Which makes it all the more ironic that my very first app install is one I’m no longer using because its replacement is the most transformative app I’ve used in years. As you’ll see, I keep a handful of Web browsers installed, but I tend to switch my default browser infrequently. I also like its efforts to eliminate cookie dialogs and its integration of Brave Search (see “ Brave Search Public Beta Offers Alternative to Google,” 8 July 2021). I’ve been a fan of Brave’s privacy protections for some time, and, as a Chromium-based browser, it supports the handful of Chrome extensions I need. The first app I reinstalled-using Apple’s bundled Safari, of course-is the privacy-focused Web browser Brave. If I were working under a typical budget, I would be somewhat more circumspect, particularly with multiple apps in the same category. Note that while I do recommend all of these apps individually, that’s partly because I pay for hardly any of them. Here then, are the 46 apps I rely on (so far!), with a few words of explanation for each. The start of this list is less indicative than the latter part: I installed many of the early apps more or less simultaneously and then added back other apps when the task for which I use them cropped up. It was tedious but fascinating because I learned precisely which apps I really use and the order I needed them. What I glossed over was the remaining step of reinstalling third-party apps. When I wrote “ Level 2 Clean Install of Ventura Solves Deep-Rooted Problems” (10 April 2023), I stopped at the point of declaring-and I am not being smug about this, universe!-seeming victory over several previously intractable problems. #1652: OS updates, DPReview shuttered, LucidLink cloud storage.#1653: Apple Music Classical review, Authory service for writers, WWDC 2023 dates announced.1654: Urgent OS security updates, upgrading to macOS 13 Ventura, using smart speakers while temporarily blind.#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebook.#1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.
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