I'm doing National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) again. For those of you unfamiliar with it, NaNoWriMo is a program where you write a 50,000-word novel in a month. Yes, it sounds crazy, and trust me, it is.
However, NaNoWriMo is actually one of the most rewarding experiences that you can have, because it uses a time constraint to force you to complete a big project that you probably never would have started otherwise.
Everyone has those essential programs that they install as soon as they get a new computer. Here are a dozen or so apps that everyone needs to install on their Mac laptop as soon as they take it out of the box.
The Mac already comes with plenty of great applications, but there are some bits that definitely could be supplemented here and there.
In iOS 9, Apple introduced the ability for developers to create content blocking extensions for Safari, which have a large number of theoretical uses. However, the primary use for this type of extension seems to be to create blockers for ads and tracking scripts.
In case you haven't heard, there has been a bit of controversy over these types of applications. Most notably, well-known iOS developer Marco Arment (of Overcast, formerly Instapaper), created a content blocker named Peace, which he pulled from the App Store shortly after release, citing a guilty conscience as the reason.