15 Responses to “Calling all Mac people”

• 1
  DerikB
  February 11th, 2008 08:30

  FTP: Transmit is the king. http://www.panic.com/transmit/

  HTML editor: Not specifically html but TextMate is a wonderfully versatile text editor with plenty of macros and key shortcuts for all types of programming languages. http://macromates.com

  Note Keeper: Yojimbo is great, but ever better (though a bit steeper on the learning curve is Tinderbox (Which, by the way, comes with Yojimbo). http://www.barebones.com/products/yojimbo/ and http://www.eastgate.com/Tinderbox/index.html

  (You can use Tinderbox for everything from note keeping and todo lists to making blogs or webpages, rss feeds, etc.)
• 2
  Nicole
  February 11th, 2008 08:49

  Thanks, will give these a shot.
• 3
  Fiona
  February 11th, 2008 08:49

  I second Transmit and TextMate.

  TextMate rocks my world.

  For notes take a look at DevonThink http://www.devon-technologies.com/
• 4
  Owen
  February 11th, 2008 08:58

  I third TextMate, but it’s going to be quite a transition from HTML Kit. The interface is very minimal, and almost all the power is in the keyboard shortcuts.

  I’ve heard great things about Transmit, but I’m cheap when it comes to SFTP programs, having used the free WinSCP for so long. Free alternatives for the Mac: Cyberduck (http://cyberduck.ch/) and Fugu (http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/).

  For more Mac stuff, work your way back through Lifehacker’s OSX posts: http://lifehacker.com/tag/mac-os-x/
• 5
  Nicole
  February 11th, 2008 09:08

  Thanks again everyone
• 6
  amanda
  February 11th, 2008 09:58

  Hey Nicole — I use Cyberduck for FTP/SFTP and Text Wrangler for notes & html. Love them both
• 7
  Dan Scott
  February 11th, 2008 12:39

  Hmm. I would have expected an open source evangelist to be using an open source operating system and open source tools…
• 8
  Nicole
  February 11th, 2008 14:47

  Hehe - Dan, I used what I’m given… and this time it happens to be a mac.
• 9
  Dan Scott
  February 11th, 2008 14:54

  I am, of course, very jealous - Macs are nice And you can always point annoying people like me to Apple’s http://developer.apple.com/opensource/index.html

  BTW, Boot Camp will let you dual boot so that you can install Linux or BSD on a separate partition of your hard drive, in case you feel like exploring the wild side.
• 10
  Nicole
  February 11th, 2008 16:31

  Cool Thanks - I think I’ll learn one new operating system at a time.
• 11
  Dulcey
  February 11th, 2008 18:28

  I just played with KompoZer this weekend - as a free download, it’s worth a shot for html! I was able to get it to work for the simple things I needed. Firefox has a ftp download, I don’t know if does SFTP. Don’t remember what it’s called - SeaMonkey, maybe? (I’m a 1.5 month new Mac person myself)
• 12
  Dulcey
  February 11th, 2008 23:46

  fireFTP is the name of the program. I knew I was wrong! It has a seahorse as a logo, that’s what I’ll blame the brain hiccup on….
• 13
  Annie Jo
  February 14th, 2008 10:15

  If you like to see the date on your desktop like I do, MagiCal is essential.

  http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/magical
• 14
  Steve Casburn
  February 19th, 2008 23:07

  Nicole: If you are interested in an integrated website editor, you might want to take a look at Coda, which includes the aforementioned Transmit (it is made by the same company) as well as a code editor, a terminal application, and four reference manuals (html, CSS, JavaScript, PHP) in e-book format.

  I hope you enjoy your time here in Portland next week!
• 15
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  March 14th, 2008 05:55

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