Beyond Zarathustra » Image Magick http://blog.spec-r.org of Sports Cars, Business and Filthy Determination Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:25:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 © ellanosv@gmail.com () ellanosv@gmail.com() Of sports cars, business and filthy determination ellanosv@gmail.com No no http://blog.spec-r.org/wp-content/plugins/podpress/images/powered_by_podpress.jpg Beyond Zarathustra http://blog.spec-r.org 144 144 3 + 1 Apps for Mac Designers http://blog.spec-r.org/2009/06/05/3-1-apps-for-mac-designers/ http://blog.spec-r.org/2009/06/05/3-1-apps-for-mac-designers/#comments Fri, 05 Jun 2009 20:27:03 +0000 Enrique http://blog.spec-r.org/?p=107 Unlikely to follow twitter links, I’ve followed one due to the word “Mac” in it two days ago:

RT @DesignerDepot: 40 Mac Freewares and Open Source Software for Web Designers:  http://tinyurl.com/pu7o6g

I’m not a designer yet I’m very well versed in Computers and Operative Systems, plus I self-learned the basics of design some years ago out of curiosity.

So, regarding the twitt you see lines above I must say I recommend 3 + 1 apps which will completely overcome these 40 apps recommendations, and these are:

  1. Gimp for OS X (Open Source Software): Advanced app for image manipulation.
  2. TextMate (Paid Software): The best app for editing source code, it completely worth it!
  3. CyberDuck FTP (shareware): A truly complete FTP client, sends keep-alive bits throughout the communication.

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  1. Imagemagick (Open Source Software): I under-use this app via a simple oneliner script I created to resize and change format, using it’s binary “convert”; Installed via Darwin Ports for Mac.

Of course these tools are quite far from the ultimate tools for designers, yet my list is much reasonable to -at least- try than the 40 apps recommended by DesignerDepot; no pun intended.

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