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“oh my zsh” is an open source collection of configurations for zsh ( hosted on github) that basically pimps your terminal with tons of cool features. Visit Homebrew’s Homepage oh my zsh (Free)

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you can also use brew cask which is an extension that allows you to install graphical apps e.g. typing brew install mongodb will just fetch the latest mac distro of mongodb and install it. Homebrew is a terminal based package installer for your mac - It saves a lot of time and trouble installing stuff (especially developer related stuff). Visit The MagicPrefs Homepage homebrew (Free) MagicPrefs Lets you define custom gestures for MacBook’s Trackpad, Magic Trackpad or Magic Mouse.

Luckily for me, during one of my visits over my friends at Carambola, Roey Yaniv saved my sanity and showed me a solution named MagicPrefs. I felt like a crazy person when moving from my Magic Mouse back to my MacBook’s Trackpad due to the lack of gesture consistency.

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here is a free collection of some that I found very useful (for my taste, the two “if” “fi” commands alone were worth purchasing the PowerPack) Workflows are custom commands that can automate just about anything - you can write ones yourselves or just tap to a wide range of existing ones. While the free version doesn’t really offer much more than a fancier spotlight search, the PowerPack is a completely different story and well worth it’s price.Īside from searching files and launching apps, Alfred enables automation by a notion called “Workflows”. Visit Spectacle’s Homepage Alfred 2 (Free) + PowerPack (£17)Īlfred 2 is an alternative to Apple’s built in spotlight.

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Spectacle lets you assign keyboard shortcuts for moving and resizing application windows on the same screen and between screens. I was really surprised with how poorly OSX handles multiple application windows on the screen, and maximising/restoring windows by double clicking its header was one of my most popular actions on a PC.

Keep in mind that this is a list of tools for power users and developers, that the everyday joe would find completely useless.

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I’ve been a windows power user in the last twenty five years, but decided to purchase a macbook pro as my new computer.ĭuring the last few months, I found some tools I believe every power user and especially a developer should use when moving to a mac and decided to share with future and existing mac owners. It features the ability to bind a variable number of finger. MagicPrefs is a free application for OS X which aims to improve the functionality and configuration options of the Apple Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad and the MacBook glass trackpad. MagicPrefs is a free application for OS X. Furthermore the core of the application runs separately from the user interface which can be found in a System Preferences prefpane, from which even the menubar icon can be disabled for more transparence.

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MagicPrefs does not install any kernel extensions not it otherwise have impact on your system while it is not running or disabled, it is not a driver per se, it just monitors the Apple multitouch driver built in OS X to get information about the touches on the mouse, stopping or disabling it totally removes any impact on the system as it stops all monitoring, as for the mouse tracking settings they are changed in real time in the os, to recover them to default values all you have to do is use the Apple mouse preference pane. MagicPrefs is a application meant to run in the background all the time, it uses less than 1.5% CPU and is optimized for a minimal impact on system performance. Also featured is a real-time display of the fingers touching the surface of the mouse that you can enable to test and monitor the way the mouse sees your input. Tracking Speed adds the ability to increase the maximum mouse speed by an extra 200%. Touch Sensitivity implements a single point control for a number of factors impacting the algorithms of the taps, swipes, pinch and other gestures. It features the ability to bind a variable number of finger clicks, taps, swipes, pinch and other gestures to functions like Middle Click, Hold Down Both Mouse Buttons, Spaces, Expose, Dashboard, Recent Applications, Tweet, Read Tweets, Google Reader etc.