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Programmer Tang Lei
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Let your brain relax this week and stop pushing technology to dry goods. Continue the topic "If you want to do good things, you must first sharpen your tools." Those who want to see dry goods can watch this technical album.
In the previous article, I recommended a Mac must-have software, and the corresponding plug-in-if you want to do well, you must first sharpen your tool-Alfred
today I continue to recommend some other software that I think are better .

Near Lock

This app really fits the meaning of the title, pictures and pictures.
This is the 13 artifact mentioned in the previous article. Haha I bought it when I was engaged in an event. I still forgot about 1 yuan.
NearLock[1] This software is a combination of Mac + iPhone. It uses Bluetooth for distance sensing and can automatically lock/unlock Mac computers.
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above picture of Near Lock , I put the screenshots of the mobile phone and the Mac software together. The inner and outer layers are the screenshots on the Mac and the mobile phone. You can see the distance between the phone and the Mac. The current unlock/lock screen status can be set. Lock screen/unlock distance threshold or modify the lock setting to sleep or screen saver.
Imagine that you are working on a computer, and suddenly you call. In the past, you might need to manually lock the screen and then take the phone outside (a place where you can answer the phone) to answer the call. (If you don’t lock the screen, colleagues will find you shouldn’t watch it. The thing is not good! :)
In fact, it is more about information security. In a company like this, people who leave the computer without locking the screen will be deducted if they are reported. After receiving the phone and returning, manually enter the password to log in to the computer.
And since having this software, just leave with the phone, the software will automatically lock the screen for you. When you come back, just sit in front of the computer screen, and you will see the software automatically enter the password for you to log in to the system (it’s cool to witness this process) ).
Not to mention saving time, how tall this looks. So this software is an artifact for installing X.
Interested students can develop support for Win/Android. (Ah, 6 years have passed, it's all in 2020, and no one has developed Win or Android versions yet?) You said, if you make a version, will it be popular?

RescueTime

This is a time management software. This software can quietly help you record your computer usage, including statistics on the time used by various software, classified statistics, and also supports multiple platforms (win/mac/ubuntu/android/ etc.), and can report regularly. For example, a weekly report will be issued by email every week to report on your usage during the week.
Key points: If you are on a company occasion, please pay attention to information security. It is best not to install similar software on company computers.
For example, the following figure shows my
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weekly report for a certain week: rescuetime weekly report The weekly report
shows that I used the computer for nearly 47 hours that week, with a comprehensive productivity score of 79%. This productivity score is calculated based on the weight of different time you use different software.
Some general software, RescueTime can automatically identify, for example, software such as iTerm2 or VisualStudio may belong to the Software Development category, which belongs to the very productive level, and the use of Wechat or QQ is judged as distracting. Of course, you can customize the settings. Some software itself does not recognize it, and you need to manually set the level.
For specific web browsing data, you need to install the corresponding Chrome plug-in. You can see more detailed records in the web version of
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rescuetime detail report
. You can also set some goals. For example, if you need to use the productive software for more than 3 hours that day, RescueTime can report on how you accomplish your goals.

The
free version of rescuetime report is also sufficient, and the paid version can view data such as a longer period of time or more detailed annual reports.
Maybe this software can help you manage your time better, or it's just a great effort to help you record your computer/mobile usage. So I recommend everyone to use this software.
Again: Please pay attention to information security.

Moom

This is used for window management.
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Moom can
use this software to manage application windows conveniently and quickly, allowing multiple windows to be neatly placed on the desktop.
After setting the shortcut keys, activate and add the arrow keys to enable the current application to accurately locate and fill 1/2, 1/4, etc. of the desktop, or move to another screen (multi-screen programmers are more widely used).
Of course, you can also set it yourself, such as 3/4 full of the entire screen and so on. Functions that can be done directly with keyboard shortcuts, you don’t need to move your hand to use the mouse/trackpad to maximize/minimize the window size, etc.

Karabiner

This is used for keyboard mapping.
When I first used it, it was because I used an external keyboard (as shown in the picture below). I put the external keyboard on the built-in notebook keyboard, and I needed to disable the built-in keyboard. It is of course troublesome to manually adjust each time. So I found this software to help me.
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hhkb pro2 type-s
Haha, the small USB elbow on the picture is also very important. When only using the laptop scene, with this small elbow, my HHKB just covers the original keyboard area.
Show me my current equipment. In the company, there are usually external monitors, and the external keyboard is not placed on the notebook, so the upper elbow is not used. Equipped with a lifting table, a must-have for programmers. Sitting for a long time is not good, and occasionally you need to stand for office work (to prevent lumbar disc herniation).
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hhkb pro2 type-s-new
It can help me automatically switch the external keyboard and the built-in notebook keyboard (plug and unplug the USB external keyboard automatically switch), in addition, it also supports many functions.
For example, because the HHKB I used does not have a separate arrow key, and it is particularly awkward to use the built-in combination arrow key, you can use it to help mapping.
For example, I chose to enable Vi Mode and use s + h/l/j/k (or ctrl + p/n/b/f to enable Emacs Mode) to represent the arrow keys. (In fact, many shortcut keys in Mac are the same as those in Emacs).

Handle

Switch applications quickly.
Long press the alt keyboard to pop up the switching menu, and then add specific numbers or letters to quickly switch, no need to press cmd+tab or cmd+shift+tab to switch back and forth.
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Manico

This fast switching application can actually be implemented by Alfred introduced in this article recommended by Stone.

MacDown

md document editing.
Markdown text editor, supports WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get, What You See Is What You Get) Similar to Mou, MacDown directly supports similar latex syntax, for example, you can easily enter mathematical formulas with $$2^x + log_2y^{2+z }$$, because of its better and more convenient support for such mathematical formulas and code highlighting, so I chose MacDown.
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macdown
if you do not know what is Markdown, you can take the time to learn some.

cheetsheet

Shortcut key prompts
only need to long press cmd to pop up the shortcut keys of the currently active software.
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cheetsheet

iStat Menus

Resource status
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iStat Menus
status bar displays the current computer's operating status, CPU/memory/network IO, etc., for example, if the computer is suddenly slowed down, and the CPU is soaring, you can easily capture which application it is. Don't see that the CPU utilization is full of the small boxes. When you hear the computer fan "whooping", you still operate the computer.

CleanApp

Clean up the computer to
clean up the computer (remove software) tool, similar to tools such as CleanMyMac. In fact, I think this kind of software is not very useful on the Mac. If you want to delete an App, go directly to the /Applications directory and delete that application directly.
Because Mac application data basically exists in the /Applications/xx.app directory, although on the surface xx.app is an application file, double-click it to run. It's just that CleanApp/CleanMyMac can delete more *.plist and other similar configuration information (this takes up very little space).

Parallels Desktop

For the software/webpage of virtual machine
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parallel-win8
, we still have to use Win system, such as the online banking of some banks, or the OA of our company (note: this company is our company at that time, not our current company) The system (wall crack despise) only supports IE.
At this time, I have to use the Win system. The most commonly used virtual machine under Win is VMWare, which is similar under Mac. But the advantage of this software is that the Win system can run under this App and can be "seamlessly" connected with Mac. Similar virtual machine software includes VirtualBox, VMWare, etc.

Squirrel

Input method
This is an open source input method software. I tried it for a while, but in the end it was troublesome to synchronize the thesaurus (for example, it was not convenient to synchronize the input of the mobile phone with the PC), so I gave up.
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The picture above is the input effect of "Ming Wu Meng" with "Xiaohe Shuangpin·Sentence Stream", Chinese and English mixed input + Emoji expression, I was attracted to this effect at first and tried (but I didn't control it later) .
High-end players can try this input method. It is highly customizable and can be configured into your own unique input method.
"Players" who want to try/experience can refer to this article to install and configure the Rime input method on Mac-Squirrel[2].

in conclusion

To summarize, in the previous article, I recommended the Mac artifact-Alfred, and this article recommended the following apps:

Time management RescueTime
Window management Moom
Keyboard mapping Karabiner
Application switching Manico
md text editing MacDown
Shortcut key cheetsheet
Install the X artifact Near Lock
Resource status management iStat Menus
Software uninstall CleanApp
Virtual machine Parallels Desktop
There will be an article after the input method Squirrel , I will recommend some artifacts dedicated to programmers to help improve efficiency, so stay tuned.
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