Oh, and after seeing Lee's answer, I forgot. Being a cheapskate, I also use
aText which is a cheap, no-so-feature-rich text expansion app. Has just enough for what I need. Bill > On Jun 27, 2017, at 10:17, Bill Rising <bris...@mac.com> wrote: > > >> On Jun 27, 2017, at 09:35, Pen Helm <pen-...@earthlink.net> wrote: >> >> Dear Macgroup, >> >> What are your favorite programs? >> >> I like: >> RDM (Retina DisplayMenu,) which lets me run my Mac at higher than legal >> resolutions; >> MenuMeters, which shows CPU, disk, and network meters; >> Smart Scroll, which improves scrolling; >> Carbon Copy Cloner, for making bootable backups. > > If you're wondering about nice small utilities, many of which are free, rest > are cheap: > > iStat Menus for extra status info in the status bar > > Bartender for moving extra menubar items into a submenubar > > FuzzyClock for having 'fuzzy' time in the menubar (like 'almost ten' or > 'quarter after ten'). Nice for having time without having time down to the > minute or second. > > SuperDuper! for cloning drives and making backups. > > TimeTracker for keeping track of work project time. > > Bwana for easier reading of man pages in a browswer. > > VLC for videos. > > Find Any File for finding files quickly > > Quicksilver as a launcher, maker of files, quick calculator > > Aquamacs as a great text editor (well... it's emacs, but behaves mostly like > a Mac app) > > TextWrangler for searching through arbitrary files for text snippets. > > iTerm 2 as a smarter substitute for Terminal > > Skim for reading and marking up PDFs > > Sports Fan Widget for checking sports scores > > TexLive for a LaTeX installation > > BibDesk for keeping track of references and as a free-form database > > More-expensive software for other work, all of which are paid: > > Quicken 2007 for finances (good enough for my stuff; can't imagine migrating > 23 years of records to another application) > > Tower for easy version-control via git > > OmniOutliner for creating training materials (together with a bunch of > scripts and some other statistics tools) > > OmniFocus for a massive list of todos and projects and other work-related > things (couldn't live without it) > > Stata for statistical stuff (disclaimer: I work for the makers of Stata, but > I got entranced by Stata 15 years before working there) > > Bill > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > Posting address: MacGroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu > Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/macgroup@erdos.math.louisville.edu/> > Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
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