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I design, I support, I tutor. I'm a lone troubleshooter for hire. I specialise in RapidWeaver, CSS, XHTML and jQuery. I run RapidWeaver Central because I'm a helpless Weaverholic.

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  • Differences Examiner

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    Differences Examiner allows you to compare text files and display their differences.



  • EasyFrame

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    Give Your Image an Edge. Whether it's for emailing or posting on your blog, adding a border or edge effect can dramatically enhance the appeal of a picture. EasyFrame is extremely intuitive and easy to use.


  • Firebug (Firefox addon)

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    Firebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse. You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page....


  • Firebug Lite

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    Firebug is an extension for Firefox, but what happens when you need to test your pages in Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari? The solution is Firebug Lite, a JavaScript file you can insert into your pages to simulate some Firebug features in browsers that are not named "Firefox".


  • Sitelok

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    Sitelok is a PHP and MySQL membership script application that allows you to password protect and control access to html or PHP pages within your web site. You can separate your site into multiple members only areas and each user can be a member of one or more areas.


  • Flowplayer

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    Flowplayer is a GPL licensed video player for Web sites. Use it to embed video streams into your HTML pages. Flash technology enables that 98% of all Internet users can see your videos. No other software makes it easier.


  • iResize

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    Great and free resizer. You can't find a better resizer at a better price.



  • Little Snapper

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    LittleSnapper is RealMac's latest tool for designers and web developers to take, organise and share screensnaps and ʻwebsnapsʼ - screenshots of webpages.


  • PListEdit Pro

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    Property list editing for developers and power users. Sick of fiddling with XML? PlistEdit Pro offers full copy + paste and drag and drop plist editing. Easily tweak your preferences files using the built-in preference browser.


  • Skitch

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    Your friends are global… you can send them links… but what if the action is on your screen? Point out a quick suggestion to a colleague or pass on that funny moment from an IM chat, post images to MySpace, eBay, forums or via email. Skitch is the Internet age's Camera.


  • Brush Pilot

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    Brush Pilot™ is a fast and easy application for previewing Adobe® Photoshop® and Adobe Photoshop Elements Brushes (.abr), built exclusively for Mac OS X. Brush Pilot is designed to save you time by allowing you to instantly preview your brushes without having to load them into Photoshop.



  • Stomp

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    Stomp takes in big videos and spits out small ones, and does it so easily, even Grandma can do it. A helpful list of included presets for popular devices (iPhone, iPod Touch, iPod Video, Apple TV and YouTube) make converting videos a snap.


  • ThumbsUp

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    ThumbsUp is a simple, drag-and-drop utility, designed to create thumbnails for batches of images. It supports any and all image formats supported by Mac OS X and QuickTime (including PDF documents).


  • Web Developer Tools

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    Adds a menu and a toolbar with various web developer tools. An essential for web developers.


  • xScope

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    Created for designers, xScope is a powerful set of tools that are ideal for measuring, aligning and inspecting on-screen graphics and layouts. Quickly available via the Mac OS X menu bar, xScope's flexible tools float above desktop windows and UI elements making measuring a breeze.


  • lipServiceX

    • lipServiceX is a Cocoa service that generates "greeked text" or "Lorem ipsum" text that is can be used as placeholder text in page or web layout applications. It places two services in the "Services" menu: "Generate Lorem Ipsum Paragraph" and "Generate Lorem Ipsum Sentence".


  • Slammer

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    Customizable Grid Overlays. Add multiple grids with varying columns and rows. Change the transparency and color of any element. Save and share your favorite setups.





    Image Editors

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  • ImageWell

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    A small, but powerful image editor that lets you quickly resize, crop, watermark, edit your images, take screenshots and then instantly upload them... plus so much more!

  • Picturesque

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    A simple app with a simple goal: to make images more beautiful. Whether you are in web or print, your images can benefit from a touch of Picturesque magic.

  • Image Tricks

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    Image Tricks is a free application for editing and generating images. It uses Mac OS X Core Image filters that transform pictures to unimaginable extent and apply advanced visual effects, creating unique artwork you can use as business card backgrounds, for web design, print materials and more

  • myPhotoEdit

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    Edit, resize and save every image for the web. myPhotoEdit is the hidden champion for web ready images. One click and web ready. Sensational filters. Great features and a clean interface.


  • Photoshop

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    Create powerful images with the professional standard. Now with improved access to its unrivaled power through a more intuitive user experience, greater editing freedom, and significant productivity enhancements.

  • Photoshop Elements

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    Adobe® Photoshop® Elements combines power and simplicity so you can go beyond the basics. Make your photos look their best, share them in creative ways, and easily find and view them. Works great with iPhoto.

  • GIMP

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    GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. (more...)


  • Graphic Converter

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    Open and save almost any picture file format. Edit and organize your pictures. Start a slide show. Automate your processing. GraphicConverter is your universal tool for all tasks related to digital photography.

  • Pixelmator

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    Image editing for the rest of us. Beautifully designed, easy-to-use, fast and powerful image editor for Mac OS X, which has everything you need to create, edit and enhance your images.

  • Intaglio

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    Intaglio is traditional Mac drawing with the power of Mac OS X, carrying the legacy of MacDraw into the modern Macintosh world by combining ease of use with the power of Mac OS X graphics. Old timers soon feel right at home and those new to Mac drawing pick it up quickly.




    Colour Pickers, Wheels And Schemes

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  • ColorSchemer

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    A professional color matching application for hobbyists to advanced professionals. Work with a dynamic visual color wheel, instantly explore harmony relationships and even let ColorSchemer Studio intelligently suggest color schemes for you.

  • Mondrianum

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    Mondrianum is a powerful plug-in that enables Mac applications to leverage the resources of the Adobe kuler community. Once installed, Mondrianum acts like a built-in, system-wide color picker, available in any Mac application that supports this feature of Mac OS X.


  • Kuler

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    Web-hosted application for generating color themes that can inspire any project. No matter what you're creating, with Kuler you can experiment quickly with color variations and browse thousands of themes from the Kuler community.

  • Tangerine

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    One Palette for all your Applications. Tangerine takes the hassle out of applying color schemes across unrelated applications.  Just add a color to Tangerine's palette and you'll be free to apply it effortlessly wherever it’s needed.


  • HexPicker

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    Hex Color Picker lets you get and edit hexadecimal HTML color codes in the standard Mac OS X color panel. Instantly see the hex color code for any color, and edit it.

  • Painter's Picker

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    Puts an interactive color wheel in almost every Mac OS X application, adding the ability to choose related colors directly within the color picker. It also adds more precise controls for choosing saturation, hue angle, and brightness.




    MP3 Players

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  • DewPlayer

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    The easiest way to put mp3 audio files on your web pages. This flash animation is very light and easy to use.



  • Longtail

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    Jeroen 'JW' Wijering’s world-renowned media players compatible with dozens of skins and plugins.

  • Audio Player

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    Embedded MP3 Audio Player that allows you to insert mp3 audio files into your posts and pages. Although a Wordpress plugin, there's a tutorial here showing how to install it elsewhere.


  • Wimpy Player

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    The most flexible and customizable player. Looking to create a player to match your site's design? Choose from a catalog of skins or create your own!

  • Yahoo! Media Player

    • yahoo_thumb-FA revolutionary and easy to use music player that plays audio on your website.


  • Hoover

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    Hoover's flash animated website music players allow you to easily play MP3s on your website. As easy as uploading your music, flash files and the players control file.

  • PremiumBeat

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    Free flash music players. Premiumbeat offers an easy way to add music to your website with detailed instructions




    Screen Recorders

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  • Camtasia

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    Produce HD-quality videos for the web and mobile devices. No tweaks or technospeak, just sparkling clear video with compact file sizes...every single time.


  • Jing

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    Snap a picture of your screen. Record video of onscreen action. Share instantly over the web, IM, email. Jing is free software that adds visuals to your online conversations.

  • ScreenFlow

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    Record. Edit. Share. Capture the contents of your entire desktop at the same time as your video camera, microphone and computer's audio. Sophisticated editing tools allow you to create incredible screencasts in no time. The finished result is a QuickTime movie, ready for publishing to your website or blog.



  • Screenflick

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    The all-new screen recording solution for Mac OS X. You be the Director. Record anything shown on your screen. Record a demonstration to teach someone how to use their computer, or even your own software.


  • Screenium

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    Animate Your Screenshots. Quickly make live videos of your Mac's screen… capture everything that's happening there, including mouse pointer, selections and movements — in real-time!





    Flash Utilities

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  • BannerZest

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    Enliven your website or blogs in seconds and at low cost with BannerZest. It's the fastest and easiest way to add punch and movement to your still images online, and get the professional-looking slideshows. Integration with all major web site editors is a snap!


  • PulpMotion

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    Create professional looking presentations using your own pictures, videos and music! PulpMotion Advanced brings the beautiful animations of PulpMotion to the next level.


  • SWFnSlide

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    SWF 'n Slide is available in a Standard Edition and a Pro Edition. Both are extremely easy programs to take your digital images and music, and create professional slide shows in minutes to share with family and friends. SWF 'n Slide works with all popular file formats for images and audio.





    HTML Editors

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  • BBEdit

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    The award-winning professional HTML and text editor for the Macintosh. An abundance of high-performance features.

  • Fraise

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    Fraise is a free text editor for Mac OS X Leopard 10.6 which is both easy to use and powerful. It is designed to neither confuse newcomers nor disappoint advanced users.


  • TextWrangler

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    A free powerful general purpose text editor, and Unix and server administrator’s tool.



  • Bluefish

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    Bluefish is a powerful editor targeted towards programmers and webdesigners, with many options to write websites, scripts and programming code.Bluefish supports many programming and markup languages, and it focuses on editing dynamic and interactive websites.


  • SEEdit Maxi II

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    The XHTML Editor which has helped professionals and hobbyists worldwide develop clean and valid XHTML and CSS sites on Macintosh.

  • Taco HTML Edit

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    A full-featured HTML and PHP editor designed exclusively for Mac OS X. Many advanced features.


  • Espresso

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    From the makers of CSSEdit comes Espresso, "text editing for grown-ups". Still in Beta it aims to bring context sensitivity, power snippets and CodeSense...


  • HyperEdit

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    A lightweight HTML editor with a preview pane that displays the web page live as you type.


  • TextMate

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    TextMate brings Apple's approach to operating systems into the world of text editors.


  • Aquamacs Emacs


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    An Editor for Text, HTML, LaTeX, C++, Java, Python, Perl, Ruby, PHP, and more. Based on GNU Emacs, Aquamacs integrates perfectly with OS X thanks to its specially adapted user interface.





    CSS Editors

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  • Coda

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    Text editor + file transfer + svn + css + terminal + books + more = whoah. Welcome to coda. Grow beautiful code.



  • Style Master

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    From beginner to expert, Style Master will make working with CSS more efficient, more productive, and more enjoyable.



  • skEdit

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    Simple, Flexible, Powerful Text Editor for the Web


  • Espresso

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    From the makers of CSSEdit comes Espresso, "text editing for grown-ups". Still in Beta it aims to bring context sensitivity, power snippets and CodeSense...


  • SEEdit Maxi II

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    The XHTML Editor which has helped professionals and hobbyists worldwide develop clean and valid XHTML and CSS sites on Macintosh.



  • CSSEdit

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    CSSEdit's intuitive approach to style sheets and powerful previewing features will make you deliver awesome standards-based sites in no time!


  • Xyle Scope

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    CSS debugging and fine-tuning for web designers, Xyle scope is the only tool available that allows web designers to view, edit, and save the whole cascade of applicable style rules for every selected HTML element.




    FTP

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  • Captain FTP

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    The very first cooperative FTP client. Captain FTP sets the mark with new technology advances, and is the very first FTP Client to allow local network FTP users to share files directly between each other.

  • FileZilla

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    FileZilla Client is a free, fast and reliable cross-platform FTP, FTPS and SFTP client with lots of useful features and an intuitive graphical user interface.

  • Transmit

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    Transmit 4 takes Mac OS X FTP to the next level. If you manage a web site, then Transmit is the perfect program for you: it makes FTP easy and fun.

  • Interarchy

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    Continuing to raise the bar in file transfer technology Interarchy 9 introduces over one hundred new and improved features, including a brand new protocol built upon SSH, numerous enhancements to the product’s award-winning interface, plus much much more.



  • Fetch

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    Fetch is an easy-to-use, full-featured FTP and SFTP client for the Apple Macintosh, supporting the most popular file transfer protocols on the Internet, and more.

  • Forklift

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    ForkLift is designed to be the fastest, most powerful file manager for the Mac. Dual-pane view will dramatically increase your productivity along with state-of-the-art features like live preview, spring loaded folders and any-to-any workflow.

  • FTP Client

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    Now a Universal Binary, FTP Client offers an incredible speed boost when running on Apple's latest Intel-based Macs. In addition, FTP Client has a beautifully streamlined new user interface which fits perfectly with Apple's latest Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard.

  • Cyberduck

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    Cyberduck is an open source FTP, SFTP, WebDAV and Amazon S3 browser licenced under the GPL with an easy to use interface and support for many Mac OS X system technologies.

  • Flow

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    Flow brings the best of the Mac to your server's files and folders, and makes working remotely every bit as intuitive and natural as working locally with the Finder.

  • Yummy FTP

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    Yummy FTP is an FTP and SFTP client application built as native Mac OS X software from the ground up, with the goal of providing a reliable, powerful, yet easy to use file transfer utility.




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