Friday's 5: Exploring Five Awesome Mac App Store Apps

This week, we're taking a look at five awesome Mac app store apps that you might not know about yet. First up, we have Bumper, a $3.99 app that allows you to choose which browser you open links in. When you click on a link, you'll see a little popup window that gives you the option to choose between Chrome or Safari. This is especially useful if you need to switch between different browsers for work or personal use.

Bumper also works with email applications, making it easy to manage your inbox and switch between different email clients. The app's preferences allow you to assign other browsers to specific situations, such as when you're browsing the web in a specific context. You can even make the popup window appear only when you hold the shift key while clicking on a link.

Another standout app is Affinity Designer, a vector design tool that's often compared to Adobe Illustrator. At $50, it's an affordable alternative that still offers top-notch features and performance. One of the most impressive things about Affinity Designer is its full-screen support, which allows you to work on large projects without distractions. You can also export your designs in various formats, including Photoshop PSD and SVG.

In addition to its robust feature set, Affinity Designer is optimized for Mac users, making it a great choice for those who want to stay within the Apple ecosystem. The app's user interface is intuitive and easy to navigate, even for beginners. With its powerful design tools and flexible pricing model, it's no wonder that Affinity Designer has become one of the most popular vector design apps on the Mac App Store.

If you're looking for an alternative to Final Cut Pro, you might want to check out Motion. This $50 app is a motion graphics tool that's designed to work seamlessly with other Apple apps like Photoshop and Affinity Designer. One of its standout features is its ability to import Photoshop files with all layers intact, making it easy to work on large projects.

With Motion, you can create animations and visual effects using a range of tools and templates. The app's user interface is designed to be intuitive and accessible, even for those who are new to motion graphics. One of the most impressive things about Motion is its ability to export your projects in various formats, including QuickTime and Vimeo-compatible files.

If you're looking for a plain text editing app that can handle complex writing tasks, Ulises might be the perfect choice. This $0 app supports Markdown and allows you to preview your HTML code directly in the editor. One of the most impressive things about Ulises is its ability to publish your work directly to platforms like Medium and WordPress.

In addition to its robust feature set, Ulises is also designed with collaboration in mind. You can create new groups and combine existing sheets to create a cohesive document. The app's iCloud syncing allows you to access your work from anywhere, making it easy to stay on top of your writing projects.

Finally, we have Pastebot, a $9.99 app that offers a range of features for copying and pasting text and images. One of its standout features is its sequential paste tool, which allows you to copy multiple items from one document and paste them into another in the correct order. This feature can save you a lot of time and effort when working on large projects.

With Pastebot, you can also access a range of other tools and features, including image editing and formatting options. The app's user interface is designed to be intuitive and easy to navigate, even for those who are new to Mac apps. Whether you're a student, freelancer, or professional writer, Pastebot is definitely worth checking out.

So there you have it – five awesome Mac app store apps that can help you streamline your workflow and boost your productivity. Whether you're looking for vector design tools, motion graphics software, or plain text editing apps, there's something on this list for everyone.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: ena look at five awesome Mac app store apps in this week's Friday 5 so the first item on the docket is bumper a 399 Mac app store app that allows you to choose which browser that you open links in so for instance if I click this link right here you're going to see a little popup and that allows me to choose which browser I want to use so I can choose between Chrome or Safari in this instance and if you go to the apps preferences you can also assign other browsers you can also make it so that the popup window only appears when you hold the shift key when clicking a link and bumper also works with email applications one of my favorite and arguably most valuable applications on the Mac App Store is none other than Affinity designer this $50 app can for some people depending on their needs replace Adobe Illustrator in your workflow so not only is that super valuable for from a monetary standpoint but it also is completely optimized for the ma Ma so you get things like full screen support true true full screen support and you can export to a wide variety of formats including Photoshop PSD including SVG and others hands down this is one of the best Vector design tools on the Mac App Store and I highly recommend it I'm actually going to go ahead and Export this clock right now in a Photoshop format now I'm going to use motion which is a $50 app it's a Motion Graphics app from Apple very much similar to Final Cut Pro as far as its look and feel but obviously a lot different so you can import a Photoshop file with all of its layers intact so I'm going to do that right now and this is the clock that we just made in Affinity designer so I can go in hone in on a specific layer zoom in and then move the Anchor Point for the minute hand to the desired location so that I can animate the minute hand and create an animation to export back into Final Cut Pro so you can see I'm moving the Anchor Point here and then I'm just going to move the playhead to the beginning and I'm going to go to the inspector properties and set a key frame for rotation now I'm going to move the playhead a little bit forward and just rotate like that and there we go so that's all there is to it now I can play it and I have an animation just like that so now I can create a Final Cut Pro generator that I can use across a variety of projects or for quick demonstration purposes I can just export and share as a movie file and that's what I'm going to do right now so I'm going to share export movie and it set prores so we'll go ahead and Export and now you can view the movie that I just created in Infinity designer and in Motion in just a few minutes Ulisses is an app that we've covered before on Friday 5 but it was for the iOS version the Mac App Store version is just as good in fact it's the one that started it all ulyses is one of the best plain text editing apps on the Mac it supports markdown you can preview your mark down just like this so if I click here click preview you can see the actual HTML file so you can copy and paste that into your CMS of choice but you can also directly publish to platforms like WordPress for instance so if I go down to publishing I can add an account and you can choose between medium and WordPress you can also add specific writing goals you can add keywords you can add attachments notes so if I want to add a specific image to reference in my writing I can do that directly in the interface and of course this all syncs over iCloud I can even create new groups to hold specific sheets and combine those sheets to create one cohesive document a super powerful application now our final app is pastebot a $9.99 copy and paste app for the Mac this is a really cool app it has tons of features but I'm going to just point out one particular feature that I like and that is sequential paste this allows you to copy and paste a sequence of items one by one like this and then I can actually paste those items sequentially so instead of having to keep going back and forth between two documents copying and pasting copying and pasting I can do it all in Windell swoop just copy all the items from the first document and then go in and sequentially paste all those items into the second document let me show you how it works so we're going to sequentially paste in all five of these items here let's start with the first one Hackintosh described Hardware machines Pro just like that soly ladies and gents which one is your favorite from this week's Friday 5 sound off down below in the comments this is Jeff with 9 to5 Maca look at five awesome Mac app store apps in this week's Friday 5 so the first item on the docket is bumper a 399 Mac app store app that allows you to choose which browser that you open links in so for instance if I click this link right here you're going to see a little popup and that allows me to choose which browser I want to use so I can choose between Chrome or Safari in this instance and if you go to the apps preferences you can also assign other browsers you can also make it so that the popup window only appears when you hold the shift key when clicking a link and bumper also works with email applications one of my favorite and arguably most valuable applications on the Mac App Store is none other than Affinity designer this $50 app can for some people depending on their needs replace Adobe Illustrator in your workflow so not only is that super valuable for from a monetary standpoint but it also is completely optimized for the ma Ma so you get things like full screen support true true full screen support and you can export to a wide variety of formats including Photoshop PSD including SVG and others hands down this is one of the best Vector design tools on the Mac App Store and I highly recommend it I'm actually going to go ahead and Export this clock right now in a Photoshop format now I'm going to use motion which is a $50 app it's a Motion Graphics app from Apple very much similar to Final Cut Pro as far as its look and feel but obviously a lot different so you can import a Photoshop file with all of its layers intact so I'm going to do that right now and this is the clock that we just made in Affinity designer so I can go in hone in on a specific layer zoom in and then move the Anchor Point for the minute hand to the desired location so that I can animate the minute hand and create an animation to export back into Final Cut Pro so you can see I'm moving the Anchor Point here and then I'm just going to move the playhead to the beginning and I'm going to go to the inspector properties and set a key frame for rotation now I'm going to move the playhead a little bit forward and just rotate like that and there we go so that's all there is to it now I can play it and I have an animation just like that so now I can create a Final Cut Pro generator that I can use across a variety of projects or for quick demonstration purposes I can just export and share as a movie file and that's what I'm going to do right now so I'm going to share export movie and it set prores so we'll go ahead and Export and now you can view the movie that I just created in Infinity designer and in Motion in just a few minutes Ulisses is an app that we've covered before on Friday 5 but it was for the iOS version the Mac App Store version is just as good in fact it's the one that started it all ulyses is one of the best plain text editing apps on the Mac it supports markdown you can preview your mark down just like this so if I click here click preview you can see the actual HTML file so you can copy and paste that into your CMS of choice but you can also directly publish to platforms like WordPress for instance so if I go down to publishing I can add an account and you can choose between medium and WordPress you can also add specific writing goals you can add keywords you can add attachments notes so if I want to add a specific image to reference in my writing I can do that directly in the interface and of course this all syncs over iCloud I can even create new groups to hold specific sheets and combine those sheets to create one cohesive document a super powerful application now our final app is pastebot a $9.99 copy and paste app for the Mac this is a really cool app it has tons of features but I'm going to just point out one particular feature that I like and that is sequential paste this allows you to copy and paste a sequence of items one by one like this and then I can actually paste those items sequentially so instead of having to keep going back and forth between two documents copying and pasting copying and pasting I can do it all in Windell swoop just copy all the items from the first document and then go in and sequentially paste all those items into the second document let me show you how it works so we're going to sequentially paste in all five of these items here let's start with the first one Hackintosh described Hardware machines Pro just like that soly ladies and gents which one is your favorite from this week's Friday 5 sound off down below in the comments this is Jeff with 9 to5 Mac\n"