phq/osx-essentials

A list of programs essential to using OS X as a development platform.

Essentials Needed for Setting up OS X As a development environment

Terminal tools

• iterm2 Terminal
• Homebrew Package manager

Productivity

• Alfred Search and launcher (Paid add ons)
• SizeUp Window managment (free trial)
• Spectacle Window managment (free)
• Hyperdock Dock extras
• iStatMenus System stats in the menubar
• Glimmerblocker System wide ad blocking

Mouse / Keyboard

• Better touch tool
• Synergy
• Karabiner Keyboard remapping
• Smoothmouse Scroll and mouse lag fixes

Chat

• Colloquy IRC
• Textual IRC (paid)
• Adium Chat

Development Tools

• SequelPro Datbases
• Chicken of the VNC VNC Client
• Virtualbox Virtualization
• Vagrant
• Redis Desktop Manager Redis GUI
• Sublime Text Text editor (free trial, paid)

VPN

• Viscosity Paid openvpn client
• Tunnelblick Free openvpn client

Tools

• Unarchiver Handle all archive formats
• Cyberduck FTP
• Transmit (S)FTP/S3 (free trial, paid)

Password managers

• 1Password
• LastPass

Other fixes

• Fix Search Domain
• Big list of random fixes

iTerm2 Url Handler setup instructions

• ssh
• man