每个人都喜欢嘲笑每台 macOS 计算机标配的一些预装软件。当然，其中一些很(is)糟糕（股票(Stocks)？仪表盘(Dashboard)？），但也有一些非常好。
就连我的妻子（她认为她非常反苹果）前几天也不得不勉强承认iMovie是一款了不起的软件。说用一根羽毛把我撞倒。
所以今天我想看看一些预装的 macOS 软件，Apple做得非常好。
电影
让我们从 iMovie 开始，因为这一定是我最喜欢的Apple软件。它非常容易上手，虽然当你尝试做一些它不能做的事情时你会很快看到它的局限性，但它仍然能够拍出一些令人惊叹的视频。
当您开始一个新项目时，它会为您提供可以使用的模板，或者您可以从头开始，自己设计一切。
然后是导入所有视频片段和照片，将其拖到底部，并按照您想要的方式进行编辑。
您可以右键单击影片的一部分以获取诸如在该点分割视频、添加淡出效果和“分离音频”等选项，然后您可以使用这些选项完全放弃音频并用某些东西替换它其他，比如背景音乐(background music)。
真正专业的视频编辑器不会对 iMovie 感到满意，因为它的功能确实存在限制。它也有一些烦恼，例如一些非常俗气的背景和标题（并且无法从网络导入任何内容）。但是对于基本的东西，比如家庭度假视频，iMovie 是一种享受。
笔记
下一个我非常喜欢的是Notes。我曾经是Evernote的狂热爱好者，但后来他们将价格提高到了一个荒谬的水平，产品质量开始受到影响，尤其是所有不必要的功能。Notes是Mac用户的免费替代品，最近几个(Mac)MacOS版本的功能得到了极大的改善。
Notes 通过 iCloud 在所有 iOS 和 macOS 平台上同步，而且变化非常快。图像可以粘贴到笔记中，您可以将重要的笔记“固定”到顶部以便于参考。
您还可以锁定笔记，以便任何希望查看它的人都必须输入密码。此密码可以在笔记(Notes)选项中设置，但如果您忘记了密码，您将永远无法再次查看那些锁定的笔记。所以明智地选择。
相片
我花了很长时间才喜欢照片(Photos)，因为我通常在 iPhone 或 iPad 上查看照片。出于某种原因，在Macbook(Macbook)上查看它们的想法并不吸引人。但是在玩了Photos之后，我不得不承认它开始改变我的想法。
与Notes一样，所有照片都会在您的所有 iOS 和 macOS 设备上同步。您可以将照片分类到相册中，也可以对照片进行编辑。如果你像我一样有粗大的手指，那么在MacBook上进行这些编辑要比在 iPhone 上容易得多。
您还可以直接从“照片”将图像设置为(Photos)Mac桌面墙纸，并且可以编辑元数据。
快速(Quick)时间(ime)_
我是唯一喜欢QuickTime的人吗？有时确实有这种感觉。当然，VLC Player也很棒，但我似乎对(VLC Player)QuickTime有一种莫名其妙的依恋。它不仅可以很好地播放媒体文件（嗯，MP4和MOV），而且它还有一些其他漂亮的功能。
打开Quicktime后，单击“文件(File)”菜单会出现三个功能——新电影录制(New Movie Recording)、新音频录制(New Audio Recording)和新屏幕录制。
如果您将 iDevice 连接到MacBook并运行
QuickTime，您可以选择 iDevice –
并在MacBook(MacBook)屏幕上截屏您的手机。
QuickTime 还能够执行其他方便的任务，例如视频剪辑、将视频组合在一起、旋转剪辑等等。总而言之，这是一款非常强大的软件，但却被低估和忽视了。
西里
最后，如果不提Siri(Siri)，我会非常失职。我将很快写一篇文章将Siri与Google Now 和Cortana进行比较，但我现在可以绝对肯定地说，Siri是三者中最好的。即使我咳嗽、小声说话或被我的话绊倒，她也能完全理解我的苏格兰口音。现在这是一项成就。
我对Siri(Siri)有一种爱恨交织的关系，因为我的生活中已经有两个女人在骚扰我。但是如果你需要输入短信(SMS)、打电话或被提醒某事，而你太虚弱以至于无法触摸那些电话按键，Siri被证明是非常有用的……(Siri)
她也会讲笑话。只是(Just)不是很好......
多年来， Siri(Siri)取得了突飞猛进的进步，我喜欢她完全接入所有其他各种Apple服务的方式。他们将Siri安装在MacBook上的那一天，让您能够指定网站地址和要打开的软件，这就是Siri真正变得不可或缺的时候。
我错过的那些......
在你给我发邮件、发推特、给我寄一只信鸽或其他任何东西之前，告诉我我错过了哪些令人惊叹的东西，让我澄清一些。
没有提到 iTunes，因为尽管我喜欢它，但随着下一代操作系统Catalina的出现， iTunes 将被淘汰，取而代之的是两个独立的新应用程序。说我非常被黑客攻击是轻描淡写的。
每个人都告诉我GarageBand是一款很棒的应用程序——我敢肯定它是——但我个人不会用它来谈论它。Pages、Numbers和KeyNote也是如此。人们喜欢它们——但我不使用它们。
而且我敢肯定，外面有一个孤独的人，他爱股票，他不再和我说话了……。
Pre-Installed MacOS Software Which Is Actually Really Good
Everyone likes to ridicule some of the pre-installed software which comеs standard with every macOS сomputer. Granted, some of it is bad (Stocks? Dashboard?) but there are also some which are amazingly good.
Even my wife (who is extremely anti-Apple in her views) had to grudgingly admit the other day that iMovie is an amazing piece of software. Talk about knocking me over with a feather.
So today I’d like to take a look at some of the
pre-installed macOS software that Apple has done amazingly right with.
iMovie
Let’s start with iMovie because this has to be my
favorite piece of Apple software ever. It is extremely easy to get a hang of,
and although you will quickly see its limitations when you try to do something
it isn’t capable of, it is still able nonetheless to bang out some amazing
videos.
When you start a new project, it gives you templates
to work with or you can start with a clean slate and design everything
yourself.
Then it’s a case of importing all of your video footage and photos, dragging it to the bottom, and editing it all the way you want it.
You can right-click on a piece of the film to get options such as splitting the video at that point, adding fade-out effects, and “detaching the audio” which you can then use to ditch the audio entirely and replace it with something else, such as background music.
Really professional video editors will not be
satisfied with iMovie as it does have limitations on what it can do. It also
has some annoyances such as some really cheesy backgrounds and titles (and
there’s no way to import any from the web). But for basic things, like family
holiday videos, iMovie works a treat.
Notes
The next one I really like a lot is Notes. I used to
be a huge Evernote fanatic but then they raised their prices to a ridiculous
level and the product quality began to suffer, especially with all of the
unnecessary features. Notes is a free alternative for Mac users and the
functionality has got seriously better with the last couple of MacOS versions.
Notes syncs across all iOS and macOS platforms via
iCloud and the changes are extremely fast. Images can be pasted into notes and
you can “pin” important notes to the top for easier reference.
You can also lock a note so anyone wishing to view it
has to enter the password. This password can be set in the Notes options, but
if you forget the password, you will never be able to view those locked notes
again. So choose wisely.
Photos
It took a long time for me to like Photos as I
generally look at my photos on my iPhone or iPad. The idea of looking at them
on the Macbook just doesn’t appeal for some reason. But after playing around
with Photos, I have to admit it is starting to change my mind.
As with Notes, all of the photos get synced across all
of your iOS and macOS devices. You can sort your photos into albums, as well as
make edits to photos. If you have big fat fingers like I do, it is much easier
to make these edits on the MacBook than on an iPhone.
You can also set images as your Mac desktop wallpaper
directly from Photos and you can edit the metadata.
QuickTime
Am I the only person who likes QuickTime? It certainly feels like it sometimes. Sure, VLC Player is also great but I seem to have a strange inexplicable attachment to QuickTime. Not only does it play media files really well (well, MP4 and MOV), but it also has a few other nifty features under the hood.
After opening up Quicktime, clicking on the File menu
brings up three features – New Movie Recording, New Audio Recording, & New
Screen Recording.
If you connect your iDevice to your MacBook and run
QuickTime, you can choose the iDevice –
And screencast your phone on your MacBook screen.
QuickTime is also capable of other handy tasks such as video cutting, combining videos together, rotating clips, and more. All in all, a very robust piece of software that is underappreciated and neglected.
Siri
Lastly, I would be very remiss to not mention Siri. I will be writing an article soon comparing Siri to Google Now and Cortana, but I can say now with absolute certainty that Siri is the best of the three. She understands my Scottish accent perfectly, even if I cough, talk quietly, or stumble over my words. Now THAT’S an achievement.
I kind of have a love-hate relationship with Siri as I already have two women in my life who hassle me. But Siri proves remarkably useful if you need to type an SMS, make a phone call, or be reminded about something, and you are just too weak to touch those phone keys……
And she can tell jokes too. Just not very good ones…..
Siri has improved by leaps and bounds over the years and I like how she is completely plugged in to all of the other various Apple services. The day they put Siri on the MacBook, enabling you to dictate website addresses and software to be opened was when Siri truly became indispensable.
The Ones I Missed Out….
Before you email me, tweet me, send me a carrier pigeon, or whatever, telling me which amazing ones I missed, let me clarify a few.
iTunes wasn’t mentioned because, even though I love
it, with the next operating system – Catalina – iTunes is being retired in
favor of two separate new apps. To say I am extremely hacked off would be
putting it mildly.
Everyone tells me that GarageBand is a great app – and I’m sure it is – but I personally don’t use it to be able to talk about it. The same goes for Pages, Numbers, and KeyNote. People love them – but I don’t use them.
And I’m sure there is one lonely person out there who
loves Stocks who isn’t talking to me anymore….
