macos utilities

Dave Plummer, the former Microsoft engineer credited with creating the original Windows Task Manager, is building a Windows-like process monitor for macOS in Swift. As first reported by Club386, the early prototype already resembles the Windows 11 utility and includes per-core CPU activity...

Logitech’s OpenLogi arrived in June 2026 as a free, open-source macOS utility that configures supported Logitech mice locally, using Rust and the HID++ protocol instead of Logitech’s heavier Options+ stack. Its significance is larger than one mouse app: it exposes how much of modern peripheral...

Switching platforms or following Windows update drama in 2017-and-beyond revealed a recurring theme: features and behaviours that users call “missing” or “problematic” often exist in different forms, either hidden behind settings or delivered through separate channels like Insider builds...