Installation and Setup Guide
Installation and Setup Guide for Mac
Before getting started, make sure you have a ππ». If you don't have one yet, you could buy from Apple Shop or awesome eBay (for a better price).
Price | App | Intro |
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π* | Alfred | An application launcher and productivity application, which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords and text expansion. |
π | Hammerspoon | A tool for powerful automation of OS X. |
πΆ | Bartender | Lets you organize your menu bar apps, by hiding them, rearranging them, or moving them to the Bartender Bar. |
π | Dozer | Lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look. |
πΆ | ForkLift | The most advanced dual pane file manager and file transfer client. |
π | muCommander | A cross-platform, lightweight, open-source file manager. |
π | The Unarchiver | A small and easy to use program that can unarchive many different kinds of archive files. |
π / πΆ | Keka | A macOS file archiver, stores more, shares with privacy. |
π | Spectacle | Window control with simple and customizable keyboard shortcuts. |
πΆ | Divvy | A utility to quickly resize and position your windows. |
πΆ | Magnet | Declutters your screen by snapping windows into organized tiles. |
πΆ | Paste | Keeps track of everything you've ever copied and lets you access your clipboard history anytime across. |
π | Clipy | A Clipboard extension app for macOS. |
πΆ | Unclutter | A new handy place on your desktop for storing notes, files and pasteboard clips. |
πΆ | Fantastical | A calendar app let you quickly create new events and reminders with natural language input and more. |
π | Itsycal | A tiny menu bar calendar. |
π* | Evernote | Collect, nurture, and share ideas across desktop and mobile platforms with it. |
π* | Wunderlist | A simple todo list and task manager app that helps you get stuff done. |
πΆ | OmniFocus | A personal task manager designed to quickly capture your thoughts and allow you to store, manage, and process them into actionable to-do items. |
πΆ | OmniGraffle | A diagramming and digital illustration application for creating beautiful, precise graphics. |
πΆ | iA Writer | A text editor removes distractions, giving you a calm, focused writing space. |
π* | Obsidian | A private and flexible writing app that adapts to the way you think. |
π* | Instapaper | Syncs the articles and videos you save so that you can read them anywhere and anytime you want, even offline. |
π | Simplenote | An easy way to keep notes, lists, ideas and more. Light, clean, and free. |
πΆ | Texifier | An editor and a productivity tool for academic and professional writing in LaTeX. |
π | Buttercup | The Password Manager You Deserve. |
π* | 1Password | Put Passwords In Their Place. |
πΆ | 1Keyboard | Type on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV using your Mac's keyboard. |
π* | Dropbox | Bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and keep your files safe. |
πΆ* | PDF Expert | Read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images. Fill forms and sign contracts like never before. |
π | CheatSheet | Just hold the β-Key a bit longer to get a list of all active short cuts of the current application. |
π* | Anki | A friendly and intelligent flash cards program which makes remembering things easy. |
π | Amphetamine | The most awesome keep-awake utility ever created. |
π | KeepingYouAwake | A Caffeine clone, prevent your Mac from entering sleep mode. |
π* | Memory Clean | The ultimate app for optimizing your Mac's memory. |
πΆ | SwitchResX | The most advanced tool lets you easily change your display resolution and adjust other monitor settings directly from your menu bar or by using the Contextual Menu. |
πΆ | Duet | Lets you use your iPad or iPhone as an external monitor. |
Price | App | Intro |
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πΆ | ToothFairy | Connect AirPods (or other Bluetooth headphones) to your Mac with a single click or keypress. |
π | Munki | A collection of open-source tools used to manage installation of software packages on macOS client machines. |
π | Mounty for NTFS | A tiny tool to re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes. |
Price | App | Intro |
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πΆ | Sketch | The ultimate tool for designing user interfaces, websites, and icons. |
πΆ | Affinity Photo | The fastest, smoothest, most precise professional image editing software. |
πΆ | IconJar | Stores all your icons in one place, just a click away, leaves digging through your design asset folders behind and lets you access your icons without the hassle. |
π | GIF Brewery | Gives everyone the power to create stunning GIFs from video files. |
Price | App | Intro |
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πΆ | Xee | An streamlined and convenient image viewer and browser. |
π | VLC | A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files. |
π | IINA | The modern video player. |
π | Kodi | A free media player that is designed to look great on your big screen TV but is just as home on a small screen. |
π* | Spotify | A digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs. |
πΆ | Permute | The easiest to use media converter with it's easy to use, no configuration, drag and drop interface, it will meet the needs to convert all your media files. |
Price | App | Intro |
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π | Chrome | A fast, secure, and free web browser built for the modern web. |
π | Firefox | A fast, private, secure, and compatible web browser. |
Price | App | Intro |
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πΆ | Airmail | A lightning Fast Mail Client for Mac. |
π* | Sparrow | An email client, had been acquired by Google and was ceasing continued development. |
πΆ | Tweetbot | An award-winning Twitter client. |
π | YoruFukurou | A powerful native Twitter client. |
π* | Skype | An instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services. |
Price | App | Intro |
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π | Homebrew | The missing package manager. |
π | RVM | Ruby Version Manager. |
π | JDK | Includes a complete JRE plus tools for developing, debugging, and monitoring Java applications. |
π | iTerm2 | A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. |
π | Oh My Zsh | An open source, community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration. |
π | Powerlevel10k | The most awesome Powerline theme for ZSH around. |
π | Alacritty | A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator (the fastest in existence). |
π | Hyper | A terminal built on web technologies. |
π | TextMate | A graphical text editor. |
π | Atom | A free and open-source text and source code editor. |
πΆ | Sublime Text | A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose. |
π | Fork | A fast and friendly git client for Mac and Windows. |
π | SourceTree | A free Mercurial and Git Client. |
πΆ | Tower | A beautiful, efficient, and powerful Git version control app. |
πΆ | Kaleidoscope | The world's most advanced Mac diff tool. |
πΆ | Monodraw | An ASCII art editor. |
πΆ | Quiver | A notebook built for programmers. |
π | Docker | An open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications. |
π* | Dash | Gives your Mac instant offline access to 150+ API documentation sets. |
πΆ | Charles Proxy | A proxy / monitor enables a developer to view all traffic between their machine and the Internet. |
π | Postman | The complete toolchain for API developers. |
π | Cocoa Rest Client | A free open source, native Apple OS X app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints. |
π* | Insomnia | A powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication. |
π | Xcode | An IDE containing a suite of software development tools for macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS. |
π | Network Link Conditioner | A tool to simulate various kinds of network environments. |
πΆ | Reveal | Advanced visualisations, comprehensive inspectors and the ability to modify applications on the fly. |
π | Android Studio | The Official IDE for Android. |
π* | Genymotion | The most powerful Android emulation platform for app developers & testers. |
π | VirtualBox | A free and open-source hypervisor for x86 virtualization. |
π* | IntelliJ IDEA | A Java IDE. |
π | Visual Studio Code | A code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications. |
π | CCMenu | Displays the build status of projects on a continuous integration server as an item in the Mac's menu bar. |
π | Etcher | Burn images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily. |
Price | App | Intro |
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π | Aerial | Apple TV Aerial Screensaver for Mac. |
π | Reeder 3 | A RSS reader client. |
π | calibre | A powerful and easy to use e-book manager. |
Note:
Disable screenshot shadow
defaults write com.apple.screencapture disable-shadow -bool true; killall SystemUIServer
Set Preview's sidebar display default to Thumbnails
defaults write com.apple.Preview PVPDFSuppressSidebarOnOpening -bool false
Converting SVG to PNG:
qlmanage -t -s WIDTH_IN_PIXEL -o . IMAGE_TO_BE_CONVERTED.SVG
Joining pages from a a collection of PDF files into a single PDF file:
/System/Library/Automator/Combine\ PDF\ Pages.action/Contents/Resources/join.py -o PATH/TO/YOUR/MERGED/FILE.pdf /PATH/TO/ORIGINAL/1.pdf /PATH/TO/ANOTHER/2.pdf /PATH/TO/A/WHOLE/DIR/*.pdf
Downloading m3u8 playlist with a bunch of ts files, and combining them into a single video file:
ffmpeg -headers "ANY_NECESSARY_HEADER" -i "M3U8_URL" -bsf:a aac_adtstoasc -vcodec copy -c copy -crf 50 OUTPUT_FILE.MP4
Hiding Spotlight inside Bartender (on macOS Sierra)
csrutil disable
, then reboot;csrutil enable
, then reboot.I don't wanna have the Music app from Apple. Well, you can't delete or disable it, but try noTunes.
Missing app icon on Dock, and failing to "Check for updates" (due to Gatekeeper Path Randomization on macOS Sierra)
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Your.app
;Authorized Restart (to bypass FileVault 2 pre-boot login screen)
sudo fdesetup authrestart