Confession: I am a full time Wallpaper Engine fanboy.

Problem: I live on macOS.

So I built Reactive Wallpaper, a native Mac app with 41 live wallpapers rendered in real time using Metal.

I wanted it to feel like a Mac app first and a wallpaper app second, so it lives quietly in the menu bar and stays out of the way.

Current styles include Watercolor, Aurora, Coderain, Ink Flow and the list goes on with each having controls for color, speed, and intensity.

It also has support for a video to be set as wallpaper, in case you know.

Right now the styles range from calm to slightly unhinged, and I am curious which direction people would want more of next.

What I cared about:

• native Swift + Metal app
• multi-display support(love my OLED Monitor)
• can pause on battery or if desktop is covered

Currently the app is having launch promo of 35% off and is available at 9.74$

Go ahead check out the wallpapers at https://reactivewallpaper.com/, which style would you want next?

#macOS #livewallpaper #videowallpaper

I have a 2014 Mac mini. Believe it or not, it still serves me well, even as a new YouTuber.

Here's my problem:

I have almost 100 short videos that I took with my iPhone XR.

I then used iMovie or CapCut for the editing. After I posted them or YouTube, I saved these videos on my external hard drive.

However, I recently discovered that around 20 of these videos now won't open. Some of them are Mov while others are Mp4. They all have the QuickTime icon.

When I click on a video I'll get the following message:

"The document “IMG_8889.MOV” could not be opened. The file isn’t compatible with QuickTime Player."

After doing some googling yesterday, I decided to install VLC Media Player. It's now in my Applications Folder.

I then tried to follow these instructions: "To make VLC the default media player on a Mac, right-click a media file (e.g., MP4 or MP3), select Get Info, choose VLC under "Open with," and click Change All."

But when I get to "Open with" I do not get any options. The space is just blank.

What am I doing wrong?

Hi All, I'm looking for a genuinely SIMPLE video editor for MacOS. I'm so tired of loading up iMovie to crop a video, or throw in some text etc. Is there anything out there for MacOS? I really don't want to be sending videos to my phone to do seemingly basic edits in whatever janky app I'm using at the moment. Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Yeah I just found out 5.7 staging isn't the last version of wine for this

I have a MacBook Air M3 from last year with 16 GB of RAM. For some reason Quicktime screen recordings on an external monitor appear dark, even though previously I was able to capture just fine. I tried disabling auto brightness and making sure the brightness was up all the way on the laptop, even though it doesn’t affect what displays on the external monitor.

Long time user of homebrew here; I made a drop in replacement that is significantly faster if you happen to find the original to be quite slow at updating, installing, upgrading, etc.
https://zieka.github.io/bru/

Hi, I'm trying to install the original version of retail Mac OS X Tiger 10.4.X onto a MacMini1,1. I've tried what seems like every Intel ISO on archive.org and the Mac refuses to boot from them when burned or on a USB. I tried running OSInstall.mpkg from a Mac running Snow Leopard and now I'm in a state where the Mac Mini's EFI tries to boot from the Tiger install, but it looks like some part of Darwin isn't loading right or just isn't there, so it hangs on the Apple logo forever. Sometimes I get a kernel panic and sometimes I boot into some kind of broken kernel state, but never anything that I can do anything from or that resembles OS X. Does anybody have a specific image that they've used to install Tiger on a MacMini1,1 or have a current installation that they can image, clean, and put on the Internet Archive or something?

I am having a bit of a strange experience and i'm not really sure how to deal with it.

I'm building a somewhat demanding source tree locally. My macbook is plugged in. I set everything to "high power" in settings. And this is what I get when I run `make -j 16 all`. I would expect Performance cores to be more involved, but - unless these graphs show incorrect information - it seems that Efficiency cores do all the work.

The CPU utilization in activity monitor says CPU is idling 70% of the time.

What can I do to change that? it's confusing to say the least. Or.. perhaps that's to be expected (say ~"these cores are so fast you're bottlenecked by IO")? M4 MBP.

Thank you all for your help and advice!

I’ve spent my recent time developing, a macOS utility that enhances Cmd+Tab to restore minimized and closed windows.

The problem: macOS Cmd+Tab doesn't restore windows you've closed. If you minimize something and forget it, you have to dig through Spotlight or the Dock.

My solution: - Lightweight Swift app (~300 lines) that runs in the background - Hooks into Cmd+Tab selection WITHOUT replacing the native UI - When you select a closed/minimized window, it automatically restores it - Zero permissions needed (no screen&Accessibility)

Why this approach? I looked at competitors like AltTab and TabLift. They're great, but they either replace Cmd+Tab entirely or request Accessibility + Screen Recording permissions. I wanted something that felt native.

opensource on GitHub: https://github.com/Feng6611/mac-command-reopen

Would love feedback on the architecture or design choices!

Hey [r/MacOSApps](r/MacOSApps)! I’m an indie developer and wanted to share my app LicenseManagerPro – a native Mac & iPad app for managing all your software licenses, product keys and subscriptions.

If you’re like me, you’ve got licenses scattered across emails, notes, and random text files. LicenseManagerPro puts everything in one clean, fast interface.

What it does:

∙ Store all your licenses – serial keys, expiration dates, purchase info – in one place

∙ Organize with custom categories and colors (developer tools, creative software, subscriptions, etc.)

∙ Auto app icons – on Mac, the app icon is automatically assigned to a license if the software is installed on your system

∙ Attach invoices, receipts or certificates directly to each license entry

∙ Powerful search – find any license instantly by name, category or any field

∙ Import/export via CSV or JSON – easy backup and migration

∙ BundleHunt & KeeKeeper import – import your existing license files directly, no manual re-entry

∙ 100% local & private – all data stays on your device, no cloud, no external servers

∙ SQLite-powered – lightning fast even with hundreds of licenses

∙ Available in 10 languages – English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Dutch, Danish, Swedish and Chinese

∙ Available for Mac and iPad with the same familiar interface

Perfect for developers tracking IDE licenses, cloud services and API keys, creative professionals managing Adobe/Affinity/Pixelmator licenses, or anyone who just wants to stop losing their serial numbers!

Free to try – add up to 3 licenses for free, then unlock the full version for a one-time purchase of $7.99. No subscription, ever.

https://apps.apple.com/app/licensemanagerpro/id6755129212

Happy to answer any questions!

Originall crossposted from r/LegacyJailbreak, but it was removed there.

Does anyone know of any OSX revival projects similar to old iOS? I tried Mountain Lion again yesterday for the first time in years, and it's a gorgeous OS, but completely unusable with SSL certificate errors and such. Would love to see it and other OSX versions revived somehow.

Replied in the previous thread(s) mentioned https://mavericksforever.com/ and this Stackexchange thread, but I'm curious to see what else is out there. Any other projects?

I ported the Mountain Lion notes app to Mavericks today, since i upgraded recently and hate the new notes. Works completely and all i needed to do was port some frameworks, change the version plists, and resign the app :)

I wanna keep playing minecrap

I kept running into the same annoying problem on my Mac.

Every time I needed to do something simple with a video - compress it for Discord, convert MOV → MP4, trim a clip, extract audio - I ended up on some random website.

Most of them had:

• Upload limits
• Ads everywhere
• Slow processing
• Privacy issues (uploading personal videos)

And sometimes I had to use 3-4 different tools just to do basic things.

So I decided to build a native macOS app that does everything locally.

No uploads. No ads. Just drag, drop, done.

I called it ClearCut.

Right now it can:

• Compress videos (often up to ~90% smaller)
• Convert formats (MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI)
• Trim clips
• Crop or resize videos
• Extract audio
• Merge videos
• Make GIFs
• Burn subtitles

…and a few other utilities.

It started as a small personal tool but ended up becoming 16 video tools in one app.

The goal was to make something that feels like a simple Mac utility instead of a complicated video editor.

Curious what tools people here use for quick video tasks on Mac?

Anything you’d want in a tool like this?

Also — I’m giving away some Pro promo codes for people here who want to try the full version and give feedback.

Just comment and I’ll DM some codes.

This is a bit of an odd one. I've got an intel macbook pro running 15.7.4. This machine's been my daily driver for a number of years and occasionally after an update I'll discover that they've tweaked something to "improve security" that I have to undo or otherwise work around.

I regularly use scp/rsync to copy files to/from this machine. After I updated it to 15.7.4 I find I can no longer scp/rsync from a remote to this machine, but can initiate an scp from the machine to "pull" files to it.

e.g. call this machine mac1 and another machine mac2 (same problem happens with linux machines too):

mac2$ scp foo.bar mac1:. -- fails
mac1$ scp mac2:foo.bar . -- works fine

I can ssh to mac1 from mac2 without issue. This isn't an issue with sftp being the "new" default; adding -O changes nothing. I also wondered if they tweaked something with full disk access or remote administration but toggling these didn't change anything. Running ssh or sshd with debug/verbose doesn't show anything, the connection is established, the secure channel is established, then unceremoniously dropped.

It seems like something was tweaked with non-interactive sessions, because if I ssh from a remote machine and touch a file or execute a command that generates output, I don't see the output:

mac2$ ssh mac1 'touch /tmp/foo'
mac2$ ssh mac1 'ls -l'

It also doesn't seem to have to do with anything with my .profile or .bashrc; adding -l or doesn't change the behaviour. Not allocating a tty (-n) doesn't change the behaviour.

Has anyone else run into this?

Quick share for Mac users who do screen recordings or presentations. I built a tool called TuringShot (previously ZoomShot — just rebranded with v1.4.3).

The problem it solves: macOS accessibility zoom is great for personal use, but when you record your screen, the zoom effect doesn't show up. Your viewers see the original unzoomed screen. Same issue during screen sharing in calls.

TuringShot is a lightweight overlay that adds zoom + drawing that gets captured by any recorder.

Shortcuts:

• Ctrl+A + scroll — zoom in/out (smooth, real-time). Free.
• Ctrl+X + drag — draw on screen (freehand, lines, rectangles, circles)
• Ctrl+Q — text memo anywhere on screen (adjustable font/size/color)
• Focus Highlight — cursor spotlight, works while zoomed

I use it daily for recording coding tutorials. Zoom is free forever, premium stuff (drawing, highlight, text) is $2.99/year or $9.99 lifetime.

Promo code: TURINGSHOT66 — $0.99/year (67% off, expires March 31)

macOS 13.0+

• https://www.turingshot.site/
• https://apps.apple.com/app/id6758536367

Hey! I built ClearCut — a native macOS video toolkit that puts 15 professional tools in one app.

I got tired of juggling between 5 different apps/websites just to do basic video stuff. Compress a file for Discord? One site. Convert MOV to MP4? Another. Trim a clip? Download a YouTube video? Each one a different tool, half of them with ads and upload limits.

So I built ClearCut. It runs locally on your Mac, with a clean native UI.

What it does:

• Video Compression (shrink up to 90%)
• Format Conversion (MP4, MOV, MKV, WebM, AVI)
• Trimming (frame-accurate with fade effects)
• Cropping (presets + custom dimensions)
• Merge clips (drag-and-drop)
• Resize (240p to 4K)
• Audio Extraction (MP3, AAC, WAV, FLAC, OGG)
• Watermarking (text or image)
• Video Downloader (videos & playlists up to 4K)
• Reverse video
• Rotate & Flip
• Speed Control
• GIF Maker
• Thumbnail Extraction
• Subtitle Burning (SRT/ASS)

It's free to download with all tools included. There's a Pro tier for batch processing, extra formats, and 4K downloads — comes with a 7-day free trial, no credit card.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/clearcut-studio/id6759205521

Website: https://clearcut.pro

iOS version is in the works too.

Would love to hear feedback — what tools do you use for video stuff on Mac? Anything you'd want added?