On Jun 27, 2017, at 9:35 AM, Pen Helm <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> What are your favorite programs? This is a good question. Maybe “favorite” isn’t the right word. I can list the ones I use most often, and I’ll include iPhone/iPad programs. • BBEdit is always open on my Mac. It’s a text editor—not a word processor—it just does text files. It interfaces quite well with Apple’s Xcode and TeXShop. • Path Finder is always open on my Mac. It’s a replacement for the Finder that does everything the Finder does and a lot more. • TeXShop/TeXlive is where I do all my word processing. • iCatcher is a podcast manager for iOS. I listen to many podcasts and iCatcher has a clean and simple interface to download and handle them. • Intaglio is an object-oriented drawing program I use for tweaking graphs created with other programs such as Mathematica. The completed graphics usually end up in LaTeX files processed by TeXShop. I used to use Canvas for this and still miss that program. • Pixelmator is used to edit photos. • iBooks on iOS for audiobooks and on the iPad sometimes for reading books. I listen to quite a few audiobooks and Apple’s newest versions of iBooks have finally removed a bunch of annoying bugs. For written books, I see little difference between most of the readers on the iPad, and the reader I use is determined by where I get the book—Apple, Amazon, Kobo, Project Gutenberg, etc. • MLB on iOS. Lets me satisfy my baseball habit anywhere. • Skim for doing PDF presentations—usually created with LaTeX and TeXshop. • Owly keeps the screen from going to sleep when you least want it to. • TextExpander is an intelligent text expander that’s always waiting for key words. I have hundreds of expansions programmed and feel lost on a machine without TextExpander. • Alfred is a program launcher, clipboard manager and much more. • iStat Menus is a system monitor that’s always there in the menu bar to tell you what program is eating cycles, which disk is misbehaving and which program is using up your bandwidth. • Hazel is a nice utility to automatically clean up your hard drive. For example, one of my Hazel tasks automatically deletes stuff from my Downloads directory after it’s been there for a week with no change. Another doesn’t let the Trash get too large. • Mathematica is a Swiss Army knife of mathematical tools. • MacJournal for daily notes and diary-type stuff. I’d use it a lot more if it were smarter about technical writing. L^2 --- Lee Larson [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains,however improbable, must be the truth? — Sherlock Holmes The Sign of Four
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