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Mac OSX Applications I couldn't live without

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Re: Mac OSX Applications I couldn't live without

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Post by rkudeshi »

callahad wrote: post #29
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #19

>SizeUp is not free, but it's only $13 and worth every cent. It adds keyboard shortcuts to OSX to move windows around. Only? Compiz has a plugin for this and it's baked into Windows. I couldn't imagine paying $13 for that feature. Also, not sure why Chrome got called out when it has similar extensions to Pentadactyl. (Probably the same misconceptions that have people thinking that ABP can't block downloads in Chrome.…

ShiftIt ( https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt ) is a capable, open-source alternative to SizeUp and Divvy.

Love ShiftIt. Nice, simple, and if you disable the menubar icon, completely out of the way.

(Use it at least 10x a day just for putting any two windows side-by-side. Seriously, changed my Mac OS X life).

Re: Mac OSX Applications I couldn't live without

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Post by gte910h »

gfodor wrote: post #17

Ok, I'll bite. What do people actually use dropbox for? All of my employer's code is in SVN, and personal code on Github. All of my email and my calendar is on Gmail. All my photos are on Facebook. All of my documents are in Google Apps. My writing is on my blog. My TODO list is in Workflowy. If my computer dies (which it has recently) all of my stuff is covered. Is there some area of content creation that I am just…

Dozens of things:

If I stick PDFs on it, I can view it on all my computers and devices. This holds for both contracts and ebooks.

If I stick pictures in the public directory, I can quickly show them to people

If I stick zip files in the public directory, it's faster than uploading to an SSH site

If do photoshop/fireworks/balsamiq mockups work out of dropbox, it's on all the computers, and can be pulled up on an iPad in a customer location.

If I stick the scanner on one computer with the output directory in dropbox, I can connect the scanner to one of the desktops, then have it automagically copy over to my mac laptop when done.

Re: Mac OSX Applications I couldn't live without

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Post by gfodor »

xuki wrote: post #22
gfodor wrote: post #17

Ok, I'll bite. What do people actually use dropbox for? All of my employer's code is in SVN, and personal code on Github. All of my email and my calendar is on Gmail. All my photos are on Facebook. All of my documents are in Google Apps. My writing is on my blog. My TODO list is in Workflowy. If my computer dies (which it has recently) all of my stuff is covered. Is there some area of content creation that I am just…

Remember, not everyone is a hacker. For my non geek friends, Dropbox is magic. It just works. I could imagine the world 1000000 times better if everyone can fire up a shell and do something with that. Sadly it's not the case.

Yeah my point here wasn't that I don't understand how Dropbox is useful in general, it's just that this article is by a hacker and he says Dropbox is the "best piece of software written in the last 5 years" and I seem to survive without using it whatsoever.

Being able to send files to people makes sense, but 9 times out of 10 e-mail does the job there just fine. I'm still not getting it, I guess :) Maybe my life is just too boring.

Re: Mac OSX Applications I couldn't live without

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Post by yjhall »

gfodor wrote: post #33
xuki wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Remember, not everyone is a hacker. For my non geek friends, Dropbox is magic. It just works. I could imagine the world 1000000 times better if everyone can fire up a shell and do something with that. Sadly it's not the case.

Yeah my point here wasn't that I don't understand how Dropbox is useful in general, it's just that this article is by a hacker and he says Dropbox is the "best piece of software written in the last 5 years" and I seem to survive without using it whatsoever. Being able to send files to people makes sense, but 9 times out of 10 e-mail does the job there just fine. I'm still not getting it, I guess :) Maybe my life is j…

OK, I'll give you a great use of Dropbox for hackers: Let's say you use Mercurial instead of Subversion. If you have your Mercurial project in Dropbox, you have at your disposal the full source control functionality provided by Mercurial and automatic backups of your mercurial repository. Get it now?

Re: Mac OSX Applications I couldn't live without

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Post by bingaman »

callahad wrote: post #29
drivebyacct2 wrote: post #19

>SizeUp is not free, but it's only $13 and worth every cent. It adds keyboard shortcuts to OSX to move windows around. Only? Compiz has a plugin for this and it's baked into Windows. I couldn't imagine paying $13 for that feature. Also, not sure why Chrome got called out when it has similar extensions to Pentadactyl. (Probably the same misconceptions that have people thinking that ABP can't block downloads in Chrome.…

ShiftIt ( https://github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt ) is a capable, open-source alternative to SizeUp and Divvy.

ShiftIt is awesome, it just needs support for multiple monitors.

Re: Mac OSX Applications I couldn't live without

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Post by gte910h »

peng wrote: post #28
AdamN wrote: post #18

Skitch ( http://skitch.com/ ) is my favorite Mac app in terms of usability. Of course, I need simple screen capture software (not everybody does).

I prefer CloudApp ( http://getcloudapp.com ). There's almost no UI it at all: it just captures OS X screenshots and uploads them. I gave Skitch three minutes and gave up. Its UI is far too complicated for what it does.

I use an app called Screenshots on the appstore: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/screenshots/id402728913?mt=12

Re: Mac OSX Applications I couldn't live without

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Post by ericfrenkiel »

zyb09 wrote: post #11

I recently discovered Hyperdock ( http://hyperdock.bahoom.de/ ). It basically turns OSX into Windows7. Very awesome!

I can't rave enough about Hyperdock; this is something that every OS should support out of the box. Kudos to Win7 on besting Mac on something like this
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