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TeXShop

To remove Aux files that might be causing typesetting problems, click File -> Trash Aux Files (Ctl-Cmd-A)

BibDesk

Importing BibTeX records in BibDesk from Title, DOI, or just the PDF YouTube intro by Ken Mankoff.
mankoff/BibDeskAppleScripts
BibDesk AppleScripts by Andreas Fischlin
TeXShop & BibDesk:

Enable BibDesk plugin by checking TeXShop -> Preferences -> Source -> Editor -> BibDesk Completions.
The required bib file must be open to be used with the current tex document.

List of Utilities Included with MacTeX (2015)

TeX - main TeX program
XeTeX - extended TeX version with Unicode and native font support
LaTeX - macro package
AMSTeX - macro package
ConTeXt - macro package, includes and works with LuaTeX and XeTeX
TeXShop - GUI front end for TeX Start Here Note: Had to change engine path to /Library/TeX/texbin to make typeset work.
Ghoscript-9.16 - postscript interpreter used by some TeX utilities. But can use the /usr/bin/pstopdf distiller that comes with Mac OS X.
BibDesk - editor for BibTeX databases
LaTeXiT - a utility to typeset LaTeX equations and export the resulting PDF by drag and drop
TeX Live Utility - Package manager for updating TeX Live 2015 packages. Can configure paper size in TeX. Calls tlmgr, the command line utility.
Excalibur - a spell checker for TeX source code
BasicTeX-2015 Useful commands to know:

tlmgr update --list
tlmgr update --all
tlmgr update --self

Hello LaTeX Example
Write a .tex file in a text editor, save in MiniPaper folder (or whatever name):

% this is hello.tex
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
   Hello, \LaTeX!
\end{document}

Compile using Makefile

$ cd ~/MiniPaper/
$ make hello.pdf

Preview the results

$ evince hello.pdf &

Select templates using \documentclass

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List of Utilities Included with MacTeX (2015)