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#61 Steven Gardner

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Posted 16 December 2007 - 05:06 AM

My contribution is for the designers out there who cant afford Photoshop yet but still want the power with a mac specific design. Its around Ã‚Â£30 and from my limited use i would say well worth the money. Just got my Mac last night so will be testing it out for the next few days adding programmes that i will need for design/developing sites.

Pixelmator

http://www.pixelmator.com

I know i added this on another thread but this thread seems to be more suited.

Anyone suggest the best cheap or free replacement of Adobe Dreamweaver?

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Posted 16 December 2007 - 01:12 PM

Steven Gardner, on Dec 16 2007, 04:06 AM, said:

Anyone suggest the best cheap or free replacement of Adobe Dreamweaver?

There isn't anything that I've come across that can replace the robustness of Dreamweaver - but there are many text-editing applications that are praised and have a huge following. You can find them in the beginning of this thread (TextMate is my favorite).

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Posted 17 December 2007 - 02:39 PM

I fully recommend Pixelmator as well. It's the best graphics editor I've come across on Mac.

It just came out a couple of months ago, so it's very fresh (yes, lots of bugs too) and the developing brothers ("Pixelmator Team") are doing their best at bringing out new versions with lots of fixes as fast as possible.

Plus there is a trick through which you can use the application to it's full potential without paying anything at all...

But even so, I am pretty sure that I am going to buy it in the near future, because I feel Pixelmator has a bright future.

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I've got my Pixelmator license now

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Posted 02 December 2008 - 03:54 PM

Pixelmator has improved greatly over a short time and is a joy to use. Its still lacking some major web design features but still looks promising.

I would like to add CODA a text editing ftp preview terminal all in one software thats great to use and very intuative.and only $99. i am planning on buying it before the weekend as my 30 day trial is comming to an end.

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Posted 03 December 2008 - 08:27 AM

Also add Cheetah3D, it's actually on sale right now for $99 as well (5th anniversary). Version 5 is on its way and it should add great new features.

This 3D app has the best interface I've come across, and I tested a number of 3D apps a while ago. It's quite simple to use and it has a loyal, helpful community at this forum site: http://www.cheetah3d.de/forum

I'm still very new to it, but I play around with it every once in a while. If you're interested and have a bit of time I suggest reading through and watching the tutorials there are, they're very helpful. You just have to be motivated to create something in 3D

It's not the best program to make models, renders and animations with; but it does have an easy learning curve and a great UI as I've already mentioned.

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Posted 03 December 2008 - 09:03 AM

Steven Gardner, on Dec 2 2008, 03:54 PM, said:

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I would like to add CODA a text editing ftp preview terminal all in one software thats great to use and very intuative.and only $99. i am planning on buying it before the weekend as my 30 day trial is comming to an end.

Holy crap, you just described my Coda situation. I, too, downloaded it, fell in love with it, and have about four days before my trial runs out. Needless to say, I'll be purchasing it in the next few days.

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Posted 19 September 2010 - 02:30 PM

Resurrecting an old pinned topic. Any new mac applications that are a MUST HAVE?

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Posted 20 September 2010 - 09:02 AM

Transmit 4. Especially the ability to mount the ftp/sftp sites as a drive.

Ben Cardy Web Design & Development

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Posted 20 September 2010 - 08:49 PM

benbacardi, on 20 September 2010 - 09:02 AM, said:

Transmit 4. Especially the ability to mount the ftp/sftp sites as a drive.

Updated Transmit 3 to Transmit 4 and I updated the price. Thanks Ben!

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Posted 20 September 2010 - 09:49 PM

Echofon and Notational Velocity (when synched with SimpleNote).

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Posted 21 September 2010 - 06:36 AM

marcamos, on 20 September 2010 - 09:49 PM, said:

Echofon and Notational Velocity (when synched with SimpleNote).

How am I going to update the list with those requirements. A new section - bundles?

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Posted 19 December 2010 - 02:47 AM

I found this today,

LESS.app

it's great!!!

The motto has got to be one of the best as well.

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Posted 19 December 2010 - 08:06 AM

temhawk, on 19 December 2010 - 02:47 AM, said:

LESS.app

Updated the web development section to add this. Good find.

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Posted 19 December 2010 - 09:51 PM

Thanks, but I did hardly anything. I just typed "less css" in Google and clicked the second result. Most of the work was put into making the post! :rolleyes: