{"id":8513,"date":"2020-01-09T00:58:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T00:58:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/howto\/?p=8513"},"modified":"2020-07-12T09:54:59","modified_gmt":"2020-07-12T09:54:59","slug":"best-useful-apps-make-life-easier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cleverfiles.com\/howto\/top-5-apps-for-mac.html","title":{"rendered":"Essential Mac Applications to Make Your Life Easier"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"top_5_apps_for_mac_revised\"><\/span><b>Top 5 Apps for Mac Revised<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\r\n<p>Mac users are benefited by many essential applications available on the market for them. These applications enrich their computers and lives. Although it is practically impossible to describe all the best apps for Mac available, here below is a selection of five of the best Mac apps 2016\/2015. For each of them, there is a brief explanation of their possible uses.<\/p>\r\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"1_evernote\"><\/span><b>1. Evernote<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/evernote.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Evernote<\/a> is a note taking, organizing and archiving app developed by Evernote Corporation. This app helps the user in creating notes. Notes are composed of texts, pictures, voice messages, handwritten \u201cink\u201d notes, and file attachments. A set of notes can be organized into a notebook. In addition, notes can be tagged, edited, searched and exported to other applications. \u00a0Evernote supports pictures taken from camera devices.\r\n\r\nThere is an online service, integrated with Twitter, which can be used to send notes to Evernote remotely. Users can also share notes, which can be edited by other users. Evernote is a multiplatform app, available for OS X, iOS, Android, and Windows devices. The developers also offer an online synchronization and backup service. The app is available for free up to a monthly maximum, and in a paid Premium version with no limits.\r\n\r\nOverall, Evernote is one of the best Mac apps, a very practical tool for many professions, students and common people alike.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8517 size-full\" src=\"\/howto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/evernote.png\" alt=\"top 5 apps for mac\" width=\"460\" height=\"310\" \/>\r\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"2_disk_drill\"><\/span><b>2. Disk Drill<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"\/\">Disk Drill<\/a> is a data recovery app, developed by Cleverfiles that is available for free. The app works by scanning the device and listing all found files. Scanning can be done in two modes: quick and deep. Quick scan uses the information available in the operating system. Deep scan works at binary level, reconstructing files with the information it finds.\r\n\r\nDisk Drill also offers two data loss prevention features: Recovery Vault and Guaranteed Recovery. Recovery Vault is a technology that keeps a reference to each deleted file. Guaranteed Recovery works by keeping a copy of each file moved into a pre-selected folder.\r\n\r\nIn addition, the app offers data imaging functionality. The user can create image files, which are a bit-by-bit copy of the drive. Image files are useful as personal backups, and in forensics, as they allow the user to work on a copy, leaving the original source intact.\r\n\r\nThis app has had a good reception in the market, having been downloaded by more than ten million people. There is also a Windows version. The free version works on preview mode, and Cleverfiles offers an upgrade to a Pro version with full functionality. For multiple users, an enterprise edition is available.\r\n\r\nOverall, Disk Drills\u2019 comprehensive features make it one of the best OS X apps available in the market, with the potential to grow bigger.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-9511 size-large\" src=\"\/howto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/essential-mac-apps-1.jpg\" alt=\"apps for mac\" width=\"500\" height=\"313\" \/>\r\n\r\n<div class=\"relative bottom download__block\">\r\n            <div class=\"d-flex align-center download__block__inner\">\r\n                <div class=\"download__block__image-wrapper\">\r\n                <div class=\"download__block__image\">\r\n                    <img src=\"\/howto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sidebar-ban-96.png\" srcset=\"\/howto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/sidebar-ban-2x-1.png 2x\" alt=\"Disk Drill\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\">        \r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <div class=\"download__block__announce\">\r\n                    <b>download-block-title<\/b><br>\r\n                    download-block-text\r\n                <\/div>\r\n                <div class=\"download__block__action\">\r\n                    <a href=\"\/\/download.html\" data-href-mac=\/\/disk-drill-mac.html data-href-win=\/\/disk-drill-win.html class=\"button button-green btn-md osreplace\">\r\n<svg width=\"16\" height=\"16\" viewBox=\"0 0 16 16\" fill=\"none\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\">\r\n<path d=\"M11.9546 7.293C11.8736 7.114 11.6956 7 11.4996 7H9.49957V0.5C9.49957 0.224 9.27557 0 8.99957 0H6.99957C6.72357 0 6.49957 0.224 6.49957 0.5V7H4.49957C4.30357 7 4.12557 7.115 4.04457 7.293C3.96257 7.472 3.99457 7.681 4.12357 7.829L7.62357 11.829C7.71857 11.938 7.85557 12 7.99957 12C8.14357 12 8.28057 11.937 8.37557 11.829L11.8756 7.829C12.0056 7.682 12.0356 7.472 11.9546 7.293Z\" fill=\"white\"\/>\r\n<path d=\"M13.5 11V14H2.5V11H0.5V15C0.5 15.553 0.948 16 1.5 16H14.5C15.053 16 15.5 15.553 15.5 15V11H13.5Z\" fill=\"white\"\/>\r\n<\/svg>\r\ndownload-block-button-text\r\n<\/a>\r\n                <\/div>\r\n            <\/div>\r\n        <\/div>\r\n\r\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"3_audacity\"><\/span><b>3. Audacity<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/sourceforge.net\/projects\/audacity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Audacity<\/a> is a free and open source app for processing audio files. It has been available since 1999, and has editions for Windows, OS X, Linux and a few other operative systems. The app is a very popular choice, with more than 100 million downloads. It has a user friendly interface, which is available in several languages, including French, English, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Spanish and Chinese. Its ease of use and technical efficiency have made Audacity a very popular choice in education and one of the best free Mac apps.\r\n\r\nAudacity features are wide and sophisticated. Besides the typical recording and mixing, this app has great editing functions, including copying, cutting and pasting. It also has a very good effects module, which includes normalization, trimming, and fading in and out. Adding to it, users can also create their own effects by using the Nyquist language.\r\n\r\nSummarizing, Audacity offers some great functionalities for sound professionals and amateurs alike, making it one of the best free Mac apps available today.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8515 size-large\" src=\"\/howto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/audacity.png\" alt=\"audacity for mac\" width=\"500\" height=\"402\" \/>\r\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"4_caffeine\"><\/span><b>4. Caffeine<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/intelliscapesolutions.com\/apps\/caffeine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Caffeine<\/a> is a small app that keeps the computer from going into sleep mode, dimming the screen or starting a screen saver. It was developed by Lighthead Software and is available for free. The app works by simulating a keypress every 59 seconds. The simulated pressed key is F15, which has very low probability of interfering with the normal use of a computer.\r\n\r\nIn brief, this small app may be very useful for tasks that don\u2019t require touching the keyboard for long periods of time. Its practicality makes it one of the applications to be included among the list of best Mac apps.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8518 size-large\" src=\"\/howto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Caffeine.png\" alt=\"Caffeine for mac\" width=\"500\" height=\"367\" \/>\r\n\r\n<h3><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"5_chrome_remote_desktop\"><\/span><b>5. Chrome Remote Desktop<\/b><span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h3>\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/chrome.google.com\/remotedesktop\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Chrome Remote Desktop<\/a> is a remote desktop software tool developed by Google, and available since 2011. This application can be used to remotely access and control another computer. The technology is based on a protocol developed by Google, and basically it consists of transmitting keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another.\r\n\r\nChrome Remote Desktop operates in two modes: remote assistance and remote desktop. With remote assistance mode, the user can work on another person\u2019s computer, and as the name suggests, assist the remote user with some tasks. This mode is available for Windows, Mac, iOS, Android and Linux. The second mode, allows the user to connect to another computer of its own remotely. It is offered for Windows, Mac and Linux operating systems.\r\n\r\nOverall, Chrome Remote Desktop is a very handy tool, which allows remote operations, and can be included among the best free Mac apps.\r\n\r\n<img class=\"aligncenter wp-image-8516 size-large\" src=\"\/howto\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Chrome-Remote-Desktop.png\" alt=\"top 5 apps for mac\" width=\"600\" height=\"372\" \/>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Top 5 Apps for Mac Revised Mac users are benefited by many essential applications available on the market for them. These applications enrich their computers and lives. 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