Macs are a bit of an underdog on the official client side compared to PC users. Many social services don’t pay much attention to Mac client updates and don’t even offer for Mac versions at all. But there are some excellent third-party apps that make it easier for Mac users to use certain social services freely.
Maipo: A purer weibo experience
Not many people are likely to use the desktop version of Weibo. The last update of sina’s official weibo desktop was in February 2015, and it only supports Windows. If you’re a Mac user, try Maipo, a third-party app that’s much cleaner and more featuresthan the Web version. Most importantly, it doesn’t have bad ads or confusing timelines.
Maipo support account login, message notification, the window and multilateral column, you can set the user or the keyword content filtering, in the case of guarantee fully functional optimization of a lot of experience, has increased various shortcuts and gestures to improve operating efficiency, and developers have been continuously updated, in the latest version, comments can be in order of hot. If you want to use microblogging on the Mac, I believe Maipo would be a good choice.
Click here to download Maipo.
WeweChat: Make wechat simpler
With weweChat, it is convenient to chat, send files and send group messages. But if you want to achieve the functions of reading public numbers, using file transfer assistant, video voice chat, withdraw messages, and even send their own collection of emojis, I am afraid only the official version can meet, after all, weweChat uses the API of wechat web version.
Click here to download weweChat, if you are not satisfied with its icon, you can refer to this article to modify:
Bilibili for Mac: Look at Station B with more grace
Bilibili for Mac (BiliMac for short) is an online video player for B-station. Despite the official name, BiliMac itself has not announced a desktop version of For Mac, which is user-developed. It has a lower footprint than normal HTML5 browsers and supports things like downloading videos.
BiliMac is based on the Safari kernel (which can be changed to Chrome by default) and opens like a normal browser.
After entering the video page, you can connect AirPlay device to play, download the bullet screen or download the video. Click Play and an MPV video player will pop up. At this time, press Enter to send the bullet screen.
If you are tired of the poor viewing experience caused by quarrelling and meaningless bullet-screen, you can choose intelligent shielding (shielding the bullet-screen caused by quarrelling, date, revealing story and showing superiority, the specific algorithm is unknown) or keyword shielding in the preference Settings of the software to manually create a better bullet-screen environment.
In general, BiliMac seems to offer more optimized services on the basis of Station B to solve the problems of heat and high occupancy. If you are a loyal user of Station B, you may want to try it out and watch videos in a more elegant posture.
Download Bilibili for Mac here.
IeaseMusic: Have some favorite music
On the front page of ieaseMusic, there are several music stations. Of course, you can also find music by searching for playlists, albums, musicians or users’ keywords. IeaseMusic also supports viewing music lists.
What is interesting is that in all the loading interface of the software, you can see a small joke, which is the developer’s sense.
As a netease cloud music player, ieaseMusic still has many functions to be added. Judging by the author’s todo items posted on Github, many are already on the agenda. Expect it to get better.
Click here to download ieaseMusic.
Flume: Simple and beautiful Instagram desktop edition
In 2014, Instagram had the misfortune of becoming one of those “sites that don’t exist.” As a Mac user, Flume is a good alternative to using a browser, but you’ll need a ladder.
Flume supports most of the functions of Instagram, including the most basic view photos, like comments, view user profile, popular recommendations, search, etc. For those who like to collect images, Flume supports downloading images in 1080 x 1080 sizes (the maximum resolution supported by Instagram).
The home page is sorted according to the timeline, and there are two ways to display the list and the web format.
Upload pictures, select filters, edit them, add captions, location and other information.
Read the following to learn more about Flume:
Flume is divided into regular edition and professional edition (¥68 internal purchase). The professional edition supports multiple login accounts and the number of photos uploaded in a single day is unlimited, but for ordinary users, the free version is basically enough.
Click here to download Flume.
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