Software for macOS
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TinkerTool
System 8
TinkerTool System 8 is a collection of system utility features helping you in performing advanced administration tasks on Apple Macintosh computers. The application makes use of a self-adapting user interface which automatically adjusts to the computer model and to the version of macOS you are running. All options available in the current situation are accessible via “panes”, very similar to the System Settings application. The features are controlled via a single window which allows you to use the application as a general toolbox and First Aid assistant.
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TinkerTool
System 7
TinkerTool System 7 is an alternative version of TinkerTool System, designed for the operating systems
macOS 11 Big Sur andmacOS 12 Monterey,
supporting their different feature sets. Learn more…
TinkerTool
TinkerTool is an application that gives you access to additional user settings Apple has built into macOS. This allows to activate hidden features in the operating system and in some of the applications delivered with the system.
The tool makes sure that preference changes can only affect
the current user. It will never change any component of the
operating system, so the integrity of your system is not put
at risk, and there will be no negative effect on system
updates. Learn more…
Backup
Server Control
Backup Server Control provides a graphical user interface to setup and administer a server for network-based Time Machine® backups with a few mouse clicks on a Macintosh®. Other Macs running macOS Sierra or later can perform backups on the Time Machine server. The current status of network backups can be reviewed any time.
A Time Machine server running on a Mac can be very
powerful. It is easy to handle and offers good scaling. By
adding new disk drives, the service can be extended any time
when needed, matching new requirements for increasing
storage sizes or when new computers arrive. Learn more…
Autostarter
Autostarter is a small app that makes it possible to launch
applications automatically during login without letting the
applications show windows, even with macOS Ventura or later.
This feature, which Mac users loved, can now still be used,
although it had been dropped with the introduction of macOS
13. Autostarter achieves the same high level of reliability
that had been known from Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar to Mac OS X
10.6.8 Snow Leopard. The app can fully supersede the
function “Login Items” for the launch of applications. Learn more…
System Monitor
Do you like to know which parts of your computer are
currently busy? Do you like to monitor the current
performance of hard drives and network interfaces? Do you
like to keep an eye on the number of write accesses to your
precious SSD? Do you like to see which disks are currently
in sleep mode? Are you a PC switcher, but you miss the
flickering activity lights of disks and interfaces on your
Mac? But you like to do all this unobtrusively, with typical
Mac design, wasting no screen real estate? Then, System
Monitor will be a very interesting app for you. Learn more…
Battery
Monitor
More and more computers are mobile devices nowadays. The
most important prerequisite for a portable computer is a
chargeable battery which keeps the device powered. Batteries
are not really cheap replacement parts and they are subject
to wear and tear. Their lifetimes should be optimized,
handling them with the necessary care. Battery Monitor is a
small auxiliary application useful in this regard. It offers
the following features: Display of the charge state in the
Dock, display of internal battery information, capturing
charge and discharge curves, bookkeeping of the aging
process of the battery. Learn more…
Mac Power Monitor
Mac Power Monitor is a graphical, easy-to-use interface for
the energy and power measuring features of macOS. A large
number of statistical evaluations can be retrieved, such as
a power overview, process statistics, interrupt
distribution, processor core data, and much more. The data
can either be recorded live at a rate of 1 measurement per
second, or as a one-shot operation with any adjustable
duration of 1 millisecond or higher. Learn more…
JPEG
Photo File Date
Did you lose the file creation or modification times of JPEG
photo files in the past? So you can no longer use the macOS
Finder as a simple tool to sort photos by date, or to quickly
estimate when a photo was taken? This is a common problem,
often caused by errors in preview applications or cloud
synchronization.The small app JPEG Photo File Date can come to help here: It can read the metadata of a JPEG photo file when the picture was taken and fix the file settings for "date created" or "date last modified" accordingly. Even large amounts of pictures, such as a folder hierarchy with several tens of thousands of photos, can be processed quickly without any problems.
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Sync Checker
Sync Checker is designed to check if two folders or disks are perfectly synchronized, i.e. if they have exactly the same contents. Verify if your backup and sync programs work correctly, find out where two macOS installations differ, test if your web server has received the latest updates of your web pages: There are many situations where Sync Checker can be really helpful.
If file collections are not in sync, Sync Checker will help
you to browse through the differing items, analyzing exactly
where a mismatch occurred, and if the differences are
critical or negligible. Filter tools help you to navigate
through large sets of mismatching objects. You can also
create a textual report of the results which can be printed
or exported. Learn more…
NFS Manager
NFS Manager is a graphical user interface to control all built-in NFS features of macOS. It can manage a whole network of macOS computers to setup a distributed NFS file system via a few simple mouse clicks.
NFS (Network File System) is the industry standard for file
sharing on UNIX systems like macOS. Each macOS system can be
setup as an NFS server to offer files to the network, or as
an NFS client to access files shared by other computers.
Different from other file sharing protocols built into
macOS, NFS has no limitations in the number of users or
connections concurrently active. In addition, NFS can be
setup to connect to servers fully automatically
(“automounting”) without any password entries being
necessary. Learn more…
PrefEdit
PrefEdit is an application to manage nearly all aspects of
the preference system contained in every macOS installation.
The program consists of three components which are tightly
integrated with each other: A browser and editor for the
macOS preferences database, a browser and editor for macOS
property list files (plists), and a browser for preference
manifest files. PrefEdit was the first preferences editor
ever published for Mac OS X. With its long experience and
maturity, it has become one of the most advanced preference
management applications for macOS available today. Learn more..
Bresink
Software Updater
If you use many of our software products on your Mac, it
can become tedious to keep all of them up-to-date. Bresink
Software Updater facilitates the maintenance of our
applications considerably. At a glance you can see if all
programs are at their latest versions. All necessary steps,
such as the download, the security check, and copying the
programs to their usual places on your computer can be
performed automatically in no time. Learn more…
SystemLoad
SystemLoad is a diagnostic application assisting you in the
detection of cooling or power supply problems with Apple
Macintosh computers. The tool can put a user-definable load
onto one or more processors. This can help in diagnosing the
following issues: problems with the cooling system or
temperature sensors, problems with chirping noise caused by
oscillating parts in the voltage supply circuitry of
specific computer models, problems with battery units of
portable computers. Learn more…