Sunday, February 16, 2014

My OSX Tools List for 2014

This weekend I got my new Mac Book Pro:

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I decided to set it up from scratch. This is the software I installed:

Useful System Tools:

 

Development: 

 

Other Software:

*->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>

13 comments:

  1. The only things I'm missing:
    - Quicksilver (my favourite app) http://qsapp.com/
    - Hazel http://www.noodlesoft.com/hazel.php

    Have fun with new MBP.

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  2. You forgot NetBeans :-)

    Btw. I like AirMail because I have three mail accounts and ForkLift2 http://www.binarynights.com/ because there is no TotalCommander on OSX

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  3. @Simon:
    Netbeans: 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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  5. I would actually recommend mucommander, as this feels and behaves like TotalCommander.

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  6. @Unknown Robert:
    And mucommander also looks equally unploished like TotalCommander :-) ... Have to look at it once more ...

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  7. mucommander does not run on Mavericks!

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  8. I can recommend BetterTouch Tool and Pixelmator. Pixelmator is almost as powerfull as Photoshop but costs only about 30 Dollars.

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  9. @Simon
    I have the latest MacBook with latest OSX and muCommander runs like a breeze =)

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  10. @Simon
    ForkLift 2 is actually quite nice! I prefer it over PathFinder ... I am probably gonna spend the money...

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  11. I found out that mucommander runs when I directly start it with java -jar but the .app does not work for me.
    mucommander is very close to Total Commander. But I couldn't find something that is as good as Total Commander.

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  12. 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/

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  13. Good alternatives for writing markdown:
    LightPaper: http://www.ashokgelal.com/lightpaper-for-mac/
    MacDown: http://macdown.uranusjr.com/

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