[META] Can we add a section on the wiki with useful apps?

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Soundly

#Audio Player #Audio & Music #Music Player 26 social mentions

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BetterZip

BetterZip: in Mac, you can’t natively preview zip files without uncompressing, Betterzip gives you that ability.

#Archiver #Archive Manager #Data Compression 9 social mentions

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HandBrake

HandBrake: a lot of our directors and clients like to review rough cuts through WhatsApp, so I create a preset to quickly transcode videos to be tiny without losing much quality, so they can be easily shared.

#Video #Video Converter #File Converter 568 social mentions

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DiskCatalogMaker

DiskCatalogMaker: I use it to catalog all of our external hard-drives, so I can search for specific projects or files without the need to connect them. I have a general view of all the drives and I can search through all of them easily.

#File Management #Movie Reviews #Tool 4 social mentions

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Color Blind Pal

ColorBlindPal: I’m color blind and this app it’s of great use to people like me, you can check what color is something on your screen, you can filter out colors, it’s great.

#Accounting #Archiver #Small Business 14 social mentions

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The Archive Browser

The Unarchiver. A better utility that's better at Zip files than Finder. Also opens other archive files (rar, 7z, etc), and will do a partial unarchive if there's a corrupt file.

#Archiver #Archive Manager #HR 36 social mentions

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Greenshot

Greenshot: Easy applet for taking/sharing/editing screenshots - generally useful in and out of editing contexts.

#Screenshot Annotation #Screenshots #Image Annotation 116 social mentions

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Wave Financial

Another is Wave, which I pretty much only used for invoicing, but offers a lot more, including accepting credit card payments online.

#Accounting #Small Business #Bookkeeping 42 social mentions

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WinDirStat

#Disk Analyzer #Hard Disk Usage #Hard Drive Tools 332 social mentions

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Things

Oh man, It's been an eon and a half since I've seen the Omni Group. I friggin' loved OmniGraffle and OmniOutlinter. Got me through college. OmniFocus not as much, but Things did it for me. Almost makes me miss living in the Apple ecosystem. Almost.

#Project Management #Task Management #Todos 54 social mentions

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Downie

Downie 4 - same developer, this one is for dowloading videos from nearly ANY site, it's fast and you can set the naming structure of files (f.e. YouTube - Author - Name of the video).

#Download Manager #Video Downloader #Music Downloader 29 social mentions

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SoundSource

SoundSource - Gives you the ability to change volume of different apps and apply AU effects to diff sources. I use this daily.

#Focus Music #Note Taking #Web Service Automation 125 social mentions

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NuMi

Numi - a powerful but lightweight code-like calculator. You can declare variables and do unit conversions which is useful for so many things. I’ve used it to determine precise coordinates for motion attributes when I’m doing split screen stuff.

#Health And Fitness #Nutrition #Weight Loss

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Magnet Window Manager

Magnet - Windows-style window management but on Mac. Love this app.

#Window Manager #OSX Tools #OSX Window Manager 68 social mentions

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Kyno

Kyno - Lightweight MAM and metadata logger that focuses on being non-destructive to your files. Metadata logged in Kyno can be exported to pretty much any NLE. Can also transcode media, bake in LUTs, and copy & verify. Nice for DIT. Caveat: development has slowed down a ton in the past year since they got acquired by Signiant. I have hope that they’ll pick it back up again, but in the meantime the existing functionality is great.

#Screen Recording #Video Maker #Video Recording 10 social mentions

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DaisyDisk

DaisyDisk - Storage manager that represents everything as beautiful stacked pie charts. Super interactive. I use this app constantly.

#Disk Analyzer #Hard Disk Usage #Hard Drive Tools 113 social mentions

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CommandPost

CommandPost - Plug-in suite for Premiere and FCPX primarily for using control surfaces. Mainly I’ve used this to enable scrolling timeline on FCPX but I’m sure there’s so much more to discover in this app.

#Accounting #Video #Small Business 7 social mentions