![]() Snapselect ( $24.99) – Handy new photo app from MacPhun.Typed ( $24.95) – A new text editor that has gotten a lot of hype and acclaim out the gate.AfterShot Pro 2 ( $79.95) – A very solid photo editor, and the only app included that’s been in a bundle before.ProSoft Data Rescue 4 ( $99.99) – Market leader in data recovery. ![]() ExpanDrive 4 ( $49.95) – Slick utility app.Civilization: Beyond Earth ( $49.99) – The latest in the epic Civilization series.Things 2 ( $49) – Award-winning task management app that’s never been in a bundle before.Version 5 was released in October and has never been in a bundle before. ScreenFlow 5 ( $99.99) – The best screen recording tool for Mac. ![]() In fact, 6 of the apps cost more by themselves than the whole bundle does! Using the coupon code ULTRAMAC5 at checkout, 9to5 readers can get an extra $5 discount over at to buy the whole bundle for $39.99 – that’s 91% off from the $470 retail price.Įvery app’s latest version is included, none of which has ever been in a bundle before (except AfterShot Pro 2). The software also plays nice with Spotlight, so search queries now show results from remote volumes alongside local drives.Today we’ve put together a really impressive bundle of 8 Mac apps including the latest versions of Screenflow and Things (which are $100 and $40 at the Mac App Store by themselves!). Such performance improvements can largely be attributed to intelligent caching, and ExpanDrive 7 addresses one longtime limitation by allowing users to change the location of such files to any volume, rather than consuming precious internal resources. Best of all, browsing remote connections in the Finder is finally as peppy as accessing native hard drives. The previous version boasted up to a 500 percent boost in transfer speeds thanks to a multi-threading StrongSync engine, and the latest edition ratchets things up yet again to fast and furious levels, particularly with larger files. On the plus side, ExpanDrive 7 is faster than ever. Case in point: FTP, SFTP, and WebDAV servers unable to connect display an endless “Mounting Drive” message, rather than any indication of what might be happening. Gone is the “Check for Updates” button in Settings-users have to trust the automatic updater or enable “Show in Dock” to manually initiate this option from the ExpanDrive menu.Īlthough the new UI is more visually pleasing, there’s little in the way of visual feedback when something goes wrong. When that happens, there’s no way to disable it, short of force quitting and manually removing the offending service from a preference file.Įven when the edit option is available, you can’t adjust the width of the Connections pane, so volumes with long nicknames overlap buttons on the right-hand side. That may not sound like a big deal until a connection becomes unresponsive due to spotty internet or service outage. Once a connection is mounted, for example, there’s no way to edit it without unmounting. There’s even shareable link support for services like Google Drive.ĮxpanDrive 7 is an iterative upgrade, but a step back in several ways. The revamped user interface introduced a built-in file browser allowing users to view, download, rename, move, or delete without mounting services in the Finder. New look, new problemsĮxpanDrive 6 ditched the traditional compact user interface in favor of a free-floating, expandable window opened by clicking a familiar menu bar icon that clutters the top of your screen. The built-in file browser in ExpanDrive 7 makes it a snap to use multiple cloud or network-attached volumes without mounting them on the desktop.
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