At some point, macOS became boring.

What was long ago a quirky operating system, today feels sterile and corporate.

I write a lot about useful applications.

Again, it’s a Mac dock but with flies on the trash can.

This is not one of those articles.

Here are some of the oddest ones I’ve found.

The flies are … shockingly realistic.

A Mac menu bar with a happy emoji. Clicking it shows that my battery is fully charged.

They circle your trash icon and even scatter when your mouse pointer gets too close.

I’ve had to fight the reflex of trying to catch them.

On one hand, this is obviously silly.

A replacement for the Mac clock says “ten to three”. The actual clock says 2:52, demonstrating that the fuzzy clock is in fact rounding.

you could use one of the built-in sets or get truly weird and design your own.

Just don’t blame me if you end up missing meetings.

Now, have any of the applications on this list made you a better, more productive individual?

A standard text document. The user has typed a colon and the Rocket interface pops up, allowing the user to type the name of an emoji in order to insert it in the document.

But they’ve made your system just a little bit more personal, and dare I say human.

I’m looking forward to hearing what you found.