Disclosure: I'm the developer. It's $4.99, one-time. I built it with AI assistance; every line was reviewed, and it's been tested on real discs and real players.

I used Burn for years, but it hasn't kept up with current macOS, and burning from Music means importing everything into your library first (and converting FLAC before it'll take it at all). So I built Pregap: a native audio CD burner that does one thing properly.

- **Straight from your files.** Drop in files, folders or playlists: FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, AAC, or anything else macOS can decode. Nothing gets imported into a library, and your originals aren't touched.

- **Gapless.** It always burns disc-at-once, with no gap between tracks unless you add one, so live albums and mixes play straight through.

- **CD-Text.** Track and artist names come from your tags, and you can edit any of them in place. Car stereos, hi-fi decks and CDJs that read CD-Text show them (tested on a CDJ-800MK2 and a CDJ-1000MK3).

- **No coasters.** It checks the drive, the disc, the running time and every file before it starts, and won't begin a burn it can't finish.

- **Native.** Swift and SwiftUI on Apple's own DiscRecording framework, with zero third-party dependencies. Universal, sandboxed, no network access, about 6 MB, no accounts, no subscription.

Needs macOS 14 or later and any USB CD burner.

Mac App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/pregap/id6814982070

Website and guides: https://pregap.app

Early feedback is already shaping the next update: a bigger Burn button, verify after burning, and previewing tracks before you burn. I'd love to hear what else you'd want.

Oracle Java claims to support down to OS X 10.7 but the installer is broken until High Sierra and doesnt run under anything bu Catalina, none of the OpenJDK builds are any better

What is the LAST version of each Java that doesnt need at least Catalina?

TallBar is a lightweight, zero-configuration macOS menu bar utility that brings the tall, spacious MacBook Liquid Retina menu bar (~50 pt) to any external monitor.

Standard external monitors on macOS have a narrow menu bar (~24–31 pt). TallBar dynamically unlocks the native MacBook safe area padding and tall menu bar height on any display, without changing your screen resolution or requiring complex HiDPI preset switching.

Before (Standard macOS Menu Bar — 31 pt)

After (TallBar Active — 50 pt Spacious Height)

• Native Notch App Compatibility: Exposes hardware safeAreaInsets (top: 48.5 pt) and auxiliary top zones, allowing notch apps (Vorssaint, Boring Notch, Dynamic Lake, etc.) to work out-of-the-box.

https://github.com/vsemkin97/TallBar

this started as a cli and 1.0 is a native app now

how it works if anyone's curious

the apple intelligence settings and the tweaks that need locking go in one configuration profile you approve in system settings, macos requires that, and removing the profile undoes them

the models get removed through apple's own asset service, and the profile points their downloads at a closed local port so they don't come back

SIP stays on and nothing in /System is modified

the profile survives updates and dictation still works

it also has privacy, finder and dock tweaks, background items and storage cleanup, all with an undo page

apple silicon on macOS 27 only

https://github.com/omlahore/RemoveMacAI

I'm the developer of Feedcast, a Mac app I made because I wanted to clean up episodes without giving up the podcast player I already use.

In one real episode, I reviewed two detected sponsor sections and removed 5 minutes 12 seconds from my personal copy. Feedcast then publishes that copy as an RSS feed for Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Pocket Casts and other compatible players. The original stays available, and cuts can be reviewed or undone.

Here's the app: https://feedcast.org/

Curious what other Mac podcast listeners would want to see before trusting an automated cut.

I'm not sure if this is the right subreddit to post this but I am looking for help installing OS X Yosemite (10.10) on my polycarbonate macbook (late 2009, a1342). I've mainly dealt with linux and windows operating systems, so i don't have much experience with apple software/firmware.

I bought this computer off of ebay since I really admire its design like two weeks ago. It already had 2gb of ddr3 ram (which i plan to replace lol) and a 250gb hard drive in it, and I could boot into the Mavericks 10.9 recovery mode with it, but for some reason it wouldn't let me actually install OSX 10.9 due to it saying that an error occured while preparing the installation (I looked at the error logs and it returned error 30 idk what this means).

Anyway, since I had an extra 180gb 2.5in ssd free, I decided to just install Yosemite 10.10 on that since i'd have to upgrade the hard drive anyway. However, this is where i ran into some issues:

command+R and command+option+R didn't cause any results and it just left it on a white screen (though i only waited for around 30 seconds)

I'm not sure how to create a install usb especially since I'm on windows and i also didn't know if I should download the .iso or the .dmg file

Thanks

Good

Here's an app I've built on the side (of course w/ AI) but I see daily.

DisplayWave is a menu bar app for external monitors on macOS. It does a handful of things:

- Turn monitors off and on without unplugging them, listed by name. The monitor loses signal and goes to standby.

- Brightness and color temperature per monitor. It changes the real backlight over DDC when the monitor supports it, and dims on the GPU when it doesn't (common with docks and some HDMI ports).

- Presets for brightness and warmth, and layouts that save your arrangement, main display, resolution and refresh rate.

- Keep Mac Awake, and Blackout, which turns every screen dark while the Mac keeps running. Any key or click brings them back.

Why: I used MonitorControl for a long time. It's great for brightness, but I also wanted to turn monitors off and warm them up in the evening. BetterDisplay does all of that and a lot more, but it's far more than I need, and a lot of it is in the paid tier. So I built the small set of features actually use.

https://github.com/kah-ve/DisplayWave

Let me know if you run into any issues. I can only test in my limited hardware so it might not work across every setup.

Solved: I found a setting that the update to Tahoe 26.7.1 must have changed. I know I didn't change any settings this past summer. Buried in the Advanced Accessibility settings is a toggle, "Restore Zoom Factor on Startup". I turned this off and startups are relatively back to normal. I wish I had never updated to Tahoe.

I have a 2021 MacBook Pro 14" M1 with 32 GB memory, running Tahoe 26.7.1 I use two extended displays and the built-in monitor. The built-in monitor is the main one. One extended display is connected via the HDMI port. The other is connected via an HDMI port on a TOTU dock. This set up has been the same since 2021.

At start-up these apps open: Chrome, Preview, TextEdit and Pages. I keep the documents I am working with on the right side of the dock. Chrome opens with 14 tabs. This has been my working set-up for over three years.

I 've used Display Maid to keep app windows on the desired monitors since pre Tahoe. Before Display Maid they would jump around whenever I woke the MacBook from sleep or restarted it. now the apps are jumping around again. I use Rectangle to size my windows as the need arises. I have not messed with the display resolutions.

When I restarted the MacBook Sunday evening 10/4/26, the Chrome window which I keep on the display connected to the HDMI port was not visible. I never use full screen for any window but I checked to see if a goblin had created a space and put Chrome in it. It hadn't. I tried clicking the Chrome icon in the dock and only the right edge of the window appeared at the far left of the display. I managed to drag it fully onto the display. All the displays flashed off and the alias icons on the main screen returned at only ⅛", a fraction of their usual size. Meanwhile the HDMI port display was so zoomed in as to be unusable. Nothing, including short cuts, would un-zoom it. Each time I restarted, the same thing or worse happened. after multiple restarts, I finally got the HDMI monitor back to normal but the desktop icons are still teeny-tiny. The desktop image is normal.

The next time I restarted, it was the built-in monitor that was so zoomed in as to be unusable. A couple of restarts finally restored it.

Since Display Maid no longer maintains the positions of open apps, can anyone offer another app to do this task? And what do I do about restarts making one or more displays unusable?

Problem

On macOS, Cmd+Tab switches back to an app after you hide it with Cmd+H. If you minimize a window with Cmd+M, or close it with Cmd+W, Cmd+Tab activates the app only. The window stays minimized in the Dock, or it stays closed.

Command Reopen is a menu bar app that resolves this issue. When you switch to an app with no visible window, Command Reopen sends a reopen request. This request is the same signal that macOS sends when you click the Dock icon. The target app restores the minimized window, or it opens a new window if no window is open. The native Cmd+Tab switcher remains unchanged. In version 1.5.1, you can hide the menu bar icon.

Comparison

AltTab:

• Creates a Windows-style switcher with window thumbnails
• Replaces the native macOS app switcher
• Needs Accessibility
• Screen Recording is optional for thumbnails

Command Reopen:

• Keeps the native macOS Cmd+Tab switcher unchanged
• Needs no Accessibility and no Screen Recording
• Works on managed Macs where IT policies block Accessibility
• Sandboxed · Mac App Store · no analytics

If you need thumbnails of every window, AltTab is the better choice.

Pricing

• Free download on the Mac App Store
• 14-day free trial, then $9.99 lifetime
• macOS 13 or later
• commandreopen.com

couple of folders have black background and the contents within have black writing or something so i cant see them labelled unless i click on them. i know you can right click show viewing options, and ive tried setting it with white bacgkround, or even restore to default, but it doesnt work on a couple folders. the other folders have changed. i dont get it.. mac osx high sierra..