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He talks about might wanting a different diff tool than Changes. Might recommend Kaleidoscope (http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/). I like it, however the one thing that I do hate about it is the lack of a directory compare feature. It can only compare two files together.
A decent starter list, but definitely not complete (for me at least). I'd add the following * TotalFinder (makes the OS X finder not terrible anymore, tabs, etc) * HandsOff/LittleSnitch (oh, you're just using the built-in firewall? that's cute.) * Transmit (everything you could ever want in an FTP app) * CommandQ (W and Q are way too close together) * Mou (free alternative to Byword) * Evernote (note-taking that sync…
If we're making our own lists, here's some that others haven't mentioned: * Jumpcut - http://jumpcut.sourceforge.net/ - simple and unintrusive clipboard history * dterm - http://decimus.net/DTerm - popup terminal * bwana - http://www.bruji.com/bwana/ - man pages in your browser * Grand Perspective - http://grandperspectiv.sourceforge.net/ - disk usage program
I'm using TotalTerminal - it's not context aware, but it's easier for me to launch it with Ctrl-` than to open a new virgin terminal whenever I need to do something really quick.
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I love TotalFinder, and also can't live without flux. I don't really understand the excitement over Alfred/Quicksilver though... what does it do that spotlight can't? Just activate spotlight by pressing Command+Space, and type in whatever you want to do (you can launch a program, do a calculation, look up a word, whatever).
It's really just Spotlight on crack. Once you've done your initial search and the file/app/whatever is highlighted, you can then proceed to instantly perform actions or scripts on it. It's basically just a really nice macro feature baked into Spotlight with a new UI.
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A decent starter list, but definitely not complete (for me at least). I'd add the following * TotalFinder (makes the OS X finder not terrible anymore, tabs, etc) * HandsOff/LittleSnitch (oh, you're just using the built-in firewall? that's cute.) * Transmit (everything you could ever want in an FTP app) * CommandQ (W and Q are way too close together) * Mou (free alternative to Byword) * Evernote (note-taking that sync…
I love TotalFinder, and also can't live without flux. I don't really understand the excitement over Alfred/Quicksilver though... what does it do that spotlight can't? Just activate spotlight by pressing Command+Space, and type in whatever you want to do (you can launch a program, do a calculation, look up a word, whatever).
With Alfred and a well-tuned Quicksilver, I can:
* hotkey it open
* punch in the minimum to identify the application I want (usually 1 or 2 keys, 3 for rarely-used ones)
* hit enter
With Spotlight, I can:
* hotkey it open
* punch in the minimum to identify the application (over 2x more, almost all the time)
* wait for it to update
* it shows the wrong application / the last movie I played and finally displays the 3rd+ letters I typed
* wait for it to update again
* double-checking that it's the right application (it frequently isn't)
* hit enter
* hope it doesn't update *again*, causing me to launch the wrong application
Quicksilver in particular has a nice 'open with...' method which gives you a couple keystrokes to pick the file, 'ow' to open with, and a couple keystrokes to open it in the application of choice, all generally in less than a second. Alfred might have something similar in the PowerPack (paid), but I haven't purchased it.
If Terminal.app feels like plastic scissors, you can try iterm2. It beats the crap out of Terminal in terms of configurability. https://github.com/gnachman/iTerm2 http://iterm2.com/
Boot up Mac, install XCode to get gcc/clang etc, and install MacVim, but you don't have to, vim is there out of the box. Install perhaps additional tools like lynx, pgrep, pfind, ncat, ngrep, nmap, wget, seq (some are included in Lion but I don't use Lion) etc and you got standard UNIX toolchain to build everything, from "hello world" to world's most complex multi-million line applications.
Fun!