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ScreenCastsONLINE’s DeskMat Tutorial

Check out ScreenCastsONLINE’s tutorial for my app DeskMat – the easy way to cover your Desktop for more privacy and distraction-free work: 👉 Watch Here 👈 Thank you, Lee, for this comprehensive look at my app.

The Big Eternal Storms August 2026 Giveaway on Mac Geek Gab

During the month of August 2026, you have the chance of winning• Yoink for Macand• ScreenFloat for Macand• Transloaderand• DeskMat 👉 in this awesome Mac Geek Gab Giveaway 👈 🍀 Best of Luck 🍀

Yoink for Mac v3.7.6 improves compatibility with browsers

Yoink for Mac drastically improves and simplifies drag and drop on the Mac.Version 3.7.6 improves compatibility with browsers Dia and Vivaldi, and fixes a bunch of bugs along the way. As important to me as the CMD key john.H, Mac App Store What is Yoink? Yoink is a temporary place for your file drags. Whether [ ]

DeskMat v1.3.2 adds a new widget

DeskMat for Mac v1.3.2 – your Desktop-covering companion for more privacy during screen sharing, cleaner streams, and distraction-free work – now has a new widget in addition to the Control Center widget to toggle your Desktop cover. “Exactly what I needed” Captain Muso @ Mac App Store What is DeskMat? DeskMat helps you: by providing a [ ]

Tales from App Review

I fancy myself a calm and collected person. Mellow. Only very few things on this good earth rile me up enough to make me want to punch my Mac’s screen. But boy, is Apple’s App Review consistently one of them. Prologue I recently released ScreenFloat v2.3.8. I submitted it to the Mac App Store on [ ]

ScreenFloat for Mac v2.3.8 adds window-shadow removal, auto-copy, improves its widgets and menu bar item [Update: v2.3.9 hotfix]

ScreenFloat for Mac v2.3.8 is now available, and brings a handful of new features, two handfuls of improvements, and three handfuls of bug fixes. “The most used tool on my Mac” wendylou @ Mac App Store What is ScreenFloat? ScreenFloat is your Mac s Screen Capture Power Tool.Capture screenshots and recordings that float above other windows, allowing [ ]

DeskMat v1.3.1 fixes bugs, ensures compatibility with macOS 27 “Golden Gate”

DeskMat for Mac v1.3.1 – a utility that quickly covers your Desktop or individual files for more privacy during screen sharing, cleaner streams, and distraction-free work – fixes a bunch of bugs and makes sure it runs well on macOS 27 “Golden Gate”. “Exactly what I needed” Captain Muso @ Mac App Store What is DeskMat? [ ]

O Link(), Where Art Thou? (A SwiftUI Story) [Update]

In lieu of a software update today – ScreenFloat v2.3.8 is taking me a bit longer than anticipated – I thought I d share a fun 🙃 story about SwiftUI with you. ScreenFloat offers widgets that give you quick access to different things.Among others, you have the Capture widget which allows you to start a screen [ ]

Transloader v3.1.93 adds Simplified Chinese localization, fixes bugs

Transloader for Mac, iPhone and iPad lets you start and manage downloads on your Macs, remotely from your iPhone, iPad, or other Macs.Version 3.1.93 localizes the app into Simplified Chinese and fixes a few bugs along the way. Incredibly useful! […] It s magic! X.Alex.D; Mac App Store What is Transloader? With Transloader, you can start [ ]

Tameno v1.3 adds Traditional Chinese localization, handy tips

Tameno for Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV helps you stretch, brush your teeth, do exercises, water your plants, meditate, box-breathe, do yoga, and so much more, with auto-repeating timers. Set an interval, and it ll inform you every time it elapses.Version 1.3 adds Traditional Chinese localization and improves adds handy tips. This app [ ]

Yoink for Mac v3.7.5 adds drag-and-drop access to RAW files, Live Photo movies and burst images from Photos

Yoink for Mac drastically improves and simplifies drag and drop on the Mac.Version 3.7.5 now makes it ridiculously easy to pull in original RAW files, burst photos, Live photo videos, and more from Photos app photos and videos. As important to me as the CMD key john.H, Mac App Store What is Yoink? Yoink is [ ]

PSA: Installing macOS Golden Gate 27 beta in a UTM VM

If you re getting an error trying to install the macOS 27 beta ipsw from developer.apple.com/downloads/os in UTM… … I have a solution for you. Some recommend downloading Xcode 27, installing it, and installing its MobileDevices.pkg and maybe CoreTypes.pkg and a bunch of others. Some report it works, others that it doesn t. Here s what worked for [ ]

Citator v1.1.1 adds new icon, more localizations

Citator is your personal quotes library. Save quotes and cherish them within the app, on your lock screen or on your home screen with widgets.Version 1.1.1 adds more localizations and a new icon. Simply the best honestyisnotunderrated App Store What is Citator? Citator makes it easy to store quotes you come across. Type [ ]

10 Mac Apps Michael Caputo Can’t Live Without! #7: Transloader

“I think it s totally worth it because your Mac is doing the heavy lifting while you re away. You walk in, sit down, and the file is ready for you.”– Michael Caputo Thank you, Michael, for including Transloader : )

Yoink for Mac v3.7.3 improves support for browsers

Yoink for Mac drastically improves and simplifies drag and drop on the Mac.Version 3.7.3 mainly improves support for browsers, while fixing a few bugs along the way. What is Yoink? Yoink is a temporary place for your file drags. Whether you want to collect images from a website, text snippets from a document, or move [ ]

Tameno v1.2.6 adds Korean, Portuguese and Hindi localizations

Tameno for Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV helps you stretch, brush your teeth, do exercises, water your plants, meditate, do yoga, and so much more, with auto-repeating timers. Set an interval, and it ll inform you every time it elapses.Version 1.2.6 adds Korean, Portuguese and Hindi localizations. What is Tameno? I have an [ ]

Yoink for iPhone and iPad v2.5.5 adds Italian, French and Portuguese localizations

Yoink for iPhone and iPad is your files and snippet shelf for anything you can drag, copy, share, or download. Version 2.5.5 makes its Files app integration more performant, adds Italian, French and Portuguese (Brazil) localizations, and fixes bugs. What is Yoink? Yoink for iPhone and iPad stores anything you can throw at it: file [ ]

Transloader v3.1.91 is out now! [Update: v3.1.92 is out!]

Transloader for Mac, iPhone and iPad lets you start and manage downloads on your Macs, remotely from your iPhone, iPad, or other Macs.Version 3.1.91 3.1.92 squashes a bunch of bugs and improves loading filenames. Incredibly useful! […] It s magic! X.Alex.D; Mac App Store What is Transloader? With Transloader, you can start and manage downloads on [ ]

Yoink for Mac v3.7.2 improves Quick Look, file renaming

Yoink for Mac drastically improves and simplifies drag and drop on the Mac.Version 3.7.2 improves its Quick Look functionality, renaming files, and more. What is Yoink? Yoink is a temporary place for your file drags. Whether you want to collect images from a website, text snippets from a document, or move files around in Finder, [ ]

ScreenFloat for Mac v2.3.7 is out!

ScreenFloat for Mac v2.3.7 is now available, a maintenance update improving various areas of the app, and fixing a couple of bugs. “The most used tool on my Mac” wendylou @ Mac App Store What is ScreenFloat? ScreenFloat is your Mac s Screen Capture Power Tool.Capture screenshots and recordings that float above other windows, allowing you to [ ]

DeskMat v1.3 can now cover individual files and folders on your Desktop, is now AppleScript-able

DeskMat for Mac v1.3 – a utility that quickly covers your Desktop for more privacy during screen sharing, cleaner streams, and distraction-free work – now has the ability to not only cover your entire Desktop, but also just individual files and folders. It is now also fully scriptable with AppleScript. “Exactly what I needed” Captain [ ]

flickery v1.9.51 fixes download issues, is now free and on “life support”

flickery v1.9.51 – the full-featured flickr client for Mac – is now available and fixes a potential crash when downloading and uploading photos.The app is now *free*, as I consider the app on “life support”, meaning that it s horribly outdated (its first public beta was in May 2008 😱) and not going to receive substantial [ ]

Tameno v1.2.5 – the auto-repeating timer app – adds audio feedback options, improves background execution

Tameno for Apple Watch, iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple TV helps you stretch, brush your teeth, do exercises, water your plants, meditate, do yoga, and so much more, with auto-repeating timers. Set an interval, and it ll inform you every time it elapses.Version 1.2.5 adds more audio feedback options, improves background execution on the Watch, and [ ]

SiriMote v1.4.6 improves compatibility with Keynote

With SiriMote, you can control your Mac and apps with your Apple TV Siri Remote.Version 1.4.6 improves compatibility with Apple s Keynote app (Creator Studio version). SiriMote is free for your Mac and requires macOS 10.12 or newer (download link). That s it. That s the news.

Citator v1.1 – your quotes library – adds export options, UI improvements

Citator is your personal quotes library. Save quotes and cherish them within the app, on your lock screen or on your home screen with widgets.Version 1.1 adds export options and improves the UI. What is Citator? Citator makes it easy to store quotes you come across. Type them in manually, or scan them with your [ ]

Yoink for Mac v3.7.1 makes quality-of-life improvements

Yoink for Mac drastically improves and simplifies drag and drop on the Mac.Version 3.7.1 improves support for Mail.app drags, colors, links, and more! What is Yoink? Yoink is a temporary place for your file drags. Whether you want to collect images from a website, text snippets from a document, or move files around in Finder, [ ]

ScreenFloat v2.3.6 adds Finder auto-import, new double-click actions and improved sharing

ScreenFloat for Mac v2.3.6 is now available and adds auto-import for screenshots made with macOS built-in tools, new double-click actions, and more! “The most used tool on my Mac” wendylou @ Mac App Store What is ScreenFloat? ScreenFloat is your Mac s Screen Capture Power Tool.Capture screenshots and recordings that float above other windows, allowing you to [ ]

A Blast from the Past: Reckless Drivin’

So many weekends spent on crashing into everything I could as a kid. Who says Macs can t game!?

Transloader v3.1.90 now supports HTTP Basic Authorization, improves downloading, and more!

Transloader for Mac, iPhone and iPad lets you start and manage downloads on your Macs, remotely from your iPhone, iPad, or other Macs.Version 3.1.90 now supports HTTP basic auth for logging in before downloads, improves downloading in general, accepts url schemes other than http(s), ftp(s) and magnet, and makes a bunch of improvements and fixes [ ]

Recent Website Updates

I ve been wanting to make my website a bit more “alive” for a while, and I finally had the time to do something about it. App s Prices For the longest time, I didn t show the prices for my apps on my website (crazy, I know), simply because I didn t feel like going into the HTML [ ]

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Yoink for iPhone and iPad v2.5.4 now available, improving its Files integration, Performance, Stability, and more!

Yoink for iPhone and iPad is your files and snippet shelf for anything you can drag, copy, share, or download. Version 2.5.4 improves its Files app integration, cleans up the UI a bit and makes a bunch of improvements and fixes. What is Yoink? Yoink for iPhone and iPad stores anything you can throw at [ ]

Yoink for Mac v3.7 – the better way to drag and drop – is now available

Yoink for Mac drastically improves and simplifies drag and drop on the Mac. Now in version 3.7, it does it even better – many improvements and bug fixes make sure of that. What is Yoink? Yoink is a temporary place for your file drags. Whether you want to collect images from a website, text snippets [ ]

ScreenFloat v2.3.5 improves the Shots Browser, Markup and more

ScreenFloat for Mac v2.3.5 is now available with many improvements and bug fixes. “The most used tool on my Mac” wendylou @ Mac App Store What is ScreenFloat? ScreenFloat is your Mac s Screen Capture Power Tool.Capture screenshots and recordings that float above other windows, allowing you to reference anything on your screen, anywhere. It s like Picture-in-Picture, [ ]

Time is leafing

“Excuse me, Sir, do you have the time?” “I wish I did. I wish I did.”

ScreenFloat for Mac v2.3.4 is now available

ScreenFloat for Mac v2.3.4 is now available with many improvements and bug fixes. “The most used tool on my Mac” wendylou @ Mac App Store What is ScreenFloat? ScreenFloat is your Mac s Screen Capture Power Tool.Capture screenshots and recordings that float above other windows, allowing you to reference anything on your screen, anywhere. It s like Picture-in-Picture, [ ]

The Result of my 2025 Black Friday 30%-to-Charity Sale

For this year s Black Friday sale I held between November 27th and December 1st 2025, I pledged 30% of proceeds from app sales made on the Mac App Store and directly on my website to the Austrian St. Anna s Children s Cancer Research Institute. The sale was a great success:Because of your generous participation in the [ ]

Eternal Storms Software’s Black Friday 2025 Deals With A Good Cause

It s been a while since I last participated in a Black Friday deal, so this year s a doozy. All my apps are 50%-77% off from November 27th, 2025 to December 1st, 2025. 30% of proceeds made in this timeframe on the App Store and from direct purchases on my website go to the Austrian St. [ ]

Transloader for Mac v3.1.81 now available, also as Direct Purchase

Transloader v3.1.81 is now available fixing a few minor issues, and is now also available as a direct purchase from my website, in addition to the Mac App Store and Setapp. What is Transloader? With Transloader, you manage downloads on your Macs, remotely from your iPhone, iPad, or other Macs.This way, when you re sitting on [ ]

Yoink for Mac is 77% off as part of Bundlehunt’s 2025 Black Friday macOS Bundle

Yoink for Mac, my app that drastically simplifies drag and drop, is participating in Bundlehunt s 2025 Black Friday macOS bundle, at 77% off (USD / GBP 8.99 -> USD / GBP 1.99; EUR 9,99 -> EUR 1,99) What is Yoink? Yoink is a temporary place for your file drags. Whether you want to collect images [ ]

Yoink for Mac v3.6.104 now available, also as Direct Purchase

Yoink for Mac, my app that drastically simplifies drag and drop, is now available in v3.6.104, fixing a bunch of bugs and minor issues. Also, in addition to being available on the Mac App Store and Setapp, it is now available for purchase directly from my website (joining ScreenFloat and DeskMat). What is Yoink? Yoink [ ]

Yoink for Mac v3.6.103 fixes bugs

I ve just released an update for Yoink for Mac – a utility that improves drag and drop on your Mac substantially! Improvements and Fixes in v3.6.103 Links and Availability ➡️ Website + free, 28-day trial🖥️ Mac App Store (one-time lifetime purchase)🔁 Setapp (over 250 awesome apps with one subscription, 7-day trial)💡 Usage Tips Yoink is [ ]

My apps are ready for [mac|watch|tv|iPad|i]OS 26!

This year s OS updates (v26) will be released by Apple later today, so here s an update on my apps as well! Yoink for Mac v3.6.102 🔗 Yoink looks and runs beautifully on macOS 26 Tahoe and continues to be there for all your drag and drop needs! Yoink for iPhone and iPad v2.5.2 🔗 The [ ]

ScreenFloat for Mac v2.3 with new Recording HUD, Edit Markers, GIF Creation, and more!

ScreenFloat v2.3 – a major update to your Mac s Screen Capture All-Rounder – is now available, offering a new Recording HUD, “Edit Markers”, GIF creation, and more! “Outstanding App” Chuck s Review @ Mac App Store What is ScreenFloat? ScreenFloat is your Mac s Screen Capture Power Tool.Capture screenshots and recordings that float above other windows, allowing you [ ]

We Tied the Knot

A bit of personal news:We ve been enjoying each other s company for over twelve years now, and after getting engaged last year, my lovely fiancée Britta and I finally got married on Saturday 5th, 2025. What a lovely day among family.I couldn t be happier. I m very lucky to have her by my side.

Yoink v3.6.100 for Mac contains improvements and bug fixes [Update: v3.6.101]

Yoink for Mac v3.6.100 is now available, containing a few improvements and bug fixes. What is Yoink? Yoink appears at the edge of your screen when you begin to drag something, allowing you to place it there so you can more easily and comfortably navigate to the destination of your files. Not only can you [ ]

ScreenFloat v2.2.9 Delivers Improvements and Bugfixes!

ScreenFloat v2.2.9 – your Mac s Screen Capture All-Rounder – is now available (as announced earlier, split off from v2.3, which is coming soon, too!)It fixes a lot of bugs and holds a bunch of neat improvements. What is ScreenFloat? ScreenFloat is your Screen Capture All-Rounder.Capture screenshots and recordings that float above other windows, allowing you [ ]

A quick note on ScreenFloat’s next update

I decided to split ScreenFloat s upcoming v2.3 update in two.The new features need just a little bit more polish, but the bug fixes and improvements contained are looong overdue, so there ll be a quality-of-life improvements and bugfix release soon (v2.2.9), and the feature-release v2.3 soon after that. v2.2.9 is In Review on the Mac App [ ]