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.
List process in the command line:
$ ps -axTo kill process:
$ killShow 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 wgetOh-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…
installation
$ 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 neofetchrsync
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
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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 rmiPython
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 8080Thorium
The fastest browser on Earth.
Compiler optimizations include SSE4.2, AVX, AES, and modifications to CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, thinLTO flags, import_instr_limit flags, and PGO, as well as other compiler flags.
LLVM LOOP optimizations as -mllvm flags
Learn more about these compiler optimizations and how they work Here.
UI Changes and Patches for Linux and Windows that fix bugs, enhance useability, and strengthen privacy/security.
wget https://dl.thorium.rocks/debian/dists/stable/thorium.list
sudo mv thorium.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
sudo apt update
sudo apt install thorium-browserVideo 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
Designed for video editors, Motion is a powerful motion graphics tool that makes it easy to create cinematic 2D and 3D titles, fluid transitions, and realistic effects in real time.
Kdenlive
Kdenlive is an acronym for KDE Non-Linear Video Editor. It is primarily aimed at the GNU/Linux platform but also works on BSD and MacOS. It is currently being ported to Windows as a GSOC project. Non-linear video editing is much more powerful than beginners’ (linear) editors, hence it requires a bit more organization before starting. However, it is not reserved to specialists and can be used for small personal projects.
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.
Adobe Lightroom
Adobe Lightroom (officially Adobe Photoshop Lightroom) is a family of image organization and image manipulation software developed by Adobe Systems for Windows, macOS, iOS, Android, and tvOS (Apple TV). It allows importing/saving, viewing, organizing, tagging, editing, and sharing large numbers of digital images.[5] Unlike Photoshop, Lightroom’s edits are always non-destructive by keeping the original image and the edits applied to it saved separately.
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.
Video Player
Celluloid
Celluloid (formerly GNOME MPV) is a simple GTK+ frontend for mpv. It aims to be easy to use while maintaining high level of configurability.
VLC
VLC is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.
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
Document Creating Tools
yEd
yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly and effectively generate high-quality diagrams. Create diagrams manually, or import your external data for analysis. Our automatic layout algorithms arrange even large data sets with just the press of a button. yEd is freely available and runs on all major platforms: Windows, Unix/Linux, and macOS.
System Utilities tools
MAC OS Settings
Three finger drag function
Settings -> Accessibility
Mouse & Trackpad -> Trackped Options…
Enable dragging -> three finger drag
# to add
defaults write -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGesture -bool true# to remove
defaults delete -g NSWindowShouldDragOnGestureSystem 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
A COMPLETE PC MONITORING SOLUTION The days of using multiple programs to monitor and tune your PC are over. CAM is easy-to-use and comprehensive, providing you the essential data you need to keep your PC running optimally. Think of CAM as your PC’s best friend.
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-sushiAltDrag
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.
iSCSI Initiator for MAC
KernSafe iSCSI Initiator X is an iSCSI initiator software for Apple Mac OS X (Free license available). With the benefits of iSCSI technology, iSCSI initiator X can export an SAN device to local Mac OS X machine include: Mac Pro, iMac, Mac Server, Mac Mini and even MacBook Pro. It is very useful software in visualization industry and data centralization for small business and large enterprise.
GlassWire
Detect hidden threats with GlassWire’s Firewall Instantly see your current & past network activity. Detect malware, & block badly behaving apps.
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!
Debloat Windows 10
Trying to Debloat Windows 10 is getting ridiculous and as a system admin it is soul crushing to see all that performance go to waste on the botched attempt by Microsoft to do an Appstore and its apps (I’m looking at you Candy Crush). Luckily some admins have worked tirelessly to give us a solution that works considerably well. Lets Start!
WinDirStat
WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Microsoft Windows. Note: if you are looking for an alternative for Linux, you are looking for KDirStat (apt-get install kdirstat or apt-get install k4dirstat on Debian-derivatives) or QDirStat and for MacOS X it would be Disk Inventory X or GrandPerspective. Please visit the WinDirStat blog for more up-to-date information about the program.
Screen Record Softwares
OBS
Free and open-source software for video recording and live streaming.
Download and start streaming quickly and easily on Windows, Mac, or Linux.
ScreenToGif
This tool allows you to record a selected area of your screen, live feed from your webcam or live drawings from a sketchboard. Afterwards, you can edit and save the animation as a gif, apng, video, psd or png images.
Bootable USB
Ventoy
Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files.
With ventoy, you don’t need to format the disk over and over, you just need to copy the ISO/WIM/IMG/VHD(x)/EFI files to the USB drive and boot them directly.
Hiren’s Boot CD
Hiren’s BootCD PE (Preinstallation Environment) is a restored edition of Hiren’s BootCD based on Windows 10 PE x64. Since there are no official updates after November 2012, PE version is being developed by Hiren’s BootCD fans. It contains the fewest but best free tools. It is being developed for the new age computers, it supports UEFI booting and requires a minimum of 2 GB RAM.
Get Hiren’s
