LaunchNext: Restore Your Classic macOS Tahoe Launchpad (With Upgrades!)
1 months ago 高效码农LaunchNext: Bringing Back the Classic Launchpad to macOS Tahoe 🚀 LaunchNext Preview 1. Why Do We Need LaunchNext? When you upgraded to macOS Tahoe, did you immediately think: “Wait… where did my Launchpad go? And why is the new interface so clunky?” Apple decided to remove the classic Launchpad app manager in Tahoe. Instead, it introduced a simplified “Applications” view. The problem? No more drag-and-drop customization No way to create folders Forced grouping with limited flexibility Search feels slow and unhelpful It’s like having your perfectly organized bookshelf suddenly dumped into a single messy pile. Annoying, right? That’s why the …
MountMate: The Minimalist’s Solution for Efficient macOS External Drive Management
4 months ago 高效码农MountMate: A Minimalist Approach to External Drive Management on macOS Traditional Hard Drive Management Challenges For macOS users maintaining persistent external storage connections, device management has long been a balancing act between accessibility and system efficiency. When dealing with mechanical hard drives, constant disk activity causes both audible distraction and performance degradation. The default macOS behavior of automatically mounting all connected drives during system wake cycles creates unnecessary resource consumption. Through extensive user observation, developers identified critical pain points in existing solutions: Disk Utility requires three-step operation for basic mounting Custom shell scripts demand technical expertise Third-party alternatives often exhibit …