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What software should I buy to have a macOS VM on my Linux machine?
There are multiple companies that rent out access to a Mac in the cloud. I used one of them for a few months when I had to port an Android app to iOS, which needs a Mac to compile. If you only need ...
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What software should I buy to have a macOS VM on my Linux machine?
Is it possible (and legal) to buy a macOS license to have it as a VM on my Linux machine?
No - at least not according to Apple's software license agreement for MacOS. The license agreement for MacOS ...
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What software should I buy to have a macOS VM on my Linux machine?
As others have said, the only way to legally virtualize Mac OS X (according toApple's EULA) is on Apple hardware. So the purchase you need to make isn't a software purchase, it's a hardware purchase: ...
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What software should I buy to have a macOS VM on my Linux machine?
I'm currently using Ubuntu, but there are still some apps I wanted to use on macOS. I found macOS-Simple-KVM.
However, there will be a bit of tweaking you'll need to do before being able to use the ...
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Photoshop alternatives for Mac?
For any platform I cannot recommend GIMP enough.
Cross Platform OS-X, Linux, Windows
Free, gratis & open source
Very powerful
You can also extend it with a large number of plug-ins but I would ...
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A mac app for screen annotation?
You can use Presentify. It lets you annotate your screen and also highlight your cursor/mouse. You can draw over anything, be it images, pdf, browser, videos, and the list goes on. The app is ...
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Crossplatform encrypted file container alt for TrueCrypt?
VeraCrypt is a free, open source disk encryption software for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux. VeraCrypt can create a virtual encrypted disk within a file or encrypt a partition or storage device.
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OS X app to show GPU usage?
At least as of macOS 10.14 Mojave, this is now built-in to Activity Monitor. Choose ‘Window → GPU History’ (or hit ⌘4):
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Code compare and merge tool for Mac OSX
Here are some suggestions:
FileMerge (opendiff)
It's no longer bundled with Xcode Command Line Tools, you must install Xcode from either the App Store or the Apple Developer Website.
DiffMerge
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What git GUI tool on Windows and Mac
For a cross platform git GUI you could try GitKraken:
Cross-platform
100% standalone, i.e. just install it and it runs (you don't have to even install git).
Built in merge tool
Free (Gratis) but ...
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No-nonsense mp3 player for Mac?
VLC Media Player is the best for your requirement
Doesn't ask for any "Import" or "Creating Music Libraries"
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Command line SQL formatter or beautifier
Prettier integrates with editors and Git, has a command-line interface, and a SQL plugin.
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Mac OS X log file viewer
Take a look at lnav, the Logfile Navigator. It has most of the features you're interested in, as well as many others:
Row Highlighting - You can set bookmarks on lines with the m hotkey. You can ...
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Screen-recording GIF 'video' tool for Mac OS X
I recommend Kap, an open-source screen recorder built with "web technology."
It seems it only supports macOS as of now, but you might be able to add Windows support by a simple PR, as it is using JS.
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Cygwin alternative for OSX pbcopy?
I've got the following in my ~/.bash_profile, which essentially adds OS X's pbcopy and pbpaste to Cygwin:
if [ -e /dev/clipboard ]; then
alias pbcopy='cat >/dev/clipboard'
alias ...
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Record screen section as animated GIF
I know this is an old question, but..
Peek is a little open source program designed for doing exactly this. It has packages in most major linux distributions, though I don't know about OS X support.
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Syntax highlighting text editor for Mac OSX
Visual Studio Code is another great option for a text editor. It's Microsoft's lightweight alternative to their Full featured IDE "Visual Studio".
I've been using this lately, and it's been great. ...
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What git GUI tool on Windows and Mac
TortoiseGit is a good one for Windows. It integrates into the context menu and allows you to right-click on files/folders and perform Git operations. It also overlays icons so you can see at a ...
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Time calculator - a tool to compute the days between two dates
On OS-X you already have python installed and on windows it is easily installed so you can simply do it on the command line, from your example:
>python -c"import datetime as dt;d=dt.date(2016,7,18)...
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Pocket's Permanent Library without Subscription
If you are willing to self-host the server part, Wallabag might be your choice. It's free & open source (find it at Github), and would meet your requirements:
Save web article source in a format ...
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Improved python interpreter
Have you considered using IPython? It is an interactive shell with lots of powerful features like syntax highlighting and history. It works on all major platforms.
If you have problems with ...
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Photoshop alternatives for Mac?
For many years, the main alternative to Photoshop I have found is Pixelmator, although the new kid on the block is Affinity Photo. Both are built for the Mac and are in the $30-40.
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Handwriting OCR
Handwriting recognition is a hard problem as a general issue. However you mention forms, in this case assisted recognition may be possible if the form consists of character fields in groups with ...
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Illustrator (*.AI) compatible way to do work?
You can edit AI files in a Mac with Inkscape, a free, open source vector graphics editor. Inkscape is a professional quality vector graphics software that is used by design professionals and hobbyists ...
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Which Git GUI software provides side-by-side split view for comparing files?
Git was created for linux kernel development and those guys feel at home on the console and also like to send patches by mail every now and then. So the inline changes are the default. It's also very ...
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Command-line tool for creating simple drawings
You can use imagemagick. It has a command line tool, GUIs also available.
Drawing a rectangle can be done like this
convert logo: -fill none -stroke black -strokewidth 3 -draw "rectangle 10,10 630,...
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Extract individual headshots from group photo
Thanks to @StarGeek (relevant Reddit post), I was able to write a small script for this.
To get the environment set up in Python 3 (on a Windows 10 machine using Anaconda), I went through the ...
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Regex Desktop Tool for Offline Use (Cross Platform)
Are you looking for a tool to run regular expression searches or to help develop & test the regex?
Cross Platform Regular Expression Tool
I am a big fan of Robert Kern's python grin tool/library.
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Good alternative to this diagram tool https://github.com/francoislaberge/diagrams?
You simply can't beat MSC generator. It is cross-platform, full featured and well supported (Zoltan generally replies very quickly to emails requesting support or new features).
It takes its input ...
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