![]() This list once started out as my personal check list for setting-up a fresh Mac (and it still serves that purpose). Due to its nature the list is continuously evolving. So don’t forget to check back from time to time. If you have been here before, go to the bottom of the article to see if any apps have been added since your last visit. Probably you are familiar with the rating system at MacUpdate or similar sites. On MacUpdate a rating of one or two stars usually means that the app is complete crap. That is because they have to list all apps, even the worst ones. Here, it is rather different: Since the list is about more or less essential apps, crappy apps are not listed at all. Thus the rating system here is shifted and more fine-grained. Plain Text, Code & Markup Editors and Tools.Information & Task Management, Note Taking.So please make sure you don’t misinterpret the rating system: Even a one-star app in this list is at least OK and can easily have a four- or five-star rating at MacUpdate. Utilities, Tools File management/manipulation dupeGuru Very configurable duplicate file finder. This is not one of those “I clean everything automagically”-crappy-pseudo-cleaning utilities. You have to know which folders you want to check for duplicates. But then it works: It will show you exactly how similar the dupes are (you also can set thresholds), and it lets you even create symlinks – and even hard links – to the originals, before deleting the duplicates. ![]() xScope by Iconfactory is a software tool I use on a daily basis at the studio. xScope is designed to work with Apples Retina Displays. It lets you even run shell scripts on the found dupes. Quickly and easily locate and align any point visible on the screen. 7z is useful if you want to transfer an archive to your Win friend.Ĭommand-line tool, can be installed via Homebrew. But it’s more useful than that: LZMA is also the codec used for xz archives (which are fully Mac-metadata-compatible and Unix-ok). tar.xz faster than the xz tool that comes with macOS, because it works multi-threaded. Does also gzip, zip, b2zip, and all these very fast. Makes also AES-encrypted zips, just to mention it. See also my Archive Assistant script, which makes good use of p7zip. DropDMG Apple’s DMG is a great format for file archiving, compression and encryption, and for software distribution. You can perfectly craete and manage your DMGs with the hdiutil command line tool, but DropDMG gives you a great GUI for that. ![]() In addition to that it has some handy features: You can store your preferred settings, you can drag and drop folders, and it lets you save your custom templates for software distribution and it can even codesign your DMG. ![]() Befor you buy, compare the features of the App Store version with the ones of the direct-buy version. EagleFiler This is two programs in one: The best email archiver I know, and a universal file manager. ![]()
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