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(Sponsor) Coherence X6

My thanks toΒ Coherence X6Β for sponsoring Six Colors this week.

Safari web apps are great when they fit the job. But sometimes you need Chromium: a Chrome extension, a separate browser profile, or simply a website that works better in Chrome. Coherence X6 turns any website into its own standalone Mac app, powered by the Chromium browser of your choice.

Instead of living in another browser tab, each site opens in its own standard Mac window, with its own Dock icon, profile, accounts, extensions, and settings. Apps stay isolated from one another, so you can keep work and personal accounts separate, create distraction-free versions of the sites you use every day, or build dedicated apps around specific workflows.

Coherence also gives those apps capabilities you don’t normally get from a website shortcut. You can control which links stay inside an app and which open elsewhere, create apps that always open in Incognito, use different Chromium browsers for different apps, and customize how each app behaves.

Six Colors readers can save 20% on Coherence X6 this week with codeΒ SIXCOLORS. Learn more, create your first app free, or purchase Coherence atΒ bzgapps.com/coherence.

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(Sponsor) SoundSource by Rogue Amoeba

My thanks to Rogue Amoeba, the leaders in Mac audio software, for sponsoring Six Colors this week.

As of this month, Rogue Amoeba has been building independent Mac software development for 24 years. It’s celebrating that anniversary with Six Colors readers, who can save 24% on SoundSource, or anything else they make. Just use discount code SIXCOLORS24 in their store, through the end of September.

SoundSource is a remarkable app, giving you powerful control of your Mac’s audio, right in your menu bar. Why Apple hasn’t made sound more of a priority on macOS is anyone’s guess, but Rogue Amoeba has filled the gap spectacularly. SoundSource offers per-app volume and effects, as well as output re-routing. I like to put up YouTube TV on my MacBook Pro’s built-in display while I’m doing work on my Studio Display. I use SoundSource to route the audio from YouTube TV to the laptop speakers, so the audio is β€œcoming from the right place” and doesn’t get in the way of the audio coming from the main display.

SoundSource 6 also has new AirPlay support! Sadly, macOS lets you set a single AirPlay device as your default output. SoundSource doesn’t careβ€”it’ll stream audio from any app on your Mac to AirPlay devices around your home. And yes, it also lets you group output devices, so you can put one app’s audio on AirPlay speakers in multiple roomsβ€”while all the other audio stays on your Mac.

There’s a fully functional free trial available from Rogue Amoeba’s website. And yes, they’re all already updated for compatibility with MacOS 27 Golden Gate.

Don’t forget: use discount code SIXCOLORS24 on their store this month to save with a long-time indie developer.

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