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

   1. To have multiple windows, run,

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      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 changer that pulls down nice wallpapers.
4. Secure Delete - Built into OS, drag files into garbage, then hold down apple key and right click, select "Secure Empty Trash".
5. Kasperski Security Essentials (reading about) - Anti Virus

Essential Utilities

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. Ensure Engine is set to run even if editor exists and also go back in and checkbox engine to start on login.
   2. CTRL-V - clear out formatting before pasting
   3. Winkey-Home - increase brightness (keyboard shortcut not working unless there is a delay, but a tripple shortcut like CTRL-WinKey-Home will work)
   4. 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. VMWare Fusion - allows you to virtualize operating systems. If you do not know what this means you are missing out.
   1. To allow HoeKey to work - Preferences, Keyboard & Mouse, Key Mappings and uncheck Apple Key V.
8. TinyCal (App Stwore) - yet to try but it looks like what I want... simple visual calendar integrated with Google Calendar.

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