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1 year ago
Also, I use Final Cut Express and love it. Definitely recommend it. It's cheap and powerful
1 year ago
Shawn Blanc has an amazing review of it here.
Additionally, if you don't use Coda's FTP client I would use Cyberduck until Flow makes it debut.
1 year ago
Coda is a very nice app, but the text editor is still miles from replacing TextMate for me. Not sure it ever will. If I die, I want my TextMate buried with me.
1 year ago
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1 year ago
I love TextMate for coding (those bundles are sooooo powerful) and SubEthaEdit if you will be doing any sort of real-time paired or group coding.
What Bethany feels for BBEdit i feel for TextMate. Didn't care for BBEdit but i do Ruby on Rails, XHTML, CSS, Python, Release Notes, XML, SQL and AppleScript coding. http://macromates.com and http://codingmonkeys.de
Also get the TextMate book from http://pragprog.com. It helped me really understand TextMate.
I haven't played with Transmit or Cyberduck enough to know what the difference is so i'll punt on the FTP client. Sorry :(
NetNewsWire is a great (and now free!!) RSS reader. http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NetNewsWire/
Make sure you install Quicksilver as well. its a quick launch app. It starts when your Mac boots and allows you to start applications by hitting Ctrl+SpaceBar and then typing the first few letters of the name of a program. It also does SOOOOO much more. Merlin Mann has a few great tips of how to do things with it. Very powerful once you learn some of the basics. http://www.blacktree.com
Adium X is a free multi-protocol/service IM client. Kind of like Trillian on Windows. http://www.adiumx.com
If you have to handle .rar files in any way UnRarX is a great(free) .rar tool. http://www.unrarx.com
smcFanControl allows you set the speed of your cooling fans from right in the menubar. It shows your CPUs temps and lets you create presets. Works really well for helping me keep my MacBookPro cool. http://www.macupdate.com/info.php/id/23049
AppCleaner is a free program "uninstaller." Yes you can "uninstall" an application by dragging its icon in the Application folder to the trash. But lots of apps i've tried leave things behind. I'm anal retentive about everything that was installed being uninstalled. AppZapper does the same thing but is not free. http://www.freemacsoft.net/AppCleaner/
Mail.app has been pretty cool. You can even set it up to work with your Gmail account.
If you need some office apps, look at NeoOffice (free, http://neooffice.org) or Apple's iWork '08 ($79).
1 year ago
http://www.colorschemer.com/osx_info.php
Coda is indeed a really cool app for most small to midsized development needs, but I don't really fit into the workflow it provides, so I've sort of skipped over what Code has to truly offer.
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Smultron
http://smultron.sourceforge.net
TextExpander (be sure to get the HTML snippet file)
http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/
Another neat plugin, it adds syntax coloring to safari's view source. http://www.tildesoft.com/Misc.html