Often I find myself looking at what apps I am using and how I can save time, a great way to do this is through RescueTime. This is what inspired me to write this post, I am not going to be talking about RescueTime but instead about what it tells me. I want to share what apps I use most (excluding the obvious iTunes, Web-browser and Mail). These apps are based around what I like to do best at the moment, this is mostly to communicate and Web developement.
Twitterific
This may seem like an obvious one for most people who are geeks, becasue most of them use Twitterific (who lie on the Mac) but some use Twirl (an Adobe Air based app so can work on Mac and Windows). I think Twitterific is much better and looks great and with it coming to the iPhone I can’t wait to try it out on that. It is one app that lets you communicate easily and quickly.
Price: $14.95 (FREE with ads)
Flow
In my opinion the best FTP app out there.
Flow is cheap and has some really good features. The work flow is as in the name, it just flows. The UI is very sleek and really nice to work with but it can be a bit temperamental as it is still a young app.
Price: $29
Awaken
Awaken is an alarm in in simplest terms but is far more. It also has an egg timer and has neat features such as screen and volume fade. I use it as my alarm to wake me up and to keep me on time to do things.
Price: $12.95
Textwrangler
Textwrangler is the free version of
BBEdit and is well worth downloading if you want to do any plain text editing. If you are looking for a paid version with a few more features I would recommend
TestMate ($64) over BBEdit but Textwrangler is great for the price label and I have yet to find a problem with it.
Price: FREE
CSSEdit
This is by far the coolest app I have ever seen and without it I would have probable never really understood CSS. I have done a
review of it and that explains what it does best. If you do anything to do with CSS I would suggest you have a look at it.
Price: $29.95
I am not a fan of spending money and often like to go for the free option, but in the case of all these apps here, if they do have a price they are worth buying (Twitterific is fine with ads there is no need to buy it). I hope I showed you some cool apps you might try.
There are some great apps here; I would ask though, why don’t you like spending money on apps? I think being a mac user it is also important to support the developer community.
Good post though!
Jonathan
@Jonathan I agree with supporting the developer community but I think it is also important to encourage the open source free community and so often I take a look a free options. I am not saying there is anything wrong with charging for apps, but I think for an indy mac software developer you really should not charge above about $20 unless you have a really exception app that is worth the money.