For those looking for a replacement for Skitch (which is a far cry from what it used to be, thanks Evernote), go check out Monosnap @ https://www.monosnap.com/welcome.
I would recommend Better Touch Tool over SizeUp. It allows you to setup keyboard shortcuts as well as touchpad gestures to resize windows, and do a lot of other actions.
Yes! I love that software. I used it to make the gestures the same between my touchpad and my magic mouse. It's stupid how it's 3 fingers on one and 2 on the other.
I was also surprised not seeing Better Touch Tool there. It is a great program.
For example, I've mapped switching between tabs to TipTap left and TipTap right for any software that has tabs (Chrome, FireFox, Terminal, TextMate, etc.).
Yup. A bonus of the cli utility is that you can pass a program argument to it, so when another script is done the "constant wake" state is ended. The man page has more info.
I also recommend GeekTool. It allows for some cool customization effects. Available for free here: http://projects.tynsoe.org/en/geektool/
You can find some cool themes from devianart or other sites.
Extremely user unfriendly though. Just installed it and it doesn't even sensible defaults for you to hit the ground running. Their answer: "Read the docs and write your own configs." Nobody has time for that!
Edit: Another commenter suggests http://spectacleapp.com/ - works really well out of the box - in fact it does what I expected Slate to do.
This is a nice list, but I tend to force myself not to use this, or to limit the amount of "modifications" I put in. Gives me bad memories of the days from OS 9 where half the programs I use one year get orphaned...
Plus the labor of maintaining 10-20 apps that modify default OS X behavior can get excessive.
I would also recommend RescueTime, a YC company to track your time. You barely have to do anything, just let it run and see what it reports to you in terms of your productivity. Probably one of the best ROI that a app can have.
HyperDock looks interesting. I was hoping it would exactly replicate a feature I love from Flexiglass[1]: moving windows from any position by a (modifier, movement) combination. Unfortunately, HyperDock doesn't quite replace Flexiglass due to binding limitations.
Flexiglass allows (modifier key(s), two-finger move) to reposition a window. This is effortless and awesome. HyperDock requires (modifier key(s), left mouse click + movement). The click seems like a small thing but is more awkward, in my experience.
> One of the nicest features of The Unarchiver is it’s ability to delete zip files after they’ve been opened, so you you only need to click the file once, rather than unzipping it, and going back and deleting all the original zip files off your desktop.
This reminds me... why isn't there a Windows archive-extractor program with this behavior? I tried to search for it a while ago, but it seemed like every app developer who had the suggestion presented to them hated it.
Sure, I'd love to have a terminal replacement that shows eight-colored letters on a black background just like Windows! I have no idea why Mac users love this kind of crapware utility. It's been so since 1984 - the big difference being the scores of semi-useful utilities no longer crash your machine every few hours - and I've never gotten the appeal.
I don't use SizeUp, so this solution won't apply to that particular utility, but I do use a window manager. Moom, which I use, is activated by a single keyboard shortcut. Once activated, Moom captures shortcuts that might otherwise be handled by other applications. This makes all window resize actions a two step process, but I find that's a worthwhile trade-off for avoiding shortcut collisions.
I ran into a weird bug with Visits where one of my sites is not visible in the drop-down list. I think it's because I exceeded some kind of domain limit. Has anyone experienced the same?
alias win7="bless -mount /Volumes/win7/ -legacy -setBoot -nextonly; shutdown -r now"
alias debian="bless -mount /Volumes/wheezy/ -legacy -setBoot -nextonly; shutdown -r now"
alias arch="bless -mount /Volumes/arch/ -legacy -setBoot -nextonly; shutdown -r now"
Obviously change the volume paths as needed. Typing "win7" into terminal will restart into my Windows 7 install, likewise for "debian" and "arch". Any subsequent reboot will automatically reboot back into OSX
Not quite your wish, but I recently hacked up another solution using an Applescript-based approach. Unlike other versions I'd found, this approach can be made passwordless. See the gist below and the first comment that describes passwordless operation:
https://gist.github.com/jwhitley/8377268
This can be invoked effortlessly from tools like LaunchBar or FastScripts.
Credit to @robjwells, whose original gist I forked and modified to be passwordless.
You could probably write a simple automator "service" that calls a bash script or something, and have it show up in the global services menu. You could define a key shortcut for it too.
iTerm2 would be a lot better if they brought back the side dock. The system they replaced it with requires you to type out domain names to find them in the list. Way too difficult to use.
