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MacManual

Installation and Setup Guide for Mac

Requirements

Before getting started, make sure you have a 🍎💻. If you don't have one yet, you could buy from Apple Shop or awesome eBay (for a better price).

Must-have Applications

Productivity

Price App Intro
🆓* Alfred An application launcher and productivity application, which boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords and text expansion.
💶 Bartender Lets you organize your menu bar apps, by hiding them, rearranging them, or moving them to the Bartender Bar.
💶 ForkLift The most advanced dual pane file manager and file transfer client.
🆓 muCommander A cross-platform, lightweight, open-source file manager.
💶 Divvy A utility to quickly resize and position your windows.
💶 Magnet Declutters your screen by snapping windows into organized tiles.
💶 Paste Keeps track of everything you've ever copied and lets you access your clipboard history anytime across.
💶 Unclutter A new handy place on your desktop for storing notes, files and pasteboard clips.
💶 Fantastical A calendar app let you quickly create new events and reminders with natural language input and more.
💶 Quiver A notebook built for programmers.
🆓* Evernote Collect, nurture, and share ideas across desktop and mobile platforms with it.
🆓* Wunderlist A simple todo list and task manager app that helps you get stuff done.
💶 OmniFocus A personal task manager designed to quickly capture your thoughts and allow you to store, manage, and process them into actionable to-do items.
🆓* Pocket When you find something you want to view later, put it in Pocket.
🆓 Simplenote An easy way to keep notes, lists, ideas and more. Light, clean, and free.
🆓* 1Password Put Passwords In Their Place.
💶 1Keyboard Type on your iPhone, iPad or Apple TV using your Mac's keyboard.
🆓* Dropbox Bring your photos, docs, and videos anywhere and keep your files safe.
💶* PDF Expert Read, annotate and edit PDFs, change text and images. Fill forms and sign contracts like never before.
🆓* Anki A friendly and intelligent flash cards program which makes remembering things easy.
🆓 KeepingYouAwake A Caffeine clone, prevent your Mac from entering sleep mode.
🆓* Memory Clean The ultimate app for optimizing your Mac's memory.
💶 Duet Lets you use your iPad or iPhone as an external monitor.

Utilities

Price App Intro
🆓 Mounty for NTFS A tiny tool to re-mount write-protected NTFS volumes.

Media

Price App Intro
🆓 VLC A free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files.
🆓 IINA The modern video player.
🆓 Kodi A free media player that is designed to look great on your big screen TV but is just as home on a small screen.
🆓* Spotify A digital music service that gives you access to millions of songs.

Internet

Price App Intro
🆓 Chrome A fast, secure, and free web browser built for the modern web.
🆓 Firefox A fast, private, secure, and compatible web browser.

Social Networking

Price App Intro
🆓* Sparrow An email client, had been acquired by Google and was ceasing continued development.
💶 Tweetbot An award-winning Twitter client.
🆓 YoruFukurou A powerful native Twitter client.
🆓* Skype An instant messaging app that provides online text message and video chat services.

Developer Tools

Price App Intro
🆓 Homebrew The missing package manager.
🆓 RVM Ruby Version Manager.
🆓 JDK Includes a complete JRE plus tools for developing, debugging, and monitoring Java applications.
🆓 iTerm2 A replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm.
🆓 Oh My Zsh An open source, community-driven framework for managing your zsh configuration.
🆓 Powerlevel9k The most awesome Powerline theme for ZSH around.
🆓 Alacritty A cross-platform, GPU-accelerated terminal emulator (the fastest in existence).
🆓 Hyper A terminal built on web technologies.
🆓 TextMate A graphical text editor.
🆓 Atom A free and open-source text and source code editor.
💶 Sublime Text A sophisticated text editor for code, markup and prose.
🆓 SourceTree A free Mercurial and Git Client.
💶 Tower A beautiful, efficient, and powerful Git version control app.
💶 Kaleidoscope The world's most advanced Mac diff tool.
💶 Monodraw An ASCII art editor.
🆓 Docker An open platform for developers and sysadmins to build, ship, and run distributed applications.
🆓* Dash Gives your Mac instant offline access to 150+ API documentation sets.
💶 Charles Proxy A proxy / monitor enables a developer to view all traffic between their machine and the Internet.
🆓 Postman The complete toolchain for API developers.
🆓 Cocoa Rest Client A free open source, native Apple OS X app for testing HTTP/REST endpoints.
🆓* Insomnia A powerful REST API Client with cookie management, environment variables, code generation, and authentication.
🆓 Xcode An IDE containing a suite of software development tools for macOS, iOS, watchOS and tvOS.
🆓 Network Link Conditioner A tool to simulate various kinds of network environments.
💶 Reveal Advanced visualisations, comprehensive inspectors and the ability to modify applications on the fly.
🆓 Android Studio The Official IDE for Android.
🆓* Genymotion The most powerful Android emulation platform for app developers & testers.
🆓 VirtualBox A free and open-source hypervisor for x86 virtualization.
🆓* IntelliJ IDEA A Java IDE.
🆓 Visual Studio Code A code editor redefined and optimized for building and debugging modern web and cloud applications.
🆓 CCMenu Displays the build status of projects on a continuous integration server as an item in the Mac's menu bar.
🆓 Etcher Burn images to SD cards & USB drives, safely and easily.

Design Tools

Price App Intro
💶 Sketch The ultimate tool for designing user interfaces, websites, and icons.
💶 Affinity Photo The fastest, smoothest, most precise professional image editing software.

Note:

  • 🆓 - free app
  • 💶 - paid app
  • 🆓* - free app but with paid features

Homebrew Packages

  • tree
  • wget
  • node

How-To

  • Hide Spotlight inside Bartender (on macOS Sierra)

    • Reboot into Recovery Mode (hold ⌘+R when hearing the startup chime);
    • Go to Utilities -> Terminal, run command csrutil disable, then reboot;
    • Hide Spotlight inside Bartender app;
    • Reboot into Recovery Mode again;
    • Go to Utilities -> Terminal, run command csrutil enable, then reboot.

  • Missing app icon on Dock, and failing to "Check for updates" (due to Gatekeeper Path Randomization on macOS Sierra)

    • Run command: xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/Your.app;
    • Drag app back onto Dock;
    • Reboot Mac.

  • Authorized Restart (to bypass FileVault 2 pre-boot login screen)

    sudo fdesetup authrestart