Useful Mac Utilities
I have had a MacBook Pro since mid 2009 as my primary laptop (currently experimenting with moving to a Surface Pro completely, will cover in a later blog post). I am a .Net dev and spend most of my time in a Windows Virtual Machine, but I have found a couple of cool tools on the Mac side over the last few years, either to help with some coding on side projects, or just to get some work done.
##Generic Utilities
- Bartender lets you clean up and organize your menu bar.
- LICECap Capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to a .GIF.
- SelfControl Block access to distracting websites to get work done. I use this a lot.
- Slate A keyboard driven window management application. Great Setup instructions here.
- ClamXav Free Anti-virus.
- MiniUsage displays various data like CPU usage, amount of network flow, battery status and process names which uses much CPU time in a menubar.
- TimeOut Break reminder tool with micro-breaks.
- iTerm2 Awesome Terminal replacement.
- KeyCastr lets you easily display your keystrokes while recording screencasts or during presentations. Very useful when demonstrating complicated keyboard shortcuts.
- Keymando productivity and automation platform for Mac developers and power users.
- Quicksilver is a launcher utility app.
- ClipMenu A clipboard manager for Mac OS X.
- VMWare Fusion to run my Windows and Ubuntu VMs.
- Sketch Vector graphics app.
- ScreenFlow Screencasting software.
- KeyRemap4MacBook A powerful and stable keyboard customizer for OS X.
- Disk Inventory X Disk Usage Utility.
- Caffeine Prevents your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers.
##Developer stuff
- AppCode is an Objective-C IDE. I am a big fan of ReSharper from JetBrains, and AppCode is their offering for Mac/ios dev. Besides great refactoring support, it also has a Vim plugin, which in itself was enough for me to justify getting it.
- Viemu XCode Vim plugin.
##Cross Platform Awesomeness