Must Have Utilities for Mac OS X

My list of must-have utilities for Mac OS X:

• Flycut (General Arcade) — stores your last n clipboards and allows you to easily choose one to paste. Saves a surprising amount of effort (for example, copying username / password? No more switching back and forth – just copy twice, switch to the terminal application, and paste twice).
• Window Magnet (CrowdCafe) — makes it easy to snap windows to half or quarter screens. I bound the Ctrl-Alt-arrow keys to snap the window to half the screen.
• Iterm2 (George Nachman) — really nice terminal emulator with many features that I don’t use. Also has a fair number of profiles based on popular color schemes (i.e., Zenburn, Solarized, whatnot).
• Homebrew (also called Brew) — amazing replacement for MacPorts and Fink. Constantly being updated with new recipes for the latest stuff, and it’s easy to create your own recipes as well.
• Witch (Many Tricks) — nice window switcher that allows you to alt-tab to the right window, not just the right application. Lots of configuration options.
• Alfred (Running With Crayons, Ltd.) — spiritual successor to Quicksilver. Allows quick access to files and programs on your Mac. I use it to really reduce the size of my Dock Bar – anything I want to run is just a few keystrokes away.

Discussion

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Joonhwan | 2013-03-15 15:16:32

Hi, Thanks for nice tips on info about these helpful utilities. But, I have a problem with Window Magnet with the brand new Emacs 24.3.1 Window Magnet cannot resize it. :( How about yours? Did you experienced same problem... and event solved?

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