Hidden FREE Mac Apps!

Apps are for babies. Let's explore command line packages through Homebrew for Mac!
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0:00 Homebrew, BABY!
0:50 Installing Homebrew
1:55 How to install packages
3:00 MAILSY - temporary emails!
5:00 An app I put on EVERY Mac!
7:50 TASKELL - the free Trello killer!
8:23 Homebrew package and directory info
9:35 TASKELL (cont.)
12:24 SPEEDTEST - without ads!
13:35 ATA - ChatGPT, but good!
16:20 WIFI-PASSWORD - keychain access from the terminal
17:52 MAS - Mac App Store, but text!
20:43 MPV - the VLC killer
22:09 2048 - yep, that game
22:35 HTOP - Activity Monitor, but not garbage
23:58 YT-DLP - YouTube Premium, free
25:50 IMAGEMAGICK - Convert ANY image, ever

[Auby]

These YT videos are what set Snazzy Labs out above the crowd for me years ago. Glad to see he brought back his unique skills!

[MarioMastr]

20:52 iina on mac is actually based on mpv. there's an option to build mpv as a library (what is called libmpv) and this is what iina uses

[jacksonjacksonjacksonjacksonja]

9:06 - Quick tip, an even easier way to just open the current directory you're in from the command line is by using the command "open ."

The "." means the current folder, and the "open" command just opens that specific folder in finder. If anyone reads this I hope that helps you! haha

[Practical-IT]

Useful tip... CTRL+L is the keyboard shortcut for the clear command. As a bonus, it also works on Linux and Windows (PowerShell). Save those keystrokes!

[hdkv]

Homebrew can also install GUI apps (casks). And you can automate installing all of your software on new Mac just by two commands, which is awesome.

[calinnilie]

A great workflow I found is to save the installed packages using `brew list` and `mas list`, and then easily reinstall them if I wipe my OS or move to a new computer.

[ze_kel]

2:37 This is incorrect. Python3 does ship with a mac today, the only issue is that to use it you have to type python3 which is non conventional and a lot of scripts\tutorials expect python3 to use "python".
3:11 Shortcut is command+K

[grahamhealy]

btop has way more functionality over regular htop which you may find useful! :)

[cameronwagstaff]

“If you’re not familiar with Vim… you’re gonna need to learn Vim”
Thanks, this hits even harder when you know Vim

[MarioMastr]

25:27 shoutout to the sponsorblock community for having an incredible sense of humour 😂

[RyanMorsheadable]

While Snazzy's audience is generally more technically savvy, it would have been good to warn people that running scripts downloaded from the internet poses a security risk - not something the average person should make a habit of.

[diegorovaglia]

Yessss this is EXACTLY the kind of “obscure” macOS content that I want injected right into my veins

[therealsimdan]

Two more things about brew that make it awesome:

1. With brew casks you can install nearly any Mac GUI app. Google Chrome, VLC, Steam, 1 Password etc.
2. You can feed brew a list of packages and casks to install all at once.

Together with the MAS utility in the video, going from a clean computer to having all of your utilities and apps installed becomes a breeze. No need to go to each app's website/App Store page and installing apps manually. Still need to sign into each app though.

[adam]

As an old time Unix guy this video makes me very happy. I'm about to upgrade my Mac and this is a good prompt to install a package manager on it.

[stebesplace]

I wonder what the oldest code in OSX is at this point. Like, is there a BSD line dating back to the late 90's? Don't know why this video made me think about that.

[heyjustj]

This is what sets snazzy labs apart from the rest. Giving that extra edge to what many tech focused channels miss… because frankly it’s becoming lost on the majority of people. So many have “grown up” with technology don’t REALLY have much of an understanding of how it works other than pretty the superficial. It feels like the bar is so low that if you can remember your password or scan a QR code you are tech savvy.

I work in marketing but have a fairly decent background in technology so when I open terminal your average employee thinks I’m a “hacker” haha. I’m also who IT tends to go to see if I can get around stuff that they are deploying to the rest of the team that is using Macs, but I really don’t know much. Just enough to get myself in trouble.

[stevenmuncy]

I hope you'll make this a regular series.

[Dragon]

I'm legitimately shocked that Quinn doesn't know about the macOS Terminal command "open". Whatever directory you are in, typing "open ." will open the current directory as a folder in Finder. "Open" can be used in the Terminal to open any file using the GUI.

[randomhkkid]

h stands for 'human'! Same thing can be passed as an argument to many functions like `ll -h` to get nicer outputs

[HarryLoveTV]

Can I just say, I thoroughly enjoy your info and tips for mac - I much prefer your style of delivery in this video.
Thanks for all the content either way