Yet another Collection of (Mac) Tools

This is a opinionated list of cool tools available for Mac (and often for other platforms as well).

Alfred

Alfred is an award-winning app for Mac OS X which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more. Search your Mac and the web, and be more productive with custom actions to control your Mac.

Alfred

Get loads of app-launching, file-searching goodness for free, and boost your productivity!

Atom

Atom is a text editor that's modern, approachable, yet hackable to the core—a tool you can customize to do anything but also use productively without ever touching a config file.

Atom

A hackable text editor for the 21st Century

Brave - Browse privately. Search privately. And ditch Big Tech

Brave - The best privacy online

Chrome

Chrome - One browser for your computer, phone and tablet

Chrome

Get a fast, free web browser

With lot's of cool Apps like: Postman.

Note: Lately we added Developer's essential Chrome Shortcuts

Coccinellida (seems discontinued)

Coccinellida - is A Simple SSH Tunnel Manager written in Cocoa for Mac OS X

Coccinellida

It uses Mac OS X system provided ssh client to create secured tunnel connections to remote servers

Cyberduck

Cyberduck is a libre server and cloud storage browser

Docker

DOCKER FOR MAC

An integrated, easy-to-deploy environment for building, assembling, and shipping applications from a Mac, Docker for Mac is a native Mac application architected from scratch, with a native user interface and auto-update capability, deeply integrated with OS X native virtualization, Hypervisor Framework, networking and file system, making it faster and more reliable than previous ways of getting Docker on a Mac.

docker

BUILD, SHIP, RUN - Docker is the world’s leading software containerization platform

Finder

Available on every Mac. Here's a short list of useful shortcuts:

Fork

The new and cool Git client for Mac: Fork?

Fork - a fast and friendly git client for Mac

The free (beta) is definitely worth a try…

OmniGraffle

Omnigraffle

OmniGraffle is for creating precise, beautiful graphics

iTerm2

iTerm2 is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm. It works on Macs with OS X 10.8 or newer. iTerm2 brings the terminal into the modern age with features you never knew you always wanted.

iTerm2

iTerm2 is a terminal emulator for OS X that does amazing things.

A nice resource for further productivity improvements: iTerm2 Tips for Network Engineers

KeePassX

KeePassX is an application for people with extremly high demands on secure personal data management.

KeePassX

Originally KeePassX was called KeePass/L for Linux

nvALT

nvALT - a Notational Velocity app.

Notational Velocity is a way to take notes quickly and effortlessly (using just your keyboard).

slack

A messaging app for teams who put robots on Mars

slack

The team behind the Mars Curiosity Rover is one of tens of thousands of teams around the world using Slack to make their working lives simpler, more pleasant, and more productive.

SourceTree

SourceTree - A free Git & Mercurial client for Windows or Mac.

With <⇧> + <⌘> you've got almost everything you need on the tips of your fingers...

Creating a pull request is as easy as <⌥> + <⌘> + P.

Quicksilver

Quicksilver

Large Type

The following example shows how to print a large banner on your screen:

Press . - you can enter free text. Choose Large Type as action and you’ll see the text in a large box.

Plugins

One especially smooth integration to take / handle screenshots is available via the “Screen Capture Plugin”

Mac OS X at your fingertips

ZAP - Zed Attack Proxy

OWASP Zed Attack Proxy Project

The OWASP Zed Attack Proxy (ZAP) is one of the world’s most popular free security tools