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6 mac apps that fit everyone

Nikita Sobolev on July 19, 2019

Originally published in my blog: https://sobolevn.me/2019/07/6-best-mac-apps You often can see lists of awesome apps that you are not going to use...
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Henryk Nowakowski

Thanks Nikita,

From my side, I really like:

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orels1

Alfred one love. And Alfred + Dash is even better. That's basically the only way i look for documentation these days. Fast and offline too, which is the best kind!

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Jean-Michel Plourde

Alfred is something I wish linux have. There is Albert, but it's not as nice.

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Nikita Sobolev

Awesome! I have tried Alfred several times, but did not find a good use for it.

And I have never heard about MTMR and Gyazo, will totally check it out. Thanks!

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Kyle Boe

I'll definitely have to check out HazeOver. It seems super rad.

I mentioned a few other tools that I think you'd be a fan of in a similar post I made. Let me know what you think!

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Ben Sinclair

I use spectacle simply to get "maximize" as a window option, because according to Apple it's simply beyond current technology to allow such an advanced feature.

As for f.lux, MacOS has nightmode (or nightshift? I forget) built in now. I mean, the UX is a bit mysterious and it goes out of its way to hide things in the most outlandish ways, but it does actually work.

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Nikita Sobolev

Apple is known for the best UX possible! Thanks!

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Yoan Malié

Thanks! I've just added OpenInTerminal and some preview plugins.✌️

Since you're on macOS and you maybe use iTerm, did you see my post Get the best out of the Macbook Touchbar with iTerm2. ?

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Gabriel Magalhães dos Santos

Thanks, i love the RazorOver app. The only thing i HATE in Macs is navigation through opened windows. Linux and Windows do a great job with alt+tab command. I've been looking for an app who do the same alt+tab command on Mac, but it's hard to find

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rootfs.ext2.gz

I've been having this same problem, and this morning I found an app that seems to solve this issue: bahoom.com/hyperswitch.

I have installed it this morning and it seems pretty promising, but I'm going to give it a test drive and see if it is any good in the long term.

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Davey Jacobson

Spectacle looks good but I prefer the original, one that's been around much longer and is my absolute go-to for window resizing and management: ShiftIt.

Link: github.com/fikovnik/ShiftIt

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Dhanushka madushan

So far I did other-way around since I didn't knew OpenInTerminal app. I used terminal to move across folder and open . command to open Finder. I need to try that out.

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Mladen Mihajlovic

Yeah I second that. Plus it can show two months at a time which is really useful.

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Thomas P

I love Dato ! Thanks

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Derek Rosenzweig

I've been looking for a good calendar replacement for a while. Thanks!

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Nikita Sobolev

Nice! Thanks!

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Nguyễn Trung Kiên • Edited

For windows management, i recommend Tiles: freemacsoft.net/tiles/
Better and free, and work with mouse (like Windows 10)
preview: freemacsoft.net/tiles/tiles.webm

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Yogeswaran

Hey there! I shared your article here t.me/theprogrammersclub and check out the group if you haven't already!

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Nikita Sobolev

Thanks! You can also share any other articles of mine: sobolevn.me/

Glad, that you liked it.

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Karam • Edited

OpenInTerminal is amazing. Thank you for recommending it.

It's been added to my /uses page. I hope you find it helpful 👍🏼