Comments on: My Mac Software Kit http://www.byrnecreative.com/blog/2010/01/my-mac-software-kit/ Design - Mac - Web - Politics - Football - More Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:41:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Born Weird » Essential Macbook Air apps http://www.byrnecreative.com/blog/2010/01/my-mac-software-kit/comment-page-1/#comment-281 Born Weird » Essential Macbook Air apps Sat, 20 Nov 2010 22:28:32 +0000 http://www.byrnecreative.com/blog/?p=168#comment-281 [...] I’ve extolled the virtues of Dropbox before, but there’s no reason not to do so again here. Store files in the [...] [...] I’ve extolled the virtues of Dropbox before, but there’s no reason not to do so again here. Store files in the [...]

]]> By: Drew http://www.byrnecreative.com/blog/2010/01/my-mac-software-kit/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Drew Wed, 27 Jan 2010 13:25:47 +0000 http://www.byrnecreative.com/blog/?p=168#comment-156 I was a macbook pro user for about 2 years (until it was inconsiderately stolen 2 weeks ago). SMC Fan Control: This probably doesn't apply to your desktop setup, but I was a big fan of SMC Fan Control. I was never really impressed or happy with the way that OS X decided to only idle the fans and/or go into jet airliner take-off mode. This little app provided a lot of control over when and how the system fans operated. IrfanView (but not): In my time in OS X I've also never found a suitable replacement for IrfanView - one of my most-used PC programs. It is a super fast and lightweight image viewer, cropper, resizer and resampler. This set of features conveniently encompasses 90% of what I need from an image program in my day-to-day professional existence. If anybody knows of anything for OS X (ideally, free), I'd love to know. MS Office: I am tethered to a predominantly Windows-based corporate network (including my own workstation), so this was more or less a necessity - especially for the exchange client. It has nice some interface features, and is clearly still better than StarOffice or the other alternatives, but it also still gets its ass handed to it by office 2k7 for PC when considering corporate compatibility and features. I was a macbook pro user for about 2 years (until it was inconsiderately stolen 2 weeks ago).

SMC Fan Control: This probably doesn’t apply to your desktop setup, but I was a big fan of SMC Fan Control. I was never really impressed or happy with the way that OS X decided to only idle the fans and/or go into jet airliner take-off mode. This little app provided a lot of control over when and how the system fans operated.

IrfanView (but not): In my time in OS X I’ve also never found a suitable replacement for IrfanView – one of my most-used PC programs. It is a super fast and lightweight image viewer, cropper, resizer and resampler. This set of features conveniently encompasses 90% of what I need from an image program in my day-to-day professional existence. If anybody knows of anything for OS X (ideally, free), I’d love to know.

MS Office: I am tethered to a predominantly Windows-based corporate network (including my own workstation), so this was more or less a necessity – especially for the exchange client. It has nice some interface features, and is clearly still better than StarOffice or the other alternatives, but it also still gets its ass handed to it by office 2k7 for PC when considering corporate compatibility and features.

]]> By: Brian Issleb http://www.byrnecreative.com/blog/2010/01/my-mac-software-kit/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Brian Issleb Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:03:20 +0000 http://www.byrnecreative.com/blog/?p=168#comment-155 I'm not doing much Mac development these days (the peril of working primarily in .NET) but I'll definitely have to check some of these out. OmniGraffle sounds interesting, because I'm sich of doing wireframes and prototypes in PhotoShop. On the other hand, its layering capability is hard to beat for showing people how designs might look with various layers turned on/off. Any competitors for that functionality? I've seen you mention Coda several times now. I've always used BBedit exclusively for Mac development, but after getting to know Visual Studio better I think it would be hard to go back to not having an IDE. So the next non-.NET project I work on might have Coda written on it. I’m not doing much Mac development these days (the peril of working primarily in .NET) but I’ll definitely have to check some of these out.

OmniGraffle sounds interesting, because I’m sich of doing wireframes and prototypes in PhotoShop. On the other hand, its layering capability is hard to beat for showing people how designs might look with various layers turned on/off. Any competitors for that functionality?

I’ve seen you mention Coda several times now. I’ve always used BBedit exclusively for Mac development, but after getting to know Visual Studio better I think it would be hard to go back to not having an IDE. So the next non-.NET project I work on might have Coda written on it.

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