It’s a warm, sunny Sunday here in South Jersey. I’ll be grilling some shrimp in a bit. It’s entirely possible that I’ll be updating this post, or just adding an addendum, to celebrate Stokelan’s new Myra release, which has been settling in the pantry since we got a bottle.

Aaron comes home Wednesday; I’ll pick him up at school after his final and we’ll roll back home after a quick dinner. I’m also considering Bahn Mi in the dorm before the drive home.

Christmas comes a few times a year for Mac software nerds thanks to BundleHunt. There are a few other titles I’m curious about in the current bundle, but I did try a few this week.

Application Wizard

I figured I didn’t need yet another application switcher, but something about the utility caught my eye when I clicked into the description.

After fiddling around in the preferences, I realized that Application Wizard effectively recreates what I loved about an old application I used in the PowerPC days on my PowerBook G4: MaxMenus.

Application Wizard has four menus: Open, Quit, Switch, and Special. These are exposed in the menu bar, if you like, and in a similarly designed panel that you can float on the edges or corners of your screen. Each menu is represented by a colored dot.

MaxMenus similarly exposed its menus in the four corners of the screen, but my favorite use case was to create my own menu with everything I wanted in it, and then use a hot key trigger to invoke the menu. Application Wizard allows you to do exactly the same thing! I’m looking forward to setting this up and using it.

Integrity Pro

Integrity Pro will check a site for broken links. I was able to point Integrity Pro at Uncorrected and it found a bunch of broken links: 404s and more. It reports Cloudflare blocks, generates a sitemap, and gives SEO data as well.

It looks like Network Utility for your websites.

Supasidebar

Yet another tab manager!

The Arc browser made a splash in the tech world a while back, with its interesting take on tabs and bookmarking. I tried out Arc but never found it much to my liking. To be fair, it requires relearning a lot of the habits you’ve picked up over the years using browsers, and if you’re as old as I am, that’s entails all of the browser evolution since the early Netscape and Internet Explorer days.

You can use Supasidebar to manage bookmarks, create workspaces with specific links, a sidebar for your browser (a la Arc), and a minimal launcher. It’s like a browser-independent Arc-inspired sidebar that appears in all of your browsers.

But it was the launcher that grabbed my attention. Supasidebar has a built-in tab-searching that lets you search your open browser tabs. It looks great and has some additional search parameters you can trigger.