Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac

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Post by mofle » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 5:39 PM UTC

Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac
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Re: Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac

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Post by jedberg » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 6:04 PM UTC

Anyone remember PowerToys for Windows 95? This remind me of that. Advanced features that were there that just needed to be exposed.

Of course in this case it's not from Apple itself, but still a great idea!

Re: Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac

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Post by a1j9o94 » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 6:04 PM UTC

I'll have to give this a shot. I switched from a windows machine to a Mac for a better dev experience on my personal projects, but I miss a lot of the windows file explorer shortcuts

Re: Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac

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Post by viraptor » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 6:06 PM UTC

> Unminimizes an app’s windows when activated

Does it mean I can bring back 1password with 1 click instead of 3? (If I forget MacOS is stupid and minimise it) That would be amazing!

Re: Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac

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Post by ericol » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 6:07 PM UTC

Just the Command+X feature for cutting files is worth its weight in gold. Or Bitcoin.

Re: Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac

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Post by derekjobst » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 6:08 PM UTC

Wow, this guy has a ton of other menu bar apps. So many features I have thought about but never bothered to build/find. Awesome!

Re: Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac

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Post by pvg » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 6:10 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #2

Anyone remember PowerToys for Windows 95? This remind me of that. Advanced features that were there that just needed to be exposed. Of course in this case it's not from Apple itself, but still a great idea!

I think some such utilities for classic MacOs predate PowerToys and there are a bunch for osx-y macOS so the there's a long proud history of these from not-Apple.

Re: Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac

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Post by cassianoleal » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 6:10 PM UTC

viraptor wrote: post #4

> Unminimizes an app’s windows when activated Does it mean I can bring back 1password with 1 click instead of 3? (If I forget MacOS is stupid and minimise it) That would be amazing!

Why do you need 3 clicks to bring back 1Password after minimising it? On my mac, it behaves like any other minimised window. A single click on its Dock icon does the trick.

Personally though, I always close it - as it's trivial to call it with ⌘\ .

Re: Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac

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Post by add-sub-mul-div » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 6:22 PM UTC

jedberg wrote: post #2

Anyone remember PowerToys for Windows 95? This remind me of that. Advanced features that were there that just needed to be exposed. Of course in this case it's not from Apple itself, but still a great idea!

It's active again, they've open sourced and reinvested in it with new utilities.

https://github.com/microsoft/PowerToys

Re: Show HN: Supercharge Your Mac

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Post by OptionOfT » Wed, Oct 30, 2024, 6:22 PM UTC

Macos shortcuts are ... more than weird. It's like someone said: we need shortcuts, and then took a random shortcut generator. Control + Command + Shift + 3/4 to do a selection-box screenshot.

Which one is save to clipboard and which one is save to disk? Who knows.

And then there is inconsistency. You're in Finder, where 'return/enter' (for some reason) invokes file rename. Cmd+O to open.

But in a file selector window, say Numbers, 'return/enter' actually opens the file...