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It was initially free software, so I was able to demo it that way. When I bought it, I think you were allowed to pay what you wanted.

#Reddit bettersnaptool or magnet software

I bought better touch tool ( BTT), because it's amazing software that changes the way I use my macbook's touchpad. But, Apple never developed or flushed out any ideas for it, sadly. I half think that if apple would have given the option of half-height function keys and half-height touchbar in the space where we now have full-height function keys, I would have at least considered it. I was slightly bummed to lose it when I got my new 16' m1 mbp.but not that bad. It's the one apple should have released, bar none. That was a touchbar that was useful and made sense. The only way I made it actually usable for me was bettertouchtool and the goldenchaos theme. And it would disappear and be replaced with the 'make app fullscreen' button in most cases, that was just fucking aggrivating. The old version with no physical escape key was worse, because you can't just jab at escape, you have to look for it.

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Plus you have no physical reference point so you've got to take your eyes off the screen to look at the touchbar. Really, the worst part about the touch bar is that in stock form it's basically useless, takes extra steps to do things - like changing volume or muting requires you to press the speaker icon, then slide a bar back and forth for volume - same thing with brightness. The 13' M1 isn't as bad since it's got the physical escape key. For example, I have Option F10 on my keyboard set up to switch the audio from my Mac to my entertainment center in the living room. That gave me the ability to write Applescripts and use BetterTouchTool to assign them to hotkeys. I love that the developer (Rogue Amoeba) built in lots of Applescript into Airplay. I could just switch to the backup.Īirfoil is an awesome app for streaming audio from your Mac to other Airplay devices. I won't need to reinstall anything or recover anything. If a hard drive dies, I have a backup sitting there, ready to go. I have SuperDuper set up to automatically clone my Mac's hard drive and my external media drive every night while I'm asleep, and I have a weekly backup drive too. External hard drives are so cheap these days.

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Etc etc etc.īetterTouchTool is the first app I'd install on a new Mac. Command 0 through Command 5 rate the current song 0 through 5 stars. For example, Command F1 through Command F4 trigger scenes on my Philips Hue lights. I created hotkeys that trigger all kinds of stuff.

Here are a few of the ways I use it.ģ finger swipe left/right = go to the tab to the left or rightģ finger swipe up/down = go to the top or bottom of the page I cannot overstate how amazing BetterTouchTool is.

It finally made the touchbar 'useful'.īetterTouchTool - For custom hotkeys, custom trackpad swipes and clicks, and so much more.

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I did the 30 day trial and after that I spent the $7 for a license because I seriously think it's worth it.

The possibilities are pretty endless with this thing. I also have a second touchbar which comes up when I hit control.that touch bar has less-used items, like emojis for when I'm talking to my wife on iMessage, plus a 'Goodnight' button which turns off the screen, mutes the speakers, and puts the computer in rest mode. It looks way sleeker that way to me with the OLED. Except for the far right and far left buttons, each button is blacked out so all you see is the icon. On the far right is where I put my 'relax' button, which starts the screensaver. It took a little tinkering but left to right I have my escape button (in neon blue now), a pair of shortcuts to documents I use daily, a Spotify widget that plays music when I touch it plus displays the track information, a date/time widget which shows my local time (I'm out of the country for work), a second date/time widget which shows the time back home, plus your standard make screen go brighter and make screen go darker buttons, plus your volume controls. You can set it up to use the 'old keys before the touchbar' already.īetter touch tool was the only program I needed to install.