Dropover, Magnet, Arc Browser if you don’t like safari. Noir extension if you indeed like safari. Adguard for ad blocking globally. Best video player so far: IINA. Keka for rar files. Blueharvest if you use external drives and don’t wan’t macOS to fill them with .dstore crap. 🫡

Mos

Sleeves. It does everything Apple Music Mini Player failed to do. It displays now playing info in the corner of your screen. Fully customizable.

Dropover.

When you “shake” an image, text, or file with your trackpad it opens a box to drop the file into and saves it for later use so you can easily remove it from the box. It can also generate links to share the dropped item and has a bunch of nifty tools like reshaping images, converting files and more.

AND ITS FREE

I like using the weather radar apps from my phone since M series Mac’s run iPhone and iPad apps. Bring s former science teacher the free planetarium program Stellarium which has been around forever is great.

Arc is a very good browser I use it personally

dropzone

CleanMyMac

AppleCare

I used to work by connecting MacBook to the big screen smart TV. And wear special glasses to keep your eyes healthy

My app count is pretty stock. Only 3rd party I have installed is Microsoft RDP for connecting to an xps and that’s about it.

The same ones from the PC haha VLC VS code Spotify

Bartender and magnet

Rectangle or magnet for window management Amphetamine is great but better trust your dorm mate. Go into settings and allow 3 finger dragging of windows, i dont know why this isnt default it feels so natural. Figure out a knowledge graph, note taking, organization app like Notion or something. Its a learning curve but useful if you use it Get an ai whether thats Bing, a chatGPT plus account, or Visual code Blackbox, copilot or whatever Learn about Apple private relay and email generator built in to laptop that forwards to your icloud email. Great for privacy, controlling spam, protects in the least email identification from data breaches Safari has a built-in apple VPN figure out how to leverage it. Set up cmd+spotlight to launch spotlight. Configure spotlight to search all your stuff except your embarrassing private folders. So much easier to do a search than clicking nested folders and scrolling through an alphabetical list. Alfred is an upgrade to spotlight but I dont use it anymore

The FREE for personal use VMWare Fusion 13.5 Player will run Windows 11 ARM now with accelerated graphics and doesn’t limit you on cores and RAM like parallels.