Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

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Post by abdophoto » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 2:51 PM UTC

Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers
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Post by ja27 » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 4:03 PM UTC

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Post by bajsejohannes » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 4:12 PM UTC

> Brightness Slider for reducing screen brightness.

I was going to write a little rant about how this should be possible without 3rd party software. Researching a bit, I found that Apple has restored the ⌥+⇧ modifier for volume as well as for brightness (if that was even there before).

So no need to install this; adjust brightness with ⌥+⇧+☼ instead!

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19146/is-fine-volum...

Edit: Trying it out, it seems the actual brightness level has the same minimum as before, even when the setting is at 1/4 of a square. It only works for values higher than one square. :(

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Post by Cacti » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 4:43 PM UTC

No emacs or vim? Ouch...

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Post by civilian » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 4:50 PM UTC

> Tower for pushing code to GitHub. Makes Git simple. Say goodbye to the command line.

http://wheningit.tumblr.com/post/32917749004/when-someone-sa...

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Post by kevjiang » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 4:57 PM UTC

Another really useful app is Spectacle, for keyboard shortcuts to dock an application the left or right half of the screen (like winkey+left and winkey+right on windows 7/8).

http://spectacleapp.com/

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Post by pudquick » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 4:58 PM UTC

Cacti wrote: post #4

No emacs or vim? Ouch...

He did mention Sublime Text 2, which does have this: http://www.sublimetext.com/docs/2/vintage.html

As for all the other additional things that emacs / vim does, they're not necessary to his workflow - he was just sharing what works for him.

As a side note, he also seemed to only be recommending bundle-style Mac OS X native .app applications. True, there's MacVim ( https://code.google.com/p/macvim/ ), but the learning curve is still very steep in comparison to Sublime Text 2.

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Post by pico303 » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:10 PM UTC

civilian wrote: post #5

> Tower for pushing code to GitHub. Makes Git simple. Say goodbye to the command line. http://wheningit.tumblr.com/post/32917749004/when-someone-sa...

zsh + oh-my-zsh. Better than any GUI.

But thus guy lost me when he said he "wasn't any good at the Terminal". And using Spotlight over Alfred? Launchpad? who uses Launchpad?

Crazy.

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Post by Jasber » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:11 PM UTC

kevjiang wrote: post #6

Another really useful app is Spectacle, for keyboard shortcuts to dock an application the left or right half of the screen (like winkey+left and winkey+right on windows 7/8). http://spectacleapp.com/

I really like http://sizewellplugin.com/ for this same thing

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Post by homosaur » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:12 PM UTC

civilian wrote: post #5

> Tower for pushing code to GitHub. Makes Git simple. Say goodbye to the command line. http://wheningit.tumblr.com/post/32917749004/when-someone-sa...

Not sure why you'd spend $60 or whatever Tower is when SourceTree is free anyway. I'm not sure that Tower does a single thing that SourceTree doesn't.