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My Mac apps, 2013 edition |
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From 200 apps that I have on my mac I picked the best.
Even though Sparrow was killed by Google's acquisition, it's still is my favorite mail client.
I'm not happy at all finding myself using an app withiout support and feature development, so I seraching for alternatives (see below).
Mail.app is another my mail client of choice, it would perfect fit my needs if only it didn't mess with message encoding. Outlook and Lotus mail clients can't display messages from Mail.app properly(in 2013!!!).
Airmail effectively a clone of Sparrow. It's supports all kinds of Gmail features, from priority inbox to labels to proper archiving. Airmail is well designed,fast and quite stable at this days(early versions was buggish as hell). Airmail is in active development, whenever an update gets issued, it's always got loads of new features and fixes.
Mailmate is an IMAP email client featuring extensive keyboard control, Markdown supported email composition, advanced search conditions and drill-down search links, equally advanced smart mailboxes, automatic signature handling, cryptographic encryption/signing (OpenPGP and S/MIME), tagging, multiple notification methods, alternative message viewer layouts including a widescreen layout, and much more.
It's crazy how many features Mailmate has, it absolutely the most geeky mail client out there. I still looking if it fit my needs, but what I see now is very promising. Mailmate review by Macdrifter
Fluid. My personal mail sits on Gmail, on my job we using Google Apps for Buisness - so Gmail too. In fact Gmail is quite powerfull mail client it self, I'm looking forward to use it in pair with Fluid - to build "standalone" mac app.
Unibox is butifull app, but it's main idea makes it unusable to me:
Unibox is a people-centric email client that organizes your messages by person. The contact list on the left is sorted by the date of the last email and each person is displayed only once. Selecting a contact displays all messages that you exchanged with that person, similar to chat applications or smartphone SMS apps.
SublimeText 3 the editor to rull rule them all.
Ulysses III is a brand-new writers’ environment built around a revolutionary text engine. It combines the very best concepts of minimal markup with the power, beauty and simplicity of OS X.
Love the idea and implementation, do most of my markdown writing in it.
Mou is markdown editor with live preview. Although they have nice "physical" goods:
Marked 2 best markdown preview tool
Dash absolutely love this app, it's gives you offline access to tons of docs on programming languages, API's, frameworks, etc.
SourceTree Best GUI git\mercurial client
- 1Password 4 is THE password manager
- Cobook is contacts on steroids
- Omnifocus is my utlimate "Do this stuff" app
- TaskPaper keeps my projects local todo lists
- Alfred If not this app the life on mac would be miserable
- Fantastical quick access to my calendar
- Evernote rich notes goes here
- nvAlt text notes goes here
Cloudapp help's me share pics and text
Bartender awesome menu bar compress utility
Moom is window management enhancer
Dayone is my personal journal
Dropbox Still my file sync solution, and a "file system" for iOS
Vox is nice looking and powerfull music player
Beamer The AirPlay Movie Player for Mac
Controlplane Context Sensitive Computing
iStat Menus I don't know why but I love to have some information about CPU and memory usage in my menubar
PCKeyaboardHack allows me to set change language action on CapsLock key
Pixelmator If Apple make Phototshop killer it would look like this.
Telephone Simple and nice SIP client
After the death of Google Reader and Reeder Mac app, Readkit became my OS X RSS reader in pair with Feedbin and Pinboard
Pocket is my reading later app.
