Terminal setup: http://mikebuss.com/2014/02/02/a-beautiful-productive-terminal-experience/
BetterTouchTool - lots of keyboard shortcut and mouse gesture options. Also does what Divvy does to let you reposition windows, but for free.
ControlPlane - lets you automate a bunch of actions based on what is connected to your machine (keyboard, mouse, monitor, power, wifi network). Good for shutting off your wireless when you’re wired in. I hope that helps some of these overcrowded wireless APs around here.
Flux - matches your color temperature to the position of the sun, and is configurable to your location and preference of color temp ranges. Not great for designers though, I’d imagine.
iTerm2 - A number of marked improvements on the default Terminal app, including split tabs and lots of options/shortcuts.
Guard - A Ruby gem that you can configure to monitor a directory for changes and trigger a build or a sync to a remote server. Great for local development of files that are automatically deployed to your OpenStack box for use.
Macports - http://www.macports.org/ -Installs popular packages from a single command.
Home Brew - http://brew.sh/ - Similar but I think it’s written in Ruby, also recommend to not use both installers as it can cause some issues.
LICECap can capture an area of your desktop and save it directly to .GIF.
Growl - Pop ups on the desktop, plus there is a Perl module to create your own messages.
Onyx – More of a hack tool, to change functions of the OSX. Use with caution.
Geektool – OSX version of Conky. Easier to use.
Fantastical – Consoldated calendar client, very easy to use and merges all of your accounts.
iTerm2 – Another terminal client, has some handy features like multi frame and multi send.
Sublime Text Editor – I like vim but this is a nice editor, waiting for version 3 before I buy it. Really I am.
iStats – Handy display of your resources.
Divvy (https://mizage.com/divvy/)
Witch (http://manytricks.com/witch/).
Soulver — and it is on sale for $1.99 in the app store TODAY
https://github.com/sindresorhus/quick-look-plugins - They allow you to quick look a slew of filetypes just by hitting space from the Finder. For me, the most useful ones are markdown and json, and view many more files as plain text.
Skitch is also great for annotating screenshots or images.
Alfred is a MUST (to manage main menu icons, etc)
Hazel to clean up old settings, etc
Dash for docs
Cloak and Little Snitch for security
Napkin to annotate images
1password
Insomnia X - to avoid mac from sleeping (disconnecting from Wi-Fi) when lid is closed
ClipMenu - http://www.clipmenu.com/ - A copy/paste history. I must use this a thousand times a day. - Free
Stay - https://cordlessdog.com/stay/ - Does a pretty good job of putting my windows back in the right place when I switch screens. Not gonna say it’s perfect, but better than osx alone. - $15
gfxCardStatus – http://gfx.io/ - For Macbook Pro’s, but keep track of what video card you’re using, very important when on battery. - Free