Must-have OS X apps for developers and designers • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by ndrake » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:38 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.

How does it compare to Quicksilver?

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

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Post by zyb09 » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:40 PM UTC

My vote goes to Soulver (http://www.acqualia.com/soulver/), which is basically the best calculator app ever. Useful for so many things, from figuring out algorithms to doing taxes.

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

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Post by bluetidepro » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:44 PM UTC

Y0L0 wrote: post #17

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

I second this. Doing this has ruined my friends DSLR. Not sure the technical reasons behind this, but it does indeed have consequencing effects.

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

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Post by rimantas » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:45 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.

Sometimes is not only about "what" but also about "how".

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

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Post by rimantas » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:48 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 am using BetterTouchTool for that.

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

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Post by licorna » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:48 PM UTC

Edit with Sublime, then refresh page? I think that's "Web developer & designer".

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

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Post by cpursley » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:48 PM UTC

totalfinder

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

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Post by cpursley » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:48 PM UTC

totalfinder

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

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Post by trotsky » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:49 PM UTC

bajsejohannes wrote: post #3

> 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... Edi…

I think this is actually a restriction of their current backlight controller. As far as I know the apps that reduce brightness below one square actually do it by placing a black element over the entire screen and adjusting its transparency.

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

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Post by div » Thu, Mar 28, 2013, 5:50 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/

Chiming in to plug SizeUp for this, wouldn't be able to live without it:

http://www.irradiatedsoftware.com/sizeup/