All run in OSX 10.8 Mountain Lion
Text editor
TextWrangler
Source: Mac App Store- Syntax highlighting for various languages
- Multi tab
- Allows closing with unsaved files; recovers unsaved on opening
Utilities
JDiskReport
Source: http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/- Graphical disk usage reporting
Flycut clipboard manager
Source: Mac App Store
- Multiple cut-and-paste
Compressed file manager
iPackr
Source:Mac App Store- Supports zip, 7zip + many others
- Allows editing of compressed archive
- Allow extraction of individual files from compressed package
Graphics editor
Seashore
Source: http://seashore.sourceforge.net/The_Seashore_Project/Download.html- Beginner friendly
- Mac native binary
- Supports PNG and transparency
- Based on GIMP
GIMP
Source: http://gimp.lisanet.de/Website/Download.html- Full featured open source Photoshop replacement
- Lots of advanced editing features - can be overwhleming
- Requires X11 - see XQuartz below
FTP
FileZilla client
Source: http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=clientOSX development tools
Git version control
Source 1: Xcode:Command line tools (see Xcode below)Source 2: Homebrew - gives more recent version (see below)
DiffMerge
Source: http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/downloads.php- Clean, effective UI
- Consistent cross-platform editions
- Diff two directories trees
Homebrew (*nix, GNU & application binaries)
Source: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/- Custom build, from source, all popular *nix tools not found in OSX
- Produces efficient native binaries
- Fast compile; tries to use native OSX dependencies where it can
- Requires X11 - see XQuartz below
- Requires OSX developement command line tools - see Xcode below
XQuartz (X Window System, X11)
Source: http://xquartz.macosforge.org- THE official X11 for OSX
Xcode (OSX development suite)
Source: Mac App Store- Provides gcc and other *nix toolchain (as optional install via Xcode>Preference>Downloads>Command line tools)
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