Dan Wood: The Eponymous Weblog

Dan Wood Dan Wood is co-owner of Karelia Software, creating programs for the Macintosh computer. He is the father of two kids, lives in the Bay Area of California USA, and prefers bicycles to cars. This site is his weblog, which mostly covers geeky topics like Macs and Mac Programming.

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Wed, 03 Dec 2003

Part 1, A few of my favorite apps

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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...