The best programs for Touch Bar. How to add widgets and not only on Touch Bar in MacBook Pro. How to display F1, F2 function keys, etc.

@Stekme, about BTT told repeatedly and, but there is no proper response for such complex and complex utilities. Those who know about them - long and so uses, and newcomers in MacOS simply cannot figure out with a large number of settings and scored. Similar situation with Alfred.

@ Artem Surov, it's clear that I just missed.
But there is nothing difficult there for a novice. You only need a touchbuff tab from a variety of other things. In it, feed the widgets for Finder, the other standard, and choosing the necessary program - Create your castor set of teams, even multi-level.
No need to read users with stupid, worse reading when the main software is not mentioned. It would be nice to simply add to the article to Lina on the previous reviews so that anyone wanted and not in the know, tried exactly the VTT. I meet the ton of the people who did not hear about the VTT and in the end it is easily attached. After all, this is convenient at least replace hotkes for visualization applications, as well as add actions for missing hotkes that really make it easier for work. With VTT in applications, you have percentage of 40 less on the screen, the mouse is choking with the scrolling of the menu tabs. All at hand and convenient.
It is not necessary for everyone, but stupidly put the alarm clocks on the touchbar, timers, a course of stocks, tuna widgets or spinning, breed forecast, in and it can today and a five-grader.

It's great that there are reviews of such utilities.
The ignorance of stupid people writing about the uselessness of the touchbar has long been infuriated. It's how to criticize cars when traveling outside the city and use the trolleybus with a walking walk along the track)))) just stupid.
There are such wonderful things that the threshold of entering them is rather low. Anything else if you start going to script scripts ...
Fortunately, under the VTT, there is already a bunch of caste of the shells on the VTT forum in the form of a finished profile where people watched high-quality sets for different software and share it regularly. Newbie can just download ready-made comfortable taste

@Stekme, read the user stupid - the fundamental development of any interface is generally something.
You judge by yourself and (maybe) on your familiar / colleagues / relatives.
From my practice, I see that most are not able to make ordinary manipulations a la creation boot flash drive With MacOS on board. Not to mention the configuration of the desktop under it.

@Iwolf, yes that is not in the stupid / mind of the matter. Well, I discovered her, I realized that it was necessary to deal with and closed to better times. When they come back, I will see if they set up. But while I want a simpler crutch. And so of course, even banal conflicts should be less.

Over the past couple of weeks, we introduced you to several amusing (or strange?) Applications for Touch Bar in new MacBook Pro.. During this time there were even more of them, so it was decided to make a small, but the current selection of any utilities, toys and applications for the touch panel in MacBooks. Some programs you will definitely like, others you may not even want to establish. Already interesting?

1. TouchSwitcher (free download)

It is strange that the functionality of this small utility was not initially laid in functions Touch Bar. It is so intuitive - to switch between applications running on the Mac using the touch panel. It is for this that TouchSwitcher serves. After installing it, a special button will appear on the left edge of the sensor, which will display on a small pictogram displacer running programs. Tapped on one and she instantly opened.

2. Rocket (free download)

Rocket is the same TouchSwitcher, only with a bit perverted interface and two important features. First, after starting, the utility icon always lights up in the upper bar, through which it can be updated or noted. Secondly, using Rocket, you can fully launch applications from Dock. That is, those that have not yet been launched.

3. Doom

No, well, if you could once run the classic Doom game on first iPhoneWhy not try to do it on a powerful MacBook Pro? Only playing with you will not be on the Retina screen, but on the tiny touch bar. Yes, on such a narrow screen, you can play DOOM! You can not download the toy yet, apparently, her author Adam Bell is still completing it.

4. Nyan Cat (free download)

Nyan Cat - famous for the whole world of Maine, who appeared thanks to the YouTube Roller, which appeared in 2011. It shows the cat running in the Cosmos with a biscuit body. Want the same on your Touch Bar? Easily! Even with sound, which is very important.

5. KNIGHTTOUCHBAR 2000 (free download)

This is an entertainment utility for those who remember the 1991 film "Knight Road" ("Knight Rider"). After its launch on touch screen Bar will display the same animation as on dashboard Pontiac cars of the main character of this legendary film. And the sound design is the same yes.

6. Lemmings.

Who remember lemming? This is the 1991 game, which for all this time was ported to many game platforms. In it, in terms of the level, funny little men, your task is to direct them so that they do not get into all sorts of grill and successfully reached the end of the level. One of these levial \u200b\u200bcan now be on your touch bar. You can control the little men using taps on a small screen. By the way, author I decided not to share this toy yet, but we are all very much.

The Touch Bar panel, which appeared in the MacBook Pro has long been enough, has quite wide opportunities. Depending on the open application, additional tools can be displayed on it, buttons to access some functions, etc. However, thanks to third-party utilities touch Features BAR can be expanded even stronger.

For example, an application called 2Touch will allow MacBook Pro to create several special macros. With their help, users can literally open several applications at once.

In itself, the application is very simple. After installing and running 2touch, users need to come up with a name for a new macro, select multiple applications that will start after clicking on the corresponding button on the touch bar, and set a number of settings. The latter is the size of the window, the color of the button on the touch panel, etc.

Separately, it is worth noting that 2touch allows you to do and more thin setting Separate applications. In particular, when adding a browser to one of the macros, users can set pages that will need to open.

The 2Touch icon is always displayed for Touch Bar, so if necessary, the owners of the "past" will be able to quickly access pre-created macros. The latter can help in a variety of situations. For example, with their help, users will be able to open all applications to work or run a "set" of programs for viewing news, etc.

It is noteworthy that the 2Touch developer is completely free. But at the same time, everyone can thank the author, transfer to him on a paypal a small amount.

In 2016, Apple seriously updated the MacBook Pro, adding to it new element - Touch Bar. According to the company, the touch panel was to simplify access to various functions, but for many users the appearance of Touch Bar did not become a revelation. On the contrary - this design element is criticized to this day. But is it possible to make Touch Bar really useful in everyday use?

As it turned out - yes. To do this, you just need to download the POCK utility on the official website of the developer. The program can be downloaded for free.

What improvements brings this utility?

The first option, which is definitely worth mentioning - the ability to post on Touch Bar a full-fledged Dock panel. According to the developer, this trick will allow you to increase the useful area of \u200b\u200bthe main display, because now the strip with programs can be simply hidden. Of course, our application supports notifications, so any missed event will remind yourself a red sticker.

One more, not less useful opportunity - Function that allows you to display the status bar and widgets. On the touch panel can be outlined current Time, battery charge, level wi-Fi signalThe search is in general everything we used to see in the bar. Also on the panel you can add a third-party media player, for example, Spotify.

The big plus program is that the basic functions of the Touch Bar remain in their previous places, which means that the user does not need to switch to access the Escape key, the brightness and sound control buttons.