And that’s also why I probably get the Affinity suite instead of Adobe. Also, I really hate the subscription models, to the point that I’m more towards paying $50 for the app once and let it work even for a year or two instead of paying $10 per year for Super Pro Deluxe Premium Subscription Ultimate and having that bad occasion to see the ugly nagbar once a year which has no “I’ll pay you $100 to go fsck yourself”. Surprisingly, paid software on the App Store can sometimes be really great, and may be worth the value if you don’t mind avoiding a hardline FLOSS I don’t really mind paying even a bit more extra for really great software, as long as it does only the job it was dedicated to and not try to play tricks on me. But believe me, I’ve read the comment section at least three times from top to bottom and I still don’t know how to thank you. Please forgive for doing only a single comment instead of replying to anyone in sub-threads, but I think many topic do have redundant suggestions or are quite similar in their tone. Sorry for being late to the party, but I seriously underestimated the Mac userbase here and initially assumed this post will die alone being hid by 99 users. Nice UI and lot of useful features.ĭear god, thanks everyone for all the replies. Things, paid - To Do, Project manager.It has the best battery life among browsers on Mac and has great system specific features like play/pause controls on keyboard, picture in picture (may need extension to enable the button on all sites but Touch Bar will usually show a PiP button). Safari, free - Unless you us some Firefox/Chrome specific extension, Safari is a great, if under featured browser.iStat Menus, paid - advanced system monitor.Also checkout out BetterTouchTool to customize mouse/keyboard but I use Bartender and BetterTouchTool doesn’t play nicely with that. BetterSnapTool, paid - adds useful window controls.1Password, paid - Great password manager.Warning - I have read on several places that lot of cheaper monitors have limited read/write cycles in their internal flash and this may cause them to be bricked after 100000 or so cycles. Lunar, free - open source utility with nice UI to automatically manage your external monitor brightness.There are open source alternatives available but I like the interface and extensibility. Pastebot, paid - a nice clipboard manager.I find keep awake useful when I need to monitor something without having to touch keyboard/mouse. One Switch, paid - useful for quickly connecting AirPods/bluetooth headphones, toggling multiple settings on/off.Here are a bunch of utilities I use daily and recommend: Nothing particularly amazing in this list of apps, thought Patric Wardle’s (a.k.a Objective-See) apps are great if you’re a bit paranoid - Lulu and KnockKnock are particularly nice. the man command is needed to let you install Mac app store apps from the command line. Makes setting up a new machine pretty simple, just drop this file in ~ as Brewfile and run brew bundle. It’s worth knowing about brew bundle and Brewfiles: It might sound redundant to someone as I tried to ignite that discussion on Lobsters IRC last evening, but decided it would be better to move that into a story for wider audience where many people might share their ideas and other benefit from that using my own example as a source of nice tips, suggestions and comments. Right now I’ve installed Homebrew and iTerm2 so you might be pretty sure that I’m going into that UNIX side of Apple, but I’m still eager to discover wonders of that “creative” or even “regular day to day usage” parts. So I’m briefly familiar with “how Macs work” in general, but this particular machine is my very first, brand new, current-gen and out of the box personal Apple computer.Īnd the question is: What should I do now? Which software you can suggest me to install? What settings/tunables I might change/add/update? What changed in Mac OS X during the recent years, and - probably the most important fact - which kind of “computing pleasures” I can “explore” or “experience” on modern Macintoshes? Oh, and we used the first Intel iMacs at middle school with some Apple-specific OpenOffice fork. To clarify, I previously had few PPC/G4 machines, and some kind of Air for a couple of days at work to do some video editing work for bunch of screencasts. I’ve just received a new 2020 MacBook Pro 13” (i7/32/1TB) couple of days ago and had a moment to sit with it during the weekend.
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