Wednesday, December 3, 2003A few of my favorite apps, part 1.
Now that we are deep into the holiday season, I thought it would be nice to showcase some of my favorite Mac OS X applications. Most of these are from small development companies, not unlike Karelia. Check out these applications and get them for yourselves or as "stocking stuffers" for your friends.
RBrowser
This is a great application when you need to connect to a remote server using SSH. There are other good FTP client applications like Transmit, but I like RBrowser because it does "scp". It also has a mechanism where you can double-click a remote document to download it and open it in your text editor of choice; any save to the file is monitored and uploaded immediately. My only complaint about the app is that its UI is not completely polished for Aqua; it still holds onto many vestiges of its NeXT/Rhapsody heritage. I rely on RBrowser to maintain www.karelia.com and the other web sites I contribute to. $29/$49
LapCop
This is a great utility that monitors your network settings, and if there is a change, it emails you a warning. This is useful if your laptop is stolen; the police could theoretically use the computer's current IP address to track down its new whereabouts once the computer connects to the Internet again. Warning: Be sure to install and configure this when you are logged in as an administrator user, otherwise the installation will fail. $25/$39
SubEthaEdit
This program is vaunted for its ability to edit one document by simultaneous users (over a local network or across the Net). That feature is amazing. But it's also a great general-purpose text editor for programming and technical tasks; it features syntax coloring and sectional navigation for a wide variety of formats. free
Aquatint
A great utility if you are building applications or web pages and you want to give something the "aqua" look. $15/$50
More to come soon...
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