Bitwarden password manager.

 

Focus To-Do: Pomodoro is a very useful, full featured and multi platform task tracking application developped by « Super Element ». Available on Microsoft Store, iOS App Store and many other OS and devices.

2025 news regarding browsers (Spotify podcast by Syntax)

Browser	Rendering engine	OS
Apple Safari	Webkit	iOS, iPadOS, macOS
Brave	Chromium	Android, iOS/macOS, Linux, Windows
Chromium browser	Chromium	Linux (Ubunto) Debugging Chromium on Linux
Arc Dia	Chromium	BETA MacOS
Google Chrome, Chrome Canary	Chromium	Android, iOS/macOS, Windows
Opera	Chromium
Microsoft Edge	Chromium	Android, iOS/macOS, Windows
Mozilla Firefox	Gecko	Android, iOS/macOS, Linux, Windows
Zen	Gecko

Playwright.dev : End-to-end testing for modern web apps on any modern browsers.

1. NodeJS
2. Git and follow Git set-up instructions.
3. ViteJS, Webpack or the obsolete GulpJS for older projects.
4. Depending on the project:
   1. MAMP or WAMP for PHP & MySQL on localhost.
   2. Docker Desktop a localhost multi-stack server that is more modern then the above MAMP/WAMP solutions.
   3. Ray for PHP debugging on local host.
   4. Python
   5. Ruby
   6. Java
      (On macOS you should install Java via Homebrew)
5. BrowserSync
   1. Use a plugin for Microsoft Visual Studio Code.

Since Canva baught it, Affinity is now a $ free unified application supported on both MacOS, Windows and soon on iPadOS.
One single application now contains the 3 previous solutions, Vector, Photo and Layout plus the Canva Ai.

1. Options for a live interactive mockup system:
   1. $ Figma app : Figma is a webapp for fast design interactive UI mockups. But it is also available as standalone app on your station allowing better notifications throughout the OS.
   2. $$$$ Axure for a wopping 5000 $/year licence.
2. Affinity $ free standalone application (multi OS app) in which the Layout is for designing UI mockups.
3. FontBase : Multi OS $ free font manager app.
4. Gimp : Photo editing à la Photoshop.
5. Google Stitch : Vide design of user interface (UI) via Ai agent.
6. SkyFonts : To sync and manage Google Fonts on my work station.
7. InkScape : Vertorial drawing app. Great for SVG files.
8. Just Color Picker : Multi OS $ free app.
9. Color Declination Picker : Online open-sourced Webapp from Mozilla Developer Network

If you need to Uninstall Adobe CC app on Windows you will need the official official Adobe CC Uninstaller

1. Microsoft Whiteboard
2. Mindmeister : Collaborative online mind mapping.
3. Miro Mind Map : Collaborative online mind mapping.
4. Miro Whiteboard

Miro webapps tutorials on Youtube.

1. Audacity : $ Free open source audio editor with a GUI like iMovie allowing multi-track editing and can export as .mp3 but also .wav, AAC .m4a or high defenition .flac files.

1. Claude Code
2. Typora.io : ($15) Markdown.md file editor for all OS (Windows, Linux & MacOS).
3. Visual Studio Code : $ free source code editor from Microsoft.
4. Webstorm : 120$/year (USD) source code editor from jetBrains.

1. PoEdit : Translation editor for .po files.
2. DeepL : ($10,50) Translation SaaS application for all OS.

1. Slack.com by Salesforce.
2. Teams by Microsoft.
   • Turn on and use «Annotation» while sharing your screen in Microsoft Teams. Annotation is kind of a plugin powered by Microsoft Whiteboard within Teams.
3. Comments within Figma

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1. Sensei : All in one Mac system overview + TRIM allow SSD disc maintenance.

1. $$ Sketch App was the leader standalone applications on the market for designing UI mockups until Figma took the crown. The price is less an issue then the fact that it is code for Apple Cacao and will never expand on other OS.

1. Warp Terminal is a modern solution for command lines with integrated AI. It replaces iTerm2.

 

1. windirstat (Windows Directory Statistics) : A disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for various versions of Windows OS.
2. Windows Defender Antivirus : Previously known as Windows Security Essentials for older OS then Win10, this is on of the best ($ free and clean, without spam) antivirus available out there since at least the mid 20tens.
3. WinMerge : Compare and merge ANY files, regardless of their origins.

1. System Color Picker : Stand alone color picker.

1. 7-zip : Compressing and uncompressing files.
2. Agent Ransack : Search within files on your PC.
3. Ant Renamer : Batch renaming files.
4. System Color Picker : Floating color picker with magnafier.
5. PickPic (or Greenshot) as screenshot capture and edit tool.

   Set file naming preference to format as %y-%m-%d_%hh%n — %s in order to get « 1999-12-31_23h59 — 59.png » as default file name so dates match MacOS format.

6. Pure Text : Clean text formating from clipboard copied text contents.

1. Bash emulator that emulate the UX of Linux Terminal:
   1. Git Bash (MINGW64) included by default within the installer if Git for Windows.
   2. Optionals emulator
      1. cmder
      2. Git for Windows
2. Windows Subsystem for Linux : This WSL lets developers run Linux environments (including most command-line tools, utilities, and applications) directly on Windows, unmodified, without the overhead of a virtual machine. Replaces the obsolete Cygwin.
3. WinPython : Running Python on Windows OS (7, 8 and 10)
4. Wox launcher : Fast task launcher for Windows

1. Netflix for Windows

1. Deezer app for Windows
2. Spotify app for Windows
3. SoundCloud for Windows