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What I Learned Today… » Blog Archive » Evernote for Mac — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 10:55:05 +0000

[...] When I first got my Mac I asked you all to point me to a tool that would work like Evernote for my Mac - well, TechCrunch reports that [...]

By: Steve Casburn

Steve Casburn — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 04:07:16 +0000

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!

By: Annie Jo

Annie Jo — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:15:23 +0000

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

http://www.charcoaldesign.co.uk/magical

By: Dulcey

Dulcey — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:46:58 +0000

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….

By: Dulcey

Dulcey — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 23:28:16 +0000

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)

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 21:31:02 +0000

Cool Thanks - I think I’ll learn one new operating system at a time.

By: Dan Scott

Dan Scott — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:54:36 +0000

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.

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 19:47:41 +0000

Hehe - Dan, I used what I’m given… and this time it happens to be a mac.

By: Dan Scott

Dan Scott — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:39:29 +0000

Hmm. I would have expected an open source evangelist to be using an open source operating system and open source tools…

By: amanda

amanda — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:58:41 +0000

Hey Nicole — I use Cyberduck for FTP/SFTP and Text Wrangler for notes & html. Love them both

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 14:08:40 +0000

Thanks again everyone

By: Owen

Owen — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:58:03 +0000

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/

By: Fiona

Fiona — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:49:57 +0000

I second Transmit and TextMate.

TextMate rocks my world.

For notes take a look at DevonThink http://www.devon-technologies.com/

By: Nicole

Nicole — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:49:48 +0000

Thanks, will give these a shot.

By: DerikB

DerikB — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 13:30:00 +0000

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.)