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Luke Likes: Apps on my Computer.

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Here is a tour of my favorite apps on my computer.


We're back with another Luke Likes!
This video is all about the productivity apps that are currently on my computer. It's quite the list, but I've definitely found value in keeping all of these picks around. And you never know — you might just discover a new favorite of your own :)

If you have any questions, feel free to leave them below. And if you have any suggestions for related apps that are not on my list, drop them in the comments. I'd love to check them out!

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FEATURED APPS:
1Keyboard
1Password
AirFoil
Alfred
Airy
AnyDesk
Atom
Audacity
Bartender 4
BetterTouchTool
Carbon Copy Cloner
CleanMyMacX
DaisyDisk
Dropbox
EasyFind
Flux
FontExplorerX
Gemini II
Giphy Capture
HandBrake
iA Writer
iMazing
iShredder iOS 4
iTerm2
Keka
Little Snitch
NeoFinder
Quicken
SizeUp
SmallCubed MailSuite
Subtitles
Things
Transmit 5
TunnelBear
Tyme (Tyme2)
Typinator
Transcript

Hey, what's up? I thought it be a cool idea to show you my favorite apps that I use. I'm going to go through them very quickly. Let's go. 1Keyboard. It allows you to connect to Apple TV or your iPhone, and type with your keyboard from your computer, or even another computer. 1Password, password manager. Love it. I have a video on that. Airfoil. It allows you to make a radio station so you can transmit from 1 device and pick it up on all of your devices. So kind of a hacky stereo [surround sound] system for your home. I love to use it when I'm cleaning. Alfred. There's a whole video on that. Airy. It allows you to download YouTube videos in high quality. The ones that have the proper rights. AnyDesk is a software where you can remote into other computers, Or have someone remote into you. I use it a lot whenever I'm helping friends out at. Atom. It's a text editor used for coding, but I use it for all sorts of things. Audacity, it's a free audio editing software. Pretty powerful. Bartender. It customizes the top menu bar, so if you have a lot of menu bar icons it doesn't look messy. BetterTouchTool. Also, one of my favourites, have videos on that. Carbon Copy Cloner. You basically clone your hard drive. Whenever I'm setting up a new computer, I clone the hard drive right after. That way I never have to do a full set up again. CleanMyMacX. This is really good for cleaning up the computer and uninstalling applications,and finding all the hidden files. If you buy [download] the free version, you can go to uninstall, and just see where the files are [and] delete them manually. It's a little gamification, and they have some menus. That show up all the time and bother me, so I make sure to close everything out after I use it. It is valuable though. DaisyDisk is an application where you can visualize how much space things are taking up and identify big areas where you can clean up. DropBox. I'll do a video on that later. EasyFind is a program that is just kind of like Mac search in the Finder, but much more powerful. Flux. It kind of fixes the blue screen on your computer. FontExplorerX. It's for managing fonts. Way better than FontBook. The UI is a little weird, but it's the best there is. Gemini 2. It finds duplicate folders. Whenever I'm sorting through my duplicates, I put one set in one folder, one set in the 2nd, and then check them out, and you can choose to remove all duplicates from one particular path. Giphy Capture. [lukestop] It's a really cool free screen recording program. Handbrake. It converts videos to smaller sizes. If you want to convert a movie for your iPhone or something. I, a writer, it's just a pure text editing program. To compose, it's really cool. I amazing it backs up your iPhone and you're able to go to your older backups and search through the content. Whenever I backup my iPhone like every month or so, I'll delete all my messages from my phone. That way it's a little bit more secure if something happens and I can always go back and search for my message is kind of annoying, but secure. I shredder is an application that will totally delete your iPhone and write over it multiple times, and it's very secure if you need to get rid of an iPhone or give it to someone else. I turned 2 is in terminal. Program I like it 'cause it's more customizable than terminal and you can also add margins on the edges so it's a little bit cooler. Keca makes zip files. It has the weirdest little icon, but it's super simple. Whenever I want to make a zip file rather than right clicking and going to great archive, I just do F-11 with Alfred Open with and then open it with Becca and then will automatically create a zip file and then it also creates segmented zip files. So if you have a 3 gigabyte file and you need to send it over the Internet, you make segmented zips 25 megabytes. Each which is faster to upload to the Internet and then whenever the person opens the first sip, it puts them all together. Little Snitch is a program that monitors all incoming connections from your computer and any program you can accept or deny them. It's kind of annoying in the beginning, but it's a really secure way to see what's talking to the Internet. Neo Finder. It helps you index your hard drives of a video on that quick and also have a video on that size up. It's a window management program, so you can do left, right. Top down corner corner. You get the point. I have a video on that too small cubes. It's a plugin for Mail which allows you to send later an make fancier signatures and stuff subtitles. Whenever you acquire a movie legally, you just open the movie file with this program and it'll download the subtitles. Pretty cool things. It's a task management program. I'll do a video on that later. Super cool. Kind of expensive but totally worth it. Transmits an FTP program or file transfer protocol for uploading stuff to the Internet or your web server tunnel. Bear it's a VPN. It's super easy to use and you can use it on your phone too. Time it's a time tracking software which has a lot of keyboard shortcuts. Time two is better than time. Three is the new version. Time three sells more shortcuts to set up an finally typinator. It's a text expansion program that I use, and I did a video on. Kind of a long video, but if you have any questions you can email me at hello with productivity is dot dot CEO or General Productivity Shop Slack Channel. See you later.

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