What software do you use? [OSX]

[SYNERGY]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[zippy]

On my macbook, I use:

Blender
XCode
GarageBand
Eclipse
iTunes
MS Office
Parrallels
Visual Studio
Moba Xterm
Komodo
PL/SQL Developer
Safari
Chrome
Firefox
Filezilla

 

[$m@Rt@$$]

ExFAT is too slow, I run all my drive in MAC format but when that random idiot shows up with a windows drive and wants something you need to be able to write to his drive or flash so thats probably not the solution

Paragon NTFS. Works flawlessly.

 

[SYNERGY]

+1 for TeamViewer on OSX.

I do a alot of remote troubleshooting/assistance.

 

[Hemps]

http://eternalstorms.at/yoink/Yoink...o_more/Yoink_-_Draggings_a_drag_no_more!.html

Yoink

Use it often

 

[Space_Chief]

VLC
Gimp
Adobe PhotoShop CS4
Little Snitch
SoundBunny
JDownloader
iWorks
VLC
4K Video Downloader
Stuffit Deluxe
iPack
EasyFind
CrossOver
STEAM
DiskAid
IExplorer
Kodi
Sophos AV for Mac
Coconut Battery
FireFox
MplayerX
Fault Milestone One
Wonder Momo for OSX
Paragon NTFS for Mac/OSX
QuickRes 3
Burn

.... I guess I like VLC.

 

[Cassady]

Alfred 2
Textexpander
Keyboard Maestro
Hazel 3.0 by Noodlesoft.
SnappyApp

 

[SYNERGY]

Er... I ended up deleting OSX completely and installing Windows

 

[SauRoNZA]

Not even 10 days of perseverance.

That's sad.

 

[SYNERGY]

Not even 10 days of perseverance.

That's sad.

Actually, my previous laptop was a MacBook Air (2011)
Ran OSX for a year, until it got dog slow. Which was odd considering it was only used for browsing and coding. No other apps installed besides Adobe. Ran the usual cleaning applications, didnt help much. Installed Windows, machine ran better, and there are just some apps that has no OSX alternative... Or that does it as well on Windows. Odd exotic app or 2.

Btw, it was the next day

 

[SauRoNZA]

I've never had that happens to me and I don't use third party tools.

But yeah there is the odd app that if you have to use it you have to.

But I won't buy a MacBook just to run Windows on it. I will however buy anything else if it could run OSX.

Different strokes.

 

[Lord Flacko]

I've never had that happens to me and I don't use third party tools.

But yeah there is the odd app that if you have to use it you have to.

But I won't buy a MacBook just to run Windows on it. I will however buy anything else if it could run OSX.

Different strokes.

+1

I'd rather save the money and get a cheaper machine.

 

[Cassady]

Necromancing this thread a bit – Keyboard Maestro just released a big update (version 7).

If you don't have it, and spend plenty of hours on your Mac doing specific things repeatedly, it is probably the single best investment you can make. Came out yesterday, so not too many reviews yet, barring Gabe Weatherhead over at Macdrifter – sums it up nicely.

 

[Johnatan56]

Run windows in a VM.

Else:
Net beans
Office

Only use my friends MacBook sometimes, not really a fan.

 

[Hemps]

http://www.jumbodumbothoughts.com/2014/02/proxy-server-controlplane.html

Nice for when you change wifi/network locations and proxies.

Tested it last night and it worked well as I use different settings for Work, Home, Hulu+ etc.

 

[Sonic2k]

I use Parallels to run Windows apps on Mac
It works, even with demanding environments i.e. legacy USB crap that needs to connect to the software... dongles, etc..
VMWare workstation fails to deliver in this key area

 

[MagicDude4Eva]

My new favorite toys (all working on El Capitan btw):
Caffeine - http://lightheadsw.com/caffeine/
Control Plane - http://www.controlplaneapp.com/
Bar Tender - http://www.macbartender.com/
Magnet - http://magnet.crowdcafe.com/
f.lux - https://justgetflux.com

 

[Cassady]

My new favorite toys (all working on El Capitan btw):

Control Plane - http://www.controlplaneapp.com/

FWIW, Keyboard Maestro offers the same features - picks up when I connect to the Work network, for instance, and then closes "home" apps, and opens the "work apps", along with the rest.

Incredible what can be done with just about zero programming knowledge, if you take the time to find the right apps!

 

[Hemps]

FWIW, Keyboard Maestro offers the same features - picks up when I connect to the Work network, for instance, and then closes "home" apps, and opens the "work apps", along with the rest.

Incredible what can be done with just about zero programming knowledge, if you take the time to find the right apps!

Nice, will give it a try as well.

 

[Cassady]

Nice, will give it a try as well.

The new update allows one to trigger macros with a double press of a key-combination. I was a.) running out of shortcuts; or b.) always forgetting the more intricate and less-often used ones...

Example - my inability to remember the keyboard shortcut combo for jumping back and forth between open Safari tabs.

With KM, I can now hold down CTRL, and double tap "1", to jump to the next tab. Or I can hold down CTRL, and double tap "2" to jump back to the previous one. Easy.

Other example - [1st world problem], the schlepp of moving my hands off the keyboard to the trackpad, to select the text underneath the cursor. KM = double tap SHIFT+[up arrow] = text selected.

Silly little things like the above, but being able to do that with zero fuss, and no scripting knowledge, has me smiling!