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

Post by danneu » Wed, Dec 21, 2011, 1:46 AM UTC

super_mario wrote: post #69

danneu wrote: post #67

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I'm probably going to buy a MBA soon after working with Debian & Openbox on a dated netbook for too long. I spend most of my time in side-by-side Vim/shell/ssh sessions inside tmux within the Guake terminal. If MacVim is a standalone app, why do people use it? Isn't one of the nicest things about Vim that it lives in the terminal and can be launched from any root in the terminal?

The only good reason to use MacVim is support for millions of colors so color schemes look nicer. It also supports full screen mode (now in Lion Terminal does too, but before this used to be a missing feature), also it's easier to launch MacVim as external editing tool for other apps like Firefox with Pentadactyl extension (this allows you to edit any text box/area with vim). Other than that, you really don't need Ma…

Post by notJim » Wed, Dec 21, 2011, 3:34 AM UTC

Groxx wrote: post #37

smspence wrote: post #13

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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).

For myself: 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 and be done with it in well below 1/2 of a second. 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 app…

Post by notJim » Wed, Dec 21, 2011, 3:39 AM UTC

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…

Post by rabidsnail » Wed, Dec 21, 2011, 3:50 AM UTC

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?

Post by dmnd » Wed, Dec 21, 2011, 4:19 AM UTC

larrik wrote: post #30

I was really hoping to see a fix for OS X's mouse acceleration. It's annoying when using the OS, and completely broken when I fire up StarCraft or something else that requires fast and precise mouse movements. (I'm using a Microsoft mouse on a Mac Mini)