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here on snazzy labs in the past we've talked about  Mac apps Mac tips really everything related to the   Mac except for Mac packages installed via the  command line what on Earth am I talking about   well it's Homebrew baby Homebrew for the mac and  to an extent Linux is a package manager if you're   on Linux there's a lot better options out there  but uh it basically allows you to install little   tiny programs typically for nerds and developers  via the command line the Mac OS terminal that you   can run via the terminal without a graphical  user interface but tools that to an extent are   very very powerful some of which super cool this  uh tutorial is Mac focused but pretty much all   of these will work on Linux and most of them will  work on Windows too you just might not want to use   Homebrew and instead find another package manager  for your operating system so if you are on the Mac   you're going to need to download Homebrew and  the easiest way is to go to their website brew.   sh and you just click this little clipboard here  then open up your terminal paste that command and   boom baby this is a curl command which is going to  basically fetch a script this install.sh file from   this GitHub user content.com domain and then it's  going to run through this huge massive installer   that you don't have to do anything about it does  it all for itself in the background so it's going   to ask for pseudo access super user access your  admin password so you're just going to go ahead   here and enter your computer password this script  is going to install and I'm just going to say   return go ahead this takes a few minutes so see  you in a minute okay it's done but maybe it's not   done because dependent on your machine you likely  have next steps on my machine it says run these   two commands in your terminal to add Homebrew to  your path so I'm just going to go ahead and copy   this little string these two commands just command  C and then I'm going to command V to paste it I'm   going to push go and there we go it's done all  right now I'm finished so let's actually start   installing stuff and let's start by showing you  how to install something you are going to summon   Homebrew by typing brew and then we need to give  Homebrew a command if you want to know what the   commands available are you can just type and this  is true of almost all command line packages uh-h   and or dhel and it's going to tell you everything  that you can do with home brw so you can search   for packages you can get info on a package you  can install a package you can update hey install   that sounds like something we need to do so I'm  going to type Brew install and now I need to name   the package I want to install the first one is  not a fun one but it's one that you'll probably   need because it's a dependency for most of the  packages we're going to be talking about today   and that's python python is a programming language  python 2 ships on your Mac by default but Python   3 is something that we're going to need so we just  type Brew install python we push enter and uh well   Homebrew is going to download Python 3 and install  it onto our operating system in its own little   containerized package all these things kind of  take a few seconds to do so uh see you in a minute   again okay python is installed time for some  fun if you ever get kind of overwhelmed by your   terminal window if there's too much crap going on  you can get rid of everything that's already been   completed by just typing clear you can also close  the window and open a new terminal session but   clear is pretty easy okay the first app I want  to show you is mail Z you install it by typing   Brew install mail C and it's going to install  this takes a minute and clear okay mey generates   temporary email addresses this is super cool check  this out m a i LS Y and we're just going to type   G for Generate it's going to go out and do its  little thing on the internet and create a new   email address for us it is k38 C aarud stone.com  have you ever been to a website that's pretty sus   and you don't really want to give them any detail  but you do want to sign up it's like for a mailing   list or for a promo code or free trial and you  don't want them bugging you and so you go to   like tmail or one of those crappy websites that's  infested with ads yeah here you go problem solved   ad free in fact there's not even any goey so I'm  going to go ahead and test this out I'm going to   type this email and it does say be cautious about  sending this information oh that's because of   Google never mind ignore that you're you're not  in a Google workspace so I'm going to say subject   hello buddy and I'm going to go to sub to me on  YouTube https probably don't need to type that   but whatever snaz labs.com which doesn't go to my  YouTube but that's fine I'm going to push send and   I'm going to fetch that email by typing ma m for  messages and check it out it says select an email   I can just use my arrow keys to go up and down  if I've got multiple it's already selected hello   buddy from qnlabs.com so I'm going to push enter  it's going to fetch it again and it actually opens  

in a local HTML page so it will show you graphics  and pictures and metadata and everything that's   attached to a regular email just here on your web  page but you can see there's a URL I can click it   it works and yeah that's pretty much it while not  homebrew software today's sponsor clean my Mac is   an indispensable app that I install on every Mac  and have for years they're not paying me to say   that I am actually a pain subscriber of clean my  Mac and have been long before they sponsored at   10,000 fet up you push this button and it scans  your system it goes through your disc and finds   old library files and caches crap you just don't  need anymore it scans your system for viruses and   malware and it allows you to optimize your system  by you know checking to make sure that you don't   have log items are launch agents that shouldn't be  opening anymore you can see your heavy consumers   you can clear out stuff via Ram it's really you  know that's what most people talk about but the   three things that I really love about clean my  Mac that keep getting better and better are the   uninstaller there are a lot of uninstallers  for mac and there are some really good ones   that are free and paid but I don't find any of  them to be as good as clean my Mac when you drag   an application from the applications folder to  the trash it's leaving behind so much crap pist   files weird old Library resources this gets rid of  every everything it really uninstalls stuff and on   the opposite end of the spectrum the updater is of  Pinnacle Excellence not only does it update stuff   from the Mac App Store because that's not special  the Mac App Store itself can do that but it will   go out and find updates for thirdparty software  that you've downloaded from the web you don't   have to go and download some creepy weird DMG and  re it just does it for you in the background it's   so cool the space lens is probably my favorite  feature it's similar to an app that's been around   for ages and ages called Grand perspective but  Grand perspective is ugly and it will let you   create irreversible harm to ma it will let you  delete stuff that you should not delete I think   this is a much better way to visually see what's  taking up the most space on your system the bigger   the file the bigger the bubble the bigger the  resources so I can drill into my system and find   out what is it that is actually taking up all the  system space on my disc and the end result is that   you can kind of just be messy I leave the mess to  clean my Mac and it takes care of the rest there   is this menu bar bar icon too that I also really  like this is newer and I think super great not   only can you do much of what the main app can  do but you can also see information that's not   presented to you from control center so I can open  up this battery widget and not only see my battery   health but I can see how many charge cycles I've  had the temperature of my battery I can do a speed   test of my network connection directly from this  little pane it's always running in the background   taking care of me and my Mac and snazzy Labs  viewers and this sounds not that interesting   it sounds like a called action it is but this is  really cool okay this app doesn't go on sale that   often but they are giving snazzy Labs viewers over  the next 2 weeks a 20% discount on clean my Mac   you should really go check it out it is genuinely  an app that I've bought and paid for for years   it's fantastic I don't plan to unsubscribe anytime  soon and I think if you download it you'll like it   you can try it free using the link below next up  tasel an app that is absolutely amazing and I've   been using because I hate to-do list apps they  suck this one doesn't brew and install tascal   this will take a minute uh nope apparently not 85  megabytes just like that isn't the modern internet   amazing okay I want to show you something that  you're going to want to know because if you're   not familiar with Vim which you're probably  not if you are not familiar with the terminal   you're going to need to learn vim and or go into  tasl settings to set your own key bindings for   commands in navigating the tascal interface let  me explain how to do this type brew and then type   info because this is asking home brew hey we just  installed tascal and we want information on this   package we just installed so type info and then  yes of course tascal we push enter and it gives   us a little bit of information but what you'll see  most importantly is that it gives us the directory   of this installation now if you're comfortable  with the uh command line here you can just CD into   that directory list the files and then there you  go open the read me from there if that didn't make   any sense to you don't worry what you can do is  go to the finder and navigate to The Go menu and   then click go to folder shift command G also works  and then you will paste this same string into this   window and check it out this directory that we're  viewing inside of the terminal is now just present   in a regular finder window you're going to want to  read the read me file this is in a markdown format   which unfortunately Macos doesn't know how to read  but it's just a text file so if you just type. txt   instead then you can open this up if you have  a markdown reader do it because it's much more   organized and handsome looking but this gives us  information about what to do and how to use this   app all key commands everything you need to know  and there's a settings or preferences file that   you can modify to your heart's content but once  you've done that I want to show you what TASC L   can do because it's really powerful you prompt  it by typing TASC L it's going to because I'm   launching this for the first time ask me if  I want to create a markdown little sheet it's   technically a database just inside of a text  file I'm going to push yes and this takes me   to this very handsome window that if you have any  familiarity with you know what's it called Trello   or can band system is right that it's it's a  to-do doing and done just a task list so I'm   going to start typing by pushing the letter A that  allows me to move my cursor into prompt this is   vim stuff so learn Vim if you haven't learned Vim  it'll help you a lot in the terminal but I'm going   to type uh I don't know make video for tomorrow  I'm going to type go to store I'm going to type   go to GameStop and buy frozen ham okay then once  I've done all the tasks I want to create I just   push the Escape key and I can now navigate between  these tasks by using my J and K keys this is the   same kind of interaction method you'd have with  Vim so I'm going to say okay I have some things   that I need to uh have as subtest for my going to  the store so I'm going to push the enter key and   you'll see that it opens this new window which is  pretty cool if I push the a key again I can start   entering subtests this is so neat this is all  within the terminal so I can say eggs beef milk cow I don't know okay and then I can push the  Escape key when I'm done completing my task and   I can just same deal navigate up and down with  J andk I've got my beef I've got my milk I'm   ready to rumble let's say this has a due date uh  actually no let's go to my make video for tomorrow   because this one definitely has a due date I  can type the at Key and just say this is due   in one day there you go it assigns it a due date  right here in the window and because this is a   can band you can have a list of progress inside  of this window so I technically inside of my go   to store list have already completed some of the  items I'm doing this so I'm going to push the m   key for move and I'm going to say I'm moving this  to the doing category if I want to go back to this   other list and go down to GameStop and say okay  well I actually bought my frozen ham I can just   push move done and then I can set within the  parameters of how I want this to look because   again tascal is infinitely adjustable I can add  more columns I can change the way it looks I   can change the behaviors on when stuff moves over  automatically when the list is cleared out it's so   powerful and yet it's so simple it's just reading  from a text document onside your local desktop and   uh yeah it's the best to-do list ever there's no  ads there's no bloatware it's wicked fast and if   you know Vim it just uses Vim key binding it's so  awesome tasel I love it if you're sitting there in   your chair thinking I'm overwhelmed this is too  complicated let me give you a simple one Brew   install speed test- CLI okay speed test on not  everyone's used it right we know it's a great   service it's a good way to check out your internet  speed but the browser version kind of sucks it's   infested with ads it's slow to load it's server  selection is oftentimes questionable and as we   demonstrated in our prior video of ours if you  have really fast internet the browser not your   internet speed is actually the bottleneck in your  results it's it's not very good and so you want to   use speed test- instead you type the command and  holy crap it just automatically uses the fastest   server near you it starts the download speed it  starts the upload speed and uh we'll see here that   uh my internet here at work is a lot less good  than the internet I have at home 200 megabits   a second I'm also on Wi-Fi not bad this is speed  test CLI of course as with everything you can go   into speed test- CLI and then do space- for help  and it will tell you all of the special commands   you can use if you want to use a specific server  if you want to have a certain package size or yada   yada y it's it's really powerful but it's also  really simple speed test CLI like it or not chat   GPT is probably here to stay so Brew install ATA  ask the terminal anything ATA is a super simple   way to chat with chat GPT which at the end of the  day an llm just a chat bot I don't need some super   complex app I don't really want to use the web  browser the terminal is the perfect place so once   I've installed it I just type ATA and what you'll  see is that it's prompting you to create create   an example file this is a configuration file a  TL file and uh it says hey do you want me to put   one in your application support folder yeah great  place for it so I'm just going to type yeah once   I type yeah it's going to say okay I wrote that  file there I'm going to copy this entire string   with the quotes um because application support has  a space in it and that's complicated just when you   have paths and long stuff just put it inside of  quotes Okay so I am going to uh use Nano or Vim   to edit this file and uh there we go I've typed it  out and I now have the option to insert my API key   I'm just going to Arrow over and I am going to  erase the your secret API key and I am going to   put mine inside of quotes okay I've got it copi  to the clipboard and I'm going to paste it into   this field don't look at mine okay if you're using  Nano you're going to press um control o to write   out then you push enter and then you push command  X control X to exit control command Escape op   option they're all the same key all right now that  I've created my configuration file I just type   ATA and it's going to say hey buddy what do you  want to talk about this is the prompt I'm going   to clear this out just so it looks a little bit  better okay just so you see what you're looking   at here so there's our prompt it can tell us that  we're using the GPT 3.5 turbo model but you can   go between GPT 4 whatever version you want you  can change the token limit size the temperature   it's really really really cool because it's  just a regular a you know API terminal you can   do whatever you want so I'm going to go here  and say I'm writing a YouTube video about how   beans make people grow more bigger give me the  best five titles and make them Sparkle Mr Beast   style okay I push enter and it's going to respond  with properly formatted answers it's really great   because is whatever it responds with on the web  you know bullet points indentations all of that   exists inside of at it's fantastic that it writes  that all out and there you go that's all I need to   do once I'm done talking to chat GPT I just push  command or control C The Prompt goes away and then   if I ever want to speak to it again I just open a  terminal window type ATA and boom I'm there it's   faster than navigating to the web by like a long  shot it's a fantastic way to chat with chat GPT   next up has been one of my favorites for years  Brew install wi-fi- password you can actually   do this from within the Mac OS 10 key chain now  but it's still so convoluted and confusing to   find especially since they still put the keychain  inside of the awful not system preferences system   settings app which has been ruined inside of  macas Ventura and uh somoma and whatever the   heck we're on now this is a much better way to  do it what it does very simply is it tells you   your Wi-Fi password so I'm going to type wi-fi-  password it's going to ask me for my user uh uh   authentication because I am ultimately requesting  you know information that's inside of my keychain   so I'm just going to type my username I'm going  to type my password and check it out it pastes my   password right here that's for my existing Wi-Fi  hotspot but what if I want uh the answer to a   Wi-Fi hotspot that I haven't used in a while or my  home Wi-Fi or my friend's Wi-Fi well you just type   wi-fi- password and then inside of quotes you put  the SSID so I'm going to type the one I have at   my house I'm going to type it inside of quotes and  then it's going to ask me the same thing I'll have   to reauthenticate I type my username and password  and boom there it is that's super Neato of course   you can just copy the text from right here but  what you could also do if you wanted to is at   the end of your argument you can just amend uh PB  copy and that will copy the password to your clip   chain uh it's really simple clip chain clipboard  it's really simple doesn't do much just copies   your password tells you what your password is but  that could be handy to know especially when you   got friends over this next one is one that's had  its feature set massacred by Apple a little bit   over the years but I still really like it brew  and install Mas for Mac App Store okay I'm using   a machine right now that doesn't have anything  installed obviously because I use most of these   utilities so this is just some laptop with nothing  on it so it's not going to seem very impressive   when I show you this but try it on your own Mac  and you'll find that it's actually pretty awesome   Mas is the Mac App Store but via the command  line the Mac App Store um sucks it was designed   in like 2007 and I don't think they've touched it  since then it's way worse than the IOS app store   and this allows you to kind of circumvent it so  what I can do first of all is list the apps that   I have installed by the Mac App Store again you  will not have zero apps like me because this is   not my computer it will list your computers out  or list your uh things out what I can also do is   search for a specific app that I want to install  so I could say Mas uh search and then I can type   the term that I want to search for so let's do  slack okay it goes and then it finds a bunch of   apps that match these search preferences first of  which is slack so I can can just copy that app ID   and then I can just go to Mas install I type the  identifier ID and it is going to start to install   uh slack in the background without me having to do  anything I don't have to go to the store I don't   have to like redownload I have to donate the cloud  thing it just does it which is so so nice another   really handy feature of this app sorry slack I'm  going to kill your installation is I'm going to   go to Mas and then type outdated this does exactly  what it sounds like it will search for uh all of   the apps that you've got installed on your app on  your Mac through the App Store and it's going to   go hey these ones not up to date and then with  a single command you can just type Mas upgrade   it will upgrade all of the apps that you have  installed that need Updates this is super cool   for a couple reasons number one I find that the  Mac App Store just literally oftentimes takes   hours or days to reflect on the fact that there  are new updates they're installed on your machine   if you go to the product page it's like open this  app and then after two seconds it's like well   hold on there's an update do you want the update  there are some apps that I use that need updates   like Fast and the MACC app store if you just leave  it to autoinstall will take like days to upgrade   apps even though it should be upgraded minutes  after they become available you type mes upgrade   it will go and permanently fetch all of those  directly from the servers it doesn't go through   that stupid like oh were there any updates it's it  like it skips through the system it's a fantastic   way to get apps updated right now it's a lot more  powerful than that it used to do a lot more things   but well just like every other app if you want  to know what it does you type Mas help maybe not   M help Mas help Mas H Mas help wow that's one  of the few that doesn't use that you just keep   typing until it works next up MPV Brew install  MPV MPV is an open-source video player that has   been popular for many many years of course there's  Ena on the Mac there's the very obvious VLC that's   been around for ages MPV is probably my favorite  even even though the UI isn't the most beautiful   I find that it works the best on Apple silicon  lip syncing and um using really high resolution   video that's in weird codex works better on MP  MPV than anywhere else and while they have a   gooey based version that you can just download and  install like any other app I like the command line   version it just works really really simply and  it also takes apparently a really long time to install all right mod listen up you type MPV you  press space you throw in whatever file you want   literally any video file you want that's not  natively read by Mac OS or if you don't want   to open it in quick time because whoever wants  to do that you push enter and boom instantly it   opens and starts playing back this is MPV it is  that's not me by the way that that's my brother   he's cuter than me I know I've been bitter about  it my whole life anyway inside of these menus you   have the ability to do everything you would be  able to do in the version download it from the   web it supports all the hotkeys and commands  you're familiar with but it just works so   well audio sync is always dead on it consumes  basically no system resources it's fantastic   better than VLC if you ask me and better than Ena  although not quite as pretty I know what you've   been thinking where are the text character based  games well Buddy Brew install c248 it goes ahead   it installs rapidito and then you type 2048 and  that's right bud it's 2048 the game you just use   arrow keys to play 2048 that's literally that  all is to it what do you want more is this not   good enough for you it's good enough for me all  right I got to beat this level see you later if   you've ever had a problem with something on your  Mac and you've gone an activity monitor to try and   kill it you might notice that activity monitor is  the biggest piece of crap on the planet I'm still   waiting there we go it's like come on Apple what  the heck uh task manager for Windows way better   than activity monitor and activity monitor just  continues to get worse it doesn't provide you like   any useful information you can't actually kill  half the system processes that it's it says you   can kill it sucks and so what Apple has available  inside of the terminal is called top the problem   with top is that I mean look at it this thing is  freaking confusing as I'll get out and it's uglier   than dirt so I'm going to show you how to install  something much cooler Brew install htop H stands   for ha it's more better I don't actually know  what it stands for but you type htop and there   you go now we have a good looking list that using  hotkeys alone we can sort our processes by usage   we can see our per thread and per core usage up  here which is fantastic you can't see that in the   regular activity monitor which is freaking asinine  and you can actually from a system level using   pseudo commands uh kill processes that are hung  up which is way better than inside of activity   monitor because it's like oh I killed it but then  it's still broken and then you ultimately have to   restart your Mac to get things working again the  htop is just so much better it takes a little bit   of time to learn but it's so good just use it  and be happy ah this is a really interesting   video about wait this is an ad holy crap there's  just like a dating ad over here Kamala 5.5 5 foot5  

in slim brunette with medical degree I am a  sincere kind and cheerful girl wow what has   this website come to who has this as a job uh  all right look here's the thing pay for YouTube   premium it helps pay our bills and the bills of  your favorite creators uh but if you don't want   to do that I'm going to show you how to get around  the system use an ad blocker and ytdl so ytdl used   to called YouTube DL you type Brew install YT DLP  and it will download the thing but mine's already   installed because I just installed it actually  with MPV MPV remember how I just said it was   freaking awesome well you can actually download  videos from YouTube DL directly from within MPV   it's awesome but I'm going to show you how to  do it the oldfashioned way type yt- DLP and then   in quotes put the URL of the video you want to  download you push enter and uh we'll check it out   little brother it's just downloading exactly what  I want to download now you'll notice that this is   downloading in a webm format webm is a little bit  tricky because it's not natively read by Mac OS so   what you could do is throw that directly into MPV  or if you want to download a specific MP4 version   well guess what YT DLP has got your back because  this thing can do 50 bajillion things whatever you   think it can do it can do it can even by the way  don't do this this is a a jerk move because clean   my macx pays my bills if you don't um it even has  sponsor block integration so if you wanted to cut   a certain part out of a video but still download  the video you could do that like this this this   thing can do anything it can download any Kodak  any length it can put it anywhere you want it's   so so powerful like overwhelmingly so but it's  cool YTD LP just pay for premium you cheap son   of a gun you know how I just said ytdl is super  powerful but a little bit confusing yeah well   augment that by 50 billion times and you get  imag magic one of the most powerful utilities   I've ever used Brew install image magic if there  is an image format that you have image magic can   work with it it can convert it doesn't matter if  it's 90 million years old it will work because   the app itself is 100 million years old did you  know that it's actually older than human species   way older than computers you launch it by just  typing magic okay and then you give it a file   format that you want to convert arw is a Sony  raw image file format and you can actually see   here that Mac OS can native read it but this works  for images that Mac OS has no freaking idea what   they are doesn't matter you throw it in there and  then I just type my output image I'm going to say   call this one baba. jpeg okay it exports to the  desktop it takes a few seconds and there you go   that is a JPEG variant of the raw image that I  had processed but you can go a lot further than   this I'm going to take that same file type magic  again and I am going to let's say resize this by   a lot I want it 20 % of its original size and then  I'm going to name this babab b.png and there you   go I press the space bar and you can see in the  quick take preview it's in the quick look preview   it's much smaller because it's a much smaller  sized file you can give it a lot more parameters   than this not just the exact resolution you want  exported but basically seriously almost anything   you can do gifts you can do color management  you can change the bit mapping you can do like   uh decorating and you can put images on top of  it you can put shapes on there you can draw on   it you can do like just crazy processing you can  it's insane um image magic can do anything and   in fact it is often the engine that lays beneath  most image conversion pieces of software so they   just they take image magic which is open source  and free to use and then they just put a little   bit of Chrome on top a nice little window and  they go thank you 50 bucks image magic is amazing   it's free and there are goys available if you  want some of the more powerful stuff because   it gets complicated fast from the command line  if you want to do crazy stuff but I use it all   the time for just resizing and for changing  file formats and it's fantastic well thanks   so much for watching let me know in the comments  down below if I've missed a Homebrew package that   you use all the time thank you so much for watch  I already said that get out of here stay snazzy

2024-03-15

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