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Great list! We share many faves :) I would also put NValt on my list tho.
I'd also like to mention an app called Automaton by Tech Pty (not me! not me!). The GUI is .. um .. "functional", at best. But if you can get by that you have a 4 in 1 app that basically is TextExpander, Hazel, a clip manager, and a pretty damn good note taking app (almost stole me from NV) all rolled together for a surprising price. I wish it was talked about more. (Again, I'm just a fanboy.. no connection)
Brett -- I was wondering if you tried out Sublime Text 2? What were your thoughts? I haven't looked at Textmate 2 yet since I was happy switching from TM. Is there a good reason to go back?
Cool banner :-) - Like it as much as the list. Thank you, Brett.
Re muCommander (Anne Ominous, Christian, ..): It's surely worth a look. It's all about key strokes, not buttons. Anyone who regularly used Norton Comander on DOS, or WinCommander/TotalCommander on Windows, or mc on Linux will very probably feel at home. It lacks the elegance, feel and integration of a native Mac app, yes. Most missing to me is a good QuickView integration. Anyway it's useful and efficient, to me. I use it every day.
You missed out Things. No day is complete without three mutually incompatible todo lists on my iPhone, iPad and Mac, the inability to schedule the repeating weekly Project review meeting in the same list of Project items it is reviewing, and the masturbatory pixel-fest that is their website shrine to style over substance. Oh, wait: "You know who you are" - I get it. Great list and some nice finds. Happy New Year.
The color-temperature app you recommended is "f.lux" (note the dot). which is a different app than Flux (the HTML 5 web design app). f.lux is great for eyestrain for any of us who work late at night or early in the pre-dawn hours.
Re: Gradient
I will not support companies that release a 1.0 version of software that consists of little more than a few bug fixes over their beta, then "expire" their beta, thereby forcing the guinea pigs who gave them valuable feedback on their beta -- and enabled them to fix those bugs -- to buy the app at the same cost as everyone else.
Betas are for testing. They are not so you can take advantage of other people for free, then charge them to boot.
"Expire" the beta? The hell with them. I won't buy the product. Especially at that kind of price, for that kind of product.
Re: TotalFinder
A weak attempt to do things that Norton Commander used to do years ago (i.e., a dual-pane file manager). As the author here stated, TotalFinder does indeed do things that Finder should do out-of-the-box. But sadly, it does NONE of them well.
muCommander is better, cross-platform, and free. Fewer bells and whistles, but at least what it does, it does well.
Re: Gradient
We are talking about an app that costs the incredible amount of $5.99. You've got to be kidding me... Don't participate in Betas if you want to get paid for your "help"!
Re: Total Finder
Total Finder is not perfect. I agree. But it has helped me a lot. It comes with a lot of the bells and whistles Finder should have had right from the start and it has a very streamlined interface. It feels like a real Mac application and I love the seamless integration into the native OS Finder. I did not know about muCommander. Thank you for the tip. I have checked it out. It is no alternative for me (don't like this Windows-like button mania), but it might be an option for somebody else.
Ok. Enough.
Brett, thank you for this list. I enjoyed it a lot!
Re: Gradient
I will not support companies that release a 1.0 version of software that consists of little more than a few bug fixes over their beta, then "expire" their beta, thereby forcing the guinea pigs who gave them valuable feedback on their beta -- and enabled them to fix those bugs -- to buy the app at the same level as everyone else.
Betas are for testing. They are not so you can take advantage of other people for free, then charge them to boot.
"Expire" your beta? The hell with you. I won't buy your product. Especially at that kind of price, for that kind of product.
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