Comments on: What’s on your Mac? http://jaxn.org/article/2005/01/20/whats-on-your-mac/ the philosophy of technology Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:44:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta2-9582 hourly 1 By: Marcus Whitney http://jaxn.org/article/2005/01/20/whats-on-your-mac/comment-page-1/#comment-742 Marcus Whitney Fri, 21 Jan 2005 18:01:58 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2005/01/20/what's-on-your-mac?/#comment-742 FUGU is good for secure file transfer, Fink is good when you start missing KDE, BBEdit is pretty cool, but I am leaning to love vi so... I hear NewsFire is off the chain: http://www.newsfirerss.com/ Reason or GarageBand is dope for music. Especially with that new keyboard you got. What other kind of apps are you looking for? FUGU is good for secure file transfer, Fink is good when you start missing KDE, BBEdit is pretty cool, but I am leaning to love vi so…

I hear NewsFire is off the chain: http://www.newsfirerss.com/

Reason or GarageBand is dope for music. Especially with that new keyboard you got.

What other kind of apps are you looking for?

]]> By: Paul M. Jones http://jaxn.org/article/2005/01/20/whats-on-your-mac/comment-page-1/#comment-741 Paul M. Jones Fri, 21 Jan 2005 13:21:54 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2005/01/20/what's-on-your-mac?/#comment-741 Big big fan of BBEdit. Could not survive without it. The binaries for PHP, MySQL, et. al. from Marc Liyanage are super-easy to install. Firefox is a good companion to Safari, Thunderbird (IMO) handles large columes of email better than Mail.app. That's about it, everything else is secondary, or comes with the Mac (yay iTunes!). Big big fan of BBEdit. Could not survive without it. The binaries for PHP, MySQL, et. al. from Marc Liyanage are super-easy to install. Firefox is a good companion to Safari, Thunderbird (IMO) handles large columes of email better than Mail.app. That’s about it, everything else is secondary, or comes with the Mac (yay iTunes!).

]]> By: Jim Stamper http://jaxn.org/article/2005/01/20/whats-on-your-mac/comment-page-1/#comment-740 Jim Stamper Fri, 21 Jan 2005 01:55:23 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2005/01/20/what's-on-your-mac?/#comment-740 Transmit from <a href="http://panic.com">Panic</a> is a great all purpose ftp client. Cocktail automates a lot general maintanence. <a href="http://mactracker.ca">MacTracker</a> knows all about crappy old macs that you wanna fix up and put <a href="http://yellowdoglinux.com">Yellow Dog Linux</a> on. Hope this helps! Jim Transmit from Panic is a great all purpose ftp client. Cocktail automates a lot general maintanence. MacTracker knows all about crappy old macs that you wanna fix up and put Yellow Dog Linux on.

Hope this helps!
Jim

]]> By: Jason Perkins http://jaxn.org/article/2005/01/20/whats-on-your-mac/comment-page-1/#comment-739 Jason Perkins Thu, 20 Jan 2005 22:51:06 +0000 http://jaxn.org/article/2005/01/20/what's-on-your-mac?/#comment-739 I'm a long time BBEdit user and they've just recently starting giving their TextWrangler editor (a scaled down, but still very good editor) away for the download. I'd highly suggest giving it a try. I've been keeping an eye on textmate, but just don't feel that it's there yet I like darwinports for package installation and maintenance, especially the php5 port. FWIW, darwinports is headed up by Jordan Hubbard of FreeBSD fame. Non-development stuff: I like iPulse for system monitoring. A cool little widget that'll keep you up to speed with the status of your machine. NetNewsWire is really good for RSS feed subscription and I love MarsEdit for blog entry composition and editing. That's it off the top of my head. If I think of anything else, I'll add it later. On preview: my urls were being stripped, so you'll need to Google for the software listed. I’m a long time BBEdit user and they’ve just recently starting giving their TextWrangler editor (a scaled down, but still very good editor) away for the download. I’d highly suggest giving it a try. I’ve been keeping an eye on textmate, but just don’t feel that it’s there yet

I like darwinports for package installation and maintenance, especially the php5 port. FWIW, darwinports is headed up by Jordan Hubbard of FreeBSD fame.

Non-development stuff: I like iPulse for system monitoring. A cool little widget that’ll keep you up to speed with the status of your machine. NetNewsWire is really good for RSS feed subscription and I love MarsEdit for blog entry composition and editing.

That’s it off the top of my head. If I think of anything else, I’ll add it later.

On preview: my urls were being stripped, so you’ll need to Google for the software listed.

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