Feek's macOS useful tools, utilities and applications thread

ChrisD. said:
Check the documentation:

Tunnelblick | Free open source OpenVPN VPN client server software for macOS

Tunnelblick | Free open source OpenVPN VPN client server software for macOS
tunnelblick.net tunnelblick.net

Wireguard is very good, have a look into switching over.
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Unfortunately we need to support native VPN connections so it's easy to deploy via MDM and user-friendly in the event someone needs to walk staff through it.

Ideally after something like VPN Monitor (https://apps.apple.com/us/app/vpn-monitor/id887410814) but it hasn't been updated in years and i've yet to get it to work properly under 13.3/13.4.
 
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Throrik said:
You chose the wrong tool :D love a vim user.
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I was playing around with emacs this morning because I wanted to edit my static markdown blog posts using a command line tool having set up hunspell. After adding the en_GB and en_US dictionaries, I'm pretty impressed. All the other programs supporting spell-checking always feel slow to me, so I'm quite happy with Emacs.
 
Cromulent said:
I was playing around with emacs this morning because I wanted to edit my static markdown blog posts using a command line tool having set up hunspell. After adding the en_GB and en_US dictionaries, I'm pretty impressed. All the other programs supporting spell-checking always feel slow to me, so I'm quite happy with Emacs.
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Emacs is absolutely fine, it's just the age old rivalry, Emacs or Vim. Emacs can pretty much replace 90% of your OS if you really learn it, for me it tries to do too much, and I prefer the smaller vim but it's all very much preference. Another benefit for me who routinely has to administer thousands of Linux servers if I do need to SSH on to one vi/vim is always installed, emacs isn't always.
 
Throrik said:
Emacs is absolutely fine, it's just the age old rivalry, Emacs or Vim. Emacs can pretty much replace 90% of your OS if you really learn it, for me it tries to do too much, and I prefer the smaller vim but it's all very much preference. Another benefit for me who routinely has to administer thousands of Linux servers if I do need to SSH on to one vi/vim is always installed, emacs isn't always.
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I see. Thank you.

I'll check out Vim as I do tend to SSH into a few servers myself, but I've used nano in the past.
 
Connect my Tablet - Absolute godsend if you use a Wacom device. I've had a nightmare trying to re-connect my Intuos 5 and Cintiq! I can't praise this app enough. Honestly, I cannot think of such in depth step by step support. I'm extremely impressed (£13).
Elmedia Player, there is a free version - I paid the lifetime fee (£18) just love the interface over VLC.
TunesArt, a modern-day version of CoverSutra which was sadly discontinued - I just like having retro CD/Vinyl cover art on the desktop (fully compatible with Spotify).
 
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Going back to Wireguard, I followed this blog last year to set up the server piece on my mac mini but ran into problems connecting remotely from BT/EE routers (and only them). I blamed BT at the time. The blog has been updated since and I’ve changed my server configuration accordingly, this has fixed the connectivity problems from BT.
 
ChrisD. said:
SetApp looks good, any other discounts besides EDU?
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ChrisD. said:
Screw it, just bought it. For what I currently use (and already have licenses for) it's probably cost me more money for the few apps I want to use from their catalogue. However, I get to try out loads of other apps which I probably currently don't know that I need if that makes sense.
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Generic 'OMG has it been a year already' type post. Just without the Facebook element.

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Yeah, not worth renewing for me. It was fun to try out a few apps on there, but in my situation I don't think it's worth it and I'll just purchase separate subscriptions for the two I do use.
 
Jiggler

Jiggler is a very simple (and free) utility that does exactly what the name suggests. It jiggles your mouse to keep your computer awake and is very configurable. When I'm using a specific piece of ham radio software, I don't want my Mac to sleep so I have this configured so that it will jiggle the mouse only if that program is running and the mouse and keyboard are idle. It's quite fun to watch it just move the mouse slightly every few minutes if I'm not actually doing anything.

http://www.sticksoftware.com/software/Jiggler.html

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Feek said:
Jiggler

Jiggler is a very simple (and free) utility that does exactly what the name suggests. It jiggles your mouse to keep your computer awake and is very configurable. When I'm using a specific piece of ham radio software, I don't want my Mac to sleep so I have this configured so that it will jiggle the mouse only if that program is running and the mouse and keyboard are idle. It's quite fun to watch it just move the mouse slightly every few minutes if I'm not actually doing anything.

http://www.sticksoftware.com/software/Jiggler.html

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Na lets be honest, you installed this so that your boss who is monitoring your work laptop, never sees u go idle ;)
 
I'll stick this in here - it's a code for either 1, 2 or 3 months Apple Fitness+ (not sure). It came from O2 Priority, I don't think you have to be with them to use it.

R*HFXM9XW*A*

The three asterisks need replacing with the same number which is the number of asterisks in the code! :D

I think you need to use the link http://fitness.apple.com/redeem/?code= and plonk the code in after you have solved it.
 
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