You Need These 30 Apps - PART 1

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oh, man. I already forgot that pronunciation.

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I I need to get this because I've

For the anime I mean, it's React. So the whole thing is probably Framer Motion. Is my guess or GSAPP?

Next one I have here is Backblaze.

Ina is a really cool media player, especially, like, as much as I love VLC,

I have a a couple of pieces software here that are kinda classic software if you've used Mac, Windows Tolinski.

he would always find what I needed. But the macOS search has just been If you're this is how I watch absolutely every single one. Let's, The Hamburglar could take it.

of I'm I'm joking.

Warp or Raycast What I love so much about Istat menu is it gives you the your memory.

You know? All these new color spaces, and every time macOS updates, you gotta fix everything. So I realized that that's hard,

I I wanna rip all that stuff. But what I'd really prefer Dude, they're so fantastic because they're really they're really thin. So they're not, like, chunky like a dog treat. Right? They're thin like a potato chip, and they crisp and all that stuff. They sell it at Costco in Colorado. So we get these all the time at Costco.

And sometimes I'm looking at it going from 66 to 67, and I think

Okay. Shout out to the Oxygen team.

DVD regex after a year, you stop getting updates. And then if you need it again, if you want the newest updates, you can pay a bit more.

Nice.

downloads folder.

I often will have Riverside. It has to upload for hours after I'm done because it's a slow upload.

context, transition context provider, Right click on something. Wes.

sometimes you need,

or

Yeah. A lot of these are minified, so they're kind of nonsense names here.

sometimes you need systems to just make it perfect for yourself.

has a color picker. Right? And you cannot No.

some quick math as to, like, how does this split work. So what NewMe will do is you can kinda just write markdown, and it will just evaluate it to the right SIP is now $27 written with 3 gigs. That's probably enough. Hey? It gives you your CPU and GPU, which I use quite a bit when or something like that. If I wanna be able to find that, then that will search inside of all your files, which is absolutely key for me.

yearly for a color picker.

DVD

everything at once, you can simply just get them to send you a hard drive via, like, FedEx or something That works. Which is I'm sure it's not cheap, but is gives you a whole bunch of extra features on top of YouTube

She's wearing a pair of shoes she likes, and she takes a screenshot of it. And she just says, find me these shoes, and it finds it every single time. It's, like, incredible. It uses AI somehow and does it. But, It's a great question.

as much as I love Hike and WebPs, they don't work anywhere.

and I hate that as much as well, but I do think it's the best choice.

t s is, like, a type of documentaries I've got another one here, which is Yeah. Next one I have here is called NewMe, So often, I'll be air dropping or saving a file from the web or from coming from my iPhone, and it will just immediately duplicate it, convert to JPEG,

to give you quick view for coding,

If you It is super full featured. It's a professional tool for photographers.

8 disc 1. There's extras and stuff on this DVD. Now I gotta rip each of those individually Sorry. My Internet's choked out right now for some reason.

forward slash add syntax f m. We're on YouTube all over the place. CJ has been putting out a lot of really great content lately. He even did a video on hono Node? Hono?

For color picker? Updates.

Oh, yeah. And get some If they haven't stripped the names Do you have the React dev tools in here? Oh, you do. You do. You have the React dev tools open. Okay. Remix provider, like feels like a developer friendly file browser. I I I never liked Finder. I think Finder JS one of the worst pieces of software on the map. So

in the past,

a menu bar hider to be, like, any more full featured than what do you want to hide and how do you want to hide it. So, you know, for me, it's just keeping this cleaner than having all of my things,

Oh, that's great.

.openai

And I don't know what they are, and you clicked on the wrong one, and it opens up Adobe Updater.

format or, like, a, like, a a video format. Yeah. And it's, like, it's hard Node into the operating system that Scott Wes we're sharing screen or when I'm recording. Or thing.

very, very similar. So Oh.

So I found this automation tool to be pretty great. It it's one that you can really geek out on in terms of, like, how in-depth you wanna go into this thing. Yeah. It's an actively built thing. There's a lot of people using it. There's a lot of discussions, tips, and tricks, all sorts of stuff. So there's a a deep well of things to learn about the software, but it's super powerful.

I think Wes should bring this on

upload your file to some random server let me buy the upgrade if I need it. Version 2. Version 5. Yeah. I think that's that's what they do here, but they can give you a much better quality a lot of times than these different algorithms. But a lot of these places I'm assuming HandBrake is using FFmpeg And then you can just kinda view it as you go, and it will do all, of course, like, all of your like, 5 minutes or or not even 5 minutes, like, 10 seconds. Let's see. Let's go back here.

like this app called SIP as a color picker, and you're using it right now?

Okay. Severance is a bit slow, I I ditched Adobe a long time ago, and I refused to to subscribe to a creative cloud.

Okay.

and is really, really pretty awesome. I use this for all kinds of things. So I have a dump folder where I just throw any file into the dump folder. All that folder does is it sends it to my inbox that's on the 36th chamber, which is my NAS drive. And once it's in the 36th chamber, it

is awful. Absolutely awful. If you ever wanna find a file, especially us developers have because

menu

because we're getting a little long here. But there or you can expand it. This this is not doing much because I'm already expanded fully, but Okay.

That's awesome.

were the I don't even know if they have them in their little carousel. Oh, the pink salt ones. It is a cool website. Look at this. We wanna talk about carousels.

I'd I'm not interested in learning something else or and I'll say, I I don't think it's as good. Like, whenever you talk to anybody about So it's a little bit complicated to use. And that's why people use these, like, converter websites where you simply just

clears that folder after a month or so. And so, agency that put this together, developers that put this together,

Yeah.

theater mode Oh.

Sometimes it's like a a global GSAP, but probably not.

Yeah. Totally.

Sketch is like that. You pay for 1 year of Sketch, and then you could use it

I was hoping I could just go into the chunks themselves and see suspense, I don't know if this is still a case anymore.

Jakavka.

Let's see. Yandex does the same.

But the cool thing about this is it does work on Linux, Windows, macOS,

I still use bartender big fan of it. You can also just put your mouse over it, and I'm just mouse wheeling right Node, and you can use that to change the playback speed. The one thing I and clicked, a chip They got Sanity on there.

unpick that. You can't no one's paying of node modules, So and you wanna right click on an image, you'll know Instagram does this annoying ass thing where they put, like, a div in front of it or they use a background image.

down in the south

which, again, I would love those the menu support in the browser.

it automatically

I don't know. I just go goofy trying to find it, and it makes me so mad. So I use bartender, and I wish, for a a onetime payment, and then you don't get updates after a year

So AutoMounter is a great app where you basically give it your NAS drives. You give it it your NAS drives credentials, and then it makes it so those are always mounted a 100% of the time. You never have to remount your NAS drives ever.

It's a Chrome extension called Enhancer for YouTube. And what this does

if it would go through. That'd be easy. That'd be easy to do. I mean, you build an extension. It just overlays a div or a button, overlays a button, an invisible button. You click and hold on it. It, is is fast forwarding or whatever. Yeah. It's like fast forwarding a cassette tape or a Yeah. Like that.

color pickers out there. And I really like that this one can be bound music, The it's often hard to find. Where the heck is this space going? And this is an awesome tool. And if you have an SSD, which most laptops do, it scans your entire SSD in, like some media React component.

this is the first one that I've seen that's made me consider not using Raycast because Yeah. The the Raycast JS, like, everything built in. And often I find myself being like, I just don't wanna and,

Capture Node, really great software.

and it's called search by image.

uploading or downloading, CleanShot.

to have the DVD itself ripped and then have that exist on a web server that I could then pop open and have the DVD menu in the browser and actually use it as a DVD, turns out I'm mostly British.

Czechovka Watch this bag fall over on Scott.

of a single hard drive being your backup in the same spot is not

remove duplicates in certain folders or whatever because, you know, I have automatically sending screenshots But it's the next one. Oh. I mean, it's it's

bajillions

Another one here I have for files is file automation. This is one of my favorite apps. It's for Mac specifically,

It downloading macOS update.

have a little bit more control over it. The one that I use it for the most is simply just persisting Of course, I run a time machine locally, becoming less and less of a need, Let's start with the files one. So the topics we have here are files, Man, so we have so many more for productivity,

has holes in it. You Node? People wanna talk about Linux, but then we get into graphics drivers and all sorts of things. Fact that you Scott jump on the command line to do almost anything in Tolinski. Like, that's not for normal people. You know? I I I can handle it, but I'm not gonna give the Linux laptop to somebody I love and to to have fun with it. So, yeah, I I think there's definitely holes in every single platform. And I think the macOS holes are ones that I can fix easier, and I like the general experience better overall. But, yeah, you can come at us if you you don't agree with that.

Yeah. From GSAPP. Yeah. That's a great website.

sequences per user, per

Yeah. And you can ESLint. And as far as, like, people have written ones that they have examples of that will, like, plugs, Wes? Do you have a a shameless or a sick pick for us today? I'm gonna sick pick another TV show. Ever since we had Tim from, The UI obviously isn't as beautiful as CleanMyMac, but it does the job. It finds the startup processes. It finds all of the orphan files that you might had if you deleted the app or anything like that. So,

and boom. It knows that your mouse was over top of that element, and it finds it for you, which is amazing.

and and rename itself. And that is so so handy because

Yeah. If you are out there and you're buying furniture, dupe.com

which was about this,

in vendors. I feel like this is the only podcast that would dive into a chip website.

and, like, what is it? Well, it is. It it's folders of metadata and stuff, and I've kind of looked into it to a degree

is I would prefer Chicken and waffles ones are pretty good, a little sweet, but the pink salt wild chips. What's great about these chips is that they're made of chicken breast. So they're not potato chips. They're chips made of chicken breast, and therefore, they have protein in them. What? Like a dog treat? Really good.

in Google Photos, so it's not like a full app here. But,

Maybe I'm pretty sure we could. I'm trying to find no. I can't find my receipt from it, but I guarantee it was, like, $6

an in browser

bandwidth Mhmm. You're gonna wanna check this one out.

but you cannot quick view a dot t s file most likely, you're pressing the play button on your keyboard or your mouse Wes he would, like, get he he was, like, in it with a judge, We just realized we're 40 minutes in and and hardly,

Mac is really awful at loading up that folder if it has a lot of files, and it comes to a crawl for for some reason. I don't know why. So what I have 1 is I said if this file is older than a week old, put it in the archive folder, or you could even have it like a subfolder based on the date or something. And then that way, if I wanna go to my most recent screenshots, it's only showing me the past week of screenshots, and it still loads fast instead of having this, like, really chugging slowdown.

because VLC can handle them. But this one that I have right here, INA, which is the modern media player, does not handle them. So INA does not handle DVDs, which is a bummer about INA. Although I do use VLC for a lot of things. VLC classic video app if anybody needs a a video player that's more robust than QuickTime or whatever your computer came with, and VLC works with everything. I like INA because there's it's just nice interface, easy to use, supports all the formats, and JS is, like, easy to use. But, like,

Yeah. Have you watched Severance on Apple TV? No.

I take a screenshot, and then that screenshot gets uploaded to a folder on my NAS. And, just I I yeah. I need more automation with these tools at the end of the day.

like, lawyer

that you watch a YouTube video. So mine just defaults to it, and it gives you all of these nice little features here where you can turn on

and then you Images

I really wanted to use it. That sucks.

It's great. It's open source. It does everything that Istat Menus does. So, before you spend any money on that, which I have in the past, I've I've bought Istat menu before.

had finished this 1 series called The Big Con, chances are one of those 7 websites are gonna find it.

Yeah. I I'm gonna rattle through a couple of alternatives here to other popular Mac software. Bartender is a super popular app. This one is open source, and it's ICE. It does everything Bartender does. Bartender was also just recently sold to another company, so you never know what's going on there. You know, once once it It's they've had a bug on it for months about with the new macOS, and it hasn't been fixed. It's it was obnoxious to me. Yeah. It Wes, like, asking for permissions and all sorts of stuff. I think that it's the same bug. Either way, I found ICE to be a completely fitting replacement.

because Crazy.

was intended when I'm on the show. What it Wes it's gotta be doable. I guarantee it's just, like, add to Mel

Specifically, the ones that I like Speaking of DVD ripping, I I've been ripping a lot of DVDs. So one thing, Wes, is I have The next Node here I have is and I'm sorry. This is, you know, making my Polish heritage. Yeah. I was gonna say. Yeah. This is a Polish word. I I am I I don't even can't even read this.

Scott of these, like, dropshippers are getting,

been a big big fan. A little a little much for me. But, you know,

a handful of, like, TypeScript or Automator oh, man. You don't you don't got this set up?

Yeah. Ina, open source. So you, a lot of the software we're talking about today is open source, and some of it isn't. But, you know, the Chikawa

Oh, that's so funny. But it doesn't and what else is there? Baidu shows me I find this one so good because it automatically opens all of them. And if you're looking for where an image is from, Yeah. Wild Chips.

what what you want. So if if you're pasting into

So it it's not exactly the friendliest app of all time. But if you follow the instructions on getting up and running, it does work really, really well. I I would love to have something, like, automated in this because I do have a bit of file automation where I'm sending things here, Yeah.

3 gig file for every that's all you have. You know? And then and then you gotta provide updates but I prefer the, like, Oh. Which is d or d u p e.com,

Man, that sucks. I feel like we could build this in a weekend, Wes.

Yeah. I I've never understood why finder is so awful. It's the slowest thing in the entire world, and it never finds anything. I end up almost always going to my command line and and using the find command. I I did find that the Marta,

up the Apple Music. So this will simply just if I open up converting currencies

nowadays, it's like you have to rip each individual file. And DVDs, like, I I just use Raycast for this, which we'll obviously talk about Raycast in another episode.

But when I bought this, they had a special discount. If you owned a Sony camera like the a 73 The DVD studio app that came on Mac? I remember, like, exactly the UI. You could build d v like, really I was in Imovie, but, I think there was, like, a I DVD as well where you could build really basic DVD menus. And that's actually something Oh, it was a Nero guy.

man, it's, like, really impressive. She she finds anything. So Yeah. It's it's amazing.

and,

you can If it contains the word tax,

that are about, like, scams and and peoples whose personality is just like, I cannot believe that JS a person.

So I need alternatives.

That's not even the search by image Bos. It just is able easy to find background images. But watch this. So A big fan of it.

Well, they're you're trying to figure out some numbers or trying to do some but this easy find does a much better job at allowing you to do,

is I'll just have several export presets in DaVinci and just run those. But in the past, what I would do, because YouTube has really good compression algorithms, I'll upload it to YouTube, and then I would use YouTube DL to download their highest quality version for a small, super high quality version. That sounds absurd in, when I say it out loud, but that's what I would do.

and liters. There's kind of cool stuff on here where it says next Friday plus 2 weeks, and then there's a date.

I'm going to search by image, all search engines. So I have it up set up for Google, Google Images, Bing, Yandex, Baidu, and

Another app I really like that's not open source, but, you know, I'm a big

Yeah. You know? And you could just see the pain in their eyes as the Sogou. Yeah. Sogou is Sogou.

T shirts you can buy, in macOS which app is and have them convert it, and you download it again.

Sagu. I didn't turn that one on. I don't know what that is. Heard that. Yeah. The Yandex one is the by far the best. If you're ever trying to find an image, Yandex applications. This is for consuming, converting, and

And duplicate finders, there are some that, like, Gemini, you have to pay a bunch of money for and something like that. This thing is open source.

bring on here. This is kinda interesting.

Okay. Well, don't well okay. Don't don't put this in a pressure. As an official endorsement or, like, a you might like it? Oh, well, we really enjoyed severance. And it is a little slow in in plotting sometimes, but it's very,

there are a bazillion

It's not the website. I promise. It's my, network. Alright. Watch this bag fall over. Oh. Woah.

is Wes essential to check before you press buy on that thing.

it just immediately

I have this one right here, Freestyle Session, Yeah. We have a lot more for you, and I promise they're not all Mac. Some of these are online. Some of these are all kinds of things. So, yeah, I I hope you enjoyed this. And if there's any particular tool, maybe alternatives, the things that we said in this episode, stuff that you cannot live without, drop those in the comments. We're on YouTube, so the best place to let us know is in the comment section of YouTube. We will check this stuff out. I'm I'm the type of person that downloads a massive amount of these things and gives them a try even if they don't end up being the thing I keep on my computer. Luckily, I have something like Paraclear that just removes them all for me. So, yeah, let me let us let us know what you think about these options, and let us know if you have any better options. But that's all I got. What about sick picks and shameless

hike or web piece that hit my in the different Raycast would would do this. I I

Okay. Well, I've bought ISAT menus as Wes. And, transition context provider. I don't know if that is leaning towards anything specifically.

So only find code files or

One thing that I've always wanted to build, and this is kind of stupid and potentially not possible, because I haven't really dove in. I'm gonna be honest. I really want

or I can have, like for downloads.

I

y'all got it because this thing is is gorgeous.

especially when you get into writing custom Apple scripts. But, like, I always feel like it's very, very clunky for what it is I'm I'm trying to do. And this just seems like a much better $27. I think that this is still a onetime payment. Okay. But $27 have it export

entire team. You know? That's why I talk about habit trackers. Right? All of them start off very simple, and they do one thing. And then next thing you know, it's got a full on RPG system in there where you're like, level up by completing habits and do this and share that. I'm like, I don't I just wanna track my dang habits. I just wanna color big.

Nice.

use the color picker in Figma outside of the Figma window. It is 2024, folks. There's 2 features in Figma that drive me nuts. You cannot drag an image

some developer ones.

anywhere down the the list of looking at our list. Next one I have here is EQ Mac. This one is really nice if you have multiple inputs or you wanna change the tone on some things. So I have a set of speakers here. So when I'm connected to my speaker output,

This carousel is like got a double layered navigation here.

Wes

or any of these cameras, they give you a really nice reduced price on it. Doesn't look like I see that anymore. And it didn't used to be subscription based pricing, so I have a a license for it that I've bought, and I just not have haven't gotten the latest version of it. But this application, if you're looking for an Adobe Lightroom alternative, Oh, I have another one for files here. And if you have a NAS out there and, again, on Mac, you'll know that it's constantly,

8 years or so. And what Backblaze does is it backs up your

because the drive would not be available when it wanted to be available.

Wes, if you have a NAS drive and that NAS drive has a ton of files into it. Like, let's say, every time I take a screenshot, it puts it in my screenshots folder on my NAS.

No. Thank you. This was like I'm guarantee I paid, like, $4 for it. I sit for just $20. Buy a color picker $20

man, Mhmm. Are you I don't even know I did not know you could do that. You didn't know that? Oh my goodness. So I'm learning this right now.

But also, man, gigabytes and gigabytes worth of video recordings that you're not using, especially someone like me recording a massive amount of screen recordings. Oh, I'd even I don't use all of that. Remote drive. Yeah. Oh, I use this on my remote drives all the time. It works just fine. Works totally fine. And, I I definitely rely on this as well. DaisyDisk is one of my favorites. Another of my newer favorite apps is Marta,

White labeler or dropshippers trying to to run.

Hono? Hono. Which one? It's not Hono. I say Hono, and that's all. I know. I'm do you know what? When the the Veet thing came about, it was like, there are so many different people saying it. Like, I got confused on which one's the right one. So Oh, yeah. I got that one because

if you need it, you need it. So I have this. I run it on my computer. I run it on my wife's computer.

social clips and movie clip, and I'm I'm dragging them to my NAS. I'm I keep a copy on my computer. I have a backup here. I have a backup there. And then over the course of 10 years, you end up having the same file in a whole bunch of locations. So this thing can actually,

a backup They have a very generous free version. I paid for, like, $10 many years ago.

Yes. They're fantastic, y'all. I've only had the pink salt chicken and waffles and bar buffalo ones, but they've all been amazing. So yeah. Okay. Cool. Well, that's enough for chips.

burglary proof, bur burglary.

Besides, I do not need

I don't know if they thought they won't ever implement that or if it didn't have any space, but this will allow you to say, okay. Well, I wanna open up, I have a issue open on the GitHub for Ina.

the Windows search. Wes that little dog would wag his tail on Windows XP,

a Yarn? Cool platform. Okay. This makes me wanna use GSAT more. Vercel me wanna get some chips?

and it will, by default, back up your entire hard drive menu bar apps without finding it. Because Welcome to Syntax. Today, we have, a whole bunch of apps you need for your computer. So these are not necessarily kinda scrubbing it forward JS while still watching. And I was thinking, like, man, we that'd be kinda nice for YouTube videos. You know? Like, just like if you pressed It's all chunked up, so it's kinda hard to many times in the past of, oh, I accidentally deleted that, and I I didn't have a backup of it. Or oops.

So I don't know what it is about me, but when I look at the list of 30 icons looking for and You know? It just immediately evaluates to the right, 6 gigs for Xcode. That's quite a bit. Or I'll go into my

completely reorganize. Let's say, you do have, like, a folders directory that's gotten unruly.

or fuzzy matching, or you can say only find like, you can have a bunch of presets here.

animations and stuff like that.

as a color picker so you can go back and and see ESLint of them. And it's I think it's, like, $5 a year or or something like that.

so that you can by default. You know? You shouldn't have to turn on 2 x absolutely every single time It's but it's unchecked.

And, you know, I don't know. They maybe sold

or Mac. Because, like, most of the stuff I do is on the Wes. And, like, these desktop apps are screenshots, screen recording,

Nero. Okay. Yeah. Nero with their their, like, But they are like any of my tax documents, it automatically puts it in my financial tax folder. If it's a movie, it puts it in my movies, music, screenshots, whatever. So it does all of that automated This is called Hazel, by the way. You have you didn't mention the name yet. Oh, okay. Hazel at Node soft.com. This app works really super well. I have it paused right Node. But you can set up as many rules as you want. Those types of rules can be, like, intricate. You could even call, like, Apple TypeScript from your rules and stuff like that. So you can get really, really in-depth with it, and they have a pretty good forum full of people sharing things that they're working on themselves. But I use this to, like, clean up my desktop

Vercel. And until 2 x playback I also hate it because Yeah. Every time I open a file in it, it's like the wrong aspect ratio,

That's The carousel is ESLint Carousel, which that's available.

The Windows versions are it's like, oh, well,

Vercel Adobe kind of person. I in fact, That's still more palatable than me than, like, a a subscription.

people, at least it did at some point. So, yeah, that was a easy one because it gave you a few presets. I'm making this video for the web. I need this format. Go. Okay? In a nice UI.

my photo backup directory, which is then consumed by Synology.

When did that happen? And you're able to go back in time.

whole episode. Sweet. Yeah. I'm gonna sick pick these wild protein chips. Protein chips. We're getting into snacks here.

So this,

and the search will look through all of that, and often it will find that. So this one, I've only used it a couple times, but when I really need to find a file that's on my computer and I, for the life of me, cannot find where it is, It's it's probably because, you know, people love it, and then they always go, like, corporate.

You can install via Homebrew even. Oh, man. It's it's a really cool app. Big fan big fan of it. Here's what I have Node, that is, you know, kind of related to stats and that kind of stuff. It is a command line utility,

I want my Spotify to have a little bit more bass in it. Mhmm. And I just turn those knobs ever slow slightly, and it makes it sound a little bit better. They're not super nice speakers, so,

Yeah. Let's ESLint some, utilities here because we have a we have Raycast, but, honestly, we could do a whole episode on Raycast. I have so many Raycast utilities that I use daily. So let let's take a opportunity to talk about Raycast in, another episode. But utilities, Wes, you have Istat menu. And I gotta say, Istat menu is fine, but it's fairly expensive for what it does. So I wanna put you on to this one, which is stats. It's an open source alternative to Istat Menus, and you'll happen to notice that it looks Yeah. You know what? back on track. So I I've been really stoked that

some stuff. So you can see, oh, it actually is doing something right Node, even

Mac, give us a quick view support of it. Whatever. I feel like it's because it's it's a classic Apple because it's not their format that they're gonna totally,

if you are in a different he would get people money that they're not supposed to have, and then some people were supposed to have it. And pooched by that type of stuff as well. There's this website called dupe

I don't know if they're implementing these in order or anything, but it exists on their on their radar at least. I hope so. That would be huge for me.

Yes.

that Adam Scott works at. And when you join this corporation, they put a chip in your brain so your brain does not

of it. So, like, if I say, like, then go to the associated I guess that fortunate.

couple bucks goes to Stripe for processing,

free BSD. So it works on everything.

Here here's the thing too. Where What do you think they're what do you think they're using? Parallelizing. Oh, look at those parallelizing. The an animations.

if you've ever used top on your computer to see the processes and stuff like that, like, very much like what you would use Istat for, this one is bottom or BTM. It's a Rust based one. It's really cool, really beautiful, is a application of something I've always loved JS a duplicate finder.

they're like skate DVDs or skate v h VHS tapes even Wes they were, like, produced by 1 Vercel.

It will use the metadata to put them in, like, the correct, you know, even by camera it shot on to date to stuff like that. So, I I found the software to be pretty pretty fantastic.

Alright.

Yeah. I know.

right here. Or if you wanna know, is it actually downloading something right now? Like, is this working? You know, something is stalled.

and it's never great. Like, Automator on macOS a similar Windows version of of these apps that you like, and I don't even know what this one is. So goo. I've never heard it before. But That's so funny.

it can't be viewed as text as as a TypeScript file. So it drives me nuts.

great. Oh, yes.

ice.

Yeah. And, like, you can't find it, and then you end up just screenshotting it. But, oh, but the silly things so watch this. Right click, search by image, Versus Code, it will paste as a hex. If you're pasting into Xcode, it will give you a RGB.

like, pretend that it doesn't exist. But, man, these things exist. People use it. Like, just give us a little bit of basic functionality for it. The quick view can we talk about quick view for a sec? I installed all these, like, extensions

and you cannot download

Un Dell Inspiron is is flashed in their eyes by, you know, the just a single tear I and it, like, doesn't remember it. And then sometimes the audio is, like, past the little tick, so it's, like, distorted.

Wow. GSAPP folks. Shout out to Cassie Evans, I feel like Apple is to blame for WebP

by once.

I have, like, 30 or 40 of these break dancing DVDs, b boy break in DVDs that I've had for a long time, like Freestyle Session and 8 and stuff like that. And even some of them are like, Jakavka is also open source.

under the hood. Yeah. So

Pretty good.

And being able for it to automatically Location or something. It's gonna show my IP address. Oh, okay. But Yeah. This shows me my upload and download, which is really important because often Super. Wes we'll say, hey. Scott will be like, hey. You're you're glitching out, and then I'll I'll look up at that and take a look.

It's if you have a fire, you're gonna have it. We've always we've talked many times about you have to have multiple backups, you have to have local backups, and you have to have remote backups. And one cool thing they'll do is if you do ever need a backup screenshots, screen recording, and a couple dev related ones right at the end for you there. So the first one we have here is something called DaisyDisk.

The duplication.

this was the Instagram post, but I also found it on Twitter. Right? Google search finds it in a couple places.

But, yeah, that that's definitely a thing. But I think any platform

the app, it drives me crazy when the only way to interact with an app is by some little black and white icon in the menu bar, and they all are clouds.

200 or less copies of this thing in the entire existence of it. And so many of them either exist on YouTube and are awful quality

Yeah. Oh, man.

and you just put your your finger right here, and it just goes at 2 x. Oh, you got it. Off when you don't want. So, like Oh my god. If somebody's taken a while to explain something, So 1 and a half terabytes.

So we is very powerful,

that I take. So I take a lot of screenshots anytime I wanna show anything.

this kind of love on websites anymore.

computer to the cloud. So it's not like a Dropbox where you put files in it, and it will sync it and whatnot. It's simply just a install it on your computer,

Ina, open source. I have a bunch more that I'm gonna be talking about that are open source. So that's definitely a big theme. But, yeah, this is the media player I typically use if I need to watch media.

charge you $12,000 for a a a chair, and then you can oh, it turns out that's on Wayfair as well. It's the exact same thing.

layout, forever.

And, unfortunately, I do fit your stereotype.

open it or, like, I guess you could you could put a a thing on it, it doesn't even get a half a bounce in on my dock, and it just immediately kills it. That's great. So yeah. Great great little app. You downloaded it on on GitHub. I was so happy to find that.

somebody needs to make a hand break with the UI that's a bit better. I find the UI kinda complicated. We have to add the queue and then start the queue, and there's all these settings.

it's similar.

20 minute video. So I'll run it through hand breaking. I find that that gets me the best. But, like,

Yeah. I I honestly, it looks great. And it the hard part is is that, yes, I wanna support development. I think that's great. If this JS, in fact, like, an automatic subscription and you can't just do it, then, you know, that's a different story. But I would pay honestly, I would pay $20 to use this and not pay again

So the search Let's move on to that's good because it's you're not setting it to 2 x for by default. You're simply just We'll have to do a part 2

The life of a, someone with ADHD. I could watch every TikTok at two x. Yeah. So if you simply you're watching a TikTok,

Even, like, it makes it sound better to me.

but it's file automation Scott out to the wild web development team. Did anybody get to see website. You don't see

And, like, I I haven't been using VLC lately just because it's I find it very obnoxious And

And I'm not going to run it because it takes a massive amount of your computer's resources to run it, especially if you're looking at, like, your NAS drive or something like that. But, again, I I I have all the social,

Microsoft Bing shows me a bunch of photos of white dudes holding babies.

there's so much good stuff on there that I've never heard of, and it's like a like a breath of fresh air getting a new subscription.

and it's just a much better handle on Mhmm. Doing search. There's a couple of other ones. I know Raycast is I'm in the Raycast beta right now for their built in search, unless, like, you need, like, a stream from network or something, like, weird like that. So I switched to INA as well, but then I was having issues with my videos being darker than they should be. Oh. So I've just been dragging videos into the browser to watch them. But I think I should give Ina another another shot. I have a or whatever else is going on, it tries to open up Apple Music. And the last thing I ever ever wanna do is open

Same. In analytics or

only look for JPEGs or or media, You buy Wild Chips. Wild. Wild.

That bothers me. This thing is great too. I I or don't exist anywhere Wes YouTube. I have so many of these things, and I felt like I should I should at least back them up. So I've been using a lot of HandBrake lately. There's also, another really popular software that works with everything, MakeMKV, have it separates your memory from while you're at work and while you're away from work. So when you enter the doors, your the time you don't remember anything that happens while you're at work. And when you leave, you you don't remember your whole day. And there's a whole lot there. It's

And I I realized that that's hard for people to make money on because

Courtney really has a really high level of, Yeah. It's a cool app.

You can click on it, and it will show you your Spotify is not open

being useless on the Mac because Wes, you know, people, like, rag on it for you know, they get a WebP on the in the the web or something, and they're annoyed by it. But, like, WebP is a good format. So, like, Chikava from the browser, SVG or otherwise. Like, I wanna drag an SVG from my for a website into Figma, and it cannot do that. What? I gotta drag it to my desktop and then drag it into Figma? Sketch could do that. Sketch. Sketch could do that. And same with the color picker.

Like making the we're gonna get a lot of Tolinski and Windows users, being like, well, they're just using Windows. But, yeah, I I I you get the little color picker, and it stops at the edge of the window. What are you talking about? Why?

hit it, and then it will open it up. It's on my other screen right now. But Tay West, I got I got something for you here. This is in,

and pnpm cleaner, those are like 3 utilities that I've always had to buy in the past, and I there's really nice open source versions.

unless I wanted to. Sip, you may have me back on your side. We'll see.

Oxygen too.

2 milliliter in teaspoons. Wow. This is really neat. And, hey, folks. This is Mac, Linux, and Windows. So,

values

I did a YouTube video with Raycast, and I said, you guys gotta do this feature. And they cut it out of the video because Next JS on, and he recommended Apple TV, where is all that space going is is often hard to find out. So DaisyDisk is a application.

Yeah. Totally. And, I mean, I I use it. You know what? It it boggles my mind completely that Figma

Yeah. That that would be great.

There's that.

I'll check this out, though. Like, obviously, free is is great.

GSAPP or Framer Motion?

which essentially does the same thing, which is if some Find it too.

And you can see here, I've got

if you're not into slow stuff, but it's fantastic. It's about a a corporation

which I am right now Oh my god. You just you just press it, and it it goes to two x. And I was like,

some guy came in, and he was just, like, talking about how he hates Macs so much. And he was like, I hate Apple users because they're just some hipsters wearing knit beanies in the summer. And then he looks over at me, and I'm just like, like, you were talking about me.

but I still miss

Wow.

very smart and really,

I've been a big fan of Backblaze for, I don't know, probably there's a whole bunch under utilities, productivity, Yeah. Usually, they'll have, like, a A function name or something. Yeah.

awful. So very happy with this. It takes a little bit longer, but I have, like, 2 terabytes of files,

which is a software that I do feel like price gouges you a bit. And it's, it's you know, CleanMyMac is great, but there's certainly,

this file is corrupt.

dive into the file. It can compare videos. It can compare files. It can do a search for just big files and find the largest files or empty directories and remove all the empty directories or broken files and valid sim links. And you can see this little GIF here of what it looks like in action.

like a photo. If it's a photo, it throws it into things I don't love about it. There's an open source called pnpm Pear Cleaner.

One of them that I use is this is just an automator TypeScript, and what it does is it watches for any

not just Mac folks on this one. I I didn't know about this. This is pretty awesome. Is is it open source too? Wes it's crazy that I just have a DVD sitting over here on my Wes. But

I can't live without this feature, which is being able to click on

given that we're just talking about, like, apple,

Wow. And,

One of those alternatives is for photos, and Capture Node is a really great Lightroom alternative.

I don't know, like, 10 Scott has $10. I have $12.32.

You find it Sogou?

Share your color schemes with your, if you have, for whatever reason,

either finds images if it's an image So I I even the best part about it, I think, is probably the the keyboard

another Chrome extension,

Yeah. It's on GitHub.

runs nicely in the background, and, I I use this quite frequently. It also just let like, if 1, I have a computer over here that I just use as a a Vercel, really, and Mhmm. I just keep this on the, the screen all the time, so it looks like I'm I'm cooler than I am.

the Windows version of working with media.

found my Yeah. It it was really, really cool show. That's interesting. So my wife, she always love she loves everything Scott recommends.

UI for that type of thing.

And and it will also keep all of your colors

And this one is way better than anything that's built in. So Yeah. First of all, if you ever go to, like, Instagram

Klaviyo So try

And the only bummer thing about this app is that you can't just like, you I, at least, I wasn't able to find a way that you could just download it. I actually have to launch this from the command line to get it to even open up as a a gooey.

turning them off or it's constantly disconnecting if you close your laptop or whatever. It's having to reconnect it. And sometimes that's, like, not always super reliable. And I found a specific issue when I was using Hazel is that Hazel would get angry sometimes

Big fan of this app. I tried out Vercel of them.

As always, if you want to get more syntax, you wanna see the visuals, you wanna check out this website we're fawning over, head on over to youtube

Istat menu is $12. That's not a lot. No. It's breaking the bank. It's a single it's it's a single payment too, so I'm I'm very much support of that because you don't have

HandBrake.

at $6, Bos and will kill iTunes or Apple Music as soon as you open it.

is are literally so many little apps that we use in our day to day that makes things so much easier.

seat. Every freaking company is doing this

they're probably doing that all for you. I can't imagine it's not using. And a lot of these are just using f or, like, any sort of video app is using FFmpeg underneath the hood to accomplish things. So, really, what you need is just a GUI on top of FFmpeg that isn't garbage. I used to like Node called Miro, which is there's, like, 800 apps called Miro, so it might not be the one you're thinking of. But that that ended up getting, like, completely taken over by spam, One bad.

I I I don't know how she does this because I haven't seen her do it? But let's say you see a pair of shoes that you like, and it's on someone, maybe even, like, an influencer.

it's frozen. It's not doing anything. So I'll click on it and say, oh, no. I see my Firefox or whatever is still uploading data.

bleed all over the top. So ICE is really good. And then another one is a lot of people use CleanMyMac, very aesthetic. It's it's a really cool show. It came out a couple years ago, and season 2 is just about to come out. So Yeah.

these are Anything. Yeah.

It's it's very customizable.

a hit rate with JS on the iPhone, I believe within Google itself,

I'm gonna pick 1 called Overkill for Mac, and this is simply a app that runs on your computer

Wes, Node time when I worked at the I worked at a computer store in college, and I had my, like, knit beanie on in the summer because I was, like, one of those ones with the brands. You know? I was that kinda kid. And,

Vercel image search is the best. So you click on it, and it opens tabs for every single one. Holy cow. And look at that. So now if Google

Yeah. Totally. I I, I do that all the time. I agree about the interface for this. So what I do or what I what I do now, Yeah. The chunks are hard because, well, you gotta look in every single chunk.

The real one is is

There's a CLI version for it. There is a GUI of it. It looks like it's from 1992.

open image, we learn French in here in Canada.

of this episode, over time. And as the files change, it will just kinda back them up.

to a keyboard shortcut. So I just have hyper p and it automatically open up my color picker. Oh. And then you can also

Check out stats here.

and it scans my entire hard drive very, very quickly.

Handbrake is one that I use all the time for my own videos because Oh, really? If I need to like, I'll export them at, like, super high quality. And then if I need to make them available for download because Wes wanna watch offline, to pay $4 a month for the rest of your life.

Okay. Shout out to the wild team. Every single chip is its own element. Oh, it's built on Shopify This is 5,000,000

So

I've done that in the past as Wes. YouTube and Vimeo, they have very good compression.

app that I I Node, the search on it JS not at any faster than finder. So I think there's something with the indexing in it. But since you have the terminal right there, you could use find directly from there. But I I've always wanted an app that has a a better find. Is this Node fast, you said? It's pretty fast, but the the thing about find like, I asked on on Twitter a couple months ago, and everyone's like, just use grep or find on whatever. But, like, that doesn't search inside of files. Like, if I'm looking for, oh, I had a API key in in one of these files, I wanna see Wes did I reference process dotenv Scott something convert it to Pnpm, or I can just right click on something, convert to JPEG, quick action, super nice.

up your files. And it saved me

Yeah, man. Polish is tough. I'll tell you that. Actually, Wes, did you know I found out that I'm only, like, a quarter Polish? Yes. I thought I Wes, like my whole life, I thought I was much more Polish than I am maybe just because of the last name, but,

it's a wild, wild story. So it's called The Big Con. I'm doing a bad job at explaining it. But if you love docuseries inches and

or or make sure that, like, I have a a temp folder Wes I just made a temp folder. And anytime I have a file that I just wanna keep temporarily,

the And, yeah, I have no interest in

interface, essentially. You know, like, if you rip Node of your DVDs,

files. That's the node modules for you, and it's just continuously backing And then the other one they have, you see right here, I'm not gonna click it because it's gonna show my

between ice Scott sending things there, and then maybe like this to run on an interval and,

75 gig? Ah, DaVinci Resolve and Xcode. Mhmm. You know? 7 gigs for DaVinci Resolve,

you might not even realize that, you've thrown Yeah. The problem is is that you cannot

which is a nice file browser for Mac OS. It has really good keyboard support. It has a built in terminal.

Let's go back.

Rescan.

a view into what's going on and where all that space is. So often, I'll find myself running out of space on the computer, and I'll just go into it and be like, alright. Well, like, what seems odd here? You know? Like, oh, applications. What's

users, and they'll say, oh, oh, okay.

and it will give you Yes. People hate Mac people so much. But, anytime we're doing any video stuff, I like to keep an eye on CPU and GPU, make sure that I'm not maxing it out.

I've I've been using DAISY disc

find Wes, like, on my NAS drive. Right? I I use my NAS drive. It's just like just throw anything in there. And oftentimes, for ripping full on DVDs, just ripping them straight up. And, you can rip them to MKV, but you can also rip them, I believe, as a full disk,

So you see here, I've been waiting for about 20 seconds, and it's a it's like 20% through. So it takes a minute or 2 to scan your entire disk, and it gives you really good insights as to where the hell is that space taken. Yeah. I, keyboard shortcut.

It feels

1.6 terabytes in my folder. Oh, it's my videos. You have 600 gigs of of videos.

for ever and ever and ever. And if somebody like me JS visual, I use it a lot even to

Where do we wanna start, Wes? What are you thinking?

what's out there. So, yeah, if you have an alternative to these, please leave it in the YouTube comments below, and that way Wes can help other people out. Wes, so many of these things are gonna be focused on productivity. But if you wanna make sure you're productive in solving your issues and software, you're gonna wanna head to century.ioforward/

Yeah. Because I'm not I'm not personally familiar enough with Windows or even, I'm a Wes Linux to a degree, as a platform to know exactly

syntax. Sign up and get 2 months for free. This makes it really easy to solve and find bugs all over your application to make sure you're not wasting any time. This show is presented by Century.

good enough Windows Vercel. Or if Riverside, Sometimes you can inspect

Okay.

and they are good. They're super Sanity. So we're gonna go through I think we have a list of 30 of them, and there's gonna be some serious nuggets in them. A lot of these are going to be fairly focused on the Mac version. However,

a 100% development applications, but these are applications that Scott and I cannot live without just as people who work on computers, but like, you can't give them a throw it in the comments below if there's a when I'm at the cottage, go with a Chrome extension.

a And a lot of times, it's, oh, my back blades is running, and I'm I'm maxing out my upload, If I could type there we go. Then you can

the question of It is GSAPP. There we go.

often will run out of space. And and this is for people who like to just have, like, a scratch pad in their Versus Node.

if you have a Mac, you'll know that Apple squeezes you, absolutely squeezes you when you're buying your laptop. And, it'll say, alright. Well, it it comes

So I have a 2 terabyte hard drive here, and I still

utilities, we will try recommend

media,

And then if you want anything other than through the 3 gigs it gives you, it's like an extra $5,000.

Raycast,

And you can drop a folder or scan your entire hard drive, I think should be added to all software, and I'm gonna add it to my course player, is the the TikTok press on the left to speed up.

Yes. It's a cool app, and, But Yes. So thank you so much for watching or listening, and we will see you in the next one.

That's what it says. Open my terminal. I haven't been using this for, like, a a a month or two here because I was waiting for this update. So Oh, okay. Yeah. I wanna try this.

interesting this this author who made this is is really kind of a fascinating dude. He wrote this DSL

this development has resumed on this thing. Yeah. And, yeah, that that was it for me. I think there was a couple of little bugs, and I just got this new update today. So, hopefully, there are no more bugs, but you never know. Right? Either way, it's a cool app that I don't think people know about. There's probably no more bugs.

you can get using it for free. There's no there's no, like, barrier there. And you can support their development of it if you'd like to to do that via Patreon. But it is. I found it to be great. It's fully customizable. And as a tinkerer and somebody like that, I spent way too long working on a syntax theme for this. So That's great.

YAML or something. You could see it's like it's kind of like Stylus. You remember Stylus? It's it's kind of like that as a a DSL for modifying this, and there's a whole bunch of built in themes. There's a plug in API, burning,

quick search disk usage. There's a lot of stuff here. And for a long time, he wasn't updating this at all. But as you can see, there's a new blog post as of August 2024,

Reveal in finder. Access to, like, the kind of stuff that you would want.

files on the terminal, and it will reflect it up top.

Alright. Next Node we have here, and it might be Sherlock'd by the app you just recommended, but it's one called EasyFind.

that is kind of like JSON mixed with,

But for the most part, it's great because you have the dual pane setup. That's, like, very common in many file browsers outside of Finder. You don't have to worry about tabs or anything like that. And what's really neat about this project is that there's this

So I I wrote a theme for it and you can do all kinds of things. You can extend it in all sorts of ways. And I think it's fantastic.

shortcuts and all that stuff. Can you show,

yeah. So Marta dotsh, this is one of the few things I do actually,

Okay. There we go. There you go.

easily zoom in on this. So it's very small if you're watching on YouTube. So there's no easy way for me to to zoom in on this. Maybe See. Look at my screen right now. How are you doing that? I hold down

I know how to do Wes you hold option and use the the Yeah. Or you You hold down option and you use your or hold down control and scroll your your mouse wheel. You have to turn it on. Scroll.

Well, either way, this is it. And as you can see, there's nice little,

you know, really good keyboard shortcuts and Right click on something? I would love to have a a DVD man menu support. It fills our details. And and, Wes, actually, if you look at we just recorded an episode on side projects, and I mentioned I have a big running to do list of side projects. One of my big side project ideas is a DVD menu in the browser. So

subscribe to on Patreon. So I am a patron of this. And this thing is fully extendable too. I even did a bit of a syntax theme for for mine JS you can see here.