Essential tools for Web Dev/Design on a Mac

It’s no suprise – i’m a BIG Apple fan. I own an iPhone, iMac, MacBook and Apple TV. It’s not just the design and aesthetics that I love but the whole UI and user experience aswell as the great software that gets attracted to the platform.

Sure, there are other products that work or have the same features as Apple do – but they don’t seem to be able to pull it off in the same way.

So enough of the usual Apple fanboy babble, onto this post which is about three essential tools for anyone doing any Web Development on a Mac. I have included a local server, code editor and database management tool. I’m not going to go too in depth with each one – i’ll leave that for you to go and discover, but trust me they are all worth having on your system.

Mamp – local server

Coda – code editor

Sequel Pro – MySQL database manager

Slammer – grid system overlay tool

Balsamiq Mockups – rapid wireframing

Fireworks/Photoshop – design

Little Snapper – screenshot/annotation tool

Tweetie – to subscribe to brilliant resources

Spotify – you need to listen to tunes while you work right?