Coda

Coda for me is a god send, in the past I have used Adobe Dreamweaver but have found it too clunky and slow for my liking, Coda on the other hand is a quick and very aesthetically pleasing program. It combines an HTML editor with a CSS editor and has integrated Terminal too, add this to the fact that it also houses a full FTP client, based off Panic’s Transmit software and an integrated browser and you’re left with a sleek, effective, all in one web coder’s dream. It’s $99 but you can download and try out the two week trial for free.

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Integrity

The most in depth link checker available on the Mac, based off of Xenu Link Sleuth for PCs but fully reprogrammed for use on OS X, this link checker will allow you to find broken links and analyze the anchor text before exporting it to CSV to allow for further reviews. This is just a great piece of software and we are all we lucky that the developers have decided to release it for free.

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Rage SERank

I’ve tried other programs but SERank is my number one choice for a search engine rankings program on the Mac. Simply type in your desired website’s URL, enter in the keywords that you wish to view your rankings for and select your preferred Search Engines to get your current rankings. SERank allows you to track your rankings back over time as well as having the ability to save the top (however many you want, but I recommend 10) search results for each keyword.
The Professional version also gives you the option to customize and export as a PDF should you have clients who you wish to send out reports to. Free to try but the standard edition will cost you $80.

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Rage Domainer

Simple but effective way of keeping track of your domains as well as those belonging to your competitors. Domainer will give you easy access to information such as Google PageRank, AlexaRank, incoming links and Social tags. In addition it will also allow you to view the top ten incoming links and the top ten delicious links. More in-depth information is also available in the form of domain started and expiry date as well as the registrar. A free version of Domainer is available which limits you to registering a maximum of 3 websites, the full version costs $40.

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Cyberduck

An absolutely great ftp client, although a lot of my uploading can be done via Coda, I still find that I use Cyberduck an awful lot, it’s clean interface, easy to use setup with convenient bookmarking option makes this a pleasure. It’s worth paying for which is not needed as it is distributed by it’s programmer, David V. Kocher for free.

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Things

Now Things is a fairly new find for me and I’ve found over the last couple of months that I’ve used it everyday and that it’s really improved my workflow and organization. Things is a GTD (Getting Things Done) software program and an attractive one at that. It’s an organization tool that allows you to create new to dos and drop files, documents, emails, images, anything really into the todo so that when you come to begin the job everything you need is in the same place. It’s so easy to use and can be set to give you timely reminders when you have a project due.
This mini review doesn’t really do it justice so I’d ask you to pop across to the Things website and read about the features for yourself before downloading the 14 day free trial period. Should you like it the full version is unlocked for $50.

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Tweetie

Tweetie is my favourite Twitter client on the mac, it’s sleek, stylish and very minimalist in it’s approach, it, like all of the programs on this list incidentally, has built in growl compatibility and also allows for multiple users. Unfortunately columns or stacks are not available, nor are they likely to be in the future due to the programmers wishes, but at least it gave me the kick start I needed to rid myself of those who I was following that were not of any interest to me. Tweetie is basically free, the only price is the occasional advert in your stream, should you wish to rid yourself of this then $14.95 will do the job.

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Facebook Desktop Notifications

Facebook Notifications allows me to install a small icon in my menu bar that will light up should I get a new message or notification of some sort from Facebook. It’s perfect as it means that I no longer have to choose between random visits throughout the day to facebook or being bombarded with email updates. It’s a nice addition to any Mac owner’s desktop and it’s free.

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Vienna

I’ve tried many different RSS readers and for a long time used NetnewsWire but returned to Vienna after the latter introduced advertisments through its userface. Vienna is free, simple, attractive and does exactly what it’s supposed to do, not much more to say about it really other than it has the capability of opening feeds in it’s build in browser, or simply assigning a browser to open them for you.

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