![]() ![]() The touch gestures make to-do lists fun, and the app translates well on desktop. Just like Mailbox, I had already been using Clear on my iPhone and iPad and loved it to death. Sunrise is beautiful and frees up precious tab space in my browser. I need Sunrise in my life because the design and UI of Google Calendars is god awful. That’s why I occasionally find myself opening Gmail in a browser to find something that’s particularly buried in the archives. The only caveat I’ve seen so far in the desktop app is that the search feature is a little lacking sometimes. I can respond to emails so much faster, and the design of the app is clean, minimal, and focus-oriented. I love the magic mouse touch integrations, and I also love the keyboard shortcuts. Having already been using Mailbox on my iPhone and iPad, I was ecstatic to learn that the beta version for Mac OS was available to download. ![]() Plus, it has tons of subtle UI components that make it a delight to use. It’s even better for developers and designers because it makes file-sharing extremely easy, and it supports Markdown for your code-sharing needs. It’s the perfect service to use for a work chatroom. Messages and Mailbox have (almost) eliminated the need for me to ever open Gmail in the browser. ![]() There is also the ability to integrate other chat services, and I’ve set up Google Hangouts with mine. I can send and receive iMessages and SMS messages right from my computer, which is obviously AWESOME because typing on a keyboard is way faster than texting. One of the few native Mac OS apps I use, the Yosemite version is pretty much indispensable. I use it because I must! It’s a pretty elegant solution. I use this to develop WordPress websites locally. Not to mention the awesome OSX, iTerm, and Sublime preferences and settings that are configured automatically upon executing. These are just a few of the aliases I use frequently that I have Mathias (and contributors to his GitHub repo) to thank for. I can also simply type update to single-commandedly get OS X Software Updates, and update installed Ruby gems, Homebrew, npm, and their installed packages. I can also type in emptytrash to “Empty the Trash on all mounted volumes and the main HDD, and also clear Apple’s System Logs to improve shell startup speed”, and then cleanup to recursively remove all. Having set those up, I can type s path/to/directory to open an entire project in Sublime. The glue that holds Sublime and iTerm together though, and the main reason I use them, is Mathias’s dotfiles. This makes shutting down my Mac a breeze ( ctrl+option+cmd+eject). I love the fact that I can just quit the app and know it will automatically log me out of all my sessions. ITerm is great because it’s basically Mac OS’s Terminal with several simple improvements. I hated waiting on Brackets / Edge Code to open up when I used them. Sublime is also the fastest-launching text editor I have ever used. I can and should talk about my Sublime setup in another post. Plus, there is a huge, thriving community of developers that have made packages, themes, and color schemes for Sublime. Sublime is extremely customizable, and it’s easy! You can set your own preferences and key-bindings. I love to customize things, which makes me greatly appreciate any software that lets me do it. (Obviously not as fast as just using the command line, but hey, take what you can get.) Sublime Text Then, when you save your edits, the remote file is automatically overwritten, eliminate the painfully endless loop of dragging and dropping. Why is it the best? It’s simple to configure and use, you can save and sync connections on all your devices via Dropbox, and you can’t beat the ability to double-click files on a remote server and have them automatically open up for editing in your favorite text editor. It’s great for Mac users because it’s only available for Mac (:P), and actually looks and behaves like a Finder window. ![]() Wow, it’s simply the best FTP client out there. Of course within Chrome or any browser, there’s a whole slew of other stuff you can talk about like extensions and the web apps you use, but I’ll save that for another post. I don’t like to use Canary, the bleeding-edge version, because key components of it can break from time to time and impede my workflow. This makes troubleshooting errors due to browser updates a more preemptive process for me. I have to make the distinction with “Beta” here, because using the beta version ensures that I’m at least one step ahead of what my clients are using. I think that would look and feel much better on Yosemite. I really look forward to the day when Google brings Material Design to desktop Chrome. Even with the fact that Safari looks incredible on Yosemite (even better in full-screen mode), I still have to use Chrome. Maybe it’s just what I’m used to, but Chrome’s developer tools seem unparalleled to me. All of the Mac apps I can’t develop websites – or live – without. ![]()
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