![]() Created by Brett Terpstra, who's also behind nvAlt, which I use for Crossplatform note syncing.ġPassword keeps track of my passwords across iOS, Mac and Windows, and also provides great tools for creating new, strong passwords. Marked is a great app for creating previews and HTML markup of Markdown documents. I have it set up to work much more like the traditional Windows Alt-Tab functionality of switching between open windows. Witch is Commmand-Tab task-switcher that's a huge improvement over the default Mac OS feature. Priceless! Pro tip: start your snippet abbreviations with a semicolon and you'll never have to worry about premature expansion.Īlfred App mostly gets used as an app launcher, but I've slowly been adding extensions (including a few of my own) to automate CLI-like file creation, tweeting, data conversion and other operations. TextExpander holds boilerplate bits and pieces of text that I use frequently, and also has the ability to run scripts that grab and insert data on demand. Reeder is my RSS client of choice, providing a much better window for keeping track of the feeds in my Google Reader account. It works enough like TextMate that moving over was a breeze, and now I have a consistent text editing experience across my Linux, Mac and Windows machines. Sublime Text 2 is my text editor these days. TableTools2 is a handy Firefox add-on for grabbing data from HTML tables and pasting it in CSV format. Instapaper and Pinboard are my preferred bookmarking/read later services. Template is a Chrome extension written by Alasdair Mercer that I use extensively for quickly grabbing information about a web page that I can then paste as formatted text into other documents. ![]() Fast and flexible makes up a great deal for horrible memory hog. The displays are an old 23" Sony IPS monitor and an even older 20" Samsung.Ĭhrome is my current go-to browser. I'm using it with a Filco Majestouch-2, Tenkeyless keyboard and Apple Magic Mouse. My most-used machine is still the 2010-vintage Mac Mini I purchased used two year ago. Nonetheless, it was interesting to look back and think about the tools that did end up being used on a daily basis. In theory, I don't need many tools to get my daily work accomplished: a browser and a text editor handles 90 percent of my needs. The transition from Lion to Mountain Lion hasn't been smooth as I would have liked, but it's still a nice place to get some work done. ![]() 2012 was the second full year back using a Mac as my full-time work machine since the mid-90s.
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