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Favorite Mac apps of 2015

It was a fascinating, but not especially overwhelming, year for OS X software. A few popular apps, such as the vector-design tool Sketch, left the Mac App Store to go it alone. Apple offered a solid, no-frills update to OS X. Microsoft, surprisingly, might have made the biggest Mac waves, releasing Office 2016 and Windows 10, which all the virtual-machine makers rushed to support. Here are a few of my favorite Mac apps of 2015. Read more »

Clifford Colby

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