List of useful Mac apps I use daily + profiles for my home directory.

00 OS X app list.md

Mac OS X App List

Productivity Tools

• Alfred Powerpack Powerpack is a set of incredibly powerful features for Alfred
• Alfred Boosts your efficiency with hotkeys, keywords, text expansion and more
• AppCleaner Drag-n-drop app uninstall
• Caffeine keeps your Mac from going to sleep
• Default Folder X Finder save location helper
• Fantastical Menubar calendar app w/ natural language
• GPG Suite secure communication and encrypting files
• ImageOptim image optimizer; not needed for web projects that use Gulp/Grunt
• Monosnap custom screenshot grabber
• NameChanger batch file renaming
• RCDefaultApp Helps set specific apps to default for certain extensions
• Spectacle window placement/management/resizer

Applications

• 1Password Stores passwords for easy retrieval
• Adobe CreativeCloud
• Canary Sparrow-like email client
• Dropbox Cloud-based file storage
• Sketch Professional digital design for Mac
• Sublime Text Sophisticated text editor for code/markup
• Atom a hackable text editor from GitHub
• Dracula Themes Dark themes for common apps
• Tower GUI Client for git

Communications

• Slack Messaging app for teams
• Screenhero Collaborative screen sharing
• GoToMeeting meeting space with VOIP & screen-sharing

Clipboard Managers / Text Expanders

• CuteClips clipboard manager Replaced by Alfred Clipboard feature
• other clipboard managers Replaced by Alfred Clipboard feature
• aText custom keyboard abbreviations; Replaced by Alfred Clipboard snippets

Web Tools

• Chrome
• Firefox
• MAMP Pro Mac Apache/MySQL/PHP
• Screaming Frog SEO Spider
• Java needed for Screaming Frog

Terminal / CLI

• iTerm2 Terminal.app replacement
• [TotalTerminal](http://totalterminal.binaryage.com/; EOL use iTerm instead)
• Bash-it _community Terminal/Bash commands and scripts _
• Bash-it/CLI Enhancements Make your terminal a much cooler place to work in
• Install Sublime Text's CLI tool allows you to type subl . to open current folders/files from Terminal

Programming Packages

Most of these are needed for firing up Genesis/Evolution

• Install Node.js
• Install npm
• Install PIP - sudo easy_install pip
• Install Vagrant v1.6.5
• Install VirtualBox v.4.2.*.
• Install Yeoman v1 - sudo npm install -g yo
• Install Bower v1.3.3+ - sudo npm install -g bower
• Install Genesis WordPress Generator - sudo npm install -g generator-genesis-wordpress
• Install Evolution WordPress Generator - sudo npm install -g generator-evolution-wordpress
• Install Vagrant Host Manager - sudo vagrant plugin install vagrant-hostmanager
• Install Vagrant List - sudo vagrant plugin install vagrant-list
• Install Bundler - sudo gem install bundler
• Install Capistrano v2.15.* - sudo gem install capistrano
• Install Ansible - sudo pip install ansible
• Run curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mitchellh/vagrant/master/keys/vagrant.pub >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys

Media Players

• MPlayerX
• NicePlayer
• VLC media player
• Plex PlexHomeTheater / PlexMediaServer
• Beamer stream to AirPlay
• Subler mp4 file format muxer
• ClipGrab YouTube clip downloader
• convert2mp3 web-based YouTube clip converter
• clipconverter web-based YouTube clip converter

00 VPN for bash_profile.rb

# VPN Terminal Service

function vpn-start {
/usr/bin/env osascript <<-EOF
tell application "System Events"
  tell current location of network preferences
    set VPN to service "MyVPN" -- your VPN name here
    if exists VPN then connect VPN
    delay 1
    keystroke "myVPNpa$$w0rd" -- Your VPN pass here
    repeat while (current configuration of VPN is not connected)
      delay 1
    end repeat
  end tell
end tell
EOF
}

function vpn-halt {
/usr/bin/env osascript <<-EOF
tell application "System Events"
  tell current location of network preferences
    set VPN to service "MyVPN" -- your VPN name here
    if exists VPN then disconnect VPN
  end tell
end tell
return
EOF
}

01 .bash_profile.rb

# Aliases
alias bex="bundle exec"
alias proddeploy="bundle exec production deploy"
alias nbb-install="npm install && bower install && bundle install"
alias bb-install="bower install && bundle install"
alias phpw="open http://localhost:8000 && php -S localhost:8000"


# Path to the bash it configuration
export BASH_IT="/Users/erasch/.bash_it"

# Lock and Load a custom theme file
# location /.bash_it/themes/
# export BASH_IT_THEME='bobby'
export BASH_IT_THEME='powerline-m'

# (Advanced): Change this to the name of your remote repo if you
# cloned bash-it with a remote other than origin such as `bash-it`.
# export BASH_IT_REMOTE='bash-it'

# Your place for hosting Git repos. I use this for private repos.
# export GIT_HOSTING='[email protected]'

# Set my editor and git editor
export EDITOR="/usr/local/bin/subl -w"
export GIT_EDITOR='/usr/local/bin/subl -w'

# Don't check mail when opening terminal.
unset MAILCHECK

# Change this to your console based IRC client of choice.
export IRC_CLIENT='irssi'

# Set this to the command you use for todo.txt-cli
export TODO="t"

# Set this to false to turn off version control status checking within the prompt for all themes
export SCM_CHECK=true

# Set vcprompt executable path for scm advance info in prompt (demula theme)
# https://github.com/djl/vcprompt
#export VCPROMPT_EXECUTABLE=~/.vcprompt/bin/vcprompt

# Load Bash It
source $BASH_IT/bash_it.sh


# Set CLICOLOR if you want Ansi Colors in iTerm2
export CLICOLOR=1
export LSCOLORS=GxFxCxDxBxegedabagaced

# Set colors to match iTerm2 Terminal Colors
export TERM=xterm-256color

02 .gitconfig.rb

[user]
  name = Eric Rasch
  email = [email protected]

[alias]
    ci = commit
    co = checkout
    st = status
    lg = log --graph --pretty=format:'%Cred%h%Creset -%C(yellow)%d%Creset %s %Cgreen(%cr)%Creset' --abbrev-commit --date=relative
    pu = !"git fetch origin -v; git fetch upstream -v; git merge upstream/master"

[mergetool]
  keepBackup = true

[core]
  editor = subl -w
  filemode = false
	pager = less -R

[push]
        default = current

[color]
    ui = auto
    diff = auto
    status = auto
    branch = auto

[color "branch"]
    current = yellow reverse
    local = yellow
    remote = blue

[color "diff"]
    meta = yellow bold
    frag = magenta bold
    old = white red
    new = green bold

[color "status"]
    added = yellow
    changed = black magenta
    untracked = black cyan

[diff]
    renames = true

[alias]

[branch "master"]
    remote = origin
    merge = refs/heads/master
  rebase = true
[url "https://"]
  insteadOf = git://

[format]
    pretty = "Commit:  %C(yellow)%H%nAuthor:  %C(green)%aN <%aE>%nDate:    (%C(red)%ar%Creset) %ai%nSubject: %s%n%n%b"