Mac software essentials
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Well, after the Firefox Essentials, here’s my list of Mac essentials:
- LaunchBar
- Homebrew
- Firefox Beta
- Exact Scan Pro (scanner utilities for Mac are still … all bad, this is absolutely good and relatively the best. VueScan might be better for about 0.05% of all scans I do, but the usability could actually not be any worse)
- The Unarchiver
- Sublime Text, or probably in the future Atom (text editors)
- Cubby and Bittorrent Sync (document sync, don’t really like Dropbox)
- VLC player
- Better Snap Tool (yah, don’t really get the split screen of OS X)
- PDF Expert or PDF Pen Pro (both good, the first is way cheaper, and the reason is that Preview can actually make PDF files bigger on edits like remove pages, or rearrange pages)
- Amphetamine (keep your Mac awake)
- Typinator (text epansion)
- Twitter client (I actually use the official one)
- Libre Office
- Telegram (useful Whatsapp alternative, cause it also has a web interface)
- Path Finder
- Shimo (VPN client, really expensive, but “use this password for all connections in this folder” is awesome)
- Hazel