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How to Interact with the XMenus

April 29, 2025

Screenshot showing the XMenu preferences and the contextual menu of a XMenu's menu.

XMenu is a free utility from us that lets you quickly access apps, files and folders, your home directory, or even small text snippets from your menu bar. It’s a handy little tool to save you time navigating around your Mac. We show you a few little tricks on how to interact with the menus. (more)

Understanding the Release Notes

October 1, 2024

Screenshot of DEVONthink To Go's release notes.

When updating DEVONthink or our other applications, you might want to know what’s new and what we’ve improved? This is what the release notes are for, which we provide with every update to our apps. Here’s what’s in the notes and how they can help you. (more)

Search Multiple Locations in EasyFind

September 10, 2024

Screenshot showing multiple EasyFind windows open with searches in different locations.

EasyFind lets you search every corner of your Mac for files and folders that Spotlight might not find. Perhaps you need to run the same search on multiple locations and don’t want to reconfigure the search each time? We show you a workflow for that. (more)

Neo Network Utility 1.1

August 26, 2024

Screenshot of the Neo Network Utility main window and the settings window with the new IPv6 option.

Last month we released our little Neo Network Utility, bringing you some simple network diagnostics in a nice interface. Today we’re updating it to version 1.1 with IPv6 support, many quality-of-life enhancements, and bug fixes. (more)

Welcome (Back) Network Utility

July 10, 2024

Screenshot of the Neo Network Utility main window.

You want to learn more about your Mac’s current network connection or test if a remote server is still alive? You want to find out more about what detours your data packages take on their way through the internet? Or you just want to test your network speed? Our new, free Neo Network Utility got your covered. (more)

What is XMenu?

July 2, 2024

XMenu's preferences window.

For many people, our freeware utility XMenu is a must-have on their Macs, an app launcher and snippet library always available from the menu bar. For anyone unfamiliar with it, here’s a brief introduction to it. (more)

How to Quickly Resize Images

December 17, 2023

Screenshot showing the settings panel of ThumbsUp.

When it comes to creating documents with images in DEVONthink, the file format matters. For rich text and formatted notes, the data is embedded in the file, what can cause the documents to become overly large. Our utility ThumbsUp can help you resize images. (more)

How to Use WordService

September 5, 2023

Screenshot showing WordService options in an application's services menu.

When working with text, there are times you need to modify the format, for example, switching from upper to lower case. Or maybe you want to make sure that there are no duplicate spaces in your text. We have a freeware app that helps you with such little changes: WordService. (more)

How to Use Templates in XMenu

August 2, 2023

Screenshot showing XMenu's preferences.

If you often use templates in applications, for example writing business letters in Microsoft Word, our freeware XMenu can be useful for you. Here’s how to simply access your templates from the menubar. (more)