The second iteration of Airmail makes smart use of Notification Center by including email messages, to-do items, and any memos you create inside of Notification Center. Keep up with all your email accounts through Airmail. And it’s a good option for anyone who juggles multiple email addresses but wants to handle them all from within one application.

It handles just about any email service you throw at it, including iCloud, Gmail, Microsoft Exchange, or. Airmail 2.0 conquers your inboxĪirmail 2.0 ($10) is one of the best-looking email clients on the Mac. If you need a scientific calculator that can work in RPN mode-which is essential for many engineering fields-PCalc is a wise choice.ĭo quick calculations in the Notification Center or fire up the full app. (After all, why would you need such things when Apple’s Calculator already works as a widget?) Fortunately Apple relented to user feedback-likely understanding that PCalc’s ability to perform advanced math within Notification Center (something Apple’s Calculator can’t do) was reason enough to allow it. Temporarily nixed by Apple as the company tried to bar any third-party calculator widgets. In addition to my stalwart Microsoft Office 2011-installed with a license of, ahem, questionable origin-my list of 32-bit programs also includes a line item for “Dashboard Widgets.” No one, including Apple, wanted to gut and renovate their widgets for the 64-bit future.PCalc’s ability to appear in Notification Center was Apple helpfully points out those programs for you in its System Information menu. Once you upgrade, any program that hasn't made the jump will break for good and refuse to launch. MacOS Catalina took the final step, dropping support for 32-bit applications. A few years ago, Apple began transitioning away from 32-bit applications in favor of 64-bit software that takes better advantage of modern, high-performance processors. I guess I see why Dashboard had to go, alas. And the tools you use to get through the day, however flawed or idiosyncratic they may be, take on a pleasant intimacy as tangible extensions of your mind. (There's a perfectly good macOS Dictionary app, for example.) But sometimes routines become part of your interior life.

All of the tools were readily available to me in a number of other equally convenient or perhaps superior formats. I’m not trying to convince you that my constant Dashboarding was particularly smart or efficient.

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