This is a list of software that I am currently using, most of which is for macOS. Items marked with an asterisks* are commercial or donationware.
Audio/Video
- Audacity (Audio Editor/Cross-Platform)
- ffmpegX (Transcoder/Mac)
- Handbrake (Transcoder/Cross-Platform)
- VLC (Video Player/Cross-Platform)
Command-Line Utilities
Design Tools
File/Drive Utilities
- 7-Zip (File Compression/Cross-Platform)
- Keka (File Compression/Mac)
- Veracrypt (File Encryption/Cross-Platform)
Home Automation
IDE/Text Editors
- Brackets (Text Editor/Cross-Platform)
- TextWrangler (Text Editor/Mac)
- UltraEdit (Text Editor/Cross-Platform) *
- Video Studio Code (IDE/Cross-Platform)
- Visual Studio (Mac)
Network
Notifications
- Growl/growlnotify (Event Notification/Mac)
- Growl/growlnotify (Event Notification/Windows)
- Prowl (Event Notification/iOS) *
Productivity
- Home Inventory (Home Inventory/Mac) *
- Office 365 (Business Productivity/Cross-Platform) *
- Quicken (Finance Management/Cross-Platform) *
Reading
Remote Access
- Apple Remote Desktop (Remote Access/Mac) *
- Filezilla (FTP/Cross-Platform)
- Remote Desktop Connection Client for Mac (Windows RDP/Mac)
- TeamViewer (Remote Access/Cross-Platform)
Security
- KeePassX (Password Database/Cross-Platform)
- Sophos Free AntiVirus for Mac Home Edition (Anti-Virus/Mac)
System Utilities
- aLaunch (Menu Utility/Mac)
- AppZapper (Uninstaller/Mac) *
- Carbonite (Backup/Cross-Platform) *
- GeekTool (Dynamic Desktop/Mac)
- MagicPrefs (Magic Mouse Utility/Mac)
- PowerShell (Cross-Platform)
Virtualization
Web Development
- JSON Formatter & Validator (Web Service)
- Postman (API Development/Web Service)
- RequestBin (HTTP Request Inspector/Web Service)
Website Tools
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