#software-recommendation

A time tracker is an essential tool for almost any freelancer. It doesn’t really matter if you are paid by the hour or by delivered project. You still need to track your most precious commodity. At least if you are serious about your work.

Let’s dive in and explore the best time tracking software available in 2020. But before we get to the list, there are some things to consider.

Fix: What developer text editors are available for Ubuntu? #programming #solution #development

What developer text editors are available for Ubuntu?

I’m looking for a text editor for programming in Python, preferably one which is easy to learn for beginners.

Answer [by spong]: What developer text editors are available for Ubuntu?

Bluefish Editor

From the website:

Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and…

How-to: What are some GUI clients for Git? #solution #dev #answer

What are some GUI clients for Git?

I am using git for version control of various projects.

Is there easy-to-use software for navigating through commits and branches of a project and for retrieving versions?

Answer [by psusi]: What are some GUI clients for Git?

Yes; git has a gui you can run with the git gui command.

If that doesn’t work, it means you need to install the GUI for git. You can do…

How to: PuTTY Equivalent for Mac #answer #computers #dev

PuTTY Equivalent for Mac

Is there a good PuTTY (free telnet / ssh client) equivalent for OS X?

I know that I can just use terminal and an ssh command, but I want some sort of application that will store connection info, passwords, logs, etc for me, much like PuTTY.

Does this exist?

Answer [by oktawian]: PuTTY Equivalent for Mac

Yes. There is new kid in town:

http://www.royaltsx.com/main/home.as…

Fixed: How to access Windows share from an iPad? #it #dev #computers

How to access Windows share from an iPad?

I didn’t find any iPad app that’s supporting samba.

What is the best way to access Windows shares from an iPad?

Answer [by Jason Salaz]: How to access Windows share from an iPad?

Because there is no normally-accessible local filesystem on an iOS device, an app that “supports SMB” doesn’t tell us enough. Because you can’t simply copy files from a SMB…

Fixed: What's a good Windows RDP client for Mac? #it #dev #answer

What’s a good Windows RDP client for Mac?

I administer a number of Windows machines, and am trying to find a really good application to remote desktop in to them from my Mac. I’ve tried CoRD, and I really like its library approach to saved sessions (as opposed to Microsoft’s file based approach), and tabbed sessions are great when working on a bunch of machines. Unfortunately, it’s just too buggy…

Fixed: How can I export SMS text messages from my iPhone? #programming #it #dev

How can I export SMS text messages from my iPhone?

When answering this question, please note if the solution is:

For Windows and/or Mac OS X users

The price of the solution

If you have successfully—and actually—used the solution

How can I export SMS text messages from my iPhone?

Answer [by user588]: How can I export SMS text messages from my iPhone?

Get /var/mobile/Library/SMS/sms.db

It is now…

Answer: UPNP / DLNA (client) player recommendations? #programming #development #fix

UPNP / DLNA (client) player recommendations?

Since neither VLC stable / VLC nightly builds / Totem with Coherence Plugin work properly in oneiric I’m searching for an alternative to watch media streamed from my seagate dockstar using minidlna as a server.

The only client that works is XBMC, but that’s much of an overkill and stops me from doing other tasks. Atm I’m working around this with samba…