Coda

Out of everything in my arsenal I really do use coda the most. It is the jack of all trades editor from the great people over at Panic. It includes a ton of features such as built in FTP, Terminal, CSS Editor, and Reference Books. The best part about Coda is that it’s not bloated. Panic has done an awesome job with coda and I can’t wait to see what they come out with in the next major release. I have tried many other clients including Espresso & TextMate (I do use TextMate for other things) but I always come back to Coda. Coda is $99.00 and is well worth the purchase.

Sequel Pro

Sequel Pro is a MySQL database management interface. Think PhpMyAdmin but more powerful and desktop based. Sequel Pro allows you to view, create, and manage your databases without having to go through the hassle of using a command line interface. It is an active open source project which means its free to download and use. Once you start using Sequel Pro it will be hard to go back to anything else. (Note: I used to use Navicat but it sucked for mac and sequel pro seems a lot better at not sucking.)

Evernote

Evernote is a simple but amazing application. If you are not using it already you should be. Evernote is your digital brain. You can use it to store everything from code snippets to reciepts. I use it all the time to take picture of whiteboard sessions with my phone and send them to evernote where they are scanned and indexed making them searchable.

Fluid

Fluid is  SSB (site specific browser) application for the mac. Similar to Mozilla’s Prizm, it allows you to create a desktop application from a web app. I use SSB’s for my personal gmail account, work’s google apps account, lighthouse ticket tracker, TeuxDeux and google voice. I can have these windows open (or hidden) all the time and when something needs to get my attention such as a new email I get a Dock badge! This makes it a lot easier to use gmail’s awesomeness 100% of the time without having to use something like MailPlane or the native Mail app.

Billings

Billings is an invoice tracking application. It makes it easy to track your time, send out estimates / invoices, and helps account for every last penny a client owes you. It is one of the most elegant I have found and provides some very nice invoice templates by default. I know there are some web based ones out there such as FreshBooks, but I prefer billings.

Transmit

Transmit is an awesome FTP client from the same great people that make Coda. It is elegant and features FTP, SFTP, Amazon S3 and many other integrations. It is a rock solid client and the recent refresh made it even more powerful and easy to use. FYI: The core of transmit also powers Coda’s FTP integration. Transmit is $34 and is also well worth the money. (Plus they have a pretty nice truck icon so you can’t go wrong with Transmit).

I will add anything new I come across to this list. If you have any suggestions of things I should try out let me know.

So if you are having trouble with yours make sure to activate and deactivate the camera in any virtual machines you have. Hope this helps!

( i am running Mac OSX 10.6.2 on a 2008 Aluminum Macbook Pro )

Nambu is a terrific twitter client for the Mac and iPhone. It includes the ability to manage multiple twitter accounts, a mailbox like interface that lets you organize all of your tweets, . You can check out where you are mentioned on twitter, direct messages, sent messages, favorites, and even current trends on twitter! Not to mention the killer ability to organize the people you are following into groups to better manage your tweet stream. I for one use the groups feature very heavily. I have one group for fellow codeigniter people, one for work messages, and another for celebrities such as @aplusk & @grantimahara.

The search feature is pretty nice too. You can save searches and when new entries for those searches appear you will be notified. So if you have an existing search open for “CodeIgniter” and someone you dont even know posts “Man i love Codeigniter!” you will see that message. A great way to find new friends on twitter with the same interests as you.

Nambu also includes integration with tr.im and pic.im services. Yes i know you are thinking that they are just another set of url shortening services and you are right, but they also have a few tricks up their sleeves. Such as being able to see right from the client how many people have clicked your links and when you visit the tr.im website you can see an analytical breakdown of browsers, countries, bots vs. humans, etc. A pretty powerful feature for anyone who loves to keep track of how traffic is coming to their website.

Nambu is completely free! No trial periods or annoying ads get inserted into your tweets either. You can download the desktop version for mac here and you can download the iphone app from the itunes store. So you have no reason to give nambu a shot and save some money while you are at it!