Mac Apps We Use Every Day

For those looking for a replacement for Skitch (which is a far cry from what it used to be, thanks Evernote), go check out Monosnap @ <a href="https://www.monosnap.com/welcome" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.monosnap.com&#x2F;welcome</a>.

I would recommend Better Touch Tool over SizeUp. It allows you to setup keyboard shortcuts as well as touchpad gestures to resize windows, and do a lot of other actions.

This is a great list, but two of my favorites that are missing:<p>Divvy - <a href="http://mizage.com/divvy/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;mizage.com&#x2F;divvy&#x2F;</a><p>DragonDrop - <a href="http://shinyplasticbag.com/dragondrop/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shinyplasticbag.com&#x2F;dragondrop&#x2F;</a>

I find Little Snitch absolutely essential. I&#x27;ve been using it for years and can&#x27;t recommend it enough. <a href="http://www.obdev.at/products/littlesnitch/index.html" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.obdev.at&#x2F;products&#x2F;littlesnitch&#x2F;index.html</a>

Beginning with mountain lion, apple ships the handy console program caffeinate so you won&#x27;t need Caffeine anymore

I also recommend GeekTool. It allows for some cool customization effects. Available for free here: <a href="http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;projects.tynsoe.org&#x2F;en&#x2F;geektool&#x2F;</a> You can find some cool themes from devianart or other sites.

compliment: an expression of esteem, respect, affection, or admiration<p>complement: add to (something) in a way that enhances or improves it; make perfect<p>I do not believe that F.lux is expressing admiration for its surroundings.<p>&#x2F;pet-peeve

&gt; Iterm2... One of the most awesome features is it’s ability to trigger a full screen, semi-transparent console at the push of a hotkey.<p>How did I not know about this? I&#x27;m almost looking forward to going to work tomorrow.

slate.app is great opensource replacement for sizeup <a href="https://github.com/jigish/slate" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;jigish&#x2F;slate</a>

Here are some of my absolute favourites:<p>- Spectacle, for easily tiling windows <a href="http://spectacleapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;spectacleapp.com&#x2F;</a><p>- TotalTerminal, for globally accessible, full-width, semitransparent, sliding out Terminal. <a href="http://totalterminal.binaryage.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;totalterminal.binaryage.com&#x2F;</a>

This is a nice list, but I tend to force myself not to use this, or to limit the amount of &quot;modifications&quot; I put in. Gives me bad memories of the days from OS 9 where half the programs I use one year get orphaned...<p>Plus the labor of maintaining 10-20 apps that modify default OS X behavior can get excessive.

Documentation reader I can&#x27;t live without: <a href="http://kapeli.com/dash" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;kapeli.com&#x2F;dash</a> File sharing app: <a href="https://droplr.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;droplr.com</a>

I would also recommend RescueTime, a YC company to track your time. You barely have to do anything, just let it run and see what it reports to you in terms of your productivity. Probably one of the best ROI that a app can have.

HyperDock looks interesting. I was hoping it would exactly replicate a feature I <i>love</i> from Flexiglass[1]: moving windows from any position by a (modifier, movement) combination. Unfortunately, HyperDock doesn&#x27;t quite replace Flexiglass due to binding limitations.<p>Flexiglass allows (modifier key(s), two-finger move) to reposition a window. This is effortless and awesome. HyperDock requires (modifier key(s), left mouse click + movement). The click seems like a small thing but is more awkward, in my experience.<p>[1] <a href="http://nulana.com/flexiglass/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;nulana.com&#x2F;flexiglass&#x2F;</a>

Excellent apps. Can&#x27;t stand the distorted screenshots on that page.

&gt; One of the nicest features of The Unarchiver is it’s ability to delete zip files after they’ve been opened, so you you only need to click the file once, rather than unzipping it, and going back and deleting all the original zip files off your desktop.<p>This reminds me... why isn&#x27;t there a Windows archive-extractor program with this behavior? I tried to search for it a while ago, but it seemed like every app developer who had the suggestion presented to them hated it.

Sure, I&#x27;d love to have a terminal replacement that shows eight-colored letters on a black background just like Windows! I have no idea why Mac users love this kind of crapware utility. It&#x27;s been so since 1984 - the big difference being the scores of semi-useful utilities no longer crash your machine every few hours - and I&#x27;ve never gotten the appeal.

A question for those using sizeup, how do you make sure the hotkeys you create don&#x27;t conflict with hotkeys in your apps?

I recently got a bug report where using the unarchiver to unzip an app corrupted it. <a href="https://github.com/PostgresApp/PostgresApp/issues/166#issuecomment-32012367" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;PostgresApp&#x2F;PostgresApp&#x2F;issues&#x2F;166#issuec...</a>

I ran into a weird bug with Visits where one of my sites is not visible in the drop-down list. I think it&#x27;s because I exceeded some kind of domain limit. Has anyone experienced the same?

One of my favorites is Shortcat: <a href="http://shortcatapp.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;shortcatapp.com&#x2F;</a><p>Maybe it&#x27;s because I hate having to move my mouse cursor.

<a href="http://livejs.com/" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;livejs.com&#x2F;</a> does the same thing as Live Reload but without the OS X dependency.

Versions is easily my favourite Subversion client for Mac. <a href="http://versionsapp.com" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;versionsapp.com</a>

Writer Pro @ <a href="http://writer.pro" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;writer.pro</a> for distraction free writing and note taking.

I would love to somehow add &quot;Restart in Bootcamp&quot; to the global apple menu and not need a standalone app.

iTerm2 would be a lot better if they brought back the side dock. The system they replaced it with requires you to type out domain names to find them in the list. Way too difficult to use.

&lt;3 Bitcoin Monitor and Electrum

Sip, Xscope, Alfred 2, Sketch,