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1. VLC Media Player - play DVDs and almost any video format
   

   1. To have multiple windows, run,

      Code Block
      language bash
      open -n /Application/VLC.app/

      Note, the playlist tends to go over the same place so it's not obvious sometimes if it worked. Figure out a parameter to fix this later.

2. Microsoft Office - Yeah you can't avoid it and using it since 2010 have not run into compatibility issues.
3. Kuvva (yet to try) - Wallpaper chnager that pulls down nice wallpapers.

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1. Better Snap Tool (App Store $2) - Get Windows 7 like snapping in addition to being able to use keyboard shortcuts to snap windows wherever you want. Also has loads of other features. Went through lots of tools like SizeUp before getting to this one. I use the following options,
   1. Keyboard Shortcuts
      1. Winkey-Left = put window of left half
      2. Winkey-Right = put window on right half
      3. WinKey-Up = center on screen using custom "snap area" of x=555, y=150, w=1450, h=1190
      4. WinKey-Down = restore to previous position
   2. Additional customize,
      1. Extras - Double-click a windows titlebar - maximize
      2. Customizations - Uncheck "Restore old window size if window is dragged away again"
2. Keyboard Maestro(App Store $36) - Powerful shortcut utility. Very useful for me because I use an IBM keyboard. Common things I setup,
   1. CTRL-V - clear out formatting before pasting
   2. Winkey-Home - increase brightness (keyboard shortcut not working unless there is a delay, but a tripple shortcut like CTRL-WinKey-Home will work)
   3. Winkey-End - decrease brightness
3. Spark with the Plain Clip Plug-in -- Free but less powerful version of Keyboard Maestro.
4. The Unarchiver@ (App Store) - handles common formats such rar that the built in compression software does not.
5. Go2Shell % (App Store) - jump to terminal in currently open GUI folder.
6. Araxis Merge 64-bit - Best diff tool I have ever found. (disable Ribbon Interface, check do not show splash window, add folder filter to ignore .svn folders and make the default encoding UTF-8 No BOM). If you have a Windows license you can use it on the Mac too. http://www.kaleidoscopeapp.com/ is in beta but it also looks like a very good alternative if you did not buy Araxis yet.
7. TinyCal (App Stwore) - yet to try but it looks like what I want... simple visual calendar integrated with Google Calendar.

Fix Home and End Key

Yet to try. This absolutely drives me nuts as a programmer. Home should go to the beginning of the line and end to the end of the line. On the Mac OS home takes you to the beginning of a document and end to the end of a document.

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One solutions is to use key mappings but it does not work across multiple applications.

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Transmission - used in Ubuntu for a long time and it works great. Also nice is a web interface to manage your torrents from other computers or devices.

RDP

Microsoft has a free RDP program for the Mac to connect to your Windows systems.

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Jomic - Their revision history v0.9.9 shows compensation feature for splash pages. Needs Java... still to try out. Bad , has a bad interface and it does not fix the page re-ordering.

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ShareMouse* - Looks better than Synergy. Took 5 minutes to setup...  but when I tried, Oct 2011 still buggy.

Afloat - Keeps windows

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on Top

Afloat is a program that can keep your windows "afloat" on top of other windows. Mac OSX lacks this functionality and Afloat does a great job of keeping windows always on top. You can also play with transparency settings. What this program really does it install a SIMBL Plugin. If you want to uninstall it, simply locate /Library/Application Support/SIMBL/Plugins and remove it.

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