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- Boz
Whether you are a designer, or a developer or a print person what do software/ides do you use in your every day work to achieve your goals..
Stuff you use almost daily.. I'm curious.. I saw this thread on another forum and got me curious about people on QBN.
Here I'll start. I guess these are the tools i find myself using almost daily depending on the task:
Obj-C : XCode/IB (not that often but still a few times a week)
PHP/JS/CSS/HTML: Dreamweaver (sometimes I use Aptana if I'm dealing with Appcelerator Titanium stuff)
Flash/AS3/Flex: Flash Pro CS5.5 + Flash Builder
Java/Android: Eclipse + ADT
C#/Silverlight for WP7 (not that often and not a pro at it just learning): Visual Studio 2010 Express + Expression BlendDesign:
Photoshop CS 5 Extended
Illustrator
Fireworks (most for outputting 8bit PNGs with alpha and slicing and stuff like that which Fireworks does much better)
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Media EncoderFile handling & Utilities:
SmartFTP for Windows / Panic's Transmit 4 for OSX
File Shuttle (for posting screenshots and stuff to the web in seconds)
Adium
Skype
Font Explorer X ProThis is what's mostly open on my machine during the day...
Whatcha got?
- meok0
- orrinward0
Balsamiq Mockups - Quick drafting of designs
Photoshop - Polished mocks, page elements and general design work.
Illustrator - Typography, Print, Logo work (really should switch to indesign for multi-page docs soon though....)
Notepad++ - HTML/CSS/Javascript/HAML/Ruby/Cu...
Firebug - Testing and doing experimental CSS stuff.
- Boz0
interesting..what are Balsamiq Mockups.. gotta check it out
- very nice.. added to my appsBoz
- Balsamiq is my way of making it clear that it's a layout mock not a design.orrinward
- I used to draft just as quickly in Illustrator but elements looked crisp and nice. Clients/bosses would...orrinward
- ... always be picky about changing the colours of the boxes and want to see different fonts e.t.c when it wasn't a bloody design...orrinward
- bloody design.orrinward
- totally understand what you are talking about.. clients think it's the final design..this makes it clear it's a wireframe.. greatBoz
- Continuity0
PS CS5
Coda, on the increasingly rare (thankfully) occasion I need to do any kind of CSS or mark-up
MAMP (see above)
FileZilla (ditto)
iTunes
Skype
Adium
Firefox
Thunderbird (at home)
Lotus Notes 7 for OS X (at work, and it makes me want to cry)
- elahon0
Coda
Transmit 4
PS CS4
Illustrator CS4Mail
iCal
Things
Billings
TextExpander
JumpCut
MAMP
Safari
- utf80
PS CS5 - Web and Mobile Design, wish Fireworks wasn't a dog in OSX
AI CS5 - Icon design, opening client PDFs to pull vector stuff out of
Flash CS5 - Banner ads :(
Espresso - HTML/CSS
Firefox - Mainly due to its plugins (Firebug especially)
Transmit - When I don't need to open Espresso to FTP something
iChat - We use this too much at work as a communication tool
Pandora
Text Edit - Copy paste board and password storage
Virtual Box - Testing websites in diff browsers
Mail OSX
FontExplorer X
Workamajig - Agency Billing/Task system (It's ok)
Final Cut Pro - The occasional online video and videos for RFPs
- armsbottomer0
Xcode (openframeworks, obj-c/cocoa)
Textmate/Aquamacs
Terminal (emacs, ssh/scp, etc.)
Transmit
Sequel Pro (fucking rad)
Tower [git](nice, but still end up using the command line most of the time)
HTTP Client (good for quick REST requests)
Eclipse (java only)
CodeBox (code snippets)Adobe Creative Suite
Evernote
Mail
Skype
Adium
Things- Man Sequel Pro looks really great.. I'm sick and tired of phpMyAdmin shit and with MT your session constantly times outBoz
- outBoz
- it's quite great, i highly recommend it.armsbottomer
- desmo0
I have these programs pretty much running for at least 8hrs a day:
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Safari
- iChat
- Twitter
- Spotify
- MailThen will have an additional 4 or 5 apps off and on depending on when I need them:
- Transmit
- Dreamweaver
- Grab
- TextwranglerAll this running on a 2 yr old, 15" MBP 2.66GHz w/ 4gb ram. No chugging at all. This is pretty much the standard it seems
- xcm0
Indesign CS5
Illustrator CS5
Photoshop CS5
Font Explorer X
Acrobat Distiller
Transmit
Transmission
Chrome
Itunesthey're pretty much always open.
- Jaline0
- Text Edit
- Text Mate
- Dreamweaver
- Sparrow
- MAMP
- Chrome
- iTunes
- Firefox
- Internet Explorer
- FrontPage (no joke)
- Transmit
- Photoshop
- Illustrator
- Word
- VisioMost of the Microsoft stuff is at work, in the corporate world.
You guys are giving me some nice ideas for programming software though. Danks.
- oh, and Quinn or Bejeweled when I'm bored.Jaline
- OMG, FrontPage? Really?Continuity
- do you run Frontpage on a Compaq or Gateway2000?armsbottomer
- ;)armsbottomer
- nope, it's real. lots of places here still use it, but we're trying to get them to move away. Also, I use Coda at home.Jaline
- sublocked0
If you guys are looking for a SQL management tool - NOTHING beats Navicat. Been using it for years. It rocks.
- ukit0
Photoshop
Illustrator
Textmate
Transmit
Terminal
Chrome...and that's it. Less is more:)
- boobs0
When I'm working on my computer, I usually have open:
Illustrator CS4
Dreamweaver CS4
Safari
iTunes
(Very little Photoshop or Flash any more)Lately I've been cursed to have actually had to open Powerpoint, and actually make shit in it. Which makes me want to shoot myself in the head. God, I fucking hate clients who want that shit.
When I'm having fun on my computer, I usually have open Logic 8.0, or Reason 5.0/Record 1.5. With either my Midi keyboard, or one of my guitars plugged into my Duet.
And, of course, QBN, Facebook, and a bit of Twitter.
- SoulFly0
Entourage. I'm on email 90% of the time.
The other 10% I'm in various project management applications.
Photoshop about 4 times a year.
Illustrator about 2 times a year.
- akrok0
photoshop
illustrator
indesign
dreamweaver
itunes
safari
adium
fontagent pro
word
cyberduck
- fxone0
Pen+Paper
Photoshop+Illustrator
3Dsmax+vRay
After EffectsiTunes
Mail
iChatFirefox
Netflix on iPhone ( LOL )
- xcm0
Indesign CS5
Illustrator CS5
Photoshop CS5
Font Explorer X
Acrobat Distiller
Transmit
Transmission
Chrome
Itunesthey're pretty much always open.
- d_rek0
InDesign, Photoshop & Illustrator at any given time.
Font Explorer X
Transmit
Dropbox
Pages (far superior than MS Word imo)
Coda (infrequently used, but still worth every penny)
OmniGraffle Pro (for sitemapping on occasion)
Mail/Gmail
iChat/AIM
Safari
Time Tracker (for when I freelance; free app through google)- ^d_rek
- Forgot Springpad, great free task management appd_rek
- www.springpadit.com
d_rek