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

A fairly good list, though it doesn't cover some of the apps I use whilst blogging. After the jump you'll find my list of blogging apps I can't blog without.

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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What about YouTube ?

October 08 2006 at 4:58 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Easton Ellsworth

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 :).

July 15 2006 at 1:35 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matteo D. Adreani

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...

July 13 2006 at 3:08 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Erick Erickson

http://www.dejal.com/blogassist/

BlogAssist has become indispensible to me. And it's free!

July 12 2006 at 5:36 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Austin

I'm loving Ecto.

July 11 2006 at 8:32 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Don Parr

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.

July 11 2006 at 5:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

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.

July 11 2006 at 5:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Gilles D.

You forgot SubEthaEdit, my favorite text editor.

July 11 2006 at 4:48 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

spil

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.

July 11 2006 at 4:42 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Derek Punsalan

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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