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Posts tagged: Skitch
Desktoday - utility to clear the files and folders that get scattered on the Desktop and put them into a folder with today’s date
Skitch - annotate, edit and share your screenshots and images
- comfortable clipboard manager
Radium - best online radio player for Mac
DoublePane - effortless window management
Caffeine - prevents your Mac from automatically going to sleep, dimming the screen or starting screen savers
ClamXav Sentry - provides the ability to watch folders for changes and start virus scan
- Translate texts and links on the fly
MagicPrefs - enhanced functionality for my Magic Mouse and Macbook Pro trackpad.
AccessMenuBarApps - must have for accessing all menubar apps on a small display
The rest: Monitor, Bluetooth, Time Machine, Wi-Fi, Volume, Battery Status, Clock, User, Spotlight.
(From Jo)
Dropbox - Syncs important documents
Skitch - Takes and stores my screenshots
Evernote - My second brain
- Stream content around the house
CloudApp - Only recently started to use this however I still find myself using Skitch
iAlertU - If I ever need to leave my macbook pro somewhere I will switch this on
F.lux - Useful when working late at night, however sometimes can be annoying.
App Tamer - Not sure how well this actually works, but it used to speed up my old MacBook Pro.
Transmit - Allows me to mount my S3 server and for quick FTPing
Caffeine - When I don’t want the screen to dim
LogMeIn - Access to my computer from somewhere else
Built in apps - Bluetooth, Time Machine, WiFi, Sound, Date/Time, Battery, Spotlight
(From , founder of http://7able.com)
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Skitch, , Dropbox, Xmarks, Alfred, Drobo Dashboard, BetterTouchTool, PTHVolume, iCamSource, Menubar Countdown, , Evernote, , iPhoto Buddy, ScreenSharingMenulet, Espionage, Little Snitch, LogMeIn, Plex Media Server, MobileMe, Bluetooth, iStat Menus Temperature, Applescript, Time Machine, iStat Menus Disk, iStat Menus RAM, iStat Menus CPU, iStat Menus Network, WiFi, iStat Menus Date and Time, Accounts, and Spotlight.
(From THJ)
- GUI for OpenVPN on Mac OS X, for a secure connection to my company’s network
Dropbox - Simply brilliant, but still expensive for non-free packages (50/100 GB)
Skitch - For extremely convenient screenshots and annotations, everyone should install it
Divvy - Window management, useful for 13” screens, but further improvements are needed
CloudApp - Another gem for files in the cloud, this one being very useful while sharing them. It just can’t get any simpler than this
Remind Me Later - Quickly adds events to iCal. Similar to Fantastical's input, but it's free
Translator - A small app for quick drag n drop translations via Google Translate
Caffeine - For preventing the computer from automatically going to sleep. Although not necessary while playing movies or presentations since such applications have this function enabled by default
Quicksilver - This one is keeping me very productive every day
The usual suspects: Time Machine, Bluetooth, WiFi, Battery level
Display(s) - I keep it in the right since some projectors often have a low resolution causing most of the menu items on the left being “eaten” by the menu of the applications, after which it’s impossible to change the resolution or screen configuration
Keyboard - Most of my time I type in Croatian, however, the US keyboard is slightly better for coding
Clock - 24hr rules, can’t use the 12hr, it reminds me of other non-metric absurdities
Spotlight - it’s not that bad!
(From F)
: For my TV shows delight. It automatically downloads the .torrent file and opens my torrent download client when a new favorite show appears in the net.
Adium: My favorite IM client. Using the Marten-Plain White menu bar icons set.
Sparrow: Best desktop Gmail client. Period.
Skitch: I love Skitch for quick capturing and sketch notes. I use in conjuntion with Droplr (see below) because I prefer a shared image page without much clutter.
Alfred: Applications launcher on steroids. I really like the command customization, and the Powerpack rocks!
Dropbox: Should I describe it?
Droplr: It let you store images, files, texts and short URLs by just dragging anything to the menubar icon. I mostly use it with Skitch to capture -> drag -> get link.
PasteBot: Copy and paste directly to my iOS devices.
: Only for quickly adding events/reminders to my Google Calendar, I don’t use the Gmail notifier because Sparrow manages it just fine.
Typinator: A really useful text expander tool, for quick snippets and signatures.
MagicPrefs: Enhanced functionality for my Magic Mouse and Macbook Pro trackpad. Haven’t tried other alternatives, but it works amazingly.
Evernote: Love to have everything stored in one place. Even my bills and tickets. Syncing with all my devices is the best thing.
Caffeine: Because my Mac also needs a dose.
: Very cool alarm clock with nice features like use your own music, and less intrusive than Awaken. And best of all, free!
Radium: Best online radio player for Mac. Only lives in your menubar, no useless windows. Just plays the radio and also scrobbles to Last.fm.
And the Apple ones: Time Machine, Bluetooth, Airport, Sound, Battery, Hour and Spotlight.
(From Leandro Ardissone)
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Evernote - just for Notes
ReadNow - a Read It Later list app
Grooveshark - just a Fluid menubar SSB
Blast - access recently used files and apps
Secret - sure you can guess what sort of app it is from the icon but it’s gorgeous and functional
Skitch - Screenshots
Dropbox - Duh!
TextExpander - Snippets
DelibarApp - Quick access to Delicious or Pinboard.in bookmarks
Divvy - Window management
- Showing different world times
Seamless - Transition songs playing on iTunes from Mac to iPhone and back.
Fl.ux - Adjust the color temperature of your screen so working at night is easier on the eyes.
Caffeine - To stop my Mac from falling to sleep.
Fuzzy - Shows the current time in words eg. ‘ten past twelve’
There are a couple missing, Sparrow and Skype, I removed Divvy and replaced with Moom, replaced Grooveshark with Radium, and went back from Evernote to Notational Velocity.
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Scroll Reverser, Dropbox, Skitch, Adium, Hazel, Playback, Isolator, , Photo Desktop, ChronoSync, Boxcar, , iStat Menus, Spaces, Lock, Bluetooth, VPN, iChat, AirPort, Keyboard, Sound Volume, Date, and Spotlight.
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MailMate notification - The fantastic lightweight IMAP mail client from Benny Kjær Nielsen.
CoverSutra - A recent discovery I use to control iTunes without needing to switch back to the main application window.
PopChar X - This utility saves me so much time finding the right characters.
Skitch - Essential for marking-up screenshots and hosting my blog images.
TextExpander - I rely on this to correct common spelling mistakes but also for its ability to shorten URLs and insert text from snippets.
Delibar - I use Delibar to capture ‘things I would like to become bookmarks’ while I’m away from my main computer, sending them to Pinboard.
- In the same way that CoverSutra lets me control iTunes when it’s not visible, I Love Stars lets me assign ratings. I definitely give it ★★★★★.
f.lux - The jury’s still out on this utility that changes my computer display to a warmer night mode automatically.
Tags - One of a number of applications that allow me to use to manage files.
QuickCursor - This great little utility allows you to use your favourite text editor to input data into web browsers. The great advantage of this is it does away with the need for an input manager.
App Tamer - The idea is that this pauses an application when you switch away from it, then automatically restarts it when you start using it again to save battery life.
SlimBatteryMonitor - I’ve had this on every Mac I’ve ever owned and it does just what it says on the tin.
TextSoap 7 - TextSoap is one of those apps that’s barely visible but saves a huge amount of time. I’ve previously and since then it has been updated and gained a menu bar icon as a result.
MenuMeters - Another of those apps I have used forever. Here it is set to display network, traffic, memory usage and CPU levels. Very useful to see if anything is hogging your computer.
Apple’s standard language and text input menu, AirPort indicator and Clock.
Search - This is Tags’ Enhanced Spotlight.
(From Steve Hodgson)
Skitch: For capturing screen-shots.
QuickCal: I use less because I want to see my appointments and more because I was an early user of 30boxes on the web and loved the ability to write an english language appointment, e.g. Oil Change tomorrow at 9am.
TypeIt4Me:There are plenty of apps that do what TypeIt4Me does, but I’ve used this for a while and it never lets me down. I use it for two main purposes, shortcut typing and correcting my spelling on words that I often misspell. So if I have to type in my Gmail address, I created a shortcut and I just type m-y-g-m without the hyphens and it changes to my actual email address.
Dropbox: I think everyone has Dropbox at this point.
SizeUp: Easily size up your windows into half or quarter of a screen via keyboard shortcuts. Super handy.
Pastebot: I use this to paste something from my Mac that I want to use on my iPhone or iPad rather than type it out.
Spirited Away: Set which apps you want to fade away in the background after a certain period of not using them.
Pomodoro: I just started this a couple months ago and find it helpful. Work for 25 minutes, play for 5, repeat.
Hazel: Folder automated actions. I use this to monitor clean up my several folders including my downloads, desktop, and images.
Caffeine: I use this one constantly. Turns off all screensaver and screen shut-off actions.
LogMeIn: Log in to my Mac from my iPad.
: Turn my iPad into another display of my Mac.
: I attempt to send all my notifications through Growl so I can turn them all of at once when I wish and they all show up in the same spot when I leave them on.
MobileMe: I sync my contacts, calendar and assorted other mac pieces to mobile me, including my photos.
Time Machine: In addition to using Crashplan and Dropbox, I have at-home backup using Time Machine to a 500gb external hard drive.
Spaces: My on-again off-again love affair with Spaces is on again. I do most of my daily work in Space 1, leave Omnifocus by itself in Space 2, put all my music and chat in Space 3, and all my writing e.g. Scrivener, TextMate in Space 4.
Assorted Apple stuff: Bluetooth, Wi-fi, Volume, Battery, Time, Eject Drive, Accounts and Spotlight, which unlike many other people, works really well for me.
(From Kevin Farner)
Boom - Allows you to substantially increase your Mac’s volume beyond normal levels
Skitch - Überawesome screenshot capture, annotation, and sharing tool. It’s free. Get it. Now.
Dropbox - No explanation necessary.
Caffeine - When activated, prevents your Mac from going to sleep, dimming the display, going to screensaver, or doing any of those annoying things that seem to happen right at the best part of that movie you’re trying to watch
The next three: iStat Menus - Mac monitoring and reporting tools, living right up in the menubar. I use it for Temperature, CPU usage, Battery status (takes up less room and is more customizable than built in battery indicator), along with the clock display further down (again, more functional than built in clock item). There are all sorts of other options, like memory usage, network traffic, and lots of others.
Stock Airport menu, Time Machine, and Spotlight. The only time Spotlight is used is when I need to quit Launchbar for some reason; a rare occurrence.
(From Connor P, contributor to the International Mac Podcast)