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I'm looking to start using a MacBook for work as well as personal use so looking to software alternatives for my currently used apps.

First up is Putty, can anyone recommend a Mac alternate? (I don't want to use terminal and ssh commands all the time)
 
Si. said:
I'm looking to start using a MacBook for work as well as personal use so looking to software alternatives for my currently used apps.

First up is Putty, can anyone recommend a Mac alternate? (I don't want to use terminal and ssh commands all the time)
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Termius or Royal TSX. There’s also iTerm 2.
 
the-evaluator said:
Assuming it's the SSH part of Putty you're wanting, then Termius is my go to app.
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I have a load of Pis I connect to via SSH, both at home and externally and I always just use SSH in Terminal. I've never heard of Termius, am I missing something useful?
 
Feek said:
I have a load of Pis I connect to via SSH, both at home and externally and I always just use SSH in Terminal. I've never heard of Termius, am I missing something useful?
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Termius lets you save sessions so you can just double click on a session icon and then your SSH session opens. It's quicker than using Terminal. I can't find a font setting that I like for Terminal so find Termius easier on the eyes.

So you're not missing the ability do do anything as such, but with Termius you can open a session quicker.
 
I'm just playing around with Alfred 4 and am a bit overwhelmed with everything you can do with it. Can someone give me some examples of what you use it for so I can get some idea?
 
Cromulent said:
I'm just playing around with Alfred 4 and am a bit overwhelmed with everything you can do with it. Can someone give me some examples of what you use it for so I can get some idea?
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I was exactly the same when I first started using Macs and Alfred was mentioned. I installed it and was completely overwhelmed with what it can do so I went back to just using Spotlight.

I still mainly use it as an app launcher but I also have some custom workflows configured, one called 'boot' which opens all the apps I generally open when I boot my Mac. Another one called 'messages' which opens (you guessed it), Messages, Messenger and WhatsApp. I have some radio applications which, when I use them, I always open them in a specific order with a slight delay in between.

I've got some custom web searches configured for specific sites, my blog, a callsign lookup engine, short wave frequency lookups, etc.

I've also tweaked the default search so if it doesn't find any local results, it searches google but with " -site:pinterest.*" on the end for obvious reasons.

Alfred can do a lot, even with the things I'm doing, I've barely scratched the surface. I looked at some YouTube guides to show how to do things and it gave me ideas.
 
Feek said:
I was exactly the same when I first started using Macs and Alfred was mentioned. I installed it and was completely overwhelmed with what it can do so I went back to just using Spotlight.

I still mainly use it as an app launcher but I also have some custom workflows configured, one called 'boot' which opens all the apps I generally open when I boot my Mac. Another one called 'messages' which opens (you guessed it), Messages, Messenger and WhatsApp. I have some radio applications which, when I use them, I always open them in a specific order with a slight delay in between.

I've got some custom web searches configured for specific sites, my blog, a callsign lookup engine, short wave frequency lookups, etc.

I've also tweaked the default search so if it doesn't find any local results, it searches google but with " -site:pinterest.*" on the end for obvious reasons.

Alfred can do a lot, even with the things I'm doing, I've barely scratched the surface. I looked at some YouTube guides to show how to do things and it gave me ideas.
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If it's stuff like custom launchers (in order, delays etc), would Shortcuts in Monterey offer similar functionality? My last laptop couldn't go past Big Sur so now I'm on Monterey I was guessing I could do something similar with some shortcuts...
 
Feek said:
I was exactly the same when I first started using Macs and Alfred was mentioned. I installed it and was completely overwhelmed with what it can do so I went back to just using Spotlight.

I still mainly use it as an app launcher but I also have some custom workflows configured, one called 'boot' which opens all the apps I generally open when I boot my Mac. Another one called 'messages' which opens (you guessed it), Messages, Messenger and WhatsApp. I have some radio applications which, when I use them, I always open them in a specific order with a slight delay in between.

I've got some custom web searches configured for specific sites, my blog, a callsign lookup engine, short wave frequency lookups, etc.

I've also tweaked the default search so if it doesn't find any local results, it searches google but with " -site:pinterest.*" on the end for obvious reasons.

Alfred can do a lot, even with the things I'm doing, I've barely scratched the surface. I looked at some YouTube guides to show how to do things and it gave me ideas.
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Awesome. Thank you very much. I have a few things I do often which might be worth looking at turning into a workflow.

P.S Amateur radio is something I'd love to get involved in.
 
squerble said:
If it's stuff like custom launchers (in order, delays etc), would Shortcuts in Monterey offer similar functionality? My last laptop couldn't go past Big Sur so now I'm on Monterey I was guessing I could do something similar with some shortcuts...
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Probably but having bought Alfred, I may as well use it. It's also great that it synchronises so everything I configure on my iMac works the same on my MBA.
 
picnic said:
I've been playing with an app called Tabby. It has profiles which are a bit like saved connections in putty I think. I've been using it for serial connections to embedded micros I develop for.
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I was looking at getting ZOC Terminal as I do a lot of command-line work but wasn't sure if I should buy a license for it if there was anything better available. I also looked at MacTerm which looked good for an open-source solution.

Any advice would be great. Anything that makes SSH, SCP and SFTP easier to use is a bonus.
 
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