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Laragon
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Fast and powerful
Laragon starts fast - instantly. All services in Laragon are compiled to native code so they run fast - much faster than Docker & Virtual Machines. Laragon uses its own service manager so all services also start quickly & parallelly.
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Not working right out of the box, needs a lot of work to install basic components and has a lot of issues
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Easily add new PHP version
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Not intuitive
Poor documentation.
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Lightweight
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It is awesome but not available in Linux
There are many Linux developers so please make Laragon work on Linux.
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Auto SSL
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Only support Windows
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Supports many databases
Such as MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB.
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Difficult to install Laragon in Linux
You can install Laragon in Linux also with the help of wine software but it is difficult.
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Portable
You can move the Laragon folder around (to other disks, laptops, sync to Cloud, etc.) without any worries.
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Pretty URLs
Work with your "app" using this nice, short, beautiful url: http://app.test .
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Lightweight
The core binary itself is less than 2MB and uses less than 4MB RAM when running.
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Easily add new Node.js version
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Great community support
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Linux support
You can install Laragon in Linux with the help of wine software.
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XAMPP
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Smooth installation with minimal configuration required
Port 443 is in use from Skype. You can change the port in Skype.
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Bloated
Comes with mail server, FTP server, accelerator, web-dav, ssl out of the box, etc.
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Multi-platform
XAMPP runs on OS X, Linux and Windows.
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doesnt has phpselector
Need downgrade to use php5
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Clean and functional interface
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Windows, Linux, Mac
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Transmit 4
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Supports Amazon S3 & WebDAV
In addition to FTP, allows exchanging data with SFTP or WebDAV servers or your Amazon S3 storage.
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Fast and powerful file exchange client
Exchange data with FTP, SFTP or WebDAV servers or your Amazon S3 storage.
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Enable a server connection as a normal disk in your Finder
So you can access your storage without the Transmit client.
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FTP Sync
Scans local and remote for difference and only transfer modified files. It's not rsync, but it's the next best thing
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Can enable a server connection as a normal disk in your Finder
So you can access your storage without the Transmit client.
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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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CodeKit
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Everything is set up for you
Everything you need to get a project started is included with CodeKit. Thanks to the professional support, different components of the workflow pipeline are guaranteed to play nicely with each other without you needing to do the research on how to configure them. More advanced features that may require extra configuration to set up with other workflow wrappers are set up out of the box in CodeKit, like automatic browser updating, linting, and source maps.
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Mac only
This is a major problem for larger teams that have varied development environments.
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Provides a clean and modern GUI
CodeKit has a clean and intuitive graphical user interface out of the box. Most other tools in this category run as command line utilities or require unsupported third-party plugins to run with a GUI. The CodeKit GUI makes it easier to navigate and manage the various components of your project with helpful UIs like dropdowns, and views that provide extra details without having to run a separate command.
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Confined
You get only the tools that are provided by the application.
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Live browser updating built in
CodeKit has live updating built in and will update monitored files across multiple browsers and devices, and refresh CSS without a new page load. Other workflow wrappers have live updating, but they require extra configuration. With CodeKit, everything is set up for you so you can get it up and running in no time at all.
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Proprietary
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Interactively define how files compile with a GUI
You can navigate your project directory, and use a menu form to set up how it gets compiled without needing to read configuration documentation, or deal with configuration errors. On top of that, file watching and recompilation is built in with no extra configuration needed.
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Great value for money
At a one time cost of $29, it's a great deal considering how powerful and easy to use it is.
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Visual package management with Bower
CodeKit provides a clean GUI for Bower that makes it easier to navigate and get information about modules without having to deal with a command line interface.
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Connects with MAMP
You can use it to, for example, live-update server-side PHP by establishing a connection with your local MAMP server.
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Don't have to worry about vendor prefixes due to Autoprefixer support
Autoprefixer automagically adds vendor prefixes based on latest information.
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Reduces size of compressed images
CodeKit provides a powerful tool to automatically reduce the size of compressed images and production web code.
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Live pre-processor and script compilation
CodeKit supports live compilation of Less, Sass, Stylus, Jade, Haml, Slim, CoffeeScript, JavaScript and Compass including automatic debugging and minification.
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Has over 6k componenets
Install 6,000+ Bower components with a single click: Bootstrap, jQuery, Modernizr, Zurb Foundation, even WordPress.
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PamPam
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Open source
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No built-in packages
You need to manually add zip versions of packages, but you can always update latest version of packages when you want, not depending on the maker of the stack.
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Run both 32bit and 64bit systems
Because it's text-based and developed by powershell.
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It's very new so it has some unknown and unpredictable bugs
You can debug and fix it yourself though.
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Folder structure is clear
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No documentation
But it does not take long time to learn to use.
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Intuitive interface
Because its very focus is on basic features.
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Setup process is not too easy for new users
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Fast to start and stop services in 3-5 seconds
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Only for Windows
But you can customize it for other OSs.
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Enable Virtual Host and SSL default
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Very basic features
Change versions of packages Change dir your data or server data Start or Stop services Add virtual host Add PHP dir and MariaDB dir to user environment path
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Only a language and lightweight (< 100KB)
Useful to understand and customize it.
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Very basic stack (Apache, MariaDB, PHP)
Supports not a lot of software out of the box. If you want more, you need to upgrade it yourself. Fortunately, it's all in plain text, so you can.
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Separate your data and server data
You can change dir of your data, make it more portable, save your data safer when you upgrade and move.
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Version switching
You can add more package versions, so you can switch between versions.
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Text-Based
All files are plain text, so they're understandable and modifiable. You can upgrade and build other versions yourself.
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Portable
You can move it around to other locations or machines, and it still runs normally.
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ImageOptim
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Losslessly compresses PNG, GIF, and JPEG images
Great for compressing images for web usage or saving harddrive space.
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Compression algorithm not as good as counterparts
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Fast & Simple
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Cannot abort an optimization
Optimization can run for a long time. Sometimes it reaches 20% quickly and then spend a long time to attain 21.2%. But you cannot interrupt the process.
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Simple drag'n' drop interface
Simply drag images (or folders) into the window.
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Does not work on SVG yet
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Tries several different image optimizers before picking the best one
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Edits files in place
It does edit files in place, overwriting the original. This is exactly what I want, so I love it, but it's good to know beforehand.
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Can handle PNG, GIF, and JPEG images
Great for compressing images for web usage or saving harddrive space.
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macOS, Web
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Fenix Web Server
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Easy to use
Click to fire up/kill static web servers. Auto-detects available ports.
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Not a PHP Server Stack
It's listed in the developer's on FAQ's that this application is NOT a PHP development suite. Why is this on the list?
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Beautiful Interface
Visually manage local sites.
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Windows only
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Share sites online
Develop locally, share online through localtunnel with a simple mouse click.
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Free
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CLI tools
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Well-designed
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Windows & macOS Support
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Webhook Receiver
Inspect inbound webhooks sent to your server.
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Windows & macOS Support
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Hammerspoon
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1512 issues are closed in the download page in GitHub
https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/issues They do fix issues that come from the community.
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Has 324 issues on their download page in GitHub
https://github.com/Hammerspoon/hammerspoon/issues I can not list all the issues.
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Deeply customizable
Hammerspoon's Lua scripting and broad API allows you to perform any action you can imagine on your mac. It hooks into many OS APIs directly and has some high-level APIs to manipulate things like Spotify or iTunes. See the full list here.
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Some knowledge of programming required
Hammerspoon is scripted in the Lua programming language, and some familiarity with programming in general will be needed to use it. Some plugins exist that can be used by adding some files to a specific folder, but this will not give the flexibility that is so key to Hammerspoon
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Automate actions based on the operating system
Hammerspoon lets you hook into OS level events and trigger any action you can imagine. From setting up a simple keyboard shortcut to launching a complex workflow using multiple apps and scripts.
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TotalTerminal
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No longer under active development
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Allows quick access to the terminal system-wide
TotalTerminal is a plugin for Terminal.app. It provides persistent Visor Window which slides down when you press a hot-key.
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Doesn't work on El Capitan with SIP on
Apple introduced a new security feature in OSX El Capitan, called System Integrity Protection, that, among other things, does not allow augmenting Terminal. While it's possible to turn SIP off (instructions on how to turn off SIP and get TotalTerminal working on El Capitan can be found here) it is not recommended.
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Quake style window show/hide
You maybe know or don't know Quake from Id Software. But this game had the best idea to hide/show a terminal window. Simply using full width but 26 rows. On show the widow slid down from top of screen. On hide it mode up to top edge of the screen until it disappeared. 2nd next best was the semi translucent background. You could still see through the terminal window while it was shown. The same style is now available in TotalTerminal and iTerm2 (OSX Terminal replacement - no Terminal plugin).
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Cloak
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Hasn't published server/data center locations
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Does SSL Pinning on OS X
SSL pinning protects against some forms of man-in-the-middle attacks that even SSL encrypted traffic is vulnerable to. Not long ago, iOS did not allow for pinning but that may have changed more recently.
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OSX & iOS Only, without even manual configuration instructions for Linux/Windows
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Responsive developer
The developer of Cloak is extremely responsive to feedback and quick to answer questions or support requests.
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Senses Trusted WiFi networks
Cloak can be set to not use the VPN on whitelisted WiFI SSIDs (like home/work).
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Unlimited devices (as long as they're OSX/iOS)
Unlimited devices and data per account, so you can connect up the whole family or office on one account if you so choose.
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Pagehop
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All recipes and tools are open source and you can write your own (JavaScript)
The API is very minimalistic (very easy to learn), and there is complete reference for it.
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Web search (horizontal and vertical) and using tools like Regular Expressions on results
Pagehop is bundled-up with recipes for Google, Bing and DuckDuckGo (horizontal) search, and with recipes for Wikipedia, StackOverflow, YouTube, jQuery API documentation, Mozilla Developer Network and others for vertical search. After making a search you can further filter your results with tools - Regular Expressions, Fuzzy Matching or Search in the urls (instead of titles).
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Browsing of online documentation (any static web source)
Navigating through known set of hyperlinks without an actual rendered page, just by writing.
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Quickly navigate to web pages and their links
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Unlimited, free, fully-functional evaluation
Like the SublimeText editor, Pagehop doesn't lock any features before you purchase a license and only displays (a tiny bit annoying) registration message.
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Keyboard shortcut access to Hacker News
To be able to bring up todays news on a key shortcut, is absolutely awesome. Holding shift while pressing enter (choosing) on results, will keep the window open - this way you can open several pages you want to read through with your morning coffee.
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WampServer
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Ultra customizable releases of Apps and Services
You can Install packages for differents releases of Apache Web Server, MySQL, MariaDB or PHP in order to have the latest releases of them.
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phpMyadmin does not work
phpMyadmin cannot be accessed either without password or with root and blank password.
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Customizable app menu items
You can customize the App menu Items for launch your local Website(s) in your prefered browser or even in alternatives http ports.
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It's hard to configure VHOSTS
There's no easy way for creating or edit VHOSTS configs.
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Easy VirtualHost creation
Virtual hosts can be created at the click of a button
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Hard to find documentation
No English manual available on the main website.
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It's hard to configure VHOSTS
There's no easy way for creating or edit VHOSTS configs.
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Platforms:
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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
Dark Theme:
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Sync:
Dropbox, iCloud Drive, Google Drive, etc.
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SizeUp
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Keyboard centric
SizeUp has user-configurable keyboard shortcuts for a set of pre-defined actions.
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Nag window
If a license is not purchased there is a nag window (which suspends function) that pops up when loading the app (at user login). The nag pop-up is also summoned at certain time intervals and by performing a certain number of commands (manually or by keyboard shortcut).
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Supports multiple monitors / spaces
Windows can be sent to different monitors and spaces. It can also be aligned as needed.
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No on-the-fly split screen window settings
Unlike some other tiling window managers, SizeUp has no way to change the size of split screen actions on-the-fly. Any time a user wants to change how much room on the screen a window takes up when using the split screen function, they will need to manually change the settings, which can be time consuming.
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Simple
SizeUp is easy and simple to use without having to configure.
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AppleScript support allows extending functionality
AppleScript permits adding features such as tiling all open windows. Additionally, FastScripts it allows the user to add keyboard shortcuts to AppleScripts.
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Menubar dropdown for shortcuts
Learning a bunch of keyboard shortcuts right off the bat may be difficult to remember at first, which is why a menubar shortcut for the app exists with all the shortcuts listed.
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Growl
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Support for a lot more applications than the default notification system
In addition to all the applications that other people have written that support Growl, Growl includes several 'Extras' that serve various functions.
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Ability to be themed
Growl comes with almost 20 themes pre-installed so you can pick what works best for you. You can also create and install your own custom themes.
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Sync with mobile phone via Prowl
Prowl is the Growl client for iOS. Push to your iOS device notifications from your Mac or Windows computer, or from a multitude of apps and services.
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DaisyDisk
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Helps find and delete files taking up HDD space
While working on your Mac you create and download a lot of files, but rarely delete anything. As time goes by you have less and less room for your data. DaisyDisk finds those hidden unused gigabytes.
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Calculation based on 1000 not 1024
It's nice to have a base 1000 (MB, GB, …) calculation but it should be optional. Default should be 1024 (MiB, GiB, …)
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Awesome visualization of files on drive
DaisyDisk gives you a perfect overview of all the disks connected to your Mac, be it Macintosh HD, flash card, Thunderbolt disk or network storage. And does it in a beautiful way.
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Expensive for how often it is used
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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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EasyPHP DevServer
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Runs projects from anywhere in your computer
You just need to select the project from the management panel and run the server.
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Only Windows build
No versions for Unix systems, like Mac or Linux are available.
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Supports multiple server technologies
You can have Apache installed, also Nginx, Python, Ruby, Perl, etc, and easily switch between them.
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Not open source
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Supports multiple PHP versions
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Hyperdock
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Not under active development
Hyperdock doesn't seem to be under active development and hasn't been updated since october 2014.
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Lots of small improvements to the dock
Hyperdock adds a lot of small improvements to the default mac dock, like better iTunes controls and calendar event previews.
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Can't bring back the 3d dock
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Select individual application
Select individual application windows just by moving the mouse on a dock item, use mouse clicks to quickly open new windows and many more.
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Lets you easily find a window you have open
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Scroll up/down on menu bar to change size
Scroll up for full size.
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Snaps to corners
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