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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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Open-source image organiser with face recognition (alternative to Picasa) with OSX/Linux support
There are few alternatives:
digiKam (GPLv3) [Mac, Windows, Linux, BSD]
An open source image viewer that allows you to directly zoom into large collections of tens of thousand of images from tiny ...
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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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Free PDF comparison tool
DiffPDF nowadays is an paid software for Windows only, but it was previously free and also available for OS X. You can still download such a previous version.
It allows both visual and textual ...
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Free PDF comparison tool
compare (command from ImageMagick)
If you want to compare the visual appearance of page 4 of a.pdf with page 6 of b.pdf, you can use ImageMagick's command line tool compare. Here is a variation of ...
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Open-source image organiser with face recognition (alternative to Picasa) with OSX/Linux support
You should have a look at digiKam, as of all the alternatives that I have checked it comes closest to fulfilling your requirements:
Full screen preview with basic zoom in/out abilites
Image thumbnail ...
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DjVu reader for Mac
Of all (scarce) DJVU viewing software for OSX i so far find DJView the most feature rich among gratis software.
responsive continuous scrolling - Check
must be standalone (not browser plugin) - Check
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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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Syntax highlighting text editor for Mac OSX
Take a look at Atom. "A hackable text editor for the 21st Century"
It is very similar to TextMate or SublimeText, written by the folks at GitHub, and it's open-source. Its core value proposition is ...
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Screen-recording GIF 'video' tool for Mac OS X
ScreenToGif
General
Free & Source code available
Simple to use
Portable
9 MB small
No limitations such as time or file size limit
Features
Record your screen and save directly to a gif looped ...
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App to quickly generate correctly resized iOS app icons
Asset Catalog Creator is a simple (and free) icon tool.
It supports iOS and OS X icons.
One of the great things about it is that it supports the latest icon assets (as of iOS 8).
A big con is that ...
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App to quickly generate correctly resized iOS app icons
Icon Dog is perhaps the best free solution out there for automating the process of resizing app icons. It supports iOS and Mac icons, including the sizes for Apple Watch and CarPlay apps.
In addition ...
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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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Advanced OS X Charting Tool
Since you have a programming background, you may want to consider using a JavaScript charting library to visualize your data. Your data set will probably fit one of the many chart types available ...
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Software for star charts
You can almost certainly do all of the above with Stellarium:
Free - Libre & Open Source GPL2
Cross Platform Windows, OS-X & Linux
Sky
default catalogue of over 600,000 stars
extra ...
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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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Cross-platform LAN messenger that can run on multiple user accounts of the same machine at once?
Softros LAN messenger supports both the Windows and Mac OS X platforms.
Pros:
An Internet connection is not required.
A dedicated server or server-client is not required.
It supports Terminal ...
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Free PDF comparison tool
For your use case, comparing the text and discarding all formatting and non-text elements would work well. You can run the pdftotext utility on each file and then a text comparison tool on the result. ...
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Nano-like terminal text editor supporting undo/redo, softwrap
VIM
(vim is out unless there's a way to use it with key combinations rather than modes.)
Funnily enough, once I really thought about this, I realized that vim is the answer.
vim has all the "must ...
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Cygwin alternative for OSX pbcopy?
Apparently Cygwin has /dev/clipboard, so you can do stuff like echo test >/dev/clipboard.
See also Fun with Cygwin's /dev/clipboard
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Cygwin alternative for OSX pbcopy?
Microsoft Windows has a native solution that you can also use in Cygwin: clip. For example:
systeminfo | clip
Further details: Microsoft TechNet.
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IDE's (Integrated Development Environments) geared towards Web Development, for OS X
You should take a look at the Eric IDE:
From your list:
Mac - Yes & Windows & Linux
Ruby on Rails and/or Python PHP (least important) - Written for Ruby & Python
Debugging (in the browser,...
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Software for accessing documentations offline
For OSX there is Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash) free to try out, but costs $20 to remove delay when searching docs (last time I used it anyway). Really slick interface!
For Windows and Linux there is ...
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Swift and Objective-C code analysis and style tool
I've found SwiftLint and Tailor, which both enforce Swift style and convention best practices.
Both can be run from the command line as an external tool, or integrated with Xcode.
Both are well-...
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Free UML Drawing
Take a look at yEd - Graph Editor, either via Wikipedia , or via its Product Site. Here is a quote about it (from this last link):
yEd is a powerful desktop application that can be used to quickly ...
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Access OS X filesystem from Android over WiFI
There are several good file explorers available which offer network access. To have them accessing your Mac, you just need to setup shares. Here is a little howto which explains the Mac part1 for the ...
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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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