![]() But you definitely need to be armed with some basic tricks and tips for making the most of your limited screen real estate. Working from just the monitor of a portable computer is a great thing to be able to do, not least because it means you’re portable. Still, as a result of not having the luxury of a large monitor size, not to mention extra monitors, I have been compelled to give some explicit attention, for the first time in many years, to mustering every possible technique for coping with a distinct lack of space in my virtual world. ![]() I’ve tried in the past to develop on a 13-inch screen I was barely able to do it, and it wasn’t pleasant.) (The 15-inch size is probably an absolute minimum for acceptability. That’s a pretty good size, as it turns out the computer is small enough to fit handily in a backpack and large enough to make application windows feel pretty big, and I’ve got double resolution (Retina) which is very easy on the eyes. The implications of this situation have been driven home to me recently, because I find myself working, at the moment, on just a 15-inch portable MacBook Pro screen. Sometimes, however, you can find yourself trying to do serious development work in the confines of a relatively small two-dimensional space. One tends to have a lot of windows open at the same time - processes running in the Terminal, things you’re keeping track of in a web browser, not to mention the frequent need for multiple views of the code you’re editing. There’s no denying that a plenitude of pixels is a very good thing to have when you’re writing code. Very often, someone shares their screen with me, and it’s so insanely wide that it’s almost impossible to see it on my screen, because it has to shrink so much in order to fit. If you’re a little flimsy with your iMessages on Mac and believe that raising the service up to eye level could alleviate that, Unreplied is currently priced at $4.99.Most of the development team here at BiTE are very well supplied with screen real estate in fact, I can’t believe how wide and how numerous their monitors are. As it stands, Unreplied does pass the bar set by itself, though the lingering question ‘why set the bar so low?’ remains unresolved. On the flip side, the app’s arguably biggest shortcoming is its religious limitation to iMessage, a decision as incomprehensible as it seems wasteful: if the little icon on top of the screen was a more powerful hub for a multitude of communication platforms (perhaps including Mail, other Messengers), it could have been an absolute killer addition to your Mac experience. On that note, the app also comes with a litany of customizations and settings in relation to what message details should or should not be displayed, whose messages are to be reported in the Menu Bar and really everything else the user’s heart should desire.Īs far as privacy concerns, Unreplied draws upon the macOS App Sandbox framework, translating into protected message data and perhaps more vitally barring the user from having to grant full file system or network access to the app. A click later, that is on the message of your choice, you find yourself in the automatically opened iMessage, ready to respond to the contact. Not only does the elevation from the bottom Dock up to the top bar bolster both visibility and accessibility of iMessage, but more importantly Unreplied’s drop down menu lists every unread conversation chronologically, including message content and a time stamp. The icon assembles unanswered texts and indicates the count of those in the form of either a black or red digit. Unreplied’s main pitch is that it can be all too easy to overlook or forget an incoming (text) message when caught up in work on your Mac, which is why upon installation the app promotes an iMessage alert icon to your Menu Bar. Find it hard at times to stay on top of your iMessage and SMS influx because you’re just too damn popular? Or are you simply a notoriously slow responder that likes to wait until that red badge on iMessage has swollen to inordinate proportions?Įither way, Unreplied, a low-key app bundling iMessage chats in your Mac’s Menu Bar, vows to make your iMessage game faster and perhaps less flaky. ![]()
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