One of the most under-appreciated Mac features is the services menu, which you can find by right-clicking just about anything—highlighted text, say, or any image. Hover over the "Services" section and you'll see a bunch of quick actions. You can find this same collection in the menu bar: just click the name of the application that's currently open and hover over Services.

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There are all kinds of useful options here. You can, for example, look up a word in the dictionary, or add a bit of text to your to-do list. You can open a URL using IINA, a great video player for Mac. You get the idea: you can automate whatever it is that is selected. You can take control of which things do, and do not, show up by open System Settings and heading to Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Services. From here you can check or uncheck items. You can also set custom keyboard shortcuts for these services.

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Where things get really fun, though, is when you look into the custom services you can download. Here are a few of the best apps I could find that add cool features to the services menu on your Mac.

Dictater reads text to you out loud

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The Mac comes with a built-in service for reading text, but I don't really like it very much. Dictater, in my experience, works a lot better. With this application you can highlight any text, in any app, and have it read out loud. There's a pop-up window with buttons to play and jump forward and backward, and an optional window you can open to see the text on screen as it is read. You can change the voice used in System Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content, if you like—I prefer to use one of the high-quality Siri voices.

CalcService does math

CalcService is a free download that lets you do math in any text field. With the app installed you can highlight any mathematical formula in any app—for example, (62*7)/4, and get an answer right in place, like this: (62*7)/4 = 108.5. It's magic, and even better once you create a keyboard shortcut for the feature.

WordService

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WordService comes as a free download from Devon Technologies, the same company that made CalcService. This one offers all kinds of tools for working with text, the most obviously useful of which allows you to get a word count and character count for any text you highlight. This is useful for all kinds of things, from composing social media posts to long-form writing. But there's so much more here to dig into. There are actions for converting text that's in all caps to lowercase, and vice versa. There are actions for inserting the current time, or the current date. And there are actions for adding or removing smart quotes from a block of text. If you publish things online regularly, this is a good collection of tools to have around.

SearchLink quickly looks for a link and adds it

SearchLink is a little harder to explain but I love it. Basically, you can highlight any text, trigger the service, and the tool will automatically search the web for the term and add a markdown-formatted link. So, for example, here's a text document with my name in it:

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If I run SearchLink on the highlighted text, which is my name, the document looks like this:

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The link has been added, without me having to open a browser. This can save you a lot of time while writing, assuming that you do that writing in markdown. And there are more advanced features you can dig into, including one that will fill in all the links in a document. It's a great tool to have around.

Shortcuts can work this way too

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Didn't quite find the app you want? You could try building one yourself. Any shortcut you build in Apple Shortcuts can function as a service. Just make sure Use as Quick Action and Services Menu are highlighted in the Shortcut details pane. Check out our list of the most helpful Shortcuts on macOS if you need a few ideas of how to put this to work.

Advertisements—sometimes prompts to do something that would financially benefit Microsoft and sometimes actual paid advertisements—are showing up all over Windows 11. Start menu ads are rolling out to all users this month, taking the shape of "Recommended" applications you haven't installed. Ads also briefly showed up in File Explorer, though this was apparently unintentional. And there have long been calls to action on the lock screen and in the settings app. It's a mess.

We've told you how to manually turn off all of Microsoft's ads in Windows 11, but it's a lot of digging around in the settings. If you'd rather not do that, an app called OFGB can do it for you. This free and open source application can quickly change various registry settings to disable those ads—all you have to do is click a few checkboxes.

To get started, simply download the latest release from Github. There are two versions—one tiny one that will only work if you've already installed .NET 8.0 and another massive one that has .NET bundled. Use whichever sounds easier to you.

Open the application and you'll see a bunch of checkboxes allowing you to disable different features. This includes the infamous ads in the File Explorer, the ads on the lock screen, the "Suggested content" in the Settings app, the general tips and tricks that pop up while you're using Windows, the Windows "Welcome Experience," the optional tracking tool that enables "more personal" ads, the "Tailored Experience" feature that tracks your website browsing to show product recommendations, and the "recommended" ads that show up in the start menu.

It's honestly a lot of stuff to have to disable just to get a clean operating system, but with this application, at least it's all in one place. And hey: It's easier than wiping your computer just to install an actually clean version of Windows 11, so that's a plus.

I still listen to radio at my desk, like an absolute freak. Yes, I know that streaming apps exist—I also use Spotify every day. Spotify is great for listening to entire albums, and even the occasional playlist. Where the service loses me, though, is when it tries to use my listening history to recommend more music. And the worst version of this is Spotify's auto-play feature, which automatically plays something else at the end of whatever you're listening to.

This might be my fault. Plenty of people seem to like the algorithm just fine. Maybe I'm using Spotify "wrong," or at least differently than the average user. But it's clear, every time I finish listening to an entire album, that Spotify's algorithms suddenly decide I'm obsessed with that artist and what to hear them all the time—even if I only listen to the album once. In other words, more often than not, it sends me right down a rabbit hole.

Rabbit holes can be fun, but I don't want to be in one of them all the time. Sometimes when I listen to music, I prefer to hear a blend of what's trending in the culture right alongside a bunch of old songs I already love and haven't heard in ages. Sometimes I want to hear weird music I'd never seek out and that the algorithm would never recommend to me. And yes, I like it when my music is occasionally interrupted by an actual human being who tells a corny joke or comments on the news.

Sometimes, it turns out, I want the radio.

The algorithm is a trap

The theory behind using an algorithm to recommend music makes sense in the abstract: You like Artist A,Artist B is similar, ergo you might also like Artist B. In practice, though, the result is that I end up listening to a lot of music in the same key, so to speak.

Last fall I listened to Boygenius' The Record at least once a day. Spotify seized on this and recommended me similar low key indie rock, which I passively listened to. Evidently the algorithm concluded that I'm a female 20-something art school dropout. If that sounds specific, well, it is:

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Some people—those obsessed with things like "facts" and "reality"—would classify me a man in his late 30s. Even so, I'm not necessarily objecting. Some small part of me clearly vibes with sad girl indie. But sad girl indie was all Spotify recommended me for months, and it made up the bulk of what it autoplayed on my behalf. Any playlist that says it's "Created for" me tends to have the same three songs or so at the top, and the DJ mode tends to dip into to the same well.

But I'm more than just a sad girl. I'm someone with diverse musical taste, and I want to keep exploring and expanding my horizons. I'm not listening to music because I want to be lulled into complacency by always listening to the same things. I want to be surprised, to be exposed to weird and wonderful things that I'd never have gone looking for—and an algorithm trained on my listening habits probably won't push to me in that way.

For me, the best way to find that is with the help of other humans. A good disk jockey can serve me up a much more eclectic—perhaps even challenging—playlist, instead of several hours of the same vibes.

How to find a radio station for you

Now, the simplest thing you could do to find a radio station is to dig out an honest-to-god physical FM radio and see what's on the dial. Now, depending on where you live, the outlets not monopolized by the same corporate owners could be limited, and I willing to bet most people don't have an FM radio handy in their house, so you can start online if that's easier. I've spent some time seeking out online radio stations I like, with human curated playlists. I even wrote a guide for finding them a few years ago.

I like to recommend finding a few stations that are based locally—ideally community-run ones that don't interrupt the music with ads. Where I live in Oregon, I enjoy the Portland Radio Project and Shady Pines Radio, both of which are pretty eclectic, but there are great stations still broadcasting all over the world. NTS Radio is intentionally all over the map, and Radio Paradise goes some unusual places will still playing some songs you're probably familiar with. There's also SomaFM, which offers a bunch of different stations under one umbrella.

And those are just the stations I personally like. Part of the fun of escaping the algorithm is the thrill of finding your own favorites, tuning in, and discovering what you do and don't enjoy.

The best apps for online radio

There's nothing wrong with listening to radio in your web browser—in some ways, it's easier. But I prefer having an app for the job, if only because it makes it easier to pause or change the station on the fly.

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I use Eter for listening to the radio on my Mac. You can use it to search for specific stations or discover new ones. You can also add stations yourself, assuming they don't come up in search, and there's a matching iPhone app that will syncs your preferred station list.

On Android, I like RadioDroid. It has a comprehensive database of stations and a decent user interface. It's also open source and free of ads.

If Spotify is smart, it will add radio stations

Spotify has been on a mission to dominate audio, as a category. That's why it spent so much money trying to take over podcasting, and it's why it's currently pushing audiobooks so hard. Another obvious way to take greater control of my audio life would be simulcasting actual radio stations.

Apple Music works really well for radio, especially if you have a subscription. There are even a few Apple-exclusive runs programmed by actual DJs, and you can also search for pretty much any station on earth and find it there, thanks to a TuneIn integration. I have no idea why Spotify hasn't copied this feature. Until then, I'll be avoiding the algorithm by heading elsewhere.

If you used a Mac computer in the '80s or '90s, you likely remember what's now called "Classic Mac OS", the precursor to the OS called macOS today. You might think you would need to find an ancient Mac on Craigslist to use that operating system again, but that's not true: you can try them all in your browser right now.

A site called InfiniteMac, created by Mihai Parparita, offers virtual machines running every major classic Mac operating system, from 1985 all the way to 2001. Just browse the collection, find something you want to try out, and click Run.

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Everything loads right in your browser, meaning you don't need to install anything. There are some stickies in each machine helping you find your way around and a mounted hard drive full of games and goodies.

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There's even a special hard drive, called Saved HD, where you can save any files you create. These are saved to your computer, locally, but any other operating systems you open on InfiniteMac will have access to them. You can also drag files from your computer onto the window and find them in the "Outside World" folder. It's all very sleek.

There's a drive full of software you can try out, including everything from games to old versions of QuarkXPress. There's also a collection of CDs, available at the bottom of the window, which you can mount right in the emulated system. There are a few games, including Myst, and a few collections of software that came bundled with magazines at the time.

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And you're not limited to macOS—there's also working versions of NeXTSTEP, which Steve Jobs worked on after being fired from Apple in the 1980s. A lot of code and ideas from that system, combined with elements from the Classic Mac OS, would go on to become the macOS we still use today. Not a lot of people remember using this system, mostly because the systems were absurdly expensive, but playing around with these you can see what would become our modern macOS starting to take shape. It's all a fascinating experience, and a great way to recall a particular era of computing.

The current Mac operating system—which launched in 2001, 23 years ago, as Mac OS X—has been around longer than the "Classic" OS, which Apple offered for a total of 16 years. Come to think of it, the iPhone launched in 2007, which is 17 years ago, meaning the iPhone has been around longer than Classic Mac OS lasted.

The Mac doesn't have a start menu like Windows, but that wasn't always entirely true. In the '90s, Macs offered a list of applications in the Apple Menu, like this:

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That's a distant memory at this point—it's been 25 years—so we probably shouldn't count on Apple to bring this feature back. The good news: a free application called XMenu, which I found via App Addict, brings this feature back, more or less. In some ways it's actually better than the vintage option.

Load XMenu and a single menu bar icon, which looks like the Mac Applications icon, will be added. You can click this to browse your Applications folder.

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It's not a perfect start menu replacement, especially if you have a lot of apps, but you can organize things a little. Any applications that in are folders will show up as a sub-menu, meaning you can organize things a little by putting applications into particular folders within Finder.

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You can also add more icons in the settings. There's support for your Documents and Home folder, meaning you can use this to browse all of your files.

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There's also support for the Developer and Snippets folder, if you're the kind of user who uses those, and a User-Defined folder which you can fill with whatever you want. You can create an alias of any folder in Finder by right-clicking and then clicking Create Alias. You can drag various aliases over ~/Library/Application Support/XMenu/Custom to build your own custom menu that includes all the folders you care about most. It takes a little more time, granted, but it will work exactly the way you want.

Microsoft keeps adding more and more stuff to Windows and it often seems to get in the way more than it helps. A "clean" installation of Windows, at this point, forces you to sign up for a Microsoft account, tries to sell you cloud storage space, and is very pushy about getting you to use Microsoft Edge and Copilot. I could go on.

Tiny11Builder is a third-party script that can take a Windows installation ISO, which you can get from Microsoft, and strip it of all of these features. Install Windows using this tool and you'll have a truly clean installation: no News, no OfficeHub, no annoying GetStarted prompts, and no junk entires in the start menu. You can always install these things later, if you want, but you'll be starting with a clean state.

First download an official Windows 11 ISO

Head to the official Microsoft page for downloading Windows. Scroll down until you see Download Windows 11 Disk Image (ISO) for x64 devices. Select the version of Windows you have a product key for.

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Click the Download Now button. This will likely take 15 minutes or so, depending on your internet speed.

Download the script and prep your device

Now it's time to download our scripts. Head to the tiny11builder Github page and click the Code button in the top-right corner. Next click Download ZIP.

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Unzip that download. Now we need to configure your system to allow PowerScript to make administration changes. Open PowerShell as an administrator, which you can do by searching for "PowerShell" in the start menu and then clicking the Run as Administrator in the right side-bar.

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Type or copy the exact command Set-ExecutionPolicy unrestricted and hit Enter.

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You will be warned about the security implications of this—confirm that you know what you're doing and are allowing the change. You can always undo the change later by running Set-ExecutionPolicy restricted.

Make your tiny11 disk

By now your Windows 11 ISO should be finished downloading. Right-click the file and click Mount. This will open the ISO file as a virtual CD, which you can confirm by looking for it in Windows Explorer.

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Once you've confirmed that the disk is mounted, you can run the tiny11script, which was in the ZIP file you unzipped earlier. The simplest way to get started is to right-click the file "tiny11maker.ps1" and click Run with PowerShell.

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This will start the script. You will be asked for the drive letter of your virtual drive, which you can find in Windows Explorer under My Computer—look for a DVD drive that wasn't there before. You only need to type the letter and hit enter.

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After that, the script will ask you which version of Windows you want to make a disc for. Answer with the version you have a product key for.

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After that, the script will do its thing, which might take a while. When the process is done, you will see a message letting you know.

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There will be a brand-new ISO file in the script's directory. This ISO is perfect for setting up Windows in a virtual machine, which is how I'm hosting it, but it also works for installing to a device. You can burn this ISO file to a DVD, if you have an optical drive, or you can use a USB disk. Microsoft offers official instructions for this, which are pretty easy to follow.

However you install Windows from this ISO, know that it will be completely clean. You will not be prompted to create a Microsoft account, or even to sign in using one, and there will be no Microsoft services other than what you need in order to use the operating system. Seriously, look at this start menu:

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There's no clutter whatsoever, meaning you can add the applications you actually want to use. It would be nice if Microsoft offered this officially, but it's nice that there's a way for power users to get it.

The fastest way to open something on Windows is to open the start menu and start typing the name of the app or file. The exact thing you're looking for will show up, at which point you can hit "enter." Or, at least, that's how it used to work.

For years now, Microsoft has insisted on slowing down the start menu search by offering "helpful" information from the internet. Now, some people might like this, but I personally would prefer my internet searches to happen in the browser and to use the start menu to quickly find applications and files. There's no easy way to turn the internet content in the start menu off, sadly, but it is possible with a registry tweak. We wrote about turning off this "feature" in Windows 10 back in 2020. The process hasn't changed for Windows 11, but let's do a quick refresher.

Just to explain, here's what typing "why" in the start menu looks before this change:

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And here's how it looks after:

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All of the results are things that are actually on my computer. These results loaded instantly, which is something that can't be said about search-with-the-internet features turned off.

How to disable internet search suggestions in Windows 11

To get started, open the Registry Editor, which you can find in the start menu by searching (the irony is noted). The Registry Editor can be a bit confusing, and you can really mess things up by poking around, but don't worry—this won't be hard. The left panel has a series of folders, which are confusingly called "Keys." You need to browse to: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Policies\Microsoft\Windows.

There may be a folder inside called Explorer. Don't worry if there isn't: Make one by right-clicking the "Windows" key in the left panel and clicking New > Key; name it "Explorer." Open that folder and right-click in the right-panel, then click New > DWORD (32-bit) Value.

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Name the new value DisableSearchBoxSuggestions, leave the Base as Hexadecimal, and change the Value data to 1. Like this:

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Click OK and close the registry editor. Restart your computer and try to search something in the start menu. The internet search results should be completely gone. If not, head back into the Registry Editor and make sure you've configured everything correctly. I tested turning this on and off again multiple times and can confirm that it works with the most recent version of Windows 11.

Obsidian is a note-taking app that stores everything in plain text documents on your computer—but that's just the beginning. There are extremely fast search and keyboard shortcuts, plus you can link to any of your notes from any other note. Not everyone gets into it, granted, but if you do, it changes the way you think about writing and note-taking.

But where things get really wild are the plugins. There are over 1,600 of them, all lovingly made by other users, which you can browse and install in the settings. I couldn't begin to tell you which are the best ones—that's going to heavily depend on what you're looking for from the application. But I can tell you that with these plugins, you can turn Obsidian into pretty much exactly the tool you're looking for. The following are the plugins I think new users should check out first, if only to get an idea of what plugins can do.

I'm including links to the Github page for all of these plugins, mostly for reference. It's a great deal easier to install plugins from inside Obsidian than it is to install them manually: Just go to Settings > Community Plugins > Browse and find the plugins there.

Organize anything with Kanban

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We've talked several times about the Kanban method, which involves a series of columns you can drag cards between. There are plenty of dedicated apps for this, most famously Trello, but there's a catch: You have to remember to open them. This is why I like the Kanban plugin for Obsidian. With this, I can create Kanban boards right in Obsidian. Every board is just a text document with multiple lists, meaning they don't take up a lot of space, and you can even edit them directly as text documents if you want.

This is just a great implementation of a useful tool—one that lives right alongside your other notes. I use this to organize my entire writing workflow, from brainstorming to writing to editing to invoicing. I can't recommend it enough.

Ignore markdown with this toolbar

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Obsidian is built around Markdown, a simple way of formatting text files. I, personally, love this: It's a faster way to add simple formatting to documents. It's not for everyone, however, which is where Editing toolbar comes in. This simple extension adds a formatting toolbar to the top of every text window with common formatting options. Everything is still formatted using Markdown, but you can apply that formatting with the click of a mouse button if that's your preference. For some, this is just a way to do formatting tasks until you learn to use Markdown; for others, it can be an alternative to learning Markdown entirely. There's no wrong answers here.

Copy notes to other apps complete with formatting

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Speaking of formatting: Sometimes you're going to want to copy text from Obsidian and paste it in another app. If the app in question doesn't support Markdown, that's going to be togch. This is why I use Copy as HTML: With this plugin, you can copy and paste with all the formatting in tact. You can trigger this from the command palette, if you like, or you can add a custom keyboard shortcut. I use this to copy text and paste it into Google Docs, Microsoft Word, and even the Lifehacker CMS—it works perfectly every time.

Quickly grab the contents of any website

Grabbing articles from the web and marking them up is an essential part of many research workflows. I use the Extract URL extension for this. Similar to reader mode in browsers, this tool can grab the article—and only the article—of any URL you provide to it. My favorite way to use it is with the "Import From Clipboard" command, which you can find in the command palette or by assigning a keyboard shortcut. Just copy a URL, run the command, and the entire article from the URL will be copied to the current note. You could use this to make your own read it later service, if you wanted to.

Review your journal every day

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We've talked about how great it is to use Obsidian as a journalling app. The Journal review makes this process even better. With it, you can set up the sidebar to show you entries from whatever period of time you like. I, personally, like to see entries from one, two, three, four, and five years ago, though I'll inevitably adjust this as I have more and more years of journal entries. I'm really enjoying seeing what past versions of me were thinking about—it's teaching me a lot about the ways in which I am, and am not, growing. This plugin makes that possible.

Raycast, which is free for individual users, is my favorite Spotlight replacement. This is an application you can launch with a simple keyboard shortcut to see a simple text box. Type a few characters to do just about anything. There's plenty of functionality built in—you can launch any application just by beginning to type its name and hitting "Enter," for example, or you can type a URL and hit "Enter" to open it in your default browser. You can also search for files or toggle various system settings.

That functionality alone would make Raycast worth installing. The truly great thing about Raycast, however, is the plugins. Now, Raycast is far from the first launcher app to offer plugins, but the application is unique for offering a built-in store that allows you to add these plugins in just a few keystrokes. Just type "Store," hit "Enter," and you can browse the collection. Failing that, you can browse the Raycast store online.

There are a lot of really useful tools here, and which ones are best is going to vary depending on your workflow. Here are the most useful sorts of plugins I've found.

Search your notes

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I brew beer and mostly store my recipes in OneNote. I'm also a big Obsidian user—my personal journal and work life both live there. Raycast makes it easy to search these and other note-taking applications. There are extensions for Apple Notes, OneNote, Obsidian, and even Bear. All of these allow you to search your notes right in Raycast and preview them right there. If you want to open the note, no problem: Just hit enter. It is so great being able to quickly find and pull up such information.

Quickly grab passwords

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Modern password managers integrate well in the browser but it can be annoying to pull up passwords when you're not browsing. The Raycast extensions for Bitwarden, 1Password, Dashlane, and KeePassXC all make it easy to copy any password in a couple of keystrokes. Just open the plugin, type the password you're looking for, and hit enter.

You can take this even further and quickly grab two-factor authentication codes. There's an extension for Authy, which notably still works even though that application no longer offers a desktop app. There's also an extension that can grab 2FA codes from iMessage, meaning you won't have to open up your messages just to copy and paste a code. Both work really well.

Control music

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I usually know which album I want to listen to next. The Raycast extension for Spotify allows me to quickly type the name of an album and play it. It also works for playlists, artists, and songs. I love being able to quickly start any music without having to fuss around in the Spotify user interface. There's a similar extension for Apple Music, if that's your go-to player.

Read Wikipedia

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Wikipedia is an excellent starting point for researching basically anything. The Wikipedia extension for Raycast allows you to search for a page and even read it, all without moving your hands from the keyboard. You can also open the article in your default browser by hitting enter.

Eject drives

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Ejecting a drive on the Mac means opening the Finder and clicking the eject button in the left-hand sidebar. It's annoyingly slow. The extension Single Disk Eject shows you all currently connected external drives and allows you to disconnect by hitting Enter. It's great.

Keep your Mac awake

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There are no end to the number of Mac applications that do nothing but keep your Mac awake. The extension Coffee offers this without the need to install an application. You can trigger it from Raycast or you can enable a menu bar icon if you prefer.

So much more

I could go on for a long time. Here's a few more quick highlights:

• System monitor lets you quickly look over CPU, memory, and disk use.

• MyIP shows you your current IP address.

• Speedtest lets you quickly test your internet connection speed.

• Shell allows you to run any Terminal command without actually opening the Terminal.

This is just a start: There are so many more tools. I recommend checking out the store to get a better idea of what you can do.

Some people organize their book shelves by author name, book title, or even by color—but if you take a more chaotic approach and can never find the book you're looking for, the optical character recognition (OCR) feature on the iPhone can help you out. Just take a photo, wait a few minutes, and search for the book title in the photos app. Your phone will point to the book.

Reddit Gtapex user pointed this out last week and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I tested it out by taking a picture of my book shelf, waiting a minute for the OCR processing to happen, and searching for the word "Plato", intentionally choosing one of the physically smaller books on the shelf. The result came up right away.

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I tapped the photo and, sure enough, there was even a yellow marker showing me where the exact book is.

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Not bad, especially considering that this wasn't a very good photo—the angle was awkward and the lighting was bad. I could imagine this being even more useful if I had a much larger bookshelf.

And it's not just useful for bookshelves. You could use this to browse your DVD, Blu-Ray, or CD collection. It could also come in very handy if you ever find yourself looking for something specific in a thrift store, or any other chaotic space with a lot of media—just take a photo, run a search, and see where the thing you're looking for is.

The Redditor speculated that this feature could also work on an Android device, and there's no reason I can think of why that wouldn't be the case. When I tried using both a Samsung phone, however, searching for book titles in Google Photos gave no results whatsoever. I tried again using the web version of Google Photos and it still didn't work. I would love to be wrong, though—if any Android users get this working, please let me know.