Software I Use Daily

Camino is a free, open source browser. Made by Mozilla (the same company that created Firefox), it takes advantage of all of the Mac’s unique features like Keychain and Cocoa while retaining standards-compliance.

Coda is an amazingly powerful all-in-one “one-window” web development tool from Panic. A text editor, HTML preview, CSS editor, Terminal, four full-fledged web reference books, and Transmit FTP neatly tucked in the sidebar make Coda a must-have for almost all web developers. Get it ASAP; there’s an early-bird special that drops the price by $20.

“RSS web feeds and podcasting are hot technologies, and NewsFire is even hotter. Packed with features, blindingly simple to use, and ground-breakingly elegant, NewsFire is the ultimate RSS experience for the Mac.” NewsFire makes RSS reading fun.

“Backpack is a simple web-based service that allows you to make pages with to-do lists, notes, files, and images. Backpack also features a Calendar and Reminders…” Amazingly simple with almost no learning curve. The Calendar is amazing; its fast and easy, especially when compared to Google Calendar or even iCal. In fact, this web page (not the entire site, mind you) is maintained with Backpack to make it easy to reorganize and change the content.

“Yojimbo makes keeping all the small (or even large) bits of information that pour in every day organized and accessible. It’s so simple, there is no learning curve. Yojimbo’s mechanism for collecting, storing and finding information is so natural and effortless, it will change your life—without changing the way you work.” With support for PDFs, bookmarks, web archives, Word documents, passwords, serial numbers, encryption, RTF files, .Mac syncing and much more, you can’t go wrong with Yojimbo as your organizer.

“MarsEdit works just like email. Compose posts in a convenient text editor, spell-check, and publish to any one of your blogs. It even has a drafts folder for your works in progress.” This is what I use to publish to RapidMac. Easy to use with very little learning curve. MarsEdit is definitely the best of the Mac blogging clients.

“Picturesque is an application designed to make images look gorgeous for the web. With an animated “drag and drop” style interface, Picturesque can beautify your images with reflections, soft glows, shadows, delicate curves, strokes and fades.” Picturesque is what you use when you want to make an image look good without having to open Photoshop.

Twitterrific is a full-featured Twitter client designed specifically for the Mac. With a great interface and ease-of-use, it lets you post updates and keep track of your friend’s updates. All you have to do is enter your email and Twitter password.

BBEdit’s free brother that can edit most types of non-formatted text files (like TXT, HTML, CSS, etc.). It can range from being a simple text editor to being an FTP publisher.

“Quinn is an arcade-style tetromino puzzle game written and designed specifically for Mac OS X. It features a clean, elegant user interface, beautiful graphics, and smooth, subtle animations for fluid gameplay.” It’s designed to keep the game simple and true to the original idea, without changing the rules.