Good Mobile Apps for Web Design & Development.
Are you a web developer/designer working on projects using an iphone, tablet or some Apple smartphone?
If you do and have been a Windows user, you may have noticed it is not as easier to do your work on the mac platform-based apple gadgets. If you are unfamiliar with the graphical interface of Mac operating systems but still want to use apple products like the iphone and ipad, these following apps for web developers come to the rescue.
The list of Mac apps suggested will serve both the technical and the business side of your web development projects.
The technical apps part will deliver the windows equivalent of common web designers/developers programs like text editors, photo/image editors(paint, photoshop), FTP managers and related utilities.
Chatbox
Need chatting with your clients or project collaboration with other web services providers?
This free and simple to use app enables web designers/developers to discuss and comment on files shared over Dropbox. Simply Install it, right click on any files/folders inside Dropbox, then start conversations with clients/collaborators
you shared the Dropbox folder with.It works offline and syncs whenever you're online next time.
Cyberduck
An FTP, SFTP, WebDAV & cloud storage browser for Mac & Windows. A useful FTP manager utility on the Mac App Store.Supports File transfer/upload and editing to Amazon S3 and cloud storage.
Svnx
This Mac app allows you to browse your working copies, logs and revisions of your repositories.
Komodo Edit 7/Komodo IDE
A free code editor that works on Mac, Linux and Windows. You can use it to open and edit PHP, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, Node js, CoffeeScript, Perl, Tcl, XML, HTML 5 and CSS 3. Supports remote file editing, syntax checking, and shell command.
Aptana RadRails
Free IDE for Ruby and Rails applications.
iTerm2
A replacement for Windows Terminal.
LittleIpsum
The best Latin text generator for OS X. Incredibly quick and lightweight. And it’s completely free!
BBEdit
Professional HTML and text editor for the Mac OS.
Paintbrush 2
A free Mac alternative for Microsoft Paint and Apple’s own now-defunct MacPaint.
A simple and basic image editing software that aims to serve the basic image editing needs of most computer users.
This app is by no means a professional replacement for Adobe Photoshop.
If your project requires high-end image editing then check out Adobe Photoshop Touch.
Adobe Photoshop Touch
So far, this app works on the iPad 2 and 3 only. Integrating the iPad camera, this app guarantees spectacular image editing results.
Sequel Pro
A fast, easy-to-use Mac database management application for working with MySQL databases.
Reeder
Most web services people use Google Reader to view updates of their favorite content. Reeder app will help you keep up with your favorite blogs as it syncs up with Google Reader in a better interface.
You can use it on desktop or use the mobile app version to view your favorite updated content on the go. And if you want to share your favorite(starred) Google Reader content on Twitter, use the IFTTT app as well.