Tip: One-time passwords, along with an authenticator app, are always safer than SMS.ġPassword’s personal plan costs $2.99 a month (billed annually). They also have a family plan available, which can be handy. ? 1Password 7 dark mode on Mac (Image source: 1Password) Many of us know how hard it is to get our parents to use best practices when it comes to online security. If you prefer something local that’s not on the cloud I also recommend the free MacPass app. Affinity Designer (premium, M1 optimized)Īffinity Designer is a vector graphics program developed by Serif for macOS. I have used Affinity Designer for 4+ years to create all of the images you see on this blog, as well as my other sites. But running a small business and having to pay for everything myself, was just too expensive. The Creative Cloud costs $50+/month, and if I were to get Illustrator by itself, it would cost me $20+/month. Affinity Designer is by far the best Adobe Illustrator alternative I’ve ever found. The best part about Affinity Designer is that it only costs $49.99. And it’s not a subscription, this is simply a one-time purchase, and you get all the updates forever. It’s available from the developer’s website and the Mac App Store. Tip: For saving images for the web, the best color profile for Mac is sRGB IEC61966-2.1. In Affinity Designer, you can find this under the “More” button when you go to export an image. I also have a few Affinity Designer tutorials I’m working on. I recently published one on how to easily cut a shape out of another shape. The Alfred Mac app is all about productivity! If you’ve ever heard of a tool called TextExpander, this is that on steroids. You can use it to speed up all sorts of tasks that you do regularly on the Mac. One example, I use a lot of emojis when I’m writing and sharing on social media. I have hotkeys (or snippets as Alfred calls them) so that I can easily insert emojis as I write. For example, I can type :smile: and it will automatically convert into ?.
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