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My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by mtrichardson »

davepeck wrote: post #40

Hey neat, my app https://GetCloak.com/ made it into the list. And we're still beta -- though v1.0 is coming quite soon. Fun!

I'm using it right now, as is a friend I recommended it to a few minutes ago, thanks to this post.

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by ldar15 »

ludwigvan wrote: post #33
Pewpewarrows wrote: post #7

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…

Is there a downside to using the default firewall, if I don't want to do things like bandwidth-capping apps?

I sat at one BarCamp next to a security consultant and watched all the wireshark traffic between my Mac and everyone else. Firewall was on and locked down. My Mac responded (i.e. received, processed, replied) to SMB queries for example. Its a joke. Now I use ipfw directly and my Mac is a black hole.

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by ldar15 »

krobertson wrote: post #31

Don't know if the author of the post knows it is on HN, and his blog doesn't do comments... 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.

ECMerge

Its the only one that does a proper 3-way merge: it has four views. Last time I used Araxis it showed three panes: theirs, base, ours, and you merged back into the center. Hello!!! "base" isn't much use halfway into a complicated merge if I can't tell which lines are "base" and what is "merged", nor can I refer to what was there before. So frustrating.

Does directories too.

http://www.elliecomputing.com/products/merge_overview.asp

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by r00fus »

cjensen wrote: post #21
jz wrote: post #17

I am genuinely surprised at how much others spend on software. I started totaling up his list (excluding monthly services like dropbox) and stopped when I reached $500, which was right around Cornerstone.

You've already sunk money into a Computer. If you pay a little more per year on software, how much better is your computer? It's a tradeoff which depends upon how much money you have, and how much utility you will derive. For example, unlike Windows, there is no free and convenient svn utility on the Mac. If I were using svn on the Mac frequently, Cornerstone (which is quite expensive by my standards) would be a nece…

> For example, unlike Windows, there is no free and convenient svn utility on the Mac.

If you aren't command-line-phobic, svn has been included by default on OSX for a while.

However, I do agree about paying for software that improves your productivity... if you amortize it over even a year (think monthly cost vs. productivity/entertainment value), it's likely cheaper than a caffeine habit... and I usually use software for years.

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by r00fus »

Timothee wrote: post #44
smspence wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

To add to Pewpewarrows' comment, I'll give you a couple of examples of things I do with QuickSilver. I can never remember the IP address of my work's VPN, so I created a text file on my desktop with the IP as its name. Whenever I need it, I do: Ctrl+Space, ~/Desktop/[IP] to select the file, '.' to treat the filename as text, tab to go to the action part of QuickSilver, start typing "clipboard" and when "Copy to clipb…

> I can never remember the IP address of my work's VPN, so I created a text file on my desktop with the IP as its name. Whenever I need it, I do: Ctrl+Space, ~/Desktop/[IP] to select the file, '.' to treat the filename as text, tab to go to the action part of QuickSilver, start typing "clipboard" and when "Copy to clipboard" shows up, I press enter. It can sound like a lot of steps but it gives me the IP address in my clipboard without reaching for the mouse, without having to open a file or an app.

If you don't mind a bit of drag and drop, a text clipping [1] may be even faster... simply drag the IP address text to the desktop, then drag it back when you want to pull it back in... text clippings make your desktop into a super-clipboard (only downside is the resulting files don't sync over dropbox)

Though I'm mostly-keyboard, I use the mouse where it makes sense, and OSX's drag and drop is a huge time-saver.

[1] http://macstarter.com/2011/01/21/text-clipping/

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by CJefferson »

tincholio wrote: post #42
cjensen wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've already sunk money into a Computer. If you pay a little more per year on software, how much better is your computer? It's a tradeoff which depends upon how much money you have, and how much utility you will derive. For example, unlike Windows, there is no free and convenient svn utility on the Mac. If I were using svn on the Mac frequently, Cornerstone (which is quite expensive by my standards) would be a nece…

>For example, unlike Windows, there is no free and convenient svn utility on the Mac. What's wrong with doing "brew install svn" ?

What's wrong with the copy of svn already distributed with Mac OS X? :)

Re: My Ultimate Developer and Power Users Tool List for Mac OS X (2011 Edition)

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Post by jc4p »

banjomonster wrote: post #50
jc4p wrote: post #29

I'd love to get a compare/contrast between Cornerstone which the article mentions and Versions: http://versionsapp.com/ I sadly still have to use SVN for some things and have been using Versions for quite some time now. What does Cornerstone do that Versions can't do?

I'd be interested in that too - Versions is great, though not perfect. Looks like one thing Cornerstone has is a built-in diff tool: http://www.zennaware.com/cornerstone/index.php

That's definitely a plus. I currently use DiffMerge which I really like because I can use it with absolutely anything, no matter what my source control is.
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