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These are some (commercial) applications and utilities that make life better.
Utility/helper
Moom ($20)
Great for Windows-like window interaction: drag on the edge of the screen to resize, or define keyboard shortcuts for pre-defined window sizes and positions. Really, really good when you get used to it.
BetterTouchTool
Allows you to bind basically any keyboard + mouse combos. Good in combination with Apple's Mighty Mouse, where you might e.g. bind a three-finger swipe to change between tabs in your web browser / code editor.
CommandQ
Prevent applications from closing by accidentally pressing command+Q.
Allows redirecting your play/pause buttons to e.g. Spotify and prevent the current web page/iTunes from stealing them.
Alfred
A launcher like Spotlight, but with many neat customization options. Free, but with the ~10€ Powerpack you get lots more.
Office
Fantastical
A costly calendar app for Mac & iOS, but totally worth it. Works with most types of servers one might use, and allows you to schedule new events effortlessly with keyboard shortcuts + parsing the event dates and locations from your input.
General
1Password
The definite password manager. Buy the subscription and got all your devices covered at once. Integrates with all major web browsers on the desktop, and integrates fantastically with Safari on iOS. Also handles one-time passwords, so you can skip Google Authenticator for good.
RescueTime
Sits in the background and tracks your time usage, giving you reports on where your time went. You can further define "productive" and "unproductive" apps or sites.
Todoist
My go-to todo app. It's not perfect, but still simple and good enough for me to pay a yearly subscription for it.
zsh is quite a lot more versatile than bash, and Prezto makes setting up and using zsh much nicer. It comes with a number of very nice bundled helpers, such as auto-complete for various git & node commands and a very handy command history search.
Shell utilities
autojump
Effortlessly jump to any directory you've visited (by their frequency). For example, j cool might take you to ~/dev/services/my-cool-service.
You can use iCloud Drive (or Dropbox, etc.) as the storage engine. In your ~/.mackup.cfg:
[storage]
engine = icloud
This will store the configuration into /Library/Mobile Documents/com~apple~CloudDocs/Mackup:
Save current configuration with mackup save
When restoring on another computer with iCloud Drive installed, put this configuration in place and do a mackup restore
scmpuff
A must-have for any command-line Git user. Provides short numeric shortcuts for changed file names, so you can easily reference files in your git operations. (scmpuff is basically a simplified and more robust single-file binary version of scm-breeze)