![]() That's all just windowdressing most of the time. Bonuspoints for a very responsive developer.ĭirk Holtwick's Favs, that gathers all things 'faved' on the online services I use (Youtube, Twitter, Pinboard, Instagram etc) Simplenote (for my, errr, simplenotes) the back-from-almost-abandonware todo app The Hit List (though allmost non-developed the last couple of years still the todo app that makes me more GTD'd than Omnifocus and Things combined) Google Chrome (Safari is my default browser, but whenever I need to open a Flash-thingy quickly I'll drop the Safari URL icon on Google Chrome - no need to copy-and-paste) and the essential Webdev toolkit xScope (whenever I need to measure anything screen-related). Does the same, has several additional features for extra coolness and is about $30 cheaper. TextExpander is nice, but it lost its place in my dock longtime ago to a thing called aText. ![]() Also, fair's fair - now that I've shown you mine, tell me yours! What's in your Mac Dock right now? Let me know if you're curious about them and I'll do a follow up about what's in my menu bar. There's also a bunch of stuff, Like Dropbox, 1Password, and Fantastical, that I use all the time but that sit in the menu bar rather than the Dock. There are a couple other apps I use all the time but aren't in my menu bar, like Final Cut Pro and Garage Band, because I'd forget to quit them when I was done if I got overly used to seeing them there, and they hit the resources hard enough I don't want to forget to quit them. $74.99 - Download now (opens in new tab) Coda 2: I don't manually edit web sites as often as I used to - we have far smarter people for that on our tech team! - but whenever I have to tweak a header or CSS file or do anything else on any server, I do it with Panic's Coda 2.$49.99 - Download now (opens in new tab) For what I do, it's like bringing a nuke to a fist fight, but I like the idea that I'll likely never out grow what I'm typing it. BBEdit: If it's plain text, chances are I wrote it in BBEdit.$39.99 - Download now (opens in new tab) Feeder: I produce 5 or so podcasts a week here at iMore and every one of their RSS feeds is burned using Feeder.$34.95 - Download now (opens in new tab) TextExpander: Most of what I write online is in Markdown and TextExpander makes entering frequent passages, links, data, and boiler plate so fast, so easy, that I don't know how anyone can work without it.Skype: The Mobile Nations office phone.Yeah, there are rare glitches, but 95% of the time it works fast and flawlessly, and it has apps on mobile and desktop. iMessage: Most of my friends and family have Macs and use iPhones and iPads so we all stay connected via iMessage.$19.99 - Download now (opens in new tab) Tweetbot: There are several great Twitter apps for Mac but Tweetbot fits the way my brain works.Napkin: How we do all the how-to diagrams we do on iMore.(And I kinda like the new Creative Cloud subscription model.) - $(variable) - Download now Almost all imaging I do is done in Photoshop. Photoshop: I've been using it for decades.$79,99 - Download now (opens in new tab) ![]() The lack of updates and features have minimal impact and I don't need the workflow Lightroom provides.
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