Cloud-based services
- Dropbox
- Google Drive with offline docs enabled
- Google photos (successor of
Picassa) - Synology cloud station that connects to my home NAS server
-
Box(usability issues)
MacOS stuff
- Mozilla Thunderbird and its must-have addons
- oh-my-zsh more shell commands (and its
.zshrcconfiguration file) - XtraFinder to augment the finder with tabs, extra right-click-tab menu options)
- Disk inventory X that generates treemaps of disk usage
- Spectacle to quickly create windows layouts
- Fly cut for advanced cut and paste
- 1password
- Adobe Acrobate reader
- Custom Apache configuration
- iPhoto for iPhone pics export and backup (…)
-
iTunes - Slack
Code
- Python 3
- iPython notebooks
- Brew
- Bower
- Npm
-
Java - Filezilla for FTP transfer
Text editing
- Sublime Text
- Atom
- TexShop for LaTeX documents
- MacTex distribution I’ve also been using MacDown and Mou for Markdown editing, but not satisfied with language-specific text editors (except for LaTeX with TexShop).
Mac configurations
- Disable sound when volume up or down
- Active corners
- Top-left: hide windows to view desktop icons
- Top-right: sleep mode
- Power options to quickly turn-off screen and enable sleep mode
- Screen resolution: more space / scaled
- Touchpad double tape
- Quick key press repetition
Dot files
- TBD
Multimedia
- VLC for video playback
- ffmpeg for video files processing
- iMovie for quick and dirty video editing