Mac Pro is designed for pros who need the ultimate in CPU performance. From production rendering to playing hundreds of virtual instruments to simulating an iOS app on multiple devices at once, it’s exceedingly capable. At the heart of the system is an Intel Xeon processor with up to 28 cores — the most ever in a Mac.

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The most commonly used keyboard shortcut in my Mac OS X experience is the COMMAND + SPACE shortcut. This shortcut launches Spotlight, which helps you find pretty much anything on your Mac, including applications, files, folders, websites, preferences, and so on. I use this shortcut primarily to: launch applications, switch between running.

Contents

2 Software
3 Trackpad Gestures
4 Keyboard Shortcuts
5 Command Line
- 5.1 Command Line Utilities
6 System Settings
- 6.1 Operating System

In recent years, I’ve had the opportunity to experience the Apple Mac OS X platform on a 13″ Macbook Pro Retina as my “daily driver.” I’ve been using the Macbook Pro, instead of my Dell Latitude E6430, on a daily basis, and wanted to share my findings with the world. To offer you some background, I’ve been working in the IT field since 2004. I work heavily with technologies such as Windows Server, Linux, Python, PowerShell, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and System Center.

Under this section, we’ll talk about some of the essential software packages that you should have for your Mac. You might find that some of these tools are useful for you, while other tools may not be applicable to you. Since I work heavily with enterprise cloud and automation, some of these software packages will be specific to software developers.

TeamSQL

If you’re working with relational databases, such as MySQL, Postgres, or Microsoft SQL Server, there’s a free, cross-platform GUI tool called TeamSQL. The app has a nicely polished user interface, and is pleasant to use.

Authy

If you need a two-factor application that is synchronized across desktop and mobile devices, check out Authy. You can use Authy for two-factor authentication (2FA / MFA) for services like Coinbase, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and others. There’s a Mac, Windows, Android, and iOS version of the application.

DB Browser for SQLite

If you need a program to manipulate SQLite databases, you can download the free, open source package called SQLite Browser (DB4S).

dbKoda

If you’re a software developer, working with MongoDB, you might want to check out this free, open source tool to help manage MongoDB databases. It’s a tool called dbKoda, that runs on Mac OS, that’s developed by an Australian software company called Southbank Software.

Disk Inventory X

Is your disk getting full on your Mac? Check out the Disk Inventory X utility, similar to the WinDirStat application for Windows. This utility will help you identify applications and files that are using up a large portion of your disk space, so that you can delete them and free up some storage space for new files. Boxes, shaded with different colors, represent individual files on the filesystem, and will draw your visual attention to them. Larger boxes indicate larger files, while small boxes indicates smaller file sizes.

Hyper

A company called Zeit has create an alternate terminal interface for Mac OS X named Hyper. Hyper is based on GitHub’s Electron user interface API and is built on web standards. The source code for the Hyper project is available on GitHub.

Royal TSX

If you’re working with the Microsoft Windows platform, you’ll frequently need to use Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) to connect to remote systems. The same thing applies if you are managing Linux systems remotely, where you’ll typically use SSH to connect to them. The software package called Royal TSX provides a plugin-based architecture, whereby you can perform many different types of remote management tasks from a centralized interface.

iTerm2

If you’re a heavy command line user, iTerm2 is an essential package. While Mac OS X has a built-in terminal application, it leaves a lot to be desired.

Tmux

If you’re looking for an alternative to the screen command, which allows you to open multiple terminals in a single window, check out tmux instead.

Atom Editor

The Atom Editor is a great, graphical text editor that’s useful for programming tasks, anywhere from Bash, to Python, Ruby, JavaScript, CSS and HTML. What’s really neat about Atom is that it’s being developed by the team at GitHub. Similar to the well-known, but infrequently released, Sublime Text tool, Atom offers a framework for extensibility, and a package repository containing many useful add-ons.

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Another great feature of the Atom Editor, if nothing else, is that it has built-in Markdown rendering. If you’re looking for a simple, free tool to view and edit your Markdown, Atom might be just the tool you need!

Microsoft Remote Desktop Client

The Microsoft Remote Desktop Client for Mac enables you to access your Windows systems remotely. For those who are unfamiliar with RDP (Remote Desktop Protocol), it essentially allows you to remotely connect to your Windows computer and treat it as if it were running locally. If you’re using a Mac, and need access to a Windows-specific application, such as PowerShell, this quickly becomes extremely useful.

You can connect to Windows virtual machines that are running in the Microsoft Azure public cloud, which allows you to rapidly spin up, or spin down, Windows-based virtual machines on-demand. You only pay for what you use, and as long as you shutdown (deallocate) your VMs when you’re not using them, you’ll keep your monthly bill pretty small!

Microsoft Office

Although Apple includes their own document editor, spreadsheet program, and presentation software, if you’re already familiar with Microsoft Office, then you’ll probably want to keep using it. The Mac version of Microsoft Office has some shortcomings, that the Windows version doesn’t have, but for the most part, it is going to get done about 90% of what you’re looking for.

As a heavy user of Microsoft PowerPoint, one of the things that I noticed was missing out of the Mac version is the Selection Pane. On a Windows system, with Microsoft Office, the PowerPoint Selection Pane allowed you to quickly rename objects on your slides, and toggle their visibility. For me, this was a great workflow enhancement, but I’ve been able to get by without it. I’m hopeful that Microsoft will add this back in a future version.

Google Chrome

There isn’t a lot to say here, for users who are already familiar with Google Chrome. However, if you haven’t heard about Google Chrome yet, it is pretty much the best web browser in existence. Tight integration with your Google accounts, high performance, and. This browser is well-known for using a lot of memory, but that’s actually a good thing. Barring any major software bugs / memory leaks, the more memory a program uses is a reasonably good indication that it will be able to more quickly respond to user input.

VirtualBox

On Mac OS X, there are a variety of virtualization solutions that can help you run Linux or Windows on a localized Virtual Machine. Although you can easily deploy virtual machines in cloud platforms, such as Microsoft Azure or Amazon Web Services (AWS), in situations where you aren’t connected to the Internet, you might need to run a Virtual Machine locally on your Mac. That’s where Oracle’s VirtualBox solution comes into play. VirtualBox is a free and open source (FOSS) software package that enables you to create virtual machines in a matter of seconds.

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I was able to successfully use VirtualBox to install a Windows 10 Enterprise Build 1152 using the ISO file from MSDN. I plan on using this VM for software testing, particularly with PowerShell.

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