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What are the apps which you use most ?

Started by December 17, 2014 09:15 AM
19 comments, last by JeffCarp 9 years, 10 months ago
IOS:

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Editorial (Python code able text editor)
Pythonista (mobile python IDE)
Documents By Readdle (Local document management)
Dropbox(cloud storage)
Flipboard (News)
Inkpad (Open Source Vector Drawing app)
Art Set (Traditional art set painting app)
Wiki Offline (offline Wikipedia)
Snapguide (DIY guides)
Speedtest.net (never trust Comcast)
Glassdoor (job search (jobless right now))
White Pages (reverse phone lookup)
iTriage (medical info)

Much more where that came from, but yeah.

They call me the Tutorial Doctor.

is the clock on the top-right an app?

"Recursion is the first step towards madness." - "Skegg?ld, Skálm?ld, Skildir ro Klofnir!"
Direct3D 12 quick reference: https://github.com/alessiot89/D3D12QuickRef/
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(My primary development box runs on Mac OS X, but I also have older Windows 7 and Xubuntu Linux systems setup for testing builds out on)
Sublime Text 2*
clang* (C++ building all day long!)
iTerm2 for general usage of the shell via BASH*
git*
SourceTree
Google Chrome*
GIMP
Xee3 (image viewer)
nvAlt (additional notes)
These are some of my everyday, MUST HAVE or DIE apps :-)

Telephone and sometimes Short Message Service. It is a phone and I have been told that is what you do with it.

Telephone and sometimes Short Message Service. It is a phone and I have been told that is what you do with it.

Same here. The telephone and the SMS app. After that comes email, Skype, and Facebook Messenger.

Occasionally I use the flashlight app I downloaded and my bank's mobile banking app.

Telephone and sometimes Short Message Service. It is a phone and I have been told that is what you do with it.


That's a depressing attitude from a developer.

Smartphones are kind of amazing when you think about it. You have a pretty powerful computer in your pocket with a camera that puts most of the first decade of digital photography to shame. We now have reasonably fast access to the entirety of the Internet almost anywhere at any time. And all this is affordable to the average consumer.

But people are still mired in the mindset that "it's a phone".
It's not a phone, it's a portable computing device that has a telephony app.
if you think programming is like sex, you probably haven't done much of either.-------------- - capn_midnight
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Telephone and sometimes Short Message Service. It is a phone and I have been told that is what you do with it.

Why do you send SMS if it's "just a phone"? You were meant to call and talk to others on the phone, not type messages.

Just upgraded to Windows 8.1 after sticking with Win7 for years.
QtCreator (IDE) with MinGW (compiler)
Mercurial Hg for source control (currently using SourceTree as a UI, but I have mixed feelings about SourceTree)
BitBucket for Hg hosting
MSPaint for art
PaintShopPro for art (was on XI for years, just upgraded to the latest a week ago)
foobar2000 for music
DropBox
Office 365 for MS Word (semi-frequent use), MS Excel (occasional use).
Windows Explorer w/ Notepad + images for game design notes - would like a better tool, but it looks like I'll need to program it myself.
Audacity for the occasional ripping pieces out of music tracks to save for audio design reminders
Steam, GoG, and HiB for games
WinLaunch for quick-launching applications
Spybot Search and Destroy for security w/ MSSE (now integrated into Win8 by default, but available as standalone for Win7 and Vista)

Why do you send SMS if it's "just a phone"? You were meant to call and talk to others on the phone, not type messages.

Need a small piece of information from someone's head, but it's not urgent? Shooting off a text can save you time, since you don't have to deal with the small talk. It also doesn't put pressure on who you are calling to pick it up right now, if they are busy or if their hands are still covered in wet concrete, blood, or grease. They can deal with it when they have time to, instead of rushing to wash their hands.

Need alot of information? Shooting texts can waste time, as you have to go back and forth and deal with human misunderstanding. Calling is quicker and less frustrating when you expect there to be a dialog or when you have to explain something.

The right tool for the right job.

Telephone and sometimes Short Message Service. It is a phone and I have been told that is what you do with it.


That's a depressing attitude from a developer.
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But people are still mired in the mindset that "it's a phone".
It's not a phone, it's a portable computing device that has a telephony app.

I know that wasn't addressed at me, but since I'm in the same boat:

For me personally, I already have a computer. I'm rarely more than thirty feet from it. Ten hours a day I'm sitting at it. I can't justify the $1500 cost over two years for a second computer in my pocket, so I just use a cheap flip phone with a slide-out qwerty keyboard.
I know that smartphones are computers. I intend to port my games to them. But it's not something I personally need to own.

You say that it's 'affordable' to the average customer. But that's mostly by disguising the cost with the intention of tricking the average customer to spend more than they are intending on something they don't really need. You pay for the phone in a small upfront fee, monthly payments, and then need to pay data costs ("But it's unlimited! Unlimited means free, right?"). rolleyes.gif

I already have a computer. I don't need a slower computer with a smaller screen and locked-down market. I already have the internet - I don't need a second inferior internet connection at a higher price. You pay extra for mobility. It costs extra for a second computer. It costs money for a second internet service.

I don't deny the very nice benefits smartphones bring - but not everyone needs those benefits, and not everyone who pays for it actually gains productivity and benefit from it. It's just not worth it to me, at those costs. The data plan alone costs $720 over two years (assuming $30 * 24 months over the regular cost of a normal cellphone). I'm already paying $1080 over two years for internet service, I don't need a second $720 internet service, even if I already had a device or bought the device upfront instead of subsidizing it.

I find it hard enough to justify my regular cell-phone costs, as anti-social as I am. laugh.png

Sometimes I do feel outdated, preferring desktops over laptops, laptops over tablets, and so on. But whenever I consider the costs to make a new purchase, I come to the conclusion that I want desktops over laptops because I want power over mobility, and I don't gain enough benefit to justify the extra costs of having both power and mobility.

Mercurial Hg for source control (currently using SourceTree as a UI, but I have mixed feelings about SourceTree)


I'm curious ... what are your mixed feelings? Personally, I love using the app for daily git stuff, but I find that the hg UI feels a bit ... lacking to me. The UI terminology changes for doing what is conceptually the same thing in the git UI -- thankfully, most are obvious to me -- and otherwise behaves in a completely different fashion than what I am use to with the git UI.

Granted, most of my complaints are probably just out of ignorance of hg (I know just the bare minimum to get around on the command line, and nothing of the app conceptually) ... it is also probably true that abstracting the UI seamlessly between git and hg is fundamentally incompatible as they imaginably go about doing things differently (i.e.: deleting a branch).

I'm fairly new to source control in general - I've only been using Hg about a year and a half (and SourceTree for only two months). At first I tried TortoiseHG, but ended up just using the command-line for most features, despite not being a command-line person. smile.png

My main complaint with SourceTree is that the interface is laggy - it feels like it's written in Java or something; not serious freezing or anything like that, just half-second delays here and there when changing tabs that contributes to an overall perception of laginess. I don't mind the layout of the interface itself, but it feels "unintuitive", while still being simple enough that it's not really a problem - I can still find everything I need.
I just feel like well-designed programs are a natural extension of who I am as I work (the difference between features being located "where they should be" vs memorizing where they are - though "where they should be" is likely subjective). My criticism of it is probably overblown - the lagginess of it on my previous older dev machine was my only "real" complaint, but since I got a new machine that is no longer a problem, and I'll probably stick with it for the time being.

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