Toolkit
You’ve heard the saying about the man, woman, or indeed possibly cat (though that may have been translated incorrectly by you) blaming his tools, but you swear by the collection you’ve picked up. You could, if absolutely necessary, work without this toolkit, but you’d significantly less happy, if not a blubbering mess.
MacBook Pro
Since you first picked up a modern Macintosh four years ago you have found it hard to imagine doing creative design or programming work from any other platform. You make no apologies: you like your mac, and everyone else can pry it from your cold dead hands. You currently hide behind a 15” MacBook Pro of the mid-2006 breed.
TextMate
You’ve found yourself between editors a number of times through the years, but TextMate is, to you, the absolutely most perfect editor. Possibly ever. You find it’s bundles delight you in their breadth without ever getting in your way. Every now and then you wonder “I wonder if it does…” and it does.
Adobe Fireworks
You have found Fireworks to be the best graphics creator and editor for the web from the first time you played with it, back in version 2 days. It has come a long way since then, and it really looks like Adobe cares.
Color Schemer Studio
Although you love Fireworks, you don’t actually like having to pull it open for deciding on colours, so Color Schemer Studio fills a perfect little hole that until you found it you didn’t really know was there. It provides a neat interface for tooling colours.
CSSEdit
Anybody who edits CSS and doesn’t own CSSEdit is wasting precious moments of their life. While you really don’t use it’s handy panels for creating rules you are impressed by the output they create. What you really love is the ability to have a loaded stylesheet “override” another in a WebKit powered preview. This preview updates as you code - without reloads - making working with e-commerce systems a whole lot easier. X-ray rounds out this applications perfect “do one thing and do it really well” feature set.
Aperture
You’ve said wonderful things about Aperture before, and you’ll say them again. Any photos found on your sites have made their way through Aperture.
Subversion
It’s not glamourous, but it works, and it works really well. All of your live websites make their way from your MacBook Pro to your web server by way of Subversion.
So now your readers know the tools you use. No big surprises here you are sure, but you think these apps (and of course the Mac that runs them all) deserve some recognition.
