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Re: Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

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Post by homosaur » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:16 PM UTC

pico303 wrote: post #8

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.

Alfred is using Spotlight under the hood. The searching is basically no better. I prefer Quicksilver which has a much richer search capability.

Alfred 2 has some nice workflow features though, I've been experimenting with it.

Re: Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

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Post by tom_usher » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:16 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/

Slate is my preferred way of managing windows on OSX.

https://github.com/jigish/slate

Re: Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

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Post by gte910h » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:18 PM UTC

homosaur wrote: post #10

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.

I love SourceTree. I've tried several other guis, only one I keep using.

Re: Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

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Post by steeve » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:20 PM UTC

pico303 wrote: post #8

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.

Allow me to point you to prezto https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto, which is a lightweight version of oh-my-zsh. I couldn't stand waiting 10+ seconds to open a new prompt...

Re: Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

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Post by mongrelion » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:31 PM UTC

You're missing Alfred, an awesome application launcher that works on top of Spotlight: http://www.alfredapp.com/ Definitely worth giving it a chance.

Re: Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

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Post by Y0L0 » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:31 PM UTC

pudquick wrote: post #7

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 learnin…

Vintage mode is useless without: https://github.com/SublimeText/VintageEx

Re: Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

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Post by Y0L0 » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:32 PM UTC

Using your DSLR as a Webcam is a great way to destroy the sensor.

Re: Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

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Post by vor_ » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:32 PM UTC

xScope (http://iconfactory.com/software/xscope) is a very useful tool for designing layouts.

Re: Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

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Post by Y0L0 » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:33 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/

Also this: http://most-advantageous.com/optimal-layout/

Re: Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers

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Post by lukifer » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:37 PM UTC

mongrelion wrote: post #15

You're missing Alfred, an awesome application launcher that works on top of Spotlight: http://www.alfredapp.com/ Definitely worth giving it a chance.

Mandatory plugs for Alfred's cousins, LaunchBar and QuickSilver. Each has strengths and weaknesses; the only poor choice is to not use any of the three. :)

http://obdev.at/products/launchbar

http://qsapp.com/