1/20/2024 0 Comments Foldingtext plugins trelloAs you’ll see, I keep a handful of Web browsers installed, but I tend to switch my default browser infrequently. I also like its efforts to eliminate cookie dialogs and its integration of Brave Search (see “ Brave Search Public Beta Offers Alternative to Google,” 8 July 2021). I’ve been a fan of Brave’s privacy protections for some time, and, as a Chromium-based browser, it supports the handful of Chrome extensions I need. The first app I reinstalled-using Apple’s bundled Safari, of course-is the privacy-focused Web browser Brave. If I were working under a typical budget, I would be somewhat more circumspect, particularly with multiple apps in the same category. Note that while I do recommend all of these apps individually, that’s partly because I pay for hardly any of them. Here then, are the 46 apps I rely on (so far!), with a few words of explanation for each. The start of this list is less indicative than the latter part: I installed many of the early apps more or less simultaneously and then added back other apps when the task for which I use them cropped up. It was tedious but fascinating because I learned precisely which apps I really use and the order I needed them. What I glossed over was the remaining step of reinstalling third-party apps. When I wrote “ Level 2 Clean Install of Ventura Solves Deep-Rooted Problems” (10 April 2023), I stopped at the point of declaring-and I am not being smug about this, universe!-seeming victory over several previously intractable problems. #1682: Apple’s “Scary Fast” announcement, X.1 updates to 2023 OS versions, Microsoft Word’s 40th anniversary, 5G wireless Internet.#1683: New M3 chips in updated MacBook Pros and iMac, record Apple Q4 profits on lower revenues, no more 27-inch iMacs.#1684: OS bug fix releases, Finder tag poll results, Messages identity verification, blocking spambots, which Apple services do you use?.#1685: Hidden secrets of the Fn key, Emergency SOS via satellite free access extended, RCS support in Messages, Rogue Amoeba icon evolution.#1686: Please support TidBITS, OS security updates, Apple services poll results, biking with an iPhone.
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