[thelist] Mac tools
david braun
david.braun at centralnet.ch
Tue Feb 27 07:48:37 CST 2001
Hi Janet
Most of what had to be said has been said, but there's some more:
For text, there's nothing like bbedit...
(well, there's pepper (http://www.hekkelmann.com/pepper.html), very
nice, but not as powerful, adaptive, nor as web-/programming-oriented;
or PageSpinner, an extensive, $30 HTML-editor)
For Grafix, buy a scanner, PS should be bundled (if you're lucky, ye
might even get the full version) GraficConverter is good, too. It has
some great batch-job functionalities.
You also could go and get CorelDraw, wich, afaik gives away a free
version... http://www.corel.com/draw8mac/downloadlinks.htm
Though I don't know it's actual state of "being", but Debabelizer was
once the schwarzenegger of Image-Conversion and batch-/ scripted jobs,
and had by far the best results for conversion-jobs. It's interface
ain't that clear, and it's expensive...
Image-Mapper is the best (not the cheapest, though) img-map tool I know.
For CSS, use stylemaster.
For Gif-Animations, go get GifBuilder (v 0.5, still works very nice)
Macromedia Fireworks and Adobe ImageReady are the multi-$$$
alternatives.
Small Screen draws the size of different Screen-resolutions as a black
rectangle, quite useful...
IcontoGif is good at ripping #icn-resource-files
Mirror 1.0 (deprecated) is a hassle-free mirroring-tool, sometimes
_very_ useful (it has some quirks/bugs that sometimes are the last
resort to get me getting my job done, because it somehow overrides the
state (readonly etc) of documents, ignores apples navigation-services,
and stuff like that)
VSE BeFound is a not_so_cheap searchengine-machine, with plenty of
tools and options, and access to many searchengines.
For ftp, there's
-Interarchy (a somewhat big package of anything related to ftp plus
other stuff (ping etc), integrates well with BBEdit)
-Netfinder (has a nice, finder-like interface)
-Transmit by panic.com
-fetch
For the "VersionTracking", you could use Voodoo Personal...
of course this could be extended at will, but I don't know any more
noteworthy applications so far...
hth
david
On 26.02.2001 at 16:47 Uhr, jgreen at desmoinesmetro.com (Janet Green) wrote:
> Someone said recently, "why not just get a mac..." and as a person who is
> good on both systems, I'd like to ask, what are your favorite web-building
> resources for the Mac? I have built entire sites using SimpleText and
> Netscape Navigator (no WYSIWYGs please), but had to scoot over to my pc to
> work in Paint Shop Pro for graphics (not in a position to afford PhotoShop
> or Illustrator, alas). I haven't found the wonderfully useful, budget-minded
> tools for Mac that exist for PC's. Mac-based image mapping
> software/shareware? Mid-range (price) graphics programs? Ideas welcome...
> thanks!!
>
> Janet
> www.desmoinesmetro.com
>
>
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