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5 Essential OSX Blogging Tools
http://www.problogger.net/archives/2006/11/17/5... Glenn Wolsey, writer for Macguide Magazine and author of http://www.GlennWolsey.com expresses his views about the top applications for blogging on the Mac. |
Drupal
in 159 toolboxes Very extensible CMS platform based on PHP and used by many NGOs - "Community Plumbing"
Firefox
in 345 toolboxes Firefox is the popular open source web browser from Mozilla
iCal
in 35 toolboxes Calendaring application for Mac OS X
Skype
in 228 toolboxes Free/cheap Internet telephony and handy IM tool.
Delicious
in 173 toolboxes Web based social bookmarking lets you share online finds and discover new ones. Ground zero for tagging.
Ubuntu
in 136 toolboxes User-friendly Linux distribution.
The Ubuntu promise:
* Ubuntu will always be free of charge, along with its regular enterprise releases and security updates
* Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies from across the world
* Ubuntu provides the best translations and accessibility features that the free software community has to offer
* Ubuntu core applications are all free and open source. We want you to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.
CiviCRM
in 94 toolboxes Open source constitutent relationship management system.
Eudora
in 15 toolboxes General purpose email client
Pidgin
in 91 toolboxes A multi-protocol Instant Messaging (IM) client
Acrobat
in 51 toolboxes Multi-platform for viewing PDF (Portable Document Format) documents
Thunderbird
in 137 toolboxes Mozilla's Open Source email client
MediaWiki
in 85 toolboxes Powerful wiki software built to support the Wikipedia project
PuTTY
in 71 toolboxes A Free Telnet/SSH Client
Safari
in 30 toolboxes Macintosh OS default web browser
Writely
in 12 toolboxes This product no longer exists under this name. It is now Google Docs and Spreadsheets.
Audacity
in 96 toolboxes Free, open source software for recording and editing sounds.
GIMP
in 116 toolboxes A freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring.
TinyURL
in 45 toolboxes URL-shortener (for emailing and general usability)
Sympa
in 9 toolboxes Mailing list manager
TortoiseSVN
in 15 toolboxes TortoiseSVN is a Subversion client, implemented as a windows shell extension.
Mac OS X
in 68 toolboxes Apple's desktop operating system.
Gizmo
in 11 toolboxes a voip/IM client like Skype, but based on open protocols
SurveyMonkey
in 65 toolboxes Hosted online surveys
Adium
in 62 toolboxes Adium is a free instant messaging application for Mac OS X that can connect to AIM, MSN, Jabber, Yahoo, and more.
SSH Tunnel Manager
in 7 toolboxes SSH Tunnel Manager is a front-end for the ssh command when used to open tunnels between two hosts.
TechSurveyor
in 8 toolboxes Inventorying tool for eRiders
The Ultimate Boot CD
in 11 toolboxes A collection of floppy-based diagnostic tools and recovery Linux distributions all consolidated on one bootable CD
LinkedIn
in 144 toolboxes Social networking for non-social purposes with a focus on professional development, networking for jobs and problem solving through the expertise of those in your extended network.
Ghost for Unix (g4u)
in 3 toolboxes ghost for unix - is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs using FTP
Gmail
in 159 toolboxes Gmail is a web-based email with very user-friendly interface and huge storage capacity
Flip4Mac
in 15 toolboxes Digital Media Tools for the Mac
Colloquy
in 20 toolboxes Colloquy is an advanced IRC & SILC client
upcoming.org
in 30 toolboxes Upcoming.org is a social event calendar, completely driven by people like you. Manage your events, share events with friends and family, and syndicate your calendar to your own site.
iChat
in 8 toolboxes iChat is an instant messaging application
phpMyAdmin
in 60 toolboxes web-based interface for managing MySQL
NeoOffice
in 29 toolboxes NeoOffice is a fully-featured set of office applicationsfor Mac OS X. Based on the OpenOffice.org office suite
Unison
in 4 toolboxes Full-featured USENET / news client exclusively for Mac OS X,
Growl
in 22 toolboxes Growl is a notification system for Mac OS X: it allows applications that support Growl to send you notifications.
Orkut
in 10 toolboxes Social networking tool
