Mac Applications
Posted by Jim at May 16th, 2005
I’m currently trying to make my Mac useful as a second work computer. For various reasons, Creative Suite isn’t an option–mostly because I’ve already got it on my Windows computer and I don’t want to buy it again for the Mac.
Anyone have suggestions for free/cheap/open source OS X apps for graphic design? Particularly for web design? What about good FTP programs?
I know that scribus and the gimp work on OS X once you’ve got X running. I haven’t gotten around to that yet. I use Eclipse for programming and am happy with it.
Anything else I might try?
Ed seems to think Seashore is all that. http://www.goesping.org/archives/2005/04/17/seashore/
I’ve always preferred ncftp for ftp. On the other hand, you really should use scp for that kind of thing.
Topher
But don’t you have to have a working ssh account on the machine in question to use scp? Sometimes, ftp is the only way if you don’t have shell access.
Not sure if it’s available for Mac yet, but filezilla has been my ftp client of choice for about 2 years now.
jonathan
Jonathan, yes, but I suspect a large number of the servers he uses he also maintains.
Come to think of it, FireFTP is a great firefox extention that is a VERY full featured FTP client.
Topher