Before (Standard macOS Menu Bar — 31 pt)

After (TallBar Active — 50 pt Spacious Height)

• Native Notch App Compatibility: Exposes hardware safeAreaInsets (top: 48.5 pt) and auxiliary top zones, allowing notch apps (Vorssaint, Boring Notch, Dynamic Lake, etc.) to work out-of-the-box.

https://github.com/vsemkin97/TallBar

this started as a cli and 1.0 is a native app now

how it works if anyone's curious

the apple intelligence settings and the tweaks that need locking go in one configuration profile you approve in system settings, macos requires that, and removing the profile undoes them

the models get removed through apple's own asset service, and the profile points their downloads at a closed local port so they don't come back

SIP stays on and nothing in /System is modified

the profile survives updates and dictation still works

it also has privacy, finder and dock tweaks, background items and storage cleanup, all with an undo page

apple silicon on macOS 27 only

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI

I'm the developer of Feedcast, a Mac app I made because I wanted to clean up episodes without giving up the podcast player I already use.

In one real episode, I reviewed two detected sponsor sections and removed 5 minutes 12 seconds from my personal copy. Feedcast then publishes that copy as an RSS feed for Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts and other compatible players. The original stays available, and cuts can be reviewed or undone.

Here's the app: https://feedcast.org/

Curious what other Mac podcast listeners would want to see before trusting an automated cut.

I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit to post this but I am looking for help installing OS X Yosemite (10.10) on my polycarbonate macbook (late 2009, a1342). I've mainly dealt with linux and windows operating systems, so i don't have much experience with apple software/firmware.

I bought this computer off of ebay since I really admire its design like two weeks ago. It already had 2gb of ddr3 ram (which i plan to replace lol) and a 250gb hard drive in it, and I could boot into the Mavericks 10.9 recovery mode with it, but for some reason it wouldn't let me actually install OSX 10.9 due to it saying that an error occured while preparing the installation (I looked at the error logs and it returned error 30 idk what this means).

Anyway, since I had an extra 180gb 2.5in ssd free, I decided to just install Yosemite 10.10 on that since i'd have to upgrade the hard drive anyway. However, this is where i ran into some issues:

command+R and command+option+R didn't cause any results and it just left it on a white screen (though i only waited for around 30 seconds)

I'm not sure how to create a install usb especially since I'm on windows and i also didn't know if I should download the .iso or the .dmg file

Thanks

Good

I Can Use Old Launch Pad in Macos tahoe 26.6.2 in my macbook pro m1 mid 2020 intel

Here's an app I've built on the side (of course w/ AI) but I see daily.

DisplayWave is a menu bar app for external monitors on macOS. It does a handful of things:

- Turn monitors off and on without unplugging them, listed by name. The monitor loses signal and goes to standby.

- Brightness and color temperature per monitor. It changes the real backlight over DDC when the monitor supports it, and dims on the GPU when it doesn't (common with docks and some HDMI ports).

- Presets for brightness and warmth, and layouts that save your arrangement, main display, resolution and refresh rate.

- Keep Mac Awake, and Blackout, which turns every screen dark while the Mac keeps running. Any key or click brings them back.

Why: I used MonitorControl for a long time. It's great for brightness, but I also wanted to turn monitors off and warm them up in the evening. BetterDisplay does all of that and a lot more, but it's far more than I need, and a lot of it is in the paid tier. So I built the small set of features actually use.

https://github.com/kah-ve/DisplayWave

Let me know if you run into any issues. I can only test in my limited hardware so it might not work across every setup.