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24 Fix the web

Safari Extensions and content blockers can completely transform your online experience. Vinegar ($1.99) strips the ads from YouTube and gives you more control over how videos play. Adblock Plus (Free) gets rid of pop–ups and other irritations, Social Fixer makes Facebook less annoying and Stop The Madness, the only one here that’s a paid product ($9.99), stops sites from disabling key features such as copy and pasting, dragging and dropping and so on. It also gets rid of extra tracking bits from web links for easier and clearer sharing, and removes most of the privacy invaders you’ll find on commercial websites. All the extensions mentioned here are available from the Mac App Store.

25 Organise everything for a trip away

tripit.com

Say goodbye to travel-related stress such as trying to remember flight numbers or where you let your reservation confirmation codes. Tripit does all for you to take the ‘aaagh’ out of travel. Tripit comes in two flavours: a free app, which makes it easy to organize all the things you need to keep and remember for your travels, and a paid-for Pro version ($48.99) that adds real-time flight status alerts, tells you

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