Apps To Install On New Mac
2015-07-12
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So you have bought a new Macintosh, great! After buying a new Mac, now comes the most important part. Although Apple includes quite a bit of software and offers more for free download via the Mac App Store, but what else should a new user or a fresh system gets?
The following are 6 of the best apps for a Mac we could find. They are guaranteed to make your life easier by removing the irritations that remain in Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite and in Apple’s bundled software.
1. Default Folder: There are three elements of Yosemite itself that I spend more time interacting with than any other:
- The Open dialog.
- The Save dialog.
- Finder window navigation.
Default Folder($35) enhances all of these to your advantage in efficiency and organization. When the app was installed on your Mac, following are the features it will offer:
- It will wrap your open and save dialogs in a bunch of extra interface items.
- You can select from volumes and special locations, favorite locations, Finder windows, and recently visited folders.
- The file-navigation dialogs can also be set to snap to the last document opened or other locations.
- The pressing Option plus the down or up arrow cycles backward or forward through recent folders.
- It allows a variety of Finder-style file actions directly within the dialog, like rename, duplicate, and move to trash.
- A pane at the bottom reveals a preview, tags, spotlight comments and permissions, along with the file data like creation date and whether the item is locked or not.
So using Default Folder, you never have to painstakingly navigate your drives and folders.
2. LaunchBar: OS X’s Launchpad and Spotlight will allow you to quickly find and open documents, apps and other things, but they can be maddening. The interface of Launchpad is hardly useful when you have more than a handful of apps, and Spotlight searches everything, instead of specific categories and in specific ways. So, it is better to pick LaunchBar.
LaunchBar can be invoked from a keystroke like Escape. Now, you just type a few letters to select the thing you want, and then press Return to launch it or open it with the appropriate app. Some exciting uses of this app include:
- It indexes and links to all sorts of stuff: contacts, music, apps, search history, emoji, bookmarks and more.
- It lets you perform most Finder actions with a Command- shortcut and carry out calculations.
- It can also add Clipboard depth, which means you can revert to and cycle through previous items you have copied or cut like an old pre-OS X Scrapbook.
3. 1Password: You must create a unique strong password for every site or service you use. But that is impossible for a human to manage. On the other hand, an integrated password generator and secure storage app like 1Password ($50) handles that with ease. The app will create random password and then, securely store them for you.
1Password comes with browser plug-ins for Safari, Firefox and Chrome, which let you invoke the app while visiting a site. 1Password also stores and can fill in one or more identities as well as credit-card details. The various versions of the app are available for iOS, Android and Windows, and a password database can be synced among them.
4. Skype: You might be thinking that you already have FaceTime available on your computer and iOS devices, then why would you need Skype(free)? This is because not everyone you know has a Mac, iPad or iPhone, and FaceTime doesn’t come with a calling plan, although in Yosemite, OS X can access your iPhone to make and receive calls to landlines and cellular numbers.
Some features of this app are:
- You can make unlimited phone calls to specific countries.
- You can also pay for one or more incoming ‘real’ phone numbers, by placing them in countries in which you routinely receive calls.
- Skype offers audio only and video calls, along with screen sharing, instant messaging, and file transfer, along with SMS.
5. VLC: VLC(free) is the Swiss Army knife of video playback software. Although QuickTime Player can handle popular formats in a straightforward way, but it can’t handle everything like VLC. If you deal with older file formats, like those used by people who eschew H.264, or video created or distributed for Windows and Unix variants, then VLC is a one-stop shop.
Features of VLC include:
- VLC can play Internet streaming video of all sorts and convert some files it can’t read.
- Also, it can directly open YouTube URLs, make video playlists, subscribe to podcasts and play Internet radio stations from a large built-in list.
- It can open and convert tons of audio formats.
6. Dropbox: It is very painful to keep files up to date among multiple computers. But with Dropbox, it has become very simple. Dropbox has a single folder into which you can place anything, and it is copied to its Internet storage in your account. The files are also synchronized to any other computer logged into the same account.
Dropbox offers two kinds of sharing:
- Shared folders sync the contents to any members who have joined the folder.
- A shared link allows any recipient to download a file or folder or browse a folder’s contents.
As Dropbox keeps a copy centrally, so it keeps track of every change. The iOS clients of Dropbox let you browse its cloud-stored versions, forward files, and download them to the app or open in other apps.
These were the 6 apps that you must install in your new Mac. We compiled this list as being a combination of personal experience as well as some of them being the most popular mac apps or the most useful mac apps we could find.
There are plenty of other useful apps you can install like GraphicConverter, Airfoil, CrashPlan, TextExpander, etc. that can take your new Mac experience even farther. Just consider starting here and see what types of things you feel you need. Too many apps can slow your machine down and take up hard drive space. And if you know any other useful app for a new Mac, then share with us.
Apple’s new macOS Mojave doesn’t support the old Macs prior to 2012. It was a shocking news for me too.
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I have an old, not for me actually, MacBook Pro which I purchased at the end of 2010. I was expecting Apple won’t drop the support of Mojave for MacBook Pro 2010 model, at least not for this time. But I was wrong. The latest Majove doesn’t support it too.
There is no need to worry. Even the oldest Windows 95 can be installed on Mac computer. There is a solution to every problem.
I don’t want to upgrade my MacBook Pro right now, especially when a new model is rumored to be released in next month.
Another choice for me was to buy a graphics card which supports Metal. In fact, it was the most feasible solution for to get installed Majove on my unsupported Mac right now.
Metal is natively supported by all Macs introduced since 2012. It means the following Nvidia, AMD and Intel family cards are compatible.
-Intel HD Graphics 400, Iris 5000 & 6000 family
-Nvidia GT 600M, 700M family
-AMD R9 M family
To check which GPU (graphics processing unit) is installed on your Mac computer, click on the Apple icon in the top left corner and then click on “About This Mac”.
There are a number of third-party vendors which sell graphics cards with integrated Metal support specifically designed for Mac computers. While searching for a compatible graphics card, I found that I could install Mojave on my MacBook Pro Mid 2010 model by using a software known as macOS Mojave Patcher Tool. Kudos to DosDude1 who developed tested, and released it as a free app.
By using this software, we could install the latest macOS version on early 2008 Macs.
Here is the step by step method to run Mojave on unsupported Macs.
The whole process can be divided into four parts.
- Part 1. Getting all the required things
- Part 2. Downloading the macOS Mojave Installer App
- Part 3. Making a bootable Mojave USB drive
- Part 4. Installing and Patching Mojave OS on the unsupported computer
We will discuss each part in details in the following paragraphs.
Part 1: Requirements to Run Mojave on Old Macs
Four things are required to get macOS Mojave installed on your forgotten-by-Apple Mac.
- Your Mac computer
It could be an early-2008 or newer Mac Pro, iMac, or MacBook Pro. The following models include under this category.
– MacPro3,1
– MacPro4,1
– iMac8,1
– iMac9,1
– iMac10,x
– iMac11,x
– iMac12,x
– MacBookPro4,1
– MacBookPro5,x
– MacBookPro6,x
– MacBookPro7,1
– MacBookPro8,x
It could be late-2008 or newer MacBook Air or Aluminum Unibody MacBook. The following models include under this category:
– MacBookAir2,1
– MacBookAir3,x
– MacBookAir4,x
– MacBook5,1
It could be early-2009 or newer Mac Mini or white MacBook including the following models:
– Macmini3,1
– Macmini4,1
– Macmini5,x
– MacBook5,2
– MacBook6,1
– MacBook7,1
And it could be Xserve2, 1 and Xserver3, 1.
- A USB drive in 16GB size or above
- macOS Mojave patcher tool. Download it here.
- A copy of the Mojave software.
Part 2: Download macOS Mojave Installer Software
MacOS Mojave software can be downloaded as an Installer App from Mac App Store using the computer which supports Mojave.
If you don’t have Mojave supported Mac, you can download the Mojave Installer App using patcher tool. Open the macOS Mojave patcher tool. If it doesn’t open and says it is from an unidentified developer, right click on the tool’s icon and click on “Open” from sub-menu and then enter your Mac’s Admin name and password. After the verification, you can open it with the left double-click.
If you don’t remember your macOS password, here are the solutions to reset it.
Go to Tools in the Menu bar and then hit “Download macOS Mojave”.
I recommend using the built-in downloader tool because it will download the latest and the compatible Installer app.
Mojave Installer app is about 5-6GB in size and it may take some time depending on the speed of your internet.
If the internet connection interrupts while downloading the file, don’t worry. The downloading process will resume where it left. Simply download the Mojave software again but point it to the same location where you were already downloading and saving the installer app.
Part 3: Create a Bootable Mojave USB Drive
In order to create a bootable Mojave USB Installer drive, follow these steps.
Step 1: Insert 16GB or above USB drive into your USB port of your Mac.
Step 2: Open Disk Utility and erase the USB drive in OS X Extended (Journaled) format. Give a proper name before erasing. I gave the name “macOS Mojave” to my USB drive.
If you are new to Mac, get the basic information about how to make a Partition, erase the current partition and how to make a bootable USB drive.
Step 3: After the drive is erased, open “macOS Mojave Patcher” tool.
Step 4: Point the Patcher tool to the downloaded Mojave Installer app which is downloaded in Part 2.
Step 5: Now select the target USB drive you just formatted.
Step 6: Hit the “Start Operation” button on the patcher tool and let it make the USB bootable with Mojave.
Step 7: It will show “Complete” when the process is done.
Part 4: Installing and Patching macOS Mojave
In this fourth and final part, we will install and patch the macOS Mojave on our old Mac computer. Follow the steps below to complete the remaining procedure.
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Step 1. Restart your computer and hold down the “Option” key as soon as the Mac starts up.
Step 2: Select the USB drive, which was named as “macOS Mojave” as the startup disk.
Step 3: If you want to upgrade your current macOS to macOS Mojave, simply use the continue button to proceed and follow step 5. But if you want to install it on another partition or want to erase the current partition first, then follow the Step 4.
Step 4: Open Disk Utility from the bottom left panel.
Select the volume you want to erase. Use Mac OS Extended (Journaled) format. Or if you have got late-2009 and later machines with SSD drives, you can also use APFS format.
If you don’t want to install Mojave on current volume, you can also create a new partition and install it there. Mojave takes approximately 18GB space on hard drive. So at least make a 25GB partition to test the new macOS.
If you want to use it for all routine work, set the partition size according to your needs.
Step 5: Select the volume and press “Continue” to begin the installation process.
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Step 6: The installation process takes about 20 minutes to complete. When it is done, reboot your Mac back into installer drive while holding down the “Option” key again.
Step 7: This time select “macOS Post Install” app from the bottom left panel.
Step 8: Select the model of your computer and the volume on which you installed Mojave and then click the “Patch” button. The tool will automatically select the required patches according to the model of your computer.
Step 9: Press the “Reboot” button when the patch is complete.
Step 10: The computer will reboot with macOS Mojave installed on it.
Step 11. If it doesn’t work properly on the restart, boot your Mac back into the installer USB drive, select macOS Post Install again, and this time also select “Force Cache Rebuild” option. Once the patch is complete and the cache is rebuilt, reboot.
Step 12: Upon restart, complete the setup process and start using your Mac with a Mojave operating system.
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Happy Mojaving!!
For additional information and to know more about the known issues, please visit DosDune1’s website. He is an awesome guy.
Note: You will see a new “Patch Updater” app in the Applications under “Other” folder. It will alert you when new patches are available for your computer.
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Your Mac will get the future Mojave updates as other supported computer do. If you don’t see the updates, or your computer doesn’t work properly after applying the update, use the step 11 of Part 4 to enable all patches.