This weekend I got my new Mac Book Pro:
I decided to set it up from scratch. This is the software I installed:
Useful System Tools:
- DropBox
- Alfred
- Default Folder X
- 1Password*
- oh-my-zsh
- homebrew and homebrew-cask
- git, groovy, maven, node, rhino,wget, tree
- Quick Look plugins
- DTerm
- Growl*
- Moom*
- Go2Shell*
- iStatMenus
- Quick Look plugins
- Tunnellblick
- The Unarchiver*
- Disk Inventory X
- Sync Folders*
- KeyCastr (is there a better download than this?)
Development:
- Xcode*
- IntelliJ
- WebStorm
- AppCode
- Eclipse
- Cornerstone* (great SVN Client)
- SourceTree* (advanced Git Client)
- Github Mac
- Kaleidoskope
- Dash* (doc viewer for developers)
- VisualVM
- Sublime Text 3
- TextMate 2
- Brackets.io
- Postgres.app
- PG Commander
- Sequel Pro
Other Software:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Pocket* (offline reader)
- Kindle*
- Evernote*
- MarsEdit (blog editor)
- Pixelmator*
- Skitch*
- Sketch 2*
- Omnigraffle 6*
- Screen Flow 4*
- Makdown Pro*
- Office:Mac 2011
- VMWare Fusion 6
- VLC
- Handbrake
- Skype
*->Installed through App Store
I am grateful for any tips and suggestions:
What did I miss? Where do you know a better option?
Update: TextMate 2 installs its own QuickLook Plugin which I don’t like: I uninstalled it by deleting the Folder
TextMate.app/Contents/Library/QuickLook/
and restarting the Finder.Update: In order to quick look html files as code and not rendered I changed the content of
~/Library/QuickLook/QLColorCode.qlgenerator/Contents/Info.plist
and extended the following block:
<key>LSItemContentTypes</key>
<array>
... <string>public.plain-text</string>
<string>public.html</string>
<string>public.xhtml</string>
</array>
The only things I'm missing:
ReplyDelete- Quicksilver (my favourite app) http://qsapp.com/
- Hazel http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php
Have fun with new MBP.
You forgot NetBeans :-)
ReplyDeleteBtw. I like AirMail because I have three mail accounts and ForkLift2 http://www.binarynights.com/ because there is no TotalCommander on OSX
@Simon:
ReplyDeleteNetbeans: Maybe sometimes later ...
ForkLift it did not convince me. If I would need a Total-Commander replacement I would probably rather use PathFinder...
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ReplyDeleteI would actually recommend mucommander, as this feels and behaves like TotalCommander.
ReplyDelete@Unknown Robert:
ReplyDeleteAnd mucommander also looks equally unploished like TotalCommander :-) ... Have to look at it once more ...
mucommander does not run on Mavericks!
ReplyDeleteI can recommend BetterTouch Tool and Pixelmator. Pixelmator is almost as powerfull as Photoshop but costs only about 30 Dollars.
ReplyDelete@Simon
ReplyDeleteI have the latest MacBook with latest OSX and muCommander runs like a breeze =)
@Simon
ReplyDeleteForkLift 2 is actually quite nice! I prefer it over PathFinder ... I am probably gonna spend the money...
I found out that mucommander runs when I directly start it with java -jar but the .app does not work for me.
ReplyDeletemucommander is very close to Total Commander. But I couldn't find something that is as good as Total Commander.
Since the built in Archive utility of OSX has created zips that can't be extracted on Windows on several occasions. I started using: http://www.kekaosx.com/
ReplyDeleteGood alternatives for writing markdown:
ReplyDeleteLightPaper: http://www.ashokgelal.com/lightpaper-for-mac/
MacDown: http://macdown.uranusjr.com/