Applications for my Mac

15 Nov 2012

Thought I’d keep a track of apps for my Mac:

Stuff I’ve tried/recommend

Important things:

• http://www.wheresthehashkeyonamac.co.uk

Desktop helpers

• Alfred: enables Alt-space to fire up applications and web searches (HT: Josh Quick)
• TotalFinder: tabs for the Apple finder (HT: Anthony Underwood)
• BetterTouchTool (HT: Giovanni Coppola)
• Spectacle (HT: Giovanni Coppola)
• GeekTool (HT: Keith Bradnam)
• http://www.grandtotal.biz/CheatSheet/
• NoMachine Player

Terminal stuff

• Mosh: command-line SSH client replacement for crappy connections
• TotalTerminal: Quake-style dropdown terminal http://totalterminal.binaryage.com (HT: Anthony Underwood)
• ITerm/DTerm - terminal replacements (HT: Keith Bradnam)

Backup stuff

• SuperDuper - easy cloned backups (HT: Keith Bradnam)

UNIXy stuff

• MacPorts
• Brew: Ruby based package installer

Science stuff

• EverNote
• Readcube
• Papers 2

Image stuff

• Gimp
• Inkscape

Uncategorised

• QuickCursor
• Jitouch
• Desktop Tidy
• Yoink
• Bartender
• Cloud app
• TextExpander
• Caffeine
• Boom
• Keka
• Living Earth HD
• Sublimetext

Music

• Clementine
• TextWrangler

Thanks to Keith Bradnam, Anthony Underwood, Josh Quick, Giovanni Coppola, Joao Carrico, Eli Perencevich, Mike Cox, Rupert Loman for suggestions so far. Please post more in the comments.