A curated list of awesome applications and developer tools for your mac.
Having used windows all my life, when I bought my first mac it was a bit difficult for me to get used to the OS and the different keys. Whenever I got stuck up with something I had to google it everytime no matter how big or small the issue was. So I thought of compiling together all the stuff that I have learned in my process of using my mac. Hopefully it would help someone.
- Applications
- Basic Keys & Symbols
- Developement Tools
- Miscellaneous
- Programming Languages
- System preferences
- Usefull
- Contribute
- Adium - Instant messaging application
- Alfred - Productivity Application
- Caffeine - Prevents mac from automatically going to sleep
- Clementine - Music Player
- ClipMenu - ClipBoard History Manager
- Cloudapp - Capture and share files, scrrenshots etc
- CloudClip - Share Clipboard history between your apple devices
- CodeBlocks - C, C++ IDE
- Dash - An alternative of Zeal for mac
- Fish-shell - A smart command line shell.
- Github-client - A GUI for Github.
- iTerm2 - A terminal emulator for OS X
- LightShot
- Mac2Imgur
- PSequel
- Quicksilver
- RazorSQL
- Sublime Text 3
- Spectacle - Easily organize windows without using a mouse.
- TextExpander
- TextMate
- TotalFinder
- TheUnarchiver
- virtualbox
- Xcode
- XtraFinder
- Zsh
- MySQL WorkBench - A GUI client for MySQL
- Atom
- TextMate
- MatLab
- MusicBrainz Picard - A cross-platform music tagger written in Python.
| Symbol | Key |
|---|---|
| ⌘ | Command Key |
| ⌃ | Control Key |
| ⌥ | Option Key |
| ⇧ | Shift Key |
- Git - What's a developer without git
- Heroku - A Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that makes it really easy to deploy your apps online
- Homebrew - Package manager for OS X
- IPython - A much better Python shell
- Mercurial
- MySql
- Pelican
- pip
- pyQT
- sass
- Virtualenv
- wget
- MongoDB - A popular NoSQL database.
- ElasticSearch - A real-time search and analytics engine
- HayStack
There are a couple tweaks I like to make to the System Preferences. Feel free to follow these, or to ignore them, depending on your personal preferences.
In Apple Icon > System Preferences:
- Trackpad > Tap to click
- Security & Privacy > Allow apps downloaded from > Anywhere (this in particular is one of the most useful and important modification that you'll want to make.)
- Useful shortcuts
- Other Useful things Shortcuts Window Maximize Enter opens Keyboard. Rename? Access Application Menu and Dock using keyboard Show Desktop Bring All to front
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