RapidWeaver 7’s website uses a lot of good content to present their app’s features. This app will help you build the website you’ve always dreamed of. They use huge animated icons and typography and if you’ll continue scrolling you will also notice many explanatory screenshots. Transmit’s website presents their app through a lot of content. This website uses a minimalist design that keeps it simple and cool and uses lots of screenshots. This new iMazing app version comes with a lot of cool features and improved backup. Hundreds of themes and the ability to design your own using HTML, CSS, and Javascript.Check out Kaleidoscope, for example, it uses vibrant colors for their logo, typography in all shapes and sizes and a neutral purple texture for its background. While it's not in development anymore, Bowtie (free) is a nice little app which puts your current music playing in a little widget. Definitely get the version from their website, not from the Mac App Store. The workflows are crazy powerful if you buy the Powerpack. Been using the Yosemite Beta and I actually use a combination of both.
I second Alfred 2 (free, pro version for $28.22 - $53.12), even with the Yosemite Spotlight upgrade. Sip (free) is a great quick color-picker with the ability to automatically copy a color's HEX, RGB, or many other codes to the clipboard.
XtraFinder (free) adds Chrome-style tabs to Finder plus a whole bunch of other useful features. Nice alternative to Microsoft Office and it's free with new computers.Ĭheck out Airmail ($1.99) or Mailbox (free, beta key required) as nice mail clients. Gives your display a warm color gradually as nighttime arrives, great for late-night coding.Īssuming you bought a new Mac, check if you've got iWork (Pages, Keynote, and Numbers). Incredibly useful if you have a lot in your menu bar like me.Ĭross-platform but worth noting is f.lux (free). You can either completely hide them or add them to the Bartender bar, which appears as a menu bar item itself. Works great in combination with Codekit ($29), especially if you use CSS Pre-processors.Ĭheck out Pixelmator ($29.99) as a great Photoshop alternative.īartender ($15) is an app that lets you organize your menu bar apps. I constantly use its Mount as Disk feature which allows you to access servers using Finder. If you're interested you may want to get it now while it's $75, my guess is it will go back up to $99 when 2.5 releases.Īlso from Panic is Transmit ($34), their FTP solution.
Panic is working on a major upgrade that should be coming out in the next month or two. Sublime text, obviously not mac only but is incredible and you shouldn't need anything else for smaller projects that don't require a powerful IDE.Īll I can think of from the top of my head and they're more web dev than front end focused but hopefully that helps. Sequel Pro is brilliant for database management.īetterSnapTool brings windows window management to OS X.īowtie for a music player overlay that hooks into iTunes and spotify. PHPStorm if you work with PHP is a godsend for big projects. Replace bash with Zsh, and add ohmyzsh for a better command line experience.
Any experience with Linux and apt-get install? This is that brought to the mac (package management).ĭash, offline docs for everything web dev that are very easy to look up and auto update, workflow for Alfred makes this twice as good. Just upgraded a laptop and here's what I immediately put on it:Īlfred 2 (Also google Alfred development workflows, there are some really helpful ones).