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If you always thought, what could Spotlight do more? Then Flashlight is your answer. It’s spotlight in the right direction. Flashlight is a lot like the free version of Alfred, the difference is, it works with Spotlight instead in place of it.

You can download and add Flashlight plugins in pretty much 3 clicks and even create your own.

UPDATE: Flashlight doesn’t work on El Capitan. Alfred 3 is a great and more powerful alternative.

GIF Brewery brings clean, effective GIF making for everyone. Just import your video clip, trim to the ideal loop, crop for size, add captions, manage frames and delays and achieve fame. It’s 2016, so yeah, GIF’s are kinda imperative.

Example of a gif made from GIF brewery, Source: The Graham Nortan Show

is lightweight, free and does the job well too.

Sure there are a lot of MAC text editors and they are great but TextMate does the job it is intended to do and does it pretty good. Also, it’s free!

As suggested by PiwwowPants on Reddit, Visual Studio Code is great alternative to TextMate. It has a much better code navigation system and better git control. Give it a try.

UPDATE: ATOM

Atom is hands down the best text-editor there is right for mac.

It automatically dims the brightness of your screen based on the time of the day — warm at night, bright during the day — so your eyes feel less strain. Works wonder if you work late at night, of course you do.

It prevents your Mac from automatically going to sleep or diming the screen while watching videos. Nothing more, nothing less.

Your Macbook goes to sleep as soon you close the lid. The NoSleep extension will keep the screen awake even when the lid is closed so you can continue downloading files over the network.

Again suggested by PiwwowPants on reddit, InsomniaX is basically Caffeine x No Sleep.

Adapter, deserves a lot more attention than it gets. It can convert all your movies, encode audio, and change the format of your images and it’s fast. If you have any type of media to convert be sure to check it out. It’s like HandBrake without all the hassle and more options.

PopClip appears when you select text with your mouse on your Mac. Instantly copy & paste, and access actions like search, spelling, dictionary and over 100 more.

A download manager for your Mac that splits the file into multiple parts and downloads the individual parts simultaneously for faster downloads. Can pause and resume downloads too.

Helium is a floating browser window that allows you to watch media while you work. Your content will never fall behind your other windows even as you switch tasks.

It connects your Android phone to the Mac. You can access messages, manage photos, transfer files and more, wirelessly.

Apparently there are a lot, a lot of Text expander for mac, but for me atext does the job at a resonable rate.

In case you’re wondering

Best Torrent Client — uTorrent/Transmission

Best Unarchiver — RAR Extractor Free or The Unarchiver

or Best Screen Recording App — QuickTime (yes.)

(yes.) Best Hidden Settings Access App— Onyx or TinkerTool

Best Copy Paste Solution — PushBullet

Best Password Manger — 1Password or Dashlane.

I’ll add more as I find. Suggestions are welcome.

Also, shameless self promotion.

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