Useful Mac OS Apps

1. Homebrew

Homebrew is the most popular package manager for Mac OS X

intallation:

/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"

Run the following command once you’re done to ensure Homebrew is installed and working properly:

brew doctor

updating Homebrew

brew update

upgrade all outdated apps

brew upgrade

2 Homebrew cask

Homebrew Cask extends Homebrew with support for quickly installing Mac applications like Google Chrome, VLC, and more. No more dragging and dropping applications!

brew install caskroom/cask/brew-cask

3 NodeJS

brew install node

XQuartz

The XQuartz project is an open-source effort to develop a version of the X.Org X Window System that runs on OS X. Together with supporting libraries and applications, it forms the X11.app that Apple shipped with OS X versions 10.5 through 10.7.

brew cask install xquartz

4 Wine, WineTrick

Wine is an open source program for running Windows software on non-Windows operating systems. While it’s most often used on Linux, Wine can run Windows software directly on a Mac installation:

brew install wine
brew install winetrick

after, you can run windows executables like this.

$ wine program.exe

or you can open windows executables with right click on Mac OS.
download an install “open with wine” Mac OS context menu from here

intall windows program using wine

wine setup.exe

making application shortcut for Mac OS Open up the Script Editor. You should see a window with a large area you can type in near the top: this is where you write your AppleScript. In that area, type the following text:

tell application "Terminal"
    do script "/usr/local/bin/wine ~/.wine/drive_c/Program\\ Files/$PATH_TO_PROGRAM.exe"
end tell

You’ll need to replace $PATH_TO_PROGRAM with the path from the Program Files directory to your program executable.

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Date: 2017-11-23 10:20:00 +0000