I recently done an article on “What is on my Mac” over on TechTalk.blog – Here is the full article below:
Just as a foreword, this would be my first proper Apple Mac. I had purchased the 2014 Mac Mini and I was honestly disappointed by it. It was only used for web browsing and nothing more.
At Christmas 2016, I was thankfully gifted a Late 2016 MacBook Pro from my parents after I failed to purchase one locally. It would be the base model of the 13″ MBP without the TouchBar. I will be doing a review of my experience of the MBP on TechTalk soon!
Anyway, it’s time for “What’s on my Mac!”
I will not be commenting on everyday tools that I already use on Windows (Discord, Spotify, Steam…everyone knows that already)
Adobe Photoshop CC 2017
When I got the Mac, I figured that I would be doing some web graphics and I figured that I need Photoshop. I was going to “obtain it”, but for the sake of €12 a month, I decided to buy it from Adobe. It comes bundled with Lightroom which I have never used and I probably won’t be using it.
Link: Adobe
iTerm2
After using the regular terminal on Mac, I decided to try out iTerm 2 which appears to be the most popular alternative and I love it. While I have only used it just to connect to the servers; opening tabs, splitting windows is just so handy and simple to do. I will play about it a bit more before I give my full recommendation on it.
Link: iTerm 2
Puush
(Contradicting to the above where I wouldn’t cover daily use applications)
While there might be better screenshot, upload and copy URL applications out there (ie. ShareX for Windows), puush has always been the “go-to” application for myself. I have been using the service for many years now (I think about 5 years … checks – 6 and half years) and I use it because it is so simple to use.
Link: Puush
TextWrangler
There is plenty of text editors out there for Mac. You have Sublime, Atom, TextEdit and then you have TextWrangler which I would compare to Notepad++ for Windows. Throw anything at it and you can work with it. The nice thing which I have used on it was the FTP option. Connect to your FTP server…open a file, edit it and save it back! Fantastic.
TextWrangler is as simple as it gets. While I love Brackets, I can’t get away from TextWrangler.
Link: TextWrangler
While this list might not seem that “great”, please be aware that I have had this laptop less than a month and thus I am still finding my feet with it.
I will hopefully come back in the spring with a more expansive list.