Comments on: A List of Mac Freeware Still Necessary in Leopard [Mac Freeware, Opinion]

By: Gabe Jacobs

Gabe Jacobs — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:41:49 +0000

I have my own list of freeware http://appleintellect.com/top-25-best-mac-osx-freeware-apps-2/

By: Franklin

Franklin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:05:59 +0000

@Mikey - I tried Smultron about a year ago and it didn’t seem very polished at the time. Based on your recommendation I’ll give it another try. Thanks!

By: Franklin

Franklin — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:04:15 +0000

@Christy - Good point! I guess I have always viewed Aperture as more of a competitor to Adobe’s Lightroom than Photoshop. Since I haven’t tried either Lightroom or Aperture I can’t comment on functionality differences. I started using Pixelmator and have been quite happy with it.

By: Christy

Christy — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:59:38 +0000

Apple has released ‘an alternative to photoshop’. It’s called Aperture. It’s not a decent alternative, but it has been released by Apple.

If you’re looking for a cheaper alternative to full-blown photoshop, photoshop elements is $99 (usually), and does 90% of what most end-users need.

By: Mikey Benny

Mikey Benny — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 22:44:35 +0000

For coding, Smultron is a great text editor. Highly recommended.

By: A List of Mac Freeware that Leopard has Mauled to Death : Zaphu

A List of Mac Freeware that Leopard has Mauled to Death : Zaphu — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 14:45:47 +0000

[...] party developers. Perhaps I could have made this more clear. Be sure to checkout my followup post, A list of Mac freeware still necessary in Leopard or read Sam’s take on the situation [...]

By: Franklin

Franklin — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 15:08:20 +0000

@Richard - I like TextMate as well. Have you tried out any of the custom themes? There is a BBedit theme that you might like.

By: RichardBronosky

RichardBronosky — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 14:29:00 +0000

If you do text editing, you should really look into TextMate. I used to be a HUGE BBEdit fan. (my handle on AIM, MacWorld, and dozens of other places is BrunoUsesBBEdit) I switched from being a Microsoft and IE zealot to the Mac because there was no editor that could hold a candle to BBEdit. Then with release 8.0 they decided to remove a bunch of features. When I contacted the developer, they said they we’re trying to be “more like other editors”!!! To which I asked, “you mean the ones I chose not to use years ago when I became your customer?” TextWrangler is even less powerful than BBEdit.

Textmate was the greatest advance in Text Editors that I had every seen. You should try it.

I now, however, do all my coding in VIM because I live in the terminal SSH’ed to remote servers. I got tired of feeling like a gimp when TextMate wasn’t available and decided to learn one last editor that I could use on every machine anywhere. It was like learning to touch type all over again, but now after 3 years it’s second nature. My Mac [or Windows] using colleagues stand back and say “wow” when they see me in VIM.

Again, try TextMate.

By: Franklin

Franklin — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:47:04 +0000

@MacMacken - Thanks for the feedback, I was under the impression that it was free to use so long as you didn’t want the ‘System Administrator functionality.’ I might be mistaken.

By: MacMacken

MacMacken — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 04:10:59 +0000

Freeware? Whatsize is no longer freeware I’m afraid …