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Top ten supplemental blogging apps
Chances are if I am sitting at my Mac I am blogging (perhaps not for TUAW, but for some blog somewhere) and so this list of the top ten supplemental blogging apps for OS X caught my eye.The apps that make the cut are:
- Quicksilver (a TUAW favorite)
- Firefox (though Flock gets a mention)
- Pukka
- NewsFire
- Transmit
- Image Trick
- TextMate
- Voice Candy
- Dictionary.app
- Adium and Skype
- Camino: Simply my favorite browser on OS X.
- NetNewsWire: Sure, NewsFire is prettier but it just doesn't handle my 600 plus feed list in a usable way, but I have come to rely on reading though stories and opening them in tabs within NNW, without cluttering up my browser window.
- MarsEdit: Made by the folks who make NNW. Simple and powerful, much like myself.
- TextWrangler: A great text editor at a great price (you can't beat free).
- Adium: I have to keep in contact with lots of people (I'm so popular) and doing it all in one app is a real time saver (not to mention it keeps my Dock clutter free).
- ImageWell: Universal and free, this little image editor is lightweight and fast.
- iTunes: I like to listen to my slow jams as I blog.
So, what is on your list of apps that every blogger should have at his or her fingertips?
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Chase said 1:41PM on 7-11-2006
I believe that Vienna garners a place on the list. It offers everything that NetNewsWire does for the low low price of free.
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Joakim said 1:54PM on 7-11-2006
Slow newsday eh?
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Appleologist said 1:56PM on 7-11-2006
For someone that wants everything they need to blog for free:
1. Cyberduck
2. TextWrangler
3. ImageWell
4. Safari RSS
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Dinesh said 1:59PM on 7-11-2006
Journler. Supports moveable type API blogs. Perfectly integrated with iLife media and best of all it is universal binary.
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dan said 2:15PM on 7-11-2006
I don't know why but I just keep coming back to the regular old WordPress post page to make posts... just no compelling reason to stop I guess, but then I'm not blogging constantly like others.
images: fireworks, gimp, whatever's handy at the moment really.
news: bloglines
communication: adium
music: iTunes
ftp: fugu
if I really need to do some real text/HTML editing for the blog: BBEdit
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the daniel said 3:00PM on 7-11-2006
Is there a reason you didn't link TextMate in the original list?
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Scott McNulty said 3:20PM on 7-11-2006
the daniel, I just plum forgot. Thanks for catching that, it is now fixed.
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sjk said 3:42PM on 7-11-2006
Re: I believe that Vienna garners a place on the list. It offers everything that NetNewsWire does for the low low price of free.
Have you seriously compared them? Vienna might offer more than NNW *Lite* (free version) but definitely not NNW (shareware version).
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Greg said 4:04PM on 7-11-2006
I recently discovered Ecto, which I've had mixed results with since posting an initial enthusiast review of. I think it's worth the cut here, though the jury's still out on whether it will hang in for the long hall.
G.
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Derek Punsalan said 4:35PM on 7-11-2006
I purposely left out actual desktop blogging apps because the idea was to present apps that supplement blogging. I have yet to find an app that worked well with the UTW plugin that many bloggers make use of for tagging.
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spil said 4:42PM on 7-11-2006
First of all, i don't care at all about this, but that might because i'm not much of a blogger. Anyway, I just want to congradulate Scott McNulty on how he can make a post out of just about anything, and although it might not be as interesting as something interesting, it is still better than nothing. Thank you, Scott, for a great job writting about stuff.
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Gilles D. said 4:48PM on 7-11-2006
You forgot SubEthaEdit, my favorite text editor.
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fp said 5:05PM on 7-11-2006
Imagewell is a must have!
For rss reader, I'm using Vienna. Among the free readers, I think it is the best.
As for MarsEdit and Ecto, I tried both of them. While they are fine, but they can't handle languages other than English quite properly. So I'm still using Camino or Opera.
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Don Parr said 5:23PM on 7-11-2006
My browser of choice is http://www.caminobrowser.org/ also :). I'm curious, this topic is to point out "apps that supplement blogging." Quicksilver is also a top favorite of mine, I'm wondering just how Quicksilver is used to supplement blogging? Just FYI, one of my blogging tools is MacJournal by Mariner Software.
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Austin said 8:32PM on 7-11-2006
I'm loving Ecto.
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Erick Erickson said 5:36PM on 7-12-2006
http://www.dejal.com/blogassist/
BlogAssist has become indispensible to me. And it's free!
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Matteo D. Adreani said 3:08AM on 7-13-2006
i agree with you on everything but newsfire. it's a pretty good app, but i'd rather say vienna (http://www.opencommunity.co.uk/vienna2.php), for me way better than newsfire and it's free!!! just give it a try...
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Easton Ellsworth said 1:35PM on 7-15-2006
Scott, I love using Pandora for my free music fix while I'm working. Firefox, Skype, and Gmail are three of my favorite productivity apps. I use Google Calendar for planning, Writely for word processing, a time tracker called Time Stamp (see syntap.com), and the ol' standby Notepad for text editing and planning. NewsGator Online is my feedreader of choice. I blog using Movable Type. My wiki is at WetPaint.
There, my life is an open book :).
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speed lane said 5:02AM on 10-08-2006
What about YouTube ?
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