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title: "My Favorite Little Apps, Part 2"
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pubDate: 2023-01-21
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A few months ago, I wrote about [my favorite little Mac apps](/posts/my-favorite-little-apps). This post was originally published on my portfolio blog (which I have since merged with this one), so it had more of a focus on web development and productivity, so I wanted to write up a part 2 with more general-use apps I use frequently.
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### Vinegar
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I use YouTube a lot, but I hate their video player, and the constant ads are obnoxious (nothing is worse than watching a dev tutorial and having it get interrupted by an ad for Wix). Vinegar is a Safari extension that replaces the YouTube player with a standard HTML 5 player, and blocks ads. It's made YouTube so much more enjoyable to use on both my Mac and iOS devices. I suggest getting it in a bundle with Baking Soda, which replaces custom video players on other websites with standard HTML 5 players.
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[Buy Here](https://apps.apple.com/us/app-bundle/fizzy-water-bundle/id1601247237)
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### Rocket
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Rocket gives you quick and easy access to the full swath of Emoji with a simple search function you can either access via the menu bar, or in any text field via a trigger key (for example, Rocket pops up when I type `::`). And that's just the free version! With the pro version, you can store and search custom text snippets, ASCII art, images, and even gifs. Furthermore, you can search various symbols and glyphs like ↺, ◆, ∭, etc...
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[Download/Buy Here](https://matthewpalmer.net/rocket/)
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### QLMarkdown
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I do 90% of my writing in Markdown (heck, this blog is just a collection of Markdown files), and I wanted to see if there was a way to preview Markdown in QuickLook. After some searching, I found QLMarkdown! While it is an app you install to your Applications folder, it is primarily a QuickLook plugin that will display any `.md` file as a fully styled Markdown preview. The app itself is simply a interface to change various settings for how you want the preview to look and function. Best of all, it's open source!
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[Download Here](https://github.com/toland/qlmarkdown/releases)
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Or, if you use Homebrew, you can install it with `brew install --cask qlmarkdown`.
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### Keka
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Even though MacOS handles ZIP files, and other similar formats, it does have some limitations. I used the Unarchiver for many years, but I recently discovered Keka. I find it to be faster, and has a lot more options for compression and encyption if you're into that.
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[Download Here](https://www.keka.io/en/)
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@@ -12,15 +12,15 @@ Anyway, here’s my overview...
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- Desktop - This is empty, because I don’t keep anything on my desktop.
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- Developer - Now this is where git clones go. Mostly web projects, a folder for all my work repos, and the [Playdate SDK](https://play.date/dev/) from when I was fiddling with that a couple months ago.
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- Documents - Basically just a folder where Divinity: Original Sin 2 keeps its saves, and where I keep various Pages documents and PDFs for some reason (I should probably sort through that at some point)
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- Downloads - Self-explainitory. I tend to keep this clean manually and with Hazel scripts, so there’s nothing of note in here at the moment.
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- Downloads - Self-explanatory. I tend to keep this clean manually and with Hazel scripts, so there’s nothing of note in here at the moment.
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- Movies - Empty, except for my TV.app library.
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- Music - Same as above, except with my Music.app library.
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- Pictures - My Photos.app library, as well as a hodgepodge of scanned photos, drawings, desktop wallpapers, and GIFs I like. All sorted by folder, of course. I’m not a monster!
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- Postman - From when I tried Postman, and then immediatly switched back to Insomnia.
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- Postman - From when I tried Postman, and then immediately switched back to Insomnia.
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- Public - I don’t think I’ve ever used this folder.
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- Sites - Same as above.
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- Sync - A synced folder, used by an app called Sync, that syncs little bits and bobs like shell scripts and Hazel rules between my 2 Macs.
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I didn’t bother listing my Library folder because there’s not much to say about that–it’s the same as it is on anyone else’s Mac.
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On an additional note, I would really like an iCloud Drive folder in the home directory. I could add one with an alias or symlink, but it just seems weird to me that it’s squirilled away in the Library folder, crytpically named ‘Mobile Documents’.
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On an additional note, I would really like an iCloud Drive folder in the home directory. I could add one with an alias or symlink, but it just seems weird to me that it’s squirreled away in the Library folder, cryptically named ‘Mobile Documents’.
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