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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	Welcome to the club. ;) I second TextMate. I've always had BBEdit, but TextMate does some very wonderful things too. 30 day free demo to try out. BBEdit is certainly more mature (and much MUCH more than just a text editor). I rely on some html features like "check syntax" and inserting images. But -- TextMate has as far as I can tell one developer who is very responsive to requests, has spell check and - the best part - you can open a whole project in the side panel and have access to every file in that project, in it's hierarchy. The RoR community loves TextMate. Camino is okay, but Safari is still my default browser (built in spell check and rss is very nice). Transmit is my favorite FTP app. I have Onyx but I'm not sure I use it for anything significantly more than the built in disk utility can do (repairing permissions for example). Disk Warrior is highly regarded for maintenance. SuperDuper is excellent for backing up. For what it costs, GraphicConverter is extremely useful. You might have even gotten it bundled for free with your Mac. iPhoto is no slouch either for organizing your photos. Marc Liyanage has some excellent resources for stuff like MySQL: http://www.entropy.ch/home/ ZipIt is good for making .zip archives Windows users will find compatible: http://www.maczipit.com/ If you use GMail, Google has a GMail Notifier that is helpful. GoogleEarth is also available for Macs now! Skype has a Mac client that works great. Some of these are free, some aren't. But there's a lot of GOOD stuff available. And a lot of the stuff that comes with the Mac is excellent. For example, Automator is pretty darn cool for making repetitive tasks easier. Loading...
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