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Better Touch Tool
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Endlessly customizable
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Extendability
Allows user to extend my MBP with touchbar by creating custom actions per app. Also supports system-wide integration (touchbar actions).
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BTT makes it simple to sync your hotkey, Touch Bar and gesture setup between several machines
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Sync settings in the cloud
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There's a free companion app for iOS that you can use to remote control your Mac
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Supports Apple script, bash, javascript
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Customize window button behaviour
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Make your own menu bar items
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Active community
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Built-in clipboard manager
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Highly configurable window moving / window snapping options
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Key sequences
Supports key sequences for things like text expansion.
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Supports MIDI devices (keyboards, DAW controllers, etc.)
Listen for MIDI events and have them control anything. For example you could use a DJ controller in your favorite video editor, etc.
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Lets you configure your external mouse's 4th and 5th button per app
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Record gestures / drawings and assign them to actions
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Developer is regularly adding features / improvements
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SuperDuper
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Creates an exact clone
Your backup will be an absolutel exact copy of your computer at the time of backup.
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Can't choose a folder as source
The only options for source and destination are root hard drive, volume, or a pre-existing disk image.
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Shows you every step
SuperDuper is with you every step of the way. It explains the process from preparation to successful copy. This is convenient for new users who are not familiar with the app.
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Not a rolling backup
It isn't a rolling backup like Time Machine. It only backs up when you've scheduled it to. Though it does work in conjunction with Time Machine.
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Quick and easy to use
With drop down menus, clear instructions, and easy set up, it doesn't take long to create a backup.
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Schedule tasks
SuperDuper gives you the ability to automatically schedule backups and clones for a specific date and time. You can also edit the tasks.
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Unclutter
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Convenient and fast access to files and notes
Unclutter lives in the navbar at the top of your screen, and is always accessible. Any files and notes stored in Unclutter can be quickly accessed from anywhere, with just a mouse movement and scrolling down.
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Can't keep visor open when typing in other applications
The unclutter visor will not stay open when working/typing in other apps. Sometimes it is desirable to use the visor to re-type things, it's not possible outside of copying and pasting, or opening and re-closing the visor.
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Keep desktop clean(er)
Instead of keeping commonly used files on the desktop, you can tuck them away to the top of the screen. This can unclutter your screen, or create more room for more icons if you like quick access to everything.
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$10 seems a bit much for what it does
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Platforms:
MacOS
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Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, etc.
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Get Backup Pro
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Scheduling Options
You can schedule backups, syncs, clones, and archiving at any time and date. Get Backup Pro will do it for you automatically.
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More Advanced
The interface isn't as streamlined as other options. Some instructions may not be clear and the process is a bit more confusing.
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Easy Restores
Restoring is extremely easy and fast. It walks you through the process while being informative.
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Cheaper than Others
Get Backup Pro is a cheaper option than other bootable backups. There are upgrade options as well if you'd like more options.
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FreeFileSync
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It supports multiple protocols
It will work with MTP, FTP, SFTP, FTPS, and more.
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Does not preserve folder timestamps when copying
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It can copy locked files
It supports Volume Shadow Copy Service, meaning that it can copy files even if they are in use or otherwise locked.
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Memory hog
It runs a little slow on computers who don't have much RAM available.
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Cross-platform
It runs on Windows, Linux and MacOS.
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Limited built in history
The program only remembers the latest set of folders you synced, so you have to save your syncs or create batch files.
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Portable version available
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A little intimidating for novices
If you never ran a file syncing software, this can be a little tricky to configure as your first one.
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It is quite performant
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No backup encryption
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Google Drive support
FreeFileSync provides direct access to Google Drive, no additional software is needed.
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It doesn't run on older Linux systems
It's dependencies don't allow it to run on older systems.
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Completely free
Source code releases are provided under GPLv2.
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It supports realtime sync
It can be configured to constantly monitor two folders for changes and sync them instantly when a change is detected.
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It lets you program batch scripts
You can program your own jobs for execution as a script.
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It supports case sensitive synchronization
For Unix-like systems.
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It supports long file paths
It can copy files and folders with more than 260 characters in their paths.
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It supports versioning
Versioning is keeping multiple instances of the modifications of your files.
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It can sync both local disks and network shares
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Platforms:
Windows, Mac, Linux
License:
GPL-3.0-only
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rsync
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Fast and bandwidth efficient
Only the changed parts of files are synced. For instance, if a long log file increases by just a few lines of text, a small diff will be sent to and saved in the archive. Rsync also compresses data in transit.
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No official GUI
To use rsync, you have to know your way around the command line.
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Works over SSH
SSH support allows sending files securely over the network by encrypting all communcation.
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Complicated, and you can accidentally overwrite the wrong files
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Pre-installed on OSX and most Linux distributions
Many *nix systems bundle rsync so there's nothing to install. All you need to do is open up the terminal and start using rsync.
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Free and open source
Licensed under GNU.
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Platforms:
Linux, Mac, BSD
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Little Snitch
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Protected even at login screen
Little Snitch rules work even at login screen. Even when receiving attempted connection alerts, once logged in LS has stopped and requested permission for them.
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Comparatively easy to use
Easier to use than traditional firewall software, but more powerful due to design and workflow.
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Protects your privacy
Protects your privacy and helps to prevent unwanted connections.
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F.lux
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Can help sleep better
Helps provide better sleep for more energy during the day.
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Takes a while to get used to
After installing F.lux, the screen will look a lot more yellow. This takes about a week to fully get used to. You can ease into it by setting the color temps higher than the recommended defaults.
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Eases eye strain
Decreases color temperature at night, changing the normally fluorescent blue of an LCD monitor to a soft orange. Much easier on the eyes, especially in a low-light environment.
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Subtle transition
The transition from daytime to nighttime color modes takes an hour by default and will detect your current timezone, meaning that it will happen in the background at sunset, often without you noticing.
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BBEdit
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Stable development, been around for decades
BBEdit is commercial software, the paid counterpart to their free application Textwrangler. Though BBEdit comes off as pricey, this allows for stable and consistent updates from the developers. BBEdit has been around since 1992.
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Featureless
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Can open very large files
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Expensive
It's US$49.99 a single user license.
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Just about every feature is already built in
No searching for plug-ins that may or may not work.
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Great customer support
The developer is very responsive to bug reports and feature suggestions.
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Native application
Follows platform standards.
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Built-in FTP/SFTP browser
BBEdit can open files directly from, and save them to, any available FTP server. It can also open and save files directly via SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol).
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Great JAMStack environment
You can build the static site of your dreams without needing any external assistants. Although it does not process LESS, SASS, or SCSS files, BBEdit's includes are very powerful.
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Platforms:
Mac
License:
Proprietary
Collaborative editing:
No
Supported remote file editing protocols:
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IINA
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Like MPV with better GUI and settings
It's like mpv, just more user friendly GUI and more settings available via UI.
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Unstable
May crash unexpectedly, while clicking on something in the subtitles section in the right-hand panel, for example.
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Extremely stable
Extremely stable, even while still in the beta.
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Blacks out other displays when going full screen
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Support for lots of codecs
Supports lots of video codecs, like mp4, mkv, etc, and lots of audio codecs including opus.
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Doesn't black out other displays when going full screen
It can black out other screens if you want, but out of the box it leaves your other displays alone.
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Runs on MPV so it's scriptable and runs any MPV script.
More information here. Tip: if you're doing a lot of cropping and slicing of videos and you thought the new quick tools in Finder / Quicktime Player are a great improvement, try setting up IINA with slicing.lua and some keybindings for navigating your video + setting the slicing positions. Make sure your ffmpeg command (in slicing.lua) is set to copy the original codecs and that it's using your GPU.
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Online subtitle searching and intelligent local subtitle matching
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Fully customizable keyboard, mouse, trackpad, and gesture controls
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Open source
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Powered by FFmpeg
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Backblaze
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No Linux support
There's no Linux client for Backblaze.
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Beginner-friendly defaults
The default configuration includes everything except for system files to be backed up. That also includes external USB drives. This will work for most people. It can, of course, be customized to each person's liking.
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Pay extra to keep deleted files permanently
Additional $2/Month plus $0.005/GB/Month for files updated, changed, or deleted more than one year ago.
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No file size or traffic restrictions
There are no limitations of file size or amount of data you can upload. The $5/mo plan gets you unlimited cloud storage.
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Backblaze does not support network (NAS) drives
If you use a thing like Drobo, Backblaze will not back it up.
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Excellent restoration performance
Backblaze creates a zip file of all your files for you to download, thus decreasing the amount of data you need to download and increasing the speed of the download since it's one connection instead of multiple that need to be opened and closed for a list of files.
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Buggy
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Secure
AES encrypted files are transferred over a secure SSL connection.
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Download any backed-up files from any web browser
Some backup services like Carbonite require a client to be installed to restore files. Backblaze allows you to login and download any or all files from a web browser, meaning it also serves as an ad-hoc cloud storage platform.
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Users can order a physical copy of their data
You can have a flash drive or an external hard drive delivered to you. They cost $99 and $189 respectively.
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Platforms:
Windows; OSX; Android; iOS
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Alfred
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Can create custom automated workflows
Allows the creation of automated workflows by connecting keywords, hotkeys and actions together without writing code.
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Many features require the $25 powerpack add-on
Features like custom workflows, clipboard history, 1Password integrations and others require the powerpack add-on.
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Full keyboard controls
You can do everything using just the keyboard.
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Built-in calculator
Alfred is able to handle simple mathematical commands and more extensive expressions alike. Pressing Enter copies the result to the clipboard.
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Integrates with 1Password
Alfred allows getting secure and fast access to your 1Password 1Click bookmarks.
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Lightweight and smooth
Alfred is a lightweight application for OS X and runs smoothly, even on older devices.
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Versatile search
Quickly search for files, applications and web services from the same input.
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Productivity booster
Helps speed up your working day one shortcut at a time.
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Clipboard history
Alfred offers a clipboard with an extensive history for quick access to your copied text, images and links.
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Entry of everything
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Allows theming
Alfred allows adjusting colors, fonts, sizes and more to create new themes.
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Offers both a free version and a paid version available
The paid version is more customizable, but the free version is still very powerful.
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Price (Base Program):
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Moom
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Customizable keyboard shortucts
Moom comes with many preset keyboard shortcuts. The user can go into the graphical settings of the app and change any one of them to a different combination of keys.
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UI for settings can be confusing
The settings for the app are pretty jumbled and are hard to get a grip of, especially for first time users. While all the settings one would need are there, they are difficult to find or understand, which requires a good bit of playing around with the settings in order to get a feel for them and what they offer.
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You can save tiling window position and size
Users can set window position and size themselves, allowing for a great way to set up a tiling window experience.
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Not free
Moom is not free: it costs $9.99.
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Windows can be snapped to the edges of the screen
In addition to using the grid or the overlay, Moom can move and zoom windows by dragging them to screen edges.
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Non customisable popover
The pop over is not customisable and has two presets which are odd for instance two presents are two split windows horizontally.
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Simple customization
While you can set keyboard shortcuts, Moom has a very easy-to-use GUI and GUI-based customization features to help you get going right away.
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Two steps needed, while some tools only need one
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Adds a zoom button for all apps
Moom adds an overlay zoom button to the corner of all apps which allows any app to go full screen or be placed to certain sections of the screen (such as the top, bottom, or sides). This works even on apps that do not normally allow for full screen views.
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Multi-monitor support
Moom has excellent support for multi-monitor setups. You can drag a window to the edge of your screen into another monitor and snap it there.
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Affinity Photo
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Lifetime updates
Pay once, get updates forever.
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Limited selection of plugins
Plugin support was only recently added to AP and not many plugins have been created for the program so far.
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Interface will be familiar to those coming from Photoshop
The interface, especially the Photo persona, is laid out in way that's very similar to Photoshop - a panel for icons for tools on the left, a panel for information and settings on the right.
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Can not import gimp or krita files
Free alternatives like GIMP (and Krita) are sort of "go to" apps you can always install and use for simple image editing or graphics on any computer. Affinity's support for Photoshop is great, but having support also for opening and editing GIMP and Krita files would make the versatility and use of this program absolutely superb.
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Compatible with Photoshop PSD files
Affinity Photo can import and export .psd files.
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Great performance
Uses the GPU extensively for fast speed on any platform.
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Supports layer styles
Layer styles allow non-destructively applying effects to a layer.
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Personas allow separation of concerns
At a high level the interface is organized into broad groups of tools called Personas. Personas like Photo for in-depth image manipulation, Liquify for warping the image, Develop for basic RAW photo development and Export for exporting. Each persona displays only those tools that are needed for that task.
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Powerful effects
Dozens of visual effects available. All run extremely fast with live previews
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Non-destructive adjustment layers
Extensive adjustment layers are non-destructive.
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Everything is well organized
Easy to find and use tools.
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Runs faster than Photoshop's old code
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Lots and lots of undo
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The easiest, even easier than photoshop
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The perfect combination of Photoshop and Lightroom - all in one
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Supports Photoshop brushes, shapes, etc.
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Many tutorials
But still it does not actually matter which tutorial you're actually watching, Photoshop or Affinity's, they are pretty much the same.
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Very, very cheap for such an app
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Has an iPad app
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Decent functionality, 100% comparable with Photoshop
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Much more lightweight than photoshop
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RAW file editing
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HDR image editing
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Powerful, cheap and lightweight
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Very modern and intuitive interface
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Color correction
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Very fast to learn
Takes about 20 mins, it's that easy.
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Growing decently fast
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Panorama creation
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Imports free images from Unsplash
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Platforms:
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ZOC Terminal
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Modern look
ZOC has a modern design.
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Hard to configure
It does not detect the installed shells (PowerShell, CMD, etc) automatically.
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An actual "Terminal Emulator"
It's an actual terminal emulator (in the sense that it emulates a terminal) and not just a local console window app.
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Options creep
It has so many options that it's hard to find the one you need.
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Scriptable
Zoc provides complete automation of the client using its macro scripting.
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Not free
Zoc requires a commercial license in order to use it, implying that it's not free.
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Flexibility in platform support
Originally developed for OS/2 (as Zap-O-Comm), Zoc is currently available for Windows and Macintosh.
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Can view and send to all sessions at once
Offers a thumbnail view of all session in thumbnails and type commands to all sessions at the same time.
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Supports serial and dial-up connections
In addition to telnet, ssh, and rlogin, ZOC supports direct serial connections, modem dialing, and named pipes.
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Tabbed sessions allows for easy navigation
Tabbed sessions mean that multiple items can be contained within a single window and can be easily navigated by the user.
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Hideable UI
Zoc allows for every UI component except the title bar to be hidden. All features are accessible through the context menu.
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Auto-Highlight feature
Feature to search for text bits in the data stream and highlight them with color/background.
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Virtual Box
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Compatible with Many Operating Systems
It works for Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD, and many others.
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Lacks video performance
Virtualbox has a hard cap of 256MB of video memory. This could make newer operating systems run slower.
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Beginner friendly
A virtual machine can be set up in minutes if a ISO file to load is already available.
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Minimal CPU customization
You can only enable/disable certain features. You cannot cap the speed of the CPU, which is required to run systems such as Windows 95.
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Works well and fast for Windows host and Linux guest
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Free and open source
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Many free images available
Though most are linux flavors at https://virtualboxes.org/ Oracle's virtualbox site has others.
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Can do snapshots
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A lot of customization
VirtualBox has multiple virtualization options. Each one may be tailored to the guest operating system’s needs. This makes it especially good on virtualizing older systems, such as DOS, obscure distros, etc.
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CleanMyMac X
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Sneaky about trial limitation and prices
Trial version only cleans 500 MB, but it does not disclose that limit before one pushes the button to clean after a scan. While it's OK to provide only limited functionality in a trial version, the appsshould be upfront about what the limitation is. Especially with an app that is supposed to clean your system, it's really messed up to run an activity only partially, and then ask for money. This is clearly done to play on the insecurities of the less-than-tech-savvy users, who might believe that their machine is now in a worse state than before they ran the app, and need to pay now to get a clean system. Even when trying to close the nag screen by pressing the little X in the corner, the X turns into "Don't leave yet, get your personal discount", which opens the website and gives you even more discount than their "Deal of the day" which is shown after you download the trial. So people who just go to the website to buy pay $89 (or $69 when they get a deal of the day), but when they pay from the nag screen, they only pay $56. That is not a good way to do business, and even if it were a solid app, it's hard to support these practices.
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Space Lens reports more storage that the SSD actually provides
For example, a 480GB SSD with 70BG free, and the sum of the folders Space Lens shows in root is about 550GB. That's definitely wrong.
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Provides no info about things it deletes
The app does not provide any additional information about the files it wants to delete, so the average user cannot make an informed choice what to remove and what to keep. For example, it might prompt you to remove languages other users of your Mac are using. That's not a good idea.
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Uses just a tiny window for showing details about what the app tries to delete
In full screen view, the part of the screen where the app shows a list of things it wants to remove is about 8% of the screen. So you can see 8 items at a time (out of a list that has about 80 entries), and the name of each of those items is truncated. 75% of a 24"-screen is entirely blank in that view.
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"Flush DNS Cache" will not boost speed
It will simply flush the DNS cache, so that each request for a web page will require a call to a DNS server first.
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Claims it will "Free Up RAM"
People who have a clue about memory management will understand that on a Unix system RAM is typically fully used, because that is the way to optimize speed. Any attempt to "Free Up RAM" will lead to other stuff being loaded into RAM immediately: the app might "free" 2 GB of RAM, but if you come back to Safari and look at several tabs, it will soon be back to only 200 MB of free RAM.
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Expensive
A full license is $89, but there's no way of telling how long you would get free updates. Owners of the previous version will have to pay 50% of that to upgrade. The subscription service is $39 per year. If there's a new major version in the next 3 years, subscription will be cheaper. All that fits with MacPaws being intransparent and sneaky.
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Transmission
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Free, ad-less and open source
Transmission is free, ad-less and open source software licensed under GPL with parts under MIT with source code available here. Being open source allows anyone to check if the software has no malicious code, is secure and respects privacy.
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No preload magnet metadata
Transmission is unable to preload magnet metadata.
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Very lightweight
Transmission-gtk uses only 17 mb of RAM in idle state and 24 mb in download state.
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If data is corrupted, torrent file has to be re-added
If you delete a file that belongs to (finished or not) torrent, torrent will remain in "corrupted data" state and only way to restore it (aside from restoring the actual data file) is to find the original file and re-add it.
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Very minimalistic, straightforward design philosophy
Transmission is great for getting things done without looking too much under the hood. It still has advanced options, they're just tucked away from sight.
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No broadcatching support
Broadcatching is a method of automatically downloading content as soon as it's available. Broadcatching in BitTorrent clients is usually implemented via RSS. Transmission requires manually selecting each download.
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Full-featured
Transmission covers basics such as Prioritization, Selective Downloading, DHT, PEX, LPD and Magnet URIs. It has graphical, web and command line interfaces. It includes MSE/PE for security. Has UPnP, NAT-PMP, NAT traversal for automatic router configuration. Has UDP tracker and µTP data transfer protocol support. Even covers IPv6, Web seeding and Local Peer Discovery. And it auto-updates.
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No super-seeding support
Super-seeding is an algorithm used to allow downloaders become uploaders quicker. Transmission lacks support for this functionality.
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Native Mac, GTK+ and Qt interfaces provide seamless integration with OSX and Linux systems
Transmission works well on OSX and various distributions of Linux due to having interfaces natively developed for those operating systems instead of haphazardly ported. The Mac interface is written in Objective-C, uses dock badges and Growl notifications while the GTK+ interface follows GNOME Human Interface Guidelines and has support for popup notifications, desktop sounds, and a system tray. There's also an unofficial port of Transmission-Qt for Windows.
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The app is hiding too much information
While the app is clearly going for minimalism, some users might feel that the default window that consists of just torrents and their progress bars might provide a bit too little information or functionality. For example, even accessing file lists requires opening up a separate window and navigating to a specific tab.
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Has a command line interface and a daemon
Transmission can be used in text-only mode via transmission-cli that includes a daemon (transmission-daemon), a CLI and a web client (accessed on http://localhost:9091 by default).
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No tracker exchange
Tracker exchange functionality allows peers to exchange information about trackers of a given file. It is another way of ensuring that the file is downloaded from the optimal source. Transmission lacks this functionality.
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Works great on a seedbox with its web interface
Transmission has a web interfaces that can be used to remotely control torrents. It's great as a seedbox (a dedicated private server for uploading and downloading content) due to built-in webseed support.
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No embedded tracker
An embedded tracker allows turning the client into a server offering an easy way of sharing files with others. Transmission lacks embedded tracker support so another method of sharing or different client has to be used to share files.
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Pre-installed on multiple Linux distributions, including Ubuntu
For those who prefer Linux, the Ubuntu OS comes with Transmission already installed, so you can get your torrents up and running immediately.
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Written in Python, uses a lot of CPU on fast downloads
Apparently, the speed bottleneck is Python.
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Headless software
Just put it on your server, SBC or even your old phone and you have your own torrent server.
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No built-in search engine
Built-in search engines allow finding torrents to download right from withing the torrent client. Transmission lacks such functionality.
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No proxy server support
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Not Supported in Big Sur
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Prefpane style app
AppTrap installs a daemon that runs in the background monitoring the trash, when you drag an app to the trash it will search for associated .plist files that have been left behind and ask to move them to the trash. In other words, AppTrap launches and does the work for you automatically. All you have to do is uninstall apps the old fashioned mac way by dragging apps to the trash.
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Gets some things, not everything
This is thorough enough in cleaning up most of the cruft that gets left behind by applications, but might not get everything for the more invasive applications, especially if some of the files have privileged permissions.
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Requires using Finder
Does not work if you trash app using alternate file browser like Path Finder.
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Free, open source, and cross-platform
VLC is licensed under the CC-SA v3.0+ and available on Windows, OSX, and Linux with source code available here.
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Not really meant to be a music player
VLC is made to be a video player. Therefore, it won't carry out actions such as managing your music library.
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Simple to setup and use
VLC is an incredibly robust application but very simple on the surface. It makes playing music simple, yet still manages to give the user all the tools he/she wants in a music player.
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Lacks libraries and advanced music player features
VLC is a media player first and foremost. There is no library management (aside from playlists), limited usage of tags, and no rating system. VLC is best at playing a file directly from a folder, but falls behind when it comes to helping you manage or find good songs in your music library.
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Very versatile and easy to use
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Absence of personalization
VLC Player has only one basic interface in white or black, and overall personalization opportunities are quite narrow. Unfortunately, you're pretty much stuck to the default look.
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Doesn't require additional codecs
Everything VLC needs to play media files is contained within which means no outside codecs are needed. This makes it one of the most hassle-free music players as it can play virtually anything as soon as it's installed.
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Contains some insignificant but irritating flaws
Despite all keyboard shortcuts, the width of the picture can't be controlled by trackpad. Besides that, the VLC start-up window doesn’t open at the same place or the same width at which it was previously closed.
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Tons of advanced settings
Besides basic configurations, video player has an extensive amount of adjustable settings.
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Doesn't manage your music library for you
You organize your music into folders any way you want. Want to play an album? Drag and drop. No tags, no confusion, no fluff. Easy.
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Can be almost completely keyboard-driven
VLC includes keyboard shortcuts for most actions. The video player can be controlled with simple and customizable keyboard commands.
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Surprisingly Lightest on Resources
Yes. Lightest. Even better than the ones known to be light. Both when playing music, only a single song or when playing a video. Either in terms of Ram and Cpu. Compared with almost all, including the ones from Windows like mpc-hc .. or light ones from Linux like Alsa Player, Audacious, SmPlayer .
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Can play every format video available (as of 2017)
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Includes Blu-Ray playback support
Blu-Ray playback support was added on July 13th, 2014. It allows playing back DRM-free Blu-Rays with the help of libbluray, libaacs and libbdplus.
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Supports a GUI interface and an ncurses terminal interface
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Can easily stream music across your home network from any device on the network
Using sftp/ssh music (and videos) can be streamed from any server on the network to any device running VLC. VLC can also be used as a webcam for streaming and snapshots. Amazing all in one package
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Large amount of extensions
VLC has a large amount of extensions.
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