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:
- Gimp for OS X (Open Source Software): Advanced app for image manipulation.
- TextMate (Paid Software): The best app for editing source code, it completely worth it!
- CyberDuck FTP (shareware): A truly complete FTP client, sends keep-alive bits throughout the communication.
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- 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.
Design, Image Magick, Linux, OS X June 5th 2009
