Freeware

With SiriMote, you can control your Mac and apps with your Apple TV Siri Remote.
Version 1.4.6 improves compatibility with Apple’s Keynote app (Creator Studio version).

SiriMote is free for your Mac and requires macOS 10.12 or newer (download link).

That’s it. That’s the news.

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Upsies is something I wrote on a whim, just out of curiosity if it worked – using the MetalFX Spatial Upscaler to upscale photos and images. And lo and behold, it does work, and produces arguably nicer results than, say, resizing an image up with Preview.app.

It’s a freeware app, available for download on the Mac App Store (with optional tipping).
It requires macOS 14 Sonoma, and a MetalFX Spatial Upscaler-capable Mac.

Enjoy : )

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SiriMote v1.4.5 is now available.
With SiriMote, you can control your Mac and all sorts of applications with your Apple TV Siri Remote (from 2015 onwards).
Version 1.4.5 adds support for the new USB-C Apple TV Siri Remote.
SiriMote is freeware and requires macOS 10.12 or newer (macOS 11.0 Big Sur or newer definitely recommended for these newer remotes).

Links

Website
Direct Download

If you enjoy SiriMote, please do check out my other apps – available on the Mac- and iOS App Stores – on my website. Thank you!

A special thanks goes to Andreas Hegenberg (known, among others, for BetterTouchTool) for giving me the new identifier this new remote has.

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I’ve just published an update to BackLog, my freeware developer tool that lets you comfortably retrieve logs from your – or someone else’s, using custom URL schemes – Mac’s log archives.

What’s New
  • Checks for admin privileges at launch
  • Adds a simple update mechanism
  • The optional instructions you can send to users can now be copied in English or German (if you’d like to help translate them, please mail me – thank you!)
  • The sound that plays when retrieving logs completes now respects the “Play user interface sound effects” in System Preferences > Sound is enabled
Availability

BackLog is a freeware app, so if you like it, please take a look at my other apps – thank you!

It requires macOS 10.15 or newer and is currently available in English and German.
It needs to be run from a user with admin privileges (or using ‘sudo’ – user discretion advised).

Due to APIs it uses (OSLogStore), it does not run in the macOS sandbox, but it’s notarized by Apple and runs in the Hardened Runtime environment. When checking for updates (manually started), it connects to eternalstorms.at. Other than that, your internet connection is not used.

It runs natively on both Apple Silicon- and Intel Macs.

Website
Download (831 KB, zip)

If you find the app useful, please check out my other apps I offer for purchase on the App Stores – I’d appreciate it tons.

Enjoy 😊

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