Work recently issued me a new computer and realized I should write down the programs I use daily and the tools I use for development.

General:

• Skype is an application for making free voice and video calls over the internet. It also lets you make group calls, instant message and for a low rate, make phone calls.
• Dropbox is a tool for syncing files across different devices and the web.
• Caffeine is a utility for keeping your Mac from going to sleep.
• Growl is a notification system for OS X. It centralizes all of your notifications, has theme support and allows you control notifications on a per-application basis or all at once.
• Google Notifier is a menu bar application that allows you to see new Gmail messages or upcoming Google Calendar events without having to open a web browser.
• Growler for Google shows Google Notifier notifications using Growl

Design:

• Photoshop CS5 is a digital picture and photo editing application.
• Illustrator CS5 is a vector graphics editor.
• InDesign CS5.5 is a layout program for posters, flyers, brochures, magazines, newspapers and books.
• Lightroom 3 is a digital photo management and editing program.

Development:

• TextMate is a general-purpose GUI text editor.
• Transmit is a file transfer program for FTP and SFTP servers, Amazon S3, or WebDAV.
• Charles is an HTTP proxy / HTTP monitor / Reverse Proxy that enables a developer to view all of the HTTP and SSL / HTTPS traffic between their machine and the Internet.
• Processing is an open source programming language and environment.
• Xcode is a suite of tools for developing software for Mac OS X and iOS. I use it for iOS development and some of the tools it ships with to set up my other development environments.
• OSX GCC Installer is usefull if you don’t want to install Xcode and you just need GCC and related tools to set up a development environment.
• Homebrew is a great package installer for UNIX tools that don’t ship with the Mac by default. I use it to install other libraries such as:
  • growlnotify - a command-line tool for posting notifications to Growl.
  • node - an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it great for real-time applications.
  • phantomjs - a headless WebKit with a JavaScript API.
• Git is an open source, distributed version control system.
• rbenv is a simple, unobtrusive UNIX tool for switching between multiple versions of Ruby.
• ruby-build provides a simple way to compile and install different versions of Ruby on UNIX-like systems.
• Pow is a zero-config Rack server for Mac OS X.
  • powder - command-line utility that makes it easier to add applications, tail your log files, and restart Pow.
• Bundler a tool for managing Ruby application dependencies.