Comments on: 14 Essential Mac OS X Applications for Bloggers

By: GoldenBoy

GoldenBoy — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 15:02:15 +0000

You know I have been looking at many posting the last three or four months about blogging and I have not found most to be as insiteful as this one is about about the programs that are insightful and very helpful to a blogger like me. I appreciate the help.

I learned of this site only a couple days ago, but it has already hit the top of my RSS feeder.

Thank you.

By: Yusuf

Yusuf — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 18:14:31 +0000

I don�t usually reply to posts but I will in this case. WoW :)

By: Steve Brawner

Steve Brawner — Thu, 01 Jan 2009 19:30:55 +0000

So what do you use to actually build your blog? I started out with iWeb, but I’m not pleased with the way it works with Google. Any advice?

By: Unexpected

Unexpected — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 14:18:06 +0000

Thanks for this great list. I switched to Mac this week (new Macbook) and your list has saved me a huge amount of time collecting it all on my own :-)

By: Jens P. Berget

Jens P. Berget — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:54:48 +0000

I also recommend that you add EventBox to the list. It’s a very interesting software where you can include “all” of your social networks.

This way you don’t need to log in to facebook, twitter, digg, reddit and so on (even rss). It handles everything, and it works great (I have just been testing it a short while).

For more info see: http://thecosmicmachine.com/

By: wheat

wheat — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 03:35:35 +0000

Stephanie,

CyberDuck is a single-pane FTP application. When you make a successful connection to your server, you’ll simply see the files on your server in CyberDuck. You can drag and drop files between your server (i.e. CyberDuck’s window) and your Mac.

FileZilla has two panes: one for files on your machine and one for files on the server. That’s how a lot of FTP applications work. You shuttle files back and forth, from local machine to server, keeping a similar structure on both.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:10:54 +0000

Hi,

I’m a new blogger and thus far, I have successfully established a domain name, acquired hosting from hostgator.com & installed WordPress.
Now I’m really struggling with getting an FTP on my Mac.
I have Mac OS X Version 10.4 and it appears to me that the FireZilla FTP download supports 10.5 or newer … are there no other FireZilla download options for Mac users with an older version of OS X?
After FireZilla wouldn’t work, I tried CyberDuck, which loaded on my computer, but looks nothing like the tutorial I’ve been using (modeled after FireZilla); therefore, I’m unfamiliar with how it works and it doesn’t look like it’s connecting to my site at all.
I can’t find any good help docs or forums on either of these programs and am feeling pretty lost right now. HELP, PLEASE!

By: Craig Fine

Craig Fine — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 14:50:22 +0000

I can’t believe no one said anything about Quicksilver! I use a MAC and could not function without this cool little application that runs in the background. I disabled the “Apple-Spacebar” shortcut for spotlight, and I use it to launch Quicksilver. Go look up what this little FREE utility can do on Google, YouTube, anywhere. It rocks and I can launch applications with only a few keystrokes. I no longer have to go to my applications folder to hunt through the list of programs. I can launch my web browser and go straight to my ebay account simply by pressing “Apple/Command”-The letter “E”-BAM I am there and I am logged into my account too.

Don’t use a MAC without Quicksilver! Don’t do it. :-)

Craig

By: John

John — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:27:39 +0000

I just read your post on Anywired’s “Under The Hood” interview. Gina of Lifehacker did one too. I’m fascinated to discover what gear others are using, I just hope it doesn’t start to hurt my credit card!!

By: Dee Copeland

Dee Copeland — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 14:27:58 +0000

Has anyone noticed how imagewell doesn’t work as well since their upgrade in the past few weeks? I’m on a mac, so not sure if I’m the only one who noticed that pictures now look fuzzy once I edit them.

By: Chip

Chip — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:25:11 +0000

For managing tasks, I jumped from iGTD to OmniFocus. I couldn’t get MailTags to work after Leopard and the ability to record tasks from any program is critical. Plus, OmniFocus has this built in and doesn’t depend on a secondary app to git ‘er done.

By: maria

maria — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 19:18:20 +0000

Ecto has totally changed how I blog! It’s great for handling links & adding images, which to me is the most tedious aspect of blogging as I prefer to focus on my actual writing. I also love that I can very easily upload my images onto my web host. Really great recommendation!!

By: The Monetizer

The Monetizer — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 18:23:02 +0000

I’ve been using Text Edit and Adium. Another tool I like for Mac is the Taco HTML editor. A free HTML tool to construct documents and works pretty well. Thanks for the other tips going to look into a few of these for my laptop.

By: Vanessa

Vanessa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:36:34 +0000

I’m a Mac user and use some of these tools everyday. Thanks for a great list, Darren. I thought you might like to know that Skitch is now in public beta, so no waiting to use it.

By: Babe

Babe — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 22:01:38 +0000

Great tools

By: Bionic Beauty

Bionic Beauty — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:24:08 +0000

Hmmm… I love GiMP for image editing, Inkscape for creating vector drawings (banners, etc). For FTP, I found OneButton FTP to be very straight forward and reliable. Nvu is useful for to check any layout changes I might be making (it’s like FrontPage but Open Source) and of course, I use NeoOffice. I’m a fan of open source softwares. Free, easy, and supported. Can’t ask for more than that. :)

I agree with you that Firefox is much handier than Safari. But both are 200 times better than IE. ;)

Cheers!
Jami

By: Dedwarmo

Dedwarmo — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:52:26 +0000

If you want to buy a Mac, the cheapest one they sell is the Mac mini ($600 new). Bring your own keyboard, mouse, and display.

By: Alex Celeste

Alex Celeste — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 22:41:56 +0000

I use MarsEdit for writing blog posts and NetNewsWire/ NewsGator for reading RSS. It’s all quite handy how natural it feels compared to the other OS X apps I use.

By: Glenn

Glenn — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 18:10:44 +0000

Excellent list, started to write a comment on how easy it is to use Keynote for website/blog graphics (using the Export function together with ImageWell). But I got over enthusiastic, so put it into this Photoshop Smackdown post. Realise you are already using Keynote graphs for your posts so are probably doing it this way, but figure Export is such a useful feature for Mac users it is worth highlighting. There are links in the post to some Apple tutorials that show more detail.

By: Roolz Salxs

Roolz Salxs — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 01:14:10 +0000

I use MacBook and I’m very proud of this post… :)
Thank you very much for this review. A good list ;)