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Sunpech's Best Software List

A list of the best software for Mac, Windows, Ubuntu Linux, Android, Software Development, and web browser extensions. Whenever I do a fresh install of a new operating system, I'll go through this list and choose what to install. Unless otherwise noted, all software are free.

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macOS

macOS

I use Mac most of the time now, so this list is rather extensive.

Create a bootable USB

Cloud Storage, Sync, and Backup

Internet

  • Brave - My current favorite web browser.
  • Chrome - Google web browser.
  • Firefox - My second favorite browser.

Miscellaneous and Utilities

  • Adobe Acrobat Reader - PDF reader and editor.
  • balenaEtcher - Flash OS images to SD cards and USB drives, safely and easily.
  • Calibre - One stop solution to e-book needs.
  • EasyRes - A fast screen resolution switcher for Mac OS X with live animated previews.
  • Filezilla - SFTP client.
  • Hidden bar - Hidden lets you hide menu bar items to give your Mac a cleaner look.
  • Karabiner - A powerful keyboard customizer. I remap my Caps lock key to the escape key.
  • GPG Suite - Secure way to encrypt communication.
  • OSX Fuse - The easiest and fastest way to create file systems for OS X.
  • SensibleSideButtons - Actually functional side navigation buttons on your third-party mice in macOS.
  • Service Station - Service Station is a macOS app for customizing your right-click menu in Finder.
  • Teamviewer - Remotely control another computer.
  • Unarchiver - Decompress zip/rar files.
  • World Community Grid - Grid computing.

Audio and Video

  • Handbrake - Edit/convert videos.
  • Livestreamer - Command-line utility that extracts streams from various services and pipes them into a video player of choice.
  • Plex Media Server - Media server for your home videos/photos.
  • Serenity - Relaxing ambient sounds. A better paid version is Noizio.
  • SoundNode - Soundcloud desktop app.
  • Spotify - Music player.
  • Spotifree - Mute ads in Spotify.
  • Tagger - Batch update your ID3 tags in your music collection (mp3s).
  • VLC Media Player - The best video/media player for any OS.

Pictures and Images

  • Blender - Open Source 3D Modeling
  • Gimp - Edit pictures, a Photoshop-like program that's free.
  • Giphy - Capture and create GIFs.
  • Google Photos - Google's photo storage.
  • Krita - Digital Painting.
  • SketchUp - 3D Drawing tool.

Productivity

  • Alfred App - Type what you need or what you want to do.
  • F.lux - Automatically adjust your computer screen to match lighting.
  • Logi Options+ - Lets you configure your Logitech mouse buttons, keyboard keys, and touchpad to your preference, adjust your lights and webcams to always look your best.
  • Glances - System monitoring tool that runs in terminal.
  • Skitch - Edit your screenshot images.
  • Slack - Collaboration software for teams.
  • Trello - Collaborative boards, lists, and cards.

Best Applications to Buy/Subscribe to

Windows OS

Windows OS

This list is shorter. Many of the software available for Mac is also available on Windows.

Web Browser Extensions

Web Browser Extensions

These are some of my favorite web-browser extensions that I use in Google Chrome and/or Firefox.

Software Development

Software Development

This list includes development tools for both Mac and Windows. Also see my dotfiles.

Coding and IDE

Database

Terminal

Version Control

Websites and Services

Ubuntu Linux

XUbuntu

My current favorite flavor of Linux is Xubuntu, but I also like Ubuntu Mate.

Create a bootable USB

exFAT support

I format my external hard drives to exFAT so I can read/write to them from any operating system (OSX, Win, Linux).

sudo apt-get install exfat-utils exfat-fuse

BOINC

sudo apt-get install boinc-client boinc-manager

Formatting drives (gparted)

sudo apt-get install gparted

Install latest git

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:git-core/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install git

ssh server

sudo apt-get install openssh-server

Also see: SSH/OpenSSH/Configuring

Other flavors

Misc

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