I need to edit web pages and manage servers so I began looking for something a bit more productive than terminal.<\/p>\n
I took the trial of BBEdit and decided to purchase it. \u00a0 TextMate was another possiblilty, but I liked the built-in ftp client the BBEdit has so I went with it for now. \u00a0 I may change in the future, although the TextMate forums indicated ftp client functionality was a top-requested update and it is still not available.<\/p>\n
I need to log in and manage a server farm running a mix of RedHat and Ubuntu Linux, I chose iTerm for that. \u00a0 I still need to get the correct code for the delete\/backspace key, but other than that annoyance it works quite well. \u00a0 Keeping connection information as favorites saves time as well.<\/p>\n
I chose Transmit as my ftp program, I am used to the my-files-on-the-left and the server-files-on-the-right layout. \u00a0 I don’t like that it wants to choose ascii or binary based on the file extension as that is not always the proper choice, but I have added a few extensions through preferences and it seems to be working fine.<\/p>\n
I use the Adobe reader a lot, Preview works fine too.<\/p>\n
I use Openoffice.org v2 and have no need for any microsoft office programs. \u00a0 I have found only one problem with OO.org v2, and that has to do with updating and saving files in an encrypted sparseimage file. \u00a0 It hangs 100% of the time. \u00a0 Moving the file out of the sparseimage file is all that’s required. \u00a0 It is a nuisance but I want to ensure security of certain files at all times and the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I need to edit web pages and manage servers so I began looking for something a bit more productive than terminal. I took the trial of BBEdit and decided to purchase it. \u00a0 TextMate was another possiblilty, but I liked the built-in ftp client the BBEdit has so I went with it for now. \u00a0 … <\/p>\n