20 Amazing Mac Applications for the Novice Designer

As a freelance designer you need to be at the top of your game which means you’ll want to have the most useful tools available to you. Your arsenal should be heavy with all sorts of development, financial, and time tracking tools that will be of great use. Without these essential tools, life as a freelance designer could become much harder then you had expected it to be.

Below we’ve put together a great list of “life-saving“ tools that’ll make things run smoother for the freelance designer or developer. Let us know which ones you’ve used, and which tools you liked the best!

Coding and Development

Coda

Panic’s Coda is one of the most graceful and feature-packed text editors on the Mac, specifically for maximum hand-coding hotness. It’s got what you expect: syntax coloring, line numbering, auto completing, block editing, international support, etc. Every expected language is supported: CSS, HTML, Javascript, Java, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL, XML, and more.

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Design and Development For iDevices: A Complete Round Up

Apple is all over the web and yours and ours lives too.  The way we viewed web on our iDevices (iPods, iPhones and iPads) has changed recently with the announcement of Apple iPad. As we already know, the iPad and iPhone render web pages very differently. There is no flash involved and everywhere, the flash components are blocked out. This leaves a very little freedom to the flash developers. Another important aspect that remains is the screen size. When you’re on your iPhone or iPad, everything you see is scaled downed to a smaller level. In such situations, the game changes.

Here, in this post, we’ll list out the best resources for designers and developers who want to start designing for the iDevices.

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Take your SEO to a new level.

Tired of walking the hard path with your internet marketing?

Do you want better results, higher rankings, more earnings while spending less time trying to get there?  We are happy to share with you valuable information that could completely change how you do your internet marking.  Interested? Keep reading, you won’t regret it!

What we’d like to share with you, is our review of what one of the best (definitely the best out of what we have tried) SEO keyword analysis tools out there, – Market Samurai.

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