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iTerm is OSX' killer app.

Couldn't find anything similar on Windows. I used MobaXTerm which is ok but never feels as polished and slick as iTerm. Especially iTerm's own fullscreen mode which allows to quickly alt-tab is great.

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OSX-only apps that I absolutely love and consider must-haves:

Free: Iterm2 Spectacles Sip

Not free: Dash Textmate (I use it as the equivalent of Windows' Notepad.exe) Transmit Sketch Paw

If anyone has any other suggestions for things that they consider must-haves, I'd love to know about them so I can try them out!

I like Bartender to keep my menu bar clean.

iStatMenus gives you a nice view into various resources and temps.

FYI, TextMate has been FOSS for years!

thanks for the tip on spectacles. I've been using sizeup for the same functionality for years bit it looks like spectacles does the same thing for free. How does paw compare to postman?

Thanks for the mention! What makes Paw different is dynamic values which lets you access/parse data from previous responses and compute anything you want. It's a simple way to do visual programming for your API testing. Also today we're introducing full encryption for users credentials. Also, Paw is a native Mac app, and we love the look and feel it has. (disclaimer: I'm Paw's founder)

Paw is great, use it nearly every day at work :)

Snappy and DragonDrop

Non-free: BetterTouchTool

Free: Control Plane

Try ForkLift too, I almost never use Finder any more.

I wrote a small blog post on OS X must-have apps[1] back in 2009, but I realize more or less all but the most obvious (e.g., Chrome) have changed.

Now: InsomniaX (like Caffeine.app, but maintained); Bartender; LaunchBar (mostly for clipboard management - easily my favorite manager); iStat Menus; Atom; Tweetbot; Dropbox; and to a lesser extent, iA Writer. (And BowTie for a Last.fm scrobbler, because it's the only one that works with Apple Music)

[1]: http://alanhogan.com/starter-mac-apps

Cmder (which is Conemu + extras) is my go-to terminal app for Windows, and I know a lot of other folks like it.

http://cmder.net/

iTerm is definitely hard to beat, though.

I don't use Windows a whole lot, but when I do I usually go for ConEmu. Might be worth checking out.

https://conemu.github.io/

putty is the defacto standard Windows SSH terminal. (Though that's not what iterm is.)

putty needs some serious UI love. It doesn't look like the UI has been updated in over 10 years. I use MSYS which comes with mingw and works for my purposes.

It worries me slightly that I can still remember the URL for PuTTY - I'm not even sure I've used Windows once in the last 5 years in a context where I would have needed it!

Putty never had good tab support even with all the various work-around and frankensteins people had made to do it. If that situation has changed in the past 5 years, I'm sure I'm not the only one here who would be excited to hear about the details.

Can't put my finger on it but putty isn't on the level iTerm2 is

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