![]() ![]() We may have a winner on our hands-I’ll let you know next year.ĭash has turned into a must-have. So far, I think it’s brilliant, & the students to whom I’ve shown it have responded enthusiastically. All that said, I’m giving the new lightweight editor Brackets serious consideration for my Spring courses. I write pretty much everything in Sublime Text (like this post, for instance!), & while I still think BBEdit is better in a few areas, Sublime Text works beautifully, has features that BBEdit still lacks (multiple cursors, anyone?), & is cross-platform, which helps me when I’m trying to teach courses at Washington University in St. Sublime Text is my main text editor that I actually use for far more than just coding. A launcher, yes, but so much more than that. Newly updated this year, with powerful new workflows. According to the program, in the year & a half since I re-installed my OS, I’ve expanded 11,821 snippets, saving myself 1,225,956 keystrokes & 68 hours of time. I’ve been using it for years (see “ A list of contractions with curly apostrophes for TextExpander”). If I can’t do it in Keyboard Maestro, something is wrong somewhere. All of them are brilliant time-savers, & I can’t imagine using my Mac without them: I’ve been using these tools for a few years, & my reliance on them just kept on increasing this year. It’s one of the first things I install on a new Mac, & if you have UNIX in your blood, it deserves a home on your Mac as well. I use the UNIX tools Homebrew provides me to download & manage with almost every category of software on my Mac: with automation tools like Keyboard Maestro, & for capturing & manipulating images (thanks, ImageMagick!), & to automate essential tasks in DEVONthink Pro, & to make Path Finder even better. I tried Fink, & I tried MacPorts, but neither works as well as Homebrew. I don’t go into iOS apps at all, not because I don’t use & enjoy iOS daily (some days, hourly!), but because I wanted to keep the focus on desktop apps that I actually use & enjoy (some more than others), & that make me more productive.īefore I start, I have to call out one program that is difficult to classify, as it falls into so many categories for me: Homebrew. Keep in mind that this post focuses entirely on software for Mac OS X. ![]() ’Tis the season for nerds to create lists of the software they found most useful in the past year, so before the year closes, I wanted to get in on the fun. My favorite Mac OS X software of 2013, mostly aimed at power users
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