I think Arq (http://www.haystacksoftware.com/arq/) seems like a particularly useful program. Wasn't aware of it before. I like how they give you control over your backup storage.

I've used Arq for about 4 months now and it has been fantastic. Two features in particular are worth noting: 1. The ability to backup a network drive from my local machine. 2. Rapid timecapsule like backups of the most recently used files.

For dual pane file management goodness, I use MuCommander[1]. It's less Finder-like, but has the Norton Commander nature which has cropped up in many a file manager since then.

[1] - http://www.mucommander.com/

He seemed to miss the fact that there is a newer version of Fluid out there: https://github.com/downloads/itod/fluidium/Fluid_Fluidium.zi...

Maybe I am a minimalist. But this seems like way too much stuff man.

But regardless of that it's a pretty need guide of tools and I use a few from this list myself.

Why? I would consider this to be too much stuff if you had a lot of applications duplicating functionality. As it is, though, this seems like a pretty basic working set, very much what I'd call 'practical minimalism'

thanks for sharing. There are a couple tools in there I hadn't heard of that might be useful to me.

Is there any particular reason you use Alfred vs Spotlight?

> Is there any particular reason you use Alfred vs Spotlight?

Edit: I'm not the OP.

Alfred has a few options like find and open which allow you to directly open files. It seems more minimalist than spotlight. You can customize it a little better IMHO (they have a full version that has more features). And finally, you can do google searches and a few other web-related queries directly from alfred. Overall I would highly recommend Alfred.

cool, thanks. I think I might check it out. It's certainly 'pretty'.

edit: testing it out now. It seems to be more responsive than spotlight. Liking it so far :)

There are some nice gems in the comments like Divvy.