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Colloquy[1] is a fantastic IRC client. TextWrangler[2] is one of my favorite text editors. If you're familiar with Linux, you'll want a package manager- popular
by RodgerTheGreat 14y ago
Colloquy[1] is a fantastic IRC client.
TextWrangler[2] is one of my favorite text editors.
If you're familiar with Linux, you'll want a package manager- popular options are MacPorts[3] or Fink[4].
As far as media players, VLC[5] has a very nice OSX port.
[1] http://colloquy.info/ http://colloquy.info/
[2] http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/ http://www.barebones.com/products/TextWrangler/
[3] http://www.macports.org/ http://www.macports.org/
[4] http://www.finkproject.org/ http://www.finkproject.org/
[5] http://www.videolan.org/ http://www.videolan.org/
- andybak 14y agore: package managers. Check our Homebrew: http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/ and read a few articles about the pros and cons of homebrew vs Macports. It's a sticky topic.
- gks 14y agoLinkinus is a pretty nice IRC client as well. I believe I got it on sale on the App Store for like $5. I'm sure it's more now though. I definitely suggest HomeBrew over MacPorts and Fink. I've had much better luck with it. TextWrangler is a great free editor. I use Sublime Text 2 for anything that I may need some standard editing. For more complex stuff or if I'm doing more than opening a single file, I prefer MacVim.
- mhenr18 14y agoIt depends on what you're editing. If I'm ever writing any C/C++/Objective-C I ALWAYS use XCode even if it's only as a text editor and not a project manager/compiler, due to its fantastic syntax highlighting. TextWrangler's great as a replacement for TextEdit, but it doesn't do syntax highlighting as well as it could.
- gks 14y agoAgreed. XCode is definitely the best for any Cocoa/Objective-C tool. Though I've heard good things about AppCode lately. I do some Ruby coding and for that I tend to use MacVim with a few nice plugins.