AlexTechTips – Software List

Coding tools

Terminal Tools

iTerm2

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with macOS 10.10 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

Get it here – http://bit.ly/2GJV2BD

List process in the command line:

$ ps -ax

To kill process:

$ kill

Show size of an item

$ du -sh . |

Home-brew

The missing package manager for macOS. To install Homebrew Paste this at a Terminal prompt.

/usr/bin/ruby -e “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)”

Package to install with homebrew

brew install trash
brew install htop
brew install wget

Oh-My-Zsh

Oh-My-Zsh is an open-source, community-driven framework for managing your ZSH configuration. It comes bundled with a ton of helpful functions, helpers, plugins, themes, and a few things that make you shout…

$ sh -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)”

neofetch

A fast, highly customizable system info script

$ sudo apt-get install neofetch

rsync

rsync for mac

example:

$ sudo rsync -avz –delete –exclude={‘test’,’clip’} ~/Desktop/org/ ~/Desktop/backup/org/

-a –archive

-v –verbose

-z –compress

–exclude={‘patten1′,’patten2’}

Web Dev Tools

fontpair

https://fontpair.co

Atom

Atom is a hackable text editor for the 21st century, built on Electron, and based on everything we love about our favorite editors. They designed it to be deeply customizable, but still approachable using the default configuration.

Visual Studio Code

Visual Studio Code is a lightweight but powerful source code editor which runs on your desktop and is available for Windows, macOS and Linux. It comes with built-in support for JavaScript, TypeScript and Node.js and has a rich ecosystem of extensions for other languages (such as C++, C#, Java, Python, PHP, Go) and runtimes (such as .NET and Unity).

Xcode

Xcode includes everything developers need to create great applications for Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, and Apple Watch. Xcode provides developers a unified workflow for user interface design, coding, testing, and debugging. The Xcode IDE combined with the Swift programming language make developing apps easier and more fun than ever before.

Local by Flywheel

Local WordPress development made simple Stop debugging local environments and spend more time launching WordPress sites.

Docker

Docker enables true independence between applications and infrastructure and developers and IT ops to unlock their potential and creates a model for better collaboration and innovation.

Docker starter commands

docker ps -a

docker images

docker run -d -p 81:80 –name my_webserver php:7.2-apache

docker start
docker stop
docker rm
docker rmi

Python

Python is an interpreted, high-level, general-purpose programming language. Created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991, Python’s design philosophy emphasizes code readability with its notable use of significant whitespace. Its language constructs and object-oriented approach aim to help programmers write clear, logical code for small and large-scale projects.

Quick web server

python3 -m http.server 8080

Productive tools

Video Editing Tools

Final Cut Pro X

Final Cut Pro combines revolutionary video editing with powerful media organization and incredible performance to let you create at the speed of thought.

Motion

Kdenlive

Photos Tools

Google Photos

Google Photos gives users free, unlimited storage for photos up to 16 megapixels and videos up to 1080p resolution. The service automatically analyzes photos, identifying various visual features and subjects. Users can search for anything in photos, with the service returning results from three major categories: People, Places, and Things.

Free Unlimited Storage

High quality:

* Photos are compressed to save space. If a photo is larger than 16 MP, it will be resized to 16 MP.
* Videos higher than 1080p will be resized to high-definition 1080p. A video with 1080p or less will look close to the original.

Original quality:

* Limited free storage (15GB), you can purchase more storage when you hit the limit.
* All photos and videos are stored in the same resolution that you took them.

Adobe Lightroom

PhotoGIMP

Whether you are a graphic designer, photographer, illustrator, or scientist, GIMP provides you with sophisticated tools to get your job done. You can further enhance your productivity with GIMP thanks to many customization options and 3rd party plugins.

PhotoGIMP is a plugin that changes the GIMP interface and shortcuts that look and use like Adobe Photoshop.

Document Creating Tools

Pages

Numbers

Keynote

yEd

Video Player

Celluloid

VLC

MPC-HC

MPC-HC is an extremely light-weight, open source media player for Windows. It supports all common video and audio file formats available for playback.

The tool was developed by mpc-hc.org until July 2017, when it announced its last release due to lack of active developers. The project has been forked by one of the former co-devs, clsid2, that continued the development with new releases since early 2018.

Lightweight
Watch movies on any SSE2 CPU, even on your old computer back from 2000.

Customizable
With its wide array of options, MPC-HC can be customized to fit almost any needs. Among other things, we added custom toolbars.

All around player
MPC-HC can also be used as DVB player.

Github project link – https://github.com/clsid2/mpc-hc/tree/master

System Utilities tools

MAC OS Settings

Three finger drag function

Settings -> Accessibility

Mouse & Trackpad -> Trackped Options…

Enable dragging -> three finger drag

System tools

BleachBit

When your computer is getting full, BleachBit quickly frees disk space. When your information is only your business, BleachBit guards your privacy. With BleachBit you can free cache, delete cookies, clear Internet history, shred temporary files, delete logs, and discard junk you didn’t know was there. Designed for Linux and Windows systems, it wipes clean thousands of applications including Firefox, Internet Explorer, Adobe Flash, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari,and more. Beyond simply deleting files, BleachBit includes advanced features such as shredding files to prevent recovery, wiping free disk space to hide traces of files deleted by other applications, and vacuuming Firefox to make it faster. Better than free, BleachBit is open source.

NZXT CAM

QuickLook

On MAC OS you can press spacebar to take a quick look on any files. Now you can have this ability on windows 10, you can get it from the windows store

Sushi

Quick Look on Linux is also aviliable, you can run the following command to get the quick look features.

sudo apt-get install gnome-sushi

AltDrag

On linux you can press and hold the Super Key to drag any windows around. You can install AltDrag to bring this feature to windows.

Disk Utilities

iSCSI Initiator for MAC

Network Utilities

GlassWire

O&O ShutUp10

O&O ShutUp10 means you have full control over which comfort functions under Windows 10 you wish to use, and you decide when the passing on of your data goes too far. Using a very simple interface, you decide how Windows 10 should respect your privacy by deciding which unwanted functions should be deactivated. O&O ShutUp10 is entirely free and does not have to be installed – it can be simply run directly and immediately on your PC. And it will not install or download retrospectively unwanted or unnecessary software, like so many other programs do these days!