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How To Reduce Desktop Animations on a Mac with Reduce Motion

Accessibility options

The Mac, just like iOS, has more than its fair share of fancy animations that accompany most user interactions. They can look pretty great, but they can also make people prone to motion sickness feel unwell. That’s no good, so here’s how to disable them.

Unfortunately, no matter what you do it’s impossible to stop macOS from getting a little carried away with itself, flinging interface elements around the screen with nary a thought for your health. You can, however, limit the amount of on-screen motion to which you are subjected to by ticking one checkbox.

The “Reduce Motion” option is one that does exactly what it sounds like. By reducing the motion and animations on-screen, the setting should make it easier for everyone to use their Mac without feeling queasy. If you suffer from motion sickness, this is a setting you absolutely ought to try.

Enabling Reduce Motion

As the description of the feature might lead you to believe, “Reduce Motion” is an accessibility setting, so to get started head on over to System Preferences. To do that, click the Apple logo at the top of the screen and then click “System Preferences.”

Click Apple logo, click System Preferences.

Next, click “Accessibility.” You’ll find it towards the bottom of the System Preferences panel.

Click Accessibility

In the left pane, click the “Display” category. On the right, tick the “Reduce Motion” checkbox to enable to feature.

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How to Get an iPhone-Like AirPods Experience on a Mac

AirBuddy display

AirPods are pretty impressive; there’s little doubt of that. But even though they connect to iOS devices without any fuss, their integration with macOS can be altogether more fiddly. This utility fixes that, and it looks amazing while it does it.

As you’ll know if you own AirPods, connecting them to an iOS device after initial pairing is a simple case of selecting them as an audio output. It’s almost magical, but when it comes to selecting AirPods for use on a Mac, you can be left fumbling around with Bluetooth settings, or trying to select the right outputs in System Preference windows. It’s just nowhere near as slick as it should be, and it’s honestly inexcusable that macOS doesn’t connect to AirPods the same way iOS does.

But you can fix all of that with AirBuddy, a lightweight utility from developer Guilherme Rambo. This is the developer who made a name for himself by spotting devices deep within iOS beta code before they’re announced, so he clearly knows his way around Xcode. It shows, too, because AirBuddy brings iOS-like AirPod functionality to the Mac, all for just $5.

Once installed, AirBuddy first shows itself when you open the AirPods Charging Case near your Mac. When you do, you’ll see a gorgeous, animated representation of your AirPods and their case, along with their current charging status. If you’ve seen the iconic view that iOS users get when doing the same thing, you’ll know what we’re talking about, and it looks right at home on a Mac.

Looking great is one thing, but there’s functionality here, too. To prevent the connection dance with which Mac users are all too familiar, AirBuddy offers a simple “Click to connect” button that connects your Mac to your AirPods and selects them as the output option without you having to do anything yourself. It’s a thing of beauty and, again, Apple should have built this right into macOS.

There’s more to this box of tricks, too. AirBuddy also provides a Notification Center widget that can display not only your AirPods battery life but also that of your Mac (assuming it’s a laptop). On top of that, any iOS device connected to that same Mac also shows up there, so long as it’s connected to the same Wi-Fi network. That’s worth the price of admission alone!

Amazingly, there’s even more on offer here. While AirPods are the biggest use case, AirBuddy will also work just fine with anything that has a built-in W1 chip. That means there are some Beats options on the table, too.

How to Install AirBuddy

Download AirBuddy. It has a suggested price of $5, but you can pay more if you want.

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How To Make Chrome “Open As Window” Shortcuts (Now That Google Killed Them)

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Chrome has the useful ability to open a website as a window that doesn’t show the browser interface or open external links in a new tab. Or, rather, it did: in a late 2018 update, Google disabled this functionality on Windows and macOS.

We can’t tell you why Google decided that only its own ChromeOS devices would get this functionality from now on, though if you’re upset at its loss, you’re not alone. I’ve spent years using the “Open as window” function to make impromptu web apps easy to open and manage.

But there’s a way to get them back, at least for the moment. Here’s how.

Step One: Use Applicationize.me

Applicationize.me turns any standard website into a downloadable CRX file, which can then be “installed” in Chrome as if it were a Chrome extension. It’s not—the “app” will only be the website you choose, in its own thin window with a link. But it’s a useful little hack nonetheless.

Applicationize,me website.

Note that normally, we advise users to be wary of unnecessary browser extensions and applications. But in this case, you’re merely using a standard website, and it’s no more dangerous than any other (though, do make sure the site itself isn’t dangerous, of course).

To get this done, open the site you want to use as an “Open as window” link, then open Applicationize.me in a new tab. Copy and paste the site from the first tab into the field marked “WEB APP URL.”

Applicationize.me CRX download.