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Every app you install can quietly add itself to your startup. Nobody ever removes them. Here is what actually runs at login, why it slows your Mac down, and how to find the ones worth cutting.
You unplugged at 100%. Two hours later you are at 50% and you barely touched the keyboard. Something woke up and stayed awake. Here is how to find it.
Your MacBook seems to run out of charge faster than it used to — but is the battery actually worn, or was it just a heavy week? The hardware already knows. Here is how to read the answer.
Most Mac users assume FileVault, SIP, XProtect, and the Secure Enclave are working. Checking them means hunting across four different places. Here is how to confirm in one glance.
That "Screenshot 2026-06-14 at 14.32.15.png" filename seems harmless. Over hundreds of files it becomes a real tax on your time — and one naming template fixes it permanently.
Six tokens. One pattern. Every screenshot named correctly the moment it lands on disk — with the app, date, size, and target store already in the filename.
Every recording context needs different settings — codec, resolution, audio, overlays. Named profiles encode those decisions once so you never touch them again before a take.
You can catch slow API responses from your dev stack in real time without touching a single line of code or adding middleware. Here is how stream rules in Agata Stack work against your existing logs.
Four codecs, four very different trade-offs. Here is how H.264, HEVC, ProRes 422, and ProRes 4444 behave in a screen recorder — and which one to reach for depending on what you are making.
Crashes make noise. Silent failures do not. Here is how to catch the worst kind of outage — the service that just quietly stops — before your users do.
Every developer has lost five minutes to a port-in-use error at startup. Here is the stream rule that detects EADDRINUSE in your logs, kills the blocking port, and restarts your service — automatically, without a terminal.
Bug report recordings drag on because nothing forces them to stop. A 60-second auto-stop built into the recording profile changes that — and makes every report faster to watch.