Nick’s

I use quite a few applications on a daily basis, thought I’d put them out there and see what else is out there.  I didn’t include all of the standard apps such as creative suite or gmail.

Windows

• Digsby (chat client w/ social and email integration)
• Aptana (IDE built on Eclipse w/ integrated FTP, plugins for Rails & PHP)
• WinSCP (Standard FTP with ability to open up terminal over sftp)
• Launchy (quickly launch applications, similar to Launchbar or Quicksilver)
• FoxIt Reader (Extremely fast PDF opener, no reason to use Adobe Reader)
• 7-zip (Help windows open archives besides .zip)
• uTorrent (Very light torrent client)
• Dropbox (Sync files over the web w/ client apps for win/mac/linux)
• fabForce DBDesigner 4 (Relational DB modeling tool)
• Notepad++ (Basic text edtior with built in FTP)
• Picasa (Photo viewer from google well google bought them)
• TightVNC (very lightweight VNC client/server)

Web Based

• Tada List (Very Basic Todo List)
• Writeboard (Web-based text documents with collaboration integration)
• HiTask (Another todo list application, more features such as calendar and export functionality)
• 280 slides (Make presentations online and share with anyone, very keynote like)
• Remember the Milk (Another todo list application but with twitter integration)

Firefox Plugins

• Chatzilla (IRC chat client)
• CSSViewer (Shows CSS styles on hover)
• Delicious (a necessity, active search rocks)
• Download Statusbar (similar to Chrome’s download bar)
• JSView (Quick link to view javascript for site)
• Firebug (A must for developers)
• LinkChecker (Checks all of the links on the current page, color codes them based on response code. finds broken links easier)
• Locationbar (greys out everything in the location bar except for the domain)
• MeasureIt (measure anything in the browser)
• Password Exporter (Very useful if transferring passwords or you need to wipe your firefox profile)
• Quick Restart (Restarts firefox with ctrl+alt+r)
• Remember The Milk for Gmail (adds Remember the Milk functionality into gmail)
• ScribeFire (amazing blog editor within firefox, opens as a panel in the bottom of the window)
• Secure Login (automates logins with key presses, similar to Opera’s wand)
• Speed Dial (Direct access to your most visited sites)
• Tab Catalog (Catalog view of open tabs)
• Table2Clipboard (easily copy tabular data from sites into excel)
• Ubiquity (Your Command line to the internet)
• Web Developer (web developer toolbar, very useful tools)
• Twitterfox (update and display your twitter from firefox)

OS X

• Textmate (A trusty text editor)
• Adium (multi network chat client)
• CSSEdit (very slick CSS coding, shows you live preview while modifying css)
• Keep an eye out for espresso (Mac Web Development) from the same guys that make CSSEdit
• Dropbox (Sync files between mac/pc/linux/internet)
• YummyFTP (Reliable FTP client)

I know I’m missing quite a few OS X apps, didn’t have my macbook in front of me at the moment.

What else am I missing?

Firefox Extensions for Web Development
Clear Cache Button: This is an easy way to clear your cache when developing.

ColorZilla: This firefox extension for colors is amazing, it lets you use the eyedropper anywhere on a site and it gets that exact color, not just what the csssays. You can get any color from an image, background, etc. You can then get that color in several forms of Hex or RGB.

CSSViewer: With one click this firefox extension provides details about the css in a site upon hover of any of the page elements. This comes in handy when
you need to see what font a certain section is using or what the properties of a certain div are.

Firebug: Incredibly useful for so many reasons to list, if you are a web developer in any technology, download it.

Better Gmail 2: This firefox extension adds features such as row highlighting on hover, opening “mailto:” links in gmail instead of your default mail program, custom attachment icons and several others. The mailto link modification is probably the best since gmail is my primary mail client now and it’s much easier than having to copy and paste an email address. The custom attachment icon just changes any email that has an attachment from the basic paperclip to anything from a pdf icon to a word document icon.