Great Everyday Apps
Every now and then people ask us about the tools and apps we use at fruux. Here is a short list of our everyday apps. Additionally we asked some of the developers for special deals (only as long as stocks last) - check them out.
"Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more."
Website / Blog / GNU-GPL / Donate to Adium
Why: Killing Time, Annoying the Team ;-)
"Design beautiful, innovative and fast-loading web sites… with a beautiful, innovative and fast app. CSSEdit's intuitive approach to style sheets and powerful previewing features will make you deliver awesome standards-based sites in no time!"
Website / Blog / Shareware (29,95 EUR) / Buy
Why: quick & easy css development
"Cocoa Packet Analyzer is a native Mac OS X implementation of a network protocol analyzer and packet sniffer. It is able to do basic network capturing, filter packets, analyze and display pcap files. CPA uses libPCAP for reading packet trace files and for capturing network traffic (filter expressions from tcpdump may be used)."
Website / Blog / Donationware / Donate
Why: Debugging all those funny packets
"Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, Mosso Cloud Files and Amazon S3 browser for the Mac."
Website / Blog / GPL-License / Donate
Why: Best open source FTP client!
"Do you use many social services? Annoyed that you have to run 6 different applications? Enter the new revolutionary social app, EventBox. All your services in one place, integrated."
Website / Twitter / Shareware (15,00 USD) / Buy (Coupon: FRUUX-20 / 20% off!)
Why: Twitter monitoring
"ExpanDrive gives you perfectly transparent access to open, edit, and save files with your favorite programs, even when those files are on a server half a world away. Transparent means that you won’t even notice you’re operating on remote file server—it will act like it’s an USB drive you plugged directly into your own computer."
Website / Blog / Shareware (39,95 USD) / Buy
"Similar to NEXTSTEP's Merge utility, FileMerge graphically compares and merges two different versions of a file, and is often used to track changes to source code."
Website / Apple License
Why: Comparing file versions
"fruux is a lightweight and convenient system preference pane, that syncs your Address Book, Calendars, Tasks and Bookmarks between different Macs. fruux supports sync conflict resolution which will help you when you changed a record on more than one machine"
Website / Blog / Support us
"HTTP Client is a Mac OS X Leopard developer tool for debugging HTTP services by graphically creating & inspecting complex HTTP messages."
Why: Great for webservices debugging. Thanks Todd!
"MindNode Pro is an elegant and simple-to-use mindmapping application for the Macintosh. It was created with the user in mind and features a very simple and intuitive user interface that lets the user focus on expressing and developing ideas. Nearly no time is required to learn the interface."
Website / Blog / Shareware (14,95 USD) / Buy (Coupon: fruuxmindnodepro09 / 20% off!)
Why: Markus' app rocks! (And our pixelpusher Martin designed the app icon)
"Looking for an easy-to-use RSS and Atom reader for your Mac? You've found it! The Eddy award-winning NetNewsWire has a familiar three-paned interface and can fetch and display news from thousands of different websites and weblogs."
Website / Free
Why: Blogosphere monitoring
"Quicksilver is a unified, extensible interface for working with applications, contacts, music, and other data."
Website / Apache-License 2.0 / Source
Why: Every Mac without Quicksilver is broken
"Spotify is a Sweden-based proprietary music streaming program, which allows listening to specific music without delay via browsing artists, albums or created playlists."
Why: iTunes in the Cloud
"Syncrospector is a debugging tool that you can use to inspect clients, the truth database, and the call history of sync sessions."
Website / Apple License
Why: Debugging SyncServices
"TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors. By bridging UNIX underpinnings and GUI, TextMate cherry-picks the best of both worlds to the benefit of expert scripters and novice users alike."
Website / Blog / Shareware (48,75 USD) / Buy (15% off for students)
Why: Best text editor on the planet!
"Versions provides a pleasant way to work with Subversion on your Mac. Whether you’re a hardcore Subversion user or new to version control systems, Versions will help streamline your workflow. Versions 1.0 is out now, so say hello to the fresh new look of your repository and start saying less to that command-line interface."
Website / Shareware (39,00 EUR) / Buy
Why: Wonderful UI, pleasure to use SVN (hopefully soon with GIT support) :-)
"Xcode is Apple's premiere development environment for Mac OS X. At the heart of the Xcode tools package is the Xcode IDE, a graphical workbench that tightly integrates a professional text editor, a robust build system, a debugger, and the powerful GCC compiler capable of targeting Intel and PowerPC regardless of host platform."
Website / Apple License
Why: developing fruux! (hopefully soon with GIT support!)
Of course there are a lot more great everyday apps, depending on the actual use-case, but if you'd look over our shoulder there is a very good chance that one of the apps mentioned above is active. :-)
