Tips for developers switching from Windows to Mac

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Drawing Pad Landing Page

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Drawing Pad

Drawing Pad is a mobile art studio for all the ages where they can precisely create their own art using photo-realistic crayons, markers, paintbrushes, stickers, roller pens, and more.

Again MS Paint was great for this, so I had to find an alternative. I tried lots of Mac apps, browser extensions and web apps but struggled to find anything suitable, user friendly, and free, which had similar features to MS Paint. Finally, I found it! Sketchpad is a fantastic web app where you can quickly copy and paste images side by side, draw, add text, fill vectors and lots more.

#Digital Drawing And Painting #Photos & Graphics #Graphic Design Software 24 social mentions
Shottr Landing Page

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Shottr

Shottr is a free macOS screenshot app with scrolling screenshots, OCR, annotation and measurement instruments.

I thought it was worth calling out a great free tool which I've found very useful called Shottr. It hasn't fully replaced the native screenshot functionality for me, but it's mighty close.

#Design Tools #Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots 68 social mentions
iTerm2 Landing Page
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iTerm2

A terminal emulator for macOS that does amazing things.
Pricing:
- Open Source
ConEmu was my go-to terminal on Windows and so I was pretty bummed out when I realised that it wasn't supported on Mac. After asking some folks on my team, they suggested iTerm2 and I must admit it's equally fantastic.

#Terminal #Developer Tools #SSH 98 social mentions
ConEmu Landing Page
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ConEmu

ConEmu-Maximus5 is a full-featured local terminal for Windows devs, admins and users. Get better console window with tabs, splits, Quake style, copy+paste, DosBox and PuTTY integration, and much more.
Pricing:
- Open Source
ConEmu was my go-to terminal on Windows and so I was pretty bummed out when I realised that it wasn't supported on Mac. After asking some folks on my team, they suggested iTerm2 and I must admit it's equally fantastic.

#SSH #Server Management #Terminal Tools 18 social mentions
Chocolatey Landing Page
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Chocolatey

The sane way to manage software on Windows.
Pricing:
- Open Source
I used to use Chocolatey as my package manager on Windows. I found it really useful to install and organise all of my various packages, and so I wanted to find the best alternative for Mac. Brew was the answer! I've been using it for the past year and haven't had any issues or missing features compared to Chocolatey.

#Windows Tools #Package Manager #Front End Package Manager 252 social mentions
Homebrew Landing Page
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Homebrew

The missing package manager for macOS
Pricing:
- Open Source
I used to use Chocolatey as my package manager on Windows. I found it really useful to install and organise all of my various packages, and so I wanted to find the best alternative for Mac. Brew was the answer! I've been using it for the past year and haven't had any issues or missing features compared to Chocolatey.

#Package Manager #Windows Tools #Front End Package Manager 877 social mentions