My Favorite Things on macOS

Firefox - is a free and open-source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation using the Gecko rendering engine to display web pages. Since version 84 Firefox has had native support for Apple Silicon Macs with the M1 chip.

     

Magnet - de-clutters your screen by snapping windows into organized tiles by either dragging windows with your mouse or using keyboard shortcuts. Worth every penny.

 

Middle - a simple app that adds middle click functionality to your trackpad or magic mouse.

 

Clipy -  a free and open source clip board manager. Highly customizable and a super lightweight.

 

Android File Transfer - not having built in Android support in macOS is a real pain. This app will allow you to browse and transfer files between your Mac computer and your Android device.

 

AppCleaner - a small application which allows you to thoroughly uninstall apps, their associated files, and hidden folders with a simple drag and drop interface.

IINA - a beautiful modern media player for macOS. Version 1.20 includes native support for Apple Silicon.

Amphetamine - a simple app that keeps your mac and displays from turning off/locking. Great for when you when you need to do work without interruptions.

Cog - a free and open source audio player. Plays every audio file you would want in a simple and well laid out interface. I miss foobar but this is the closet thing I've found on MacOS.

Pixea - a small, fast and Apple silicon optimized image viewer.

Pixelmator Pro - an image editor with an extensive collection of tools for editing and retouching photos, creating graphic designs, painting, drawing vector graphics, and adding effects. Supports Apple silicon and has excellent tutorials and manuals.

Simple Comic - a CBR and CBZ comic book viewer. Light, fast, and with a plethora of options.

Brew -  a free and open-source software package management system that simplifies the installation of software on Apple's operating system macOS.

Revert Firefox 75 Address Bar Behavior Changes

browser.urlbar.openViewOnFocus = false
browser.urlbar.update1 = false
browser.urlbar.update1.interventions = false
browser.urlbar.update1.searchTips = false

Kirisakura-Kernel for the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL

Thread on xda Forums

Switch Back and Recent Buttons in Android Pie

adb shell

settings put secure sysui_nav_bar "space,recent;home;back,space"

Android ADB & Fastboot Cheat Sheet

The Android Debug Bridge (ADB) is a toolkit included in the Android SDK package that allows you to control your device over USB from a computer, copy files back and forth, install and uninstall apps, run shell commands, and more.

Reboot to Normal Mode

adb reboot

Show Devices

adb devices

Reboot to Fastboot Mode

adb reboot fastboot

Fastboot is a diagnostic protocol included with the SDK package used primarily to modify the flash filesystem via a USB connection from host computer. It requires that the device be started in a boot loader or Secondary Program Loader mode, in which only the most basic hardware initialization is performed.

Unlock Bootloader

fastboot oem unlock

Reboot Fastboot

fastboot reboot bootloader

Load Recovery

fastboot boot <file.img>

Install Recovery

fastboot flash recovery <file.img>

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If you are having trouble with fastboot not executing commands and constantly having fastbootb display: < waiting for device > with your OnePlus 3T device, please make sure you have the correct device driver installed. It should be seen as a Kedacom USB Device> Android Bootloader Interface.

Customizing Touchpad Gestures on the Asus Zenbook UX305CA

To enable 3 finger middle click instead of opening Cortana install mMouse. It can be found on Ceez's blog.

Asus Smart Gesture software sends out Winkey + S to system, when executing a 3 finger click gesture. mMouse catches the input and sends a middle mouse click instead (WM_MBUTTONDOWN).


To add 3 finger back/forward swiping in Firefox you need to edit the Asus Smart Gesture TPProfile_Win10.xml file with this one line of code:

<ap name="firefox.exe" class_name="MozillaWindowClass" target_name="MozillaWindowClass" title_name="" target_type="3" support="33413" pan_filter_x="4" pan_filter_y="4" zoom_filter="1" pan_type="3" es_filter="4" es_type="3" zoom_type="6" rotate_type="0" swipe_type="3"/>

Since it's a system file you're going to have to open notepad with admin privileges.  Hit the start button and pull up Notepad. Instead of left clicking it, right click and select "Run as Administrator". Then select Open File (Ctrl+O) and navigate to the TPProfile_Win10.xml file.

It can be found under: 
/C:/Program Files (x86)/ASUS/ASUS Smart Gesture/AsTPCenter/

 Depending on your system settings you may have to set the open file dialog box to show all folder contents.

My Favorite Things on OSX

The lack of a proper package manger or app store makes setting up a new OSX install a pain. Here are links to my favorite programs to run on OSX.

Internet

Firefox -  is a free and open-source web browser that uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards.

Dropbox - is a file hosting service that offers cloud storage, file synchronization, personal cloud, and client software. Allowing you to save your documents and take them with you no matter where your working from.

Transmission - is a BitTorrent client which features a simple interface on top of a cross-platform back-end.

Java - is the foundation for virtually every type of networked application and is the global standard for developing and delivering embedded and mobile applications, games, Web-based content, and enterprise software.

Flash - is a multimedia and software platform used for creating vector graphics, animation, browser games, rich internet applications, desktop applications, mobile applications and mobile games.

Hardware

Logitech Gaming Software - Lets you customize functions on Logitech gaming mice, keyboards, and headsets.

One Toolkit - Mac toolkit for unlocking, flashing, rooting the OnePlus One Android phone.

Android File Transfer - Browse and transfer files between your Mac computer and your Android device.

HoRNDIS - is a driver for Mac OS X that allows you to use your Android phone's native USB tethering mode to get Internet access.

360Controller - unofficial Xbox 360 controller drivers with an included preference pane for managing settings. For use on OSX 10.9 and above.

To uninstall the 360 controller drivers remove the following files and reboot your mac:

• /Library/PreferencePanes/Pref360Control.prefPane

• /Library/StartupItems/360ControlDaemon

• /System/Library/Extensions/360Controller.kext

• /System/Library/Extensions/Wireless360Controller.kext

• /System/Library/Extensions/WirelessGamingReceiver.kext

Media

VLC - is a free and open source cross-platform multimedia player and framework that plays most multimedia files as well as DVDs, Audio CDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols.

Decibel - is an audio player tailored to the particular needs of audiophiles, supporting  FLAC, Ogg Vorbis, Musepack, WavPack, Monkey's Audio, Speex, True Audio, Apple Lossless, AAC, MP3, WAVE and AIFF.

XLD - is a tool for Mac OS X that is able to decode/convert/play various 'lossless' audio files. The supported audio files can be split into some tracks with cue sheet when decoding. It works on Mac OS X 10.4 and later.

• Place XLD plugins in ~/Library/ApplicationSupport/XLD/PlugIns 

Kid3 Tag Editor - audio tag editor can edit the tags of MP3, Ogg, FLAC, MPC & WMA files in an efficient way, convert between ID3v1 and ID3v2, set the tags of multiple files, generate tags from file names or vice versa and import from freedb, MusicBrainz and Disco

Google Play Music Manager - you can upload music from your computer to Google Play and then listen to your favorite songs on your mobile device or computer.

Mac Utilities

Quick Silver - is a fast and free Mac OS X productivity application that gives you the power to control your Mac quickly and elegantly. Quicksilver learns your habits, making your everyday chores simple and efficient.

Better Touch - is a great, feature packed app that allows you to configure many gestures for your Magic Mouse, Macbook Trackpad and Magic Trackpad

Clip Menu - is a freeware application that can manage clipboard history. Allowing you to save copied text and pictures in an easily accessible drop down menu from the Menu bar.

Disk Maker X - is an application built with AppleScript that makes it very easy to build a bootable drive for installing OSX .

Tuxera - Full read-write compatibility with NTFS-formatted drives on a Mac. Access, edit, store and transfer files hassle-free.

Keka - is a file compression software for OS X, that specially implements p7zip (a 7-Zip port) among others.

Xee3 - is an streamlined and convenient image viewer and browser. It is similar to Mac OS X's Preview.app, but lets you easily browse the entire contents of folders and archives, move and copy image files quickly, and supports many more image formats.

Atom - is a free and open-source text and source code editor developed by GitHub for OS X, Linux, and Windows with support for plug-ins written in Node.js, and embedded Git Control.

• Atom reports anonymous usage using Google Analytics, to turn off this "feature" go to Settings>Packages and search for Metrics. You can disable it with the toggle switch.

Productivity Software

Libre Office - is a free and open source office suite, developed by The Document Foundation. The file formats of Microsoft Office are well supported, though some layout features and formatting attributes are handled differently in the application or are not entirely supported in the filters.

Gimp - is a free and open-source raster graphics editor used for image retouching and editing, free-form drawing, resizing, cropping, photo-montages, converting between different image formats.

Miscellaneous

Simple Comic - Simple Comic is an open source freeware comic book and manga viewer for Mac OS X supporting reading both directories of images and comic book archives.

Disable Spotlight

sudo mdutil -a -i on

Remove the Spotlight Icon from the Menu Bar

sudo chmod 600 /System/Library/CoreServices/Search.bundle/Contents/MacOS/Search

Enable TRIM SSD Support on OSX 10.10.4

sudo trimforce enable