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00:00 there's no echo on my side in the recording yo Greg how you doing today
00:16 how you doing sir I'm doing well I am doing fantastic you know I'm really glad that I figured out that stupid echo from
00:23 the first three episodes I'm sorry about that everybody I did figure that out it was a effects knob on my sound board
00:31 that was hiding from me and it was it kind of looked like it was off but it was just turned on slightly and it gave
00:36 me that slight echo so hopefully that is all fixed I did a bunch of tests and I'm
00:42 pretty certain and that we are good to go and we will have beautiful audio some
00:48 great feedback so far for the first three episodes haven't you haven't you seen my Craig yeah it's been great I've really appreciated it some had some
00:55 awesome emails and some suggestions coming in so we keep rocking and keep rolling and we keep covering whatever
01:01 people want to hear exactly yeah so in today's episode everybody we're gonna be talking about mac apps and kind of the
01:09 mac apps that me and Greg use to do our web design and hopefully some you know
01:14 good recommendations for you guys so basically the format is we're gonna come and go back and forth about apps that we
01:19 think are great for users in no particular order so just because we talked about something first doesn't
01:25 necessarily mean it's better just that that's the order we randomly chose to go
01:30 in for our picks of the day now we only have about 30 minutes here so I know I
01:36 there's gonna be a lot of apps right like you know me and Greg were talking just before this that I opened my apps
01:41 folder and it was like I had to go shopping for apps again it was like oh my God look at all these apps that I have it's like do you even know what
01:48 half of em are anymore you know I don't even use them are you the same way you have a problem Joe we'll just we'll just
01:56 admit that there I do have a collection from over over time but I got a new
02:01 computer last year so I made it a point not do not install apps that I
02:07 haven't used in a year so okay so I haven't apps folder open right now and I
02:13 438 apps in there exactly how many do you have clay how many do I have
02:18 I'm looking at a different view hold on Oh
02:25 117 oh man yeah forty or four times the system that
02:34 includes the ones that are built in yeah four times the number of apps Wow yeah I
02:43 have a problem I wonder if there's a group for that you could always start one libres yes as /aa paddocks yeah a
02:52 paddock said yep whoever owned a a meeting so you want to kick it off then
03:01 since you're sure I'll kick it off let's start with like a general purpose like
03:06 image editing app you know I think both of us probably have our favorites
03:12 I think the personal one that I always it's kinda always my go-to one is Pixelmator it's just you know for
03:19 editing JPEGs and doing stuff like that um I know there's a lot of other ones out there there's like affinity photo
03:25 and acorn and obviously Photoshop but I know I always go back to Pixelmator myself because it's just something that
03:32 I know right and I feel comfortable in it um you know all the rage everyone's talking about affinity photo and how
03:39 wonderful it is and how it's gonna you know take down Photoshop but I find the interface just pretty complex
03:46 and I you know maybe if I took the time to learn it and understand everything but I just Pixelmator just feels at home
03:53 for me right and so you know I think it's a great app what's your favorite image
03:58 editing app right my boat's a corn I just same kind of thing is that the UI I
04:05 really like the UI there's this very subtle
04:10 in future you would have crop stuff that it gets the pixels just fry so when I
04:16 drag it around it kind of just snaps to that boundary where this I guess stark yeah contrast and color something so it
04:24 makes it really fast and really easy for me to like crop images and do some basic editing that I need I'm not a graphic
04:30 designer by name yes but worked perfectly for the things I use yeah you know I actually own a corn and it was my
04:36 go-to for a long time and I loved it back in the day when it was like a single window app and then they kind of
04:42 went to like where all the other apps go where you have like tool bar windows all over the place and at that point I
04:48 started you know looking at Pixelmator so I kind of went that way but I still use acorn for a certain thing there's if
04:55 I ever need to do anything fancy with text like I want to do some effects and stuff on text acorn is the hands down so
05:02 much better than Pixelmator at that um I feel so if I ever need to do anything fancy with text and an image I I still
05:09 open up acorn and and use that cool so I
05:15 guess I'm up yeah go for that I'm gonna have to go everybody should have a good backup so I'm going to start with arc AR
05:21 cue the awesome backup app does incremental backups so
05:27 you know work with confidence that your system is protected you know cancer I
05:34 just can't stress that enough so I know it's not web design related but you know if we're gonna be doing our work doing
05:41 our living on these things then we should definitely take it seriously fair enough fair enough now for backups I how
05:48 you still use time machine that's all I really use now that that only does obviously local backups right but yeah
05:54 um I used to use CrashPlan and they kind of changed up a whole bunch of stuff so I stopped using them and actually
06:00 purchased art like a year ago but I've never really configured it to back up to anything yet and I I noticed that they
06:08 recently I think it was recent they they support now Backblaze which is like dirt
06:13 cheap like really really cheap so I actually out my dad set up some off-site
06:18 backups with Backblaze just last week so it kind of got my got my head turn in of
06:24 you know how easy that actually is to do so I'll probably gonna start using arc even though I've owned it for like a
06:30 year or two so yeah um a nice side
06:35 comment the developer of arc is actually local local to me madam oh really
06:41 oh yeah really great guy so you know just kind of bestows that confidence in
06:48 something that isn't so important to you know to a user sweet
06:55 my next pick I'm gonna stick in the image editing or world because I think you know image editing is really really
07:01 vital to web design so but I'm gonna change it up and go to something which is more vector-based graphics so you
07:08 know we have we talked about apps like Pixelmator and acorn and affinity photo and those are great for like bitmap
07:14 related images right you know that are all pixel based but there are other apps that let you create things like SVG's
07:21 are the you know like kind of the cool thing out there all the kids are using SVG's which is a scalable vector graphic
07:26 okay and what basically would have what a vector graphic is it allows you to scale the image infinitely and the image
07:34 will always look crystal sharp right so my kind of go-to app right now is sketch
07:40 it's really really nice um but I just tweeted today that you know I I really
07:45 want to start using OmniGraffle a lot more and I I know that it does SVG's and vector graphics also so I I think I'm
07:53 gonna give my graph all a shot for a little while and kind of put sketch off
07:58 to the side um other options just to let people know there is affinity designer which kinda like affinity photo is all
08:04 the rage everyone's saying it's gonna beat Adobe Illustrator but you know I just like these simpler ones like sketch
08:10 and OmniGraffle um they're just they're more intuitive to me and I like I like with the apps are laid out and they're
08:16 just more user friendly in my opinion cool cool I guess my pick my next pick
08:23 would be X X scope from the icon Factory I am it's great app for really zooming
08:31 in and it has a pressure a bunch of utilities the main one I use to zoom in to the pixel perfect point on a screen
08:39 so I can see yeah I can examine the drop shadow on a corner I can pick a
08:44 particular color in some palette that I'm trying to match or you know tweaked
08:50 and tuned there's also a rulers feature so you can measure the distance between elements and stuff like that it's really
08:57 great really handy awesome app don't they also have like an iOS like version
09:03 so you can like mirror stuff under the IE I don't know iPhone I I really do I own excope but I don't use it really
09:08 much I use it for the ruler function somewhat sometimes but that's it you know
09:15 beyond exciting yes actually they have a mirror feature I just opened it so I'm thinking that's what you're probably referring to yeah yeah yeah but I I
09:22 really use the loop and those kind of tools more yeah more than anything okay
09:29 yeah well yeah heavily I have used it for the ruler feature urn where you can like put the little red lines on the
09:35 screen you know though you know I like that kind of the guides so it's like you know static guides on your screen it is
09:41 a cool app a good one yeah yeah my next one so you talked about like picking colors with excope I'm going to go with
09:48 a my go-to color picker there's a lot of great color pickers out there but I use one called SIPP si P and I just really
09:55 like it um it's they you can download it for free but I think it's like 10 bucks for the pro version and I think it's
10:01 totally worth it um what I like about it is that um it just sits up any money bargaining you know whenever you copy a
10:08 color code off your you know off of anything it kind of watches your clipboard and will save that color value
10:14 so you can easily reference it later and then you can also create your own little
10:19 color palettes so like you know what I do is for every project you know I'll have a color palette so like my email
10:25 stacks website I have specific colors that I want to use in that project and so I'll create a color palette inside
10:31 sip that contains all the colors for that particular project so I can quickly you know reference those and you know
10:37 click on the you know variation of purple or pink or whatever that I want for that particular project it's really
10:43 really cool does it let you adjust so you can like tune and match and or do complements or
10:49 so it doesn't have any sort of complimentary thing I would love that if it did have that that would be like the
10:55 ultimate feature um I still for that for like complementary complementary colors I still own color scheme or studio which
11:04 is like I don't even think it's available anymore I've owned it for years but it still works that's kind of
11:09 I still open up that that app to get any sort of complementary colors but you can
11:15 you know add new and you can't tweak some colors but again the complementary color thing would be would be really
11:21 awesome if zip added that another actually another feature I love with SIPP is you can um when you create
11:27 a color palette inside sip you can export that to the Apple color picker so
11:33 that when you're in the default color picker in the in rapidweaver or whatever app you can just on the little drop-down
11:40 where your fear in I think it's the second tab and the color of utility there's a like a select box and then
11:47 your color palette from sip would show up inside there so that's really really useful so that you don't need to always
11:53 go back to sip it'll export to the default color palette and then you'll have all your colors they're super
11:59 useful that's cool so my other my other hidden app that I use a lot is a app called smaller my
12:07 typical my typical workflow when publishing is I actually export my
12:13 project and I run it through two apps the first one is image optimum and that
12:21 optimizes all of the images my project and that includes all of the developers
12:27 images so say you had a stack that didn't have an image that wasn't optimized it would cover all those as
12:33 well and my images right so it's a great to cover the whole website but then I also run my entire project through an
12:40 app called smaller which will compress the HTML the CSS or the JavaScript I'll
12:46 slice make my project I outputted my project even smaller um there is a huge
12:52 huge caveat to this that you have to really configure the Preferences of
12:57 smaller to be a believer compatible because by default it will rename rename
13:03 files so it'll it'll take your CSS file and rename it to Dom in da CSS which
13:10 will absolutely break your entire website when you export it yes so you know go into the go if someone who uses
13:17 this go into the preferences make sure the output of the file name is the same as the source cool
13:25 so you export your site locally and then you just take that folder drag it on to smaller and boom it's done right exactly
13:34 exactly as long as you have everything configured properly yes yeah yes cool
13:39 yeah I love it it's great sweet you know I kind of took two there so that's fine it's fine uh so much you
13:47 know for image optimization I think I do think that is a key one because a lot of people what they do is they'll um you
13:53 know they'll they'll upload really large images and that is just a killer for your website like probably that I think
13:58 the number one performance hit on a website is large images do you agree absolutely oh absolutely absolutely and
14:05 I can even go in further on that if you let me keep going with it is like people you know people ask me and they say you know all my hosting my hosting is slow
14:12 sluggish fire up the web console and you see 10 megabyte image loading on their home
14:18 page you know full resolution um you know and really what they should be
14:24 doing is using using a JPEG image 80 to 90 percent
14:30 efficiency right 89 to 90 percent optimization our quality sorry that's that's the setting and you know running
14:38 it through these apps called like image optimum and thier images should be 150
14:43 200 K easy and I still see people throwing you know multi megabyte images
14:49 on the website you know but you know I also see is
14:57 people are now putting videos multi megabyte videos on their website yep and
15:02 I've seen people no lie making a video on their homepage yeah
15:09 and and they wonder they wonder why their pages loading slow yeah yep they
15:15 wonder a lot of things a lot of things so on that I highly recommend people you
15:22 check out handbrake and brake is an awesome open-source project it has a ton
15:27 of presets to take your web videos and export them into all the web safe file
15:34 sizes yeah it breaks a great one yeah so I'll go related let's say so image
15:41 compression I think is really really important um we've kind of you know said that it for a few minutes now um my
15:47 three oh I'm gonna give you three that I use for image compression image optimism ended I use that mostly for pngs and
15:55 then there's also JPEG mini um which is a little pricey I think it's like 20
16:00 bucks but I think it is the best thing out there to compress a JPEG like it is
16:06 really top-notch so yeah JPEG mini is awesome and just a tip you know a tip to
16:12 the hat to our real mic Dannan been they got squash and you know they've they've
16:19 really updated that a lot and I've kind of started using that to replace both imageoptim and JPEG mini
16:27 because it does a pretty decent job the more you use the three apps you kind of realize what types of images each app
16:35 kind of compresses better and you know I kind of just by looking at an image go
16:40 oh I think you know squash is gonna be best on that one or JPEG mini but most of them I I do find that squash does a
16:46 really great job it actually has a preference um if you care what it's called but it's like it'll do like it
16:52 it'll take extra long to compress it but it does a slightly better job and so
16:57 that's pretty good that's pretty good so squash another one for video compression for me is so a handbrake is awesome for
17:05 I think for a really beginner user it could be a little daunting um so there yeah there is a a pretty inexpensive app
17:13 on the App Store called um video compress Pro and it's dirt simple um it
17:20 just has a couple sliders you drag and drop your video in there and you say what kind of quality you want and you
17:25 say export and it does real a pretty decent job I'm pretty impressed with it I think it was like a dollar ninety-nine
17:31 on the app store or something like that so yeah video compressed Pro that was a good one that's cool that's a nice tip
17:37 yeah I'm my my export publishing workflow is so ingrained at this point
17:43 that it's hard to see switching to JPEG mini or squash but
17:50 it's gonna be exciting to see what comes out from these projects yeah definitely
17:56 you want to pick an since I just being rolled through three sure
18:03 I've been talking a lot about image apps but I think again they're very important so my next one is an app called picks ave p IX AV e and I use it for all of my
18:13 stock photos and icons and stuff like that it's kind of like like iPhoto or Photos app for you know non-family
18:20 photos right it's so for all my web design fo you know image in stock photos
18:25 and stuff like that I throw all that into an app called pics Ave um they have an iPad app as well or an iOS app I
18:32 don't really use that cuz I my library so big it's like 15 gigabytes I think um there's no way I want to sync that up to
18:38 the cloud so um it is just on my on my Mac Pro here but that is a great app
18:44 it's it's very performant um I started using it when real Mac discontinued
18:49 ember um ember was really great I did love ember and I know real Mac is
18:55 hinting of that potentially coming back but pick salve is a great app the
19:00 developer is very attentive and he's he releases quite a bit of it updates so picks ABS a great a great pic there from
19:07 shiny berg yeah okay yeah cool I didn't realize that app was still still around
19:14 then it's been a while that's a good app good yeah good call so if we're gonna talk about some
19:21 organization and stuff like that my my next app would be icon icon jar it's an
19:28 unbelievable app for of icons and you'll find them if you do
19:37 a lot of icons on your website a lot of icon packs now distribute
19:42 an icon jar format so you don't have to my workflow used to be manually sorting
19:49 them into folders and categorizing them and now they're completely searchable I can do all sorts of stuff and it's it's
19:58 a it's a really really awesome app you know I agree i Conger is really great I did try to use it to replace pick salve
20:05 and I didn't really think it really was great for that it is it is awesome for like the linear icons especially since
20:11 you can like change the color and you know preview those the color changes in icons are good job I've totally forgot
20:17 about icon jar um it's it's awesome so I actually do use both I do have icon jar for like my font awesome style icons
20:25 right for like the right I know single color ones and then everything else I used for pics have so yeah good call an
20:31 icon jar it's a good one yeah I'm really really excited
20:36 designers have picked up on it and start tagging all their images and supporting this format because it makes finding and
20:43 tweaking and sorting all this stuff that he purchase and collect over the Internet it's so much so much nicer oh yeah
20:50 efficient yep I mean Europe I'm up okay so I'm gonna
20:56 I'm gonna jump into kind of semi developer land um there is you know a
21:02 lot of you rap Weaver users it would be great if you knew a little bit more HTML
21:08 or a little bit more CSS and if you want to dabble in JavaScript or things of that nature there's an amazing app
21:14 called - and what - is it it allows you to easily search HTML and CSS Docs and
21:23 whatnot and if you're an Alfred user like I am Alfred app is a great like app launcher
21:28 there's a killer integration between - and Alfred where I just like I launched
21:34 Alfred type CSS space and like border and all of a sudden it'll list out all
21:39 the CSS attributes that say border I select the one I want and then all of a sudden the documentation with examples
21:45 for that particular CSS attribute are displayed it's just killer I use it a hundred
21:52 times a day on an eight sports more than just HTML and JavaScript I mean it has tons of different like every programming
21:58 language you could think of but I think it is an amazing app um you know just to if you want to learn a little bit more
22:04 CSS I'm just kind of browse through it um yes they're all available online but if
22:10 it's an app I feel that you know maybe someone will use it a little bit more than going straight to Mozilla or going
22:15 straight to you know w3 schools or whatever so I think - is great now that's that's a good callin and it's
22:23 not just about that you can actually go to Google and go to those other websites if you filter out a all the junk sites
22:29 that don't really have yeah either accurate updated documentation or and all the ads so you're getting a nice
22:36 clean interface to actually focus and read what's important yeah but if you do
22:43 go on the web I highly recommend the mozilla documents as like the de-facto yeah that's what - news is is the
22:49 mozilla documents yeah oh yeah that's great perfect yeah I use - as well is a good one
22:54 Oh so if you're gonna talk to Velib restof then I'm gonna talk about a free app called sequel Pro so a lot of users
23:02 want to dive in and connect to their database they want to view a database they want to use it in a web friendly
23:08 manner so a lot of hosts support PHP myadmin thought if you want them if you
23:16 want to connect to it on a Mac you can use an app like sequel Pro and how I recommend people use it and how I work
23:22 how I tell people actually dog to use it is to set up an SSH tunnel so basically
23:28 you could connect securely to your host by chillydog and use a protocol called
23:36 SSH which allows you to safely and securely share and connect your information you do not want to connect
23:43 your database in a different manner because doing so is highly insecure and
23:51 very much will lead you to getting your site hacked so basically you just use
23:57 sequel Pro and has native support for SSH tunnels and then you can connect
24:03 right to your database and you can view it right in your desktop you can run queries you can see all your data it's it's really great it's really easy I use
24:12 it a lot in development yep I use sequel Pro as well it's amazing that it's such
24:18 a powerful app and it's free and there's a lot of non free ones out there and sequel Pro beats them all I think sequel
24:25 Pro is just a killer app I agree I agree there's like navigate a lake get
24:31 hundreds of dollars and exact legal prose is open source and free yep amen
24:38 okay next I'm gonna stake on the developer track a little bit um if you want to get down and dirty and maybe develop some code um I have two app
24:47 suggestions for you the first one is code runner I'm really really cool app and I use it a lot just
24:54 to do quick and dirty PHP and to test some stuff out so you know I will type
25:00 in some PHP and then I there's a Run button you can run it and then it'll it'll output the outputs that PHP on the
25:07 bottom of the screen so it's like a two pane so you have you know the where you code at the top and then the the output
25:12 of whatever your script is at the bottom so I use that all the time to kind of test small snippets of PHP Ruby shell
25:19 scripts I mean you name it it does a ton of different languages I wish it did
25:24 JavaScript it doesn't do that um that would be pretty slick but um it you know code runners just thumbs up on that one
25:31 it is a great app and if you want to go a little bit further um vs code I've kind of moved over to
25:38 Visual Studio code um to my every you know all day long coding efforts so I
25:43 develop everything that I do in Visual Studio code which kind of makes me feel a little bit dirty cuz I'm using a
25:49 Microsoft product but they've really done a great job with vs code is it is a
25:55 superb app they borrowed a lot from sublime text which you know a lot of developers used for years it was kind of
26:02 like the de-facto hipster web developer tool and kind of everyone's moving over to vs code and it's nicer it's really
26:10 really nice so code runner and vs code those are my picks for developing
26:15 code runner is awesome because I will write a short function and I'll test it
26:23 and I'll know instantly if I'm on the right track or not hi they recommend that if you do any
26:29 kind of pH piece especially yeah a super hustle for PHP I have to I have to I
26:35 have to respectfully disagree with you on Visual Studio code offensive poem I'm a big fan of BBEdit
26:42 I love BBEdit every I tried I've been trying to add them and I just whenever I
26:50 try to throw a big file at BBEdit it just handles it and no questions no
26:57 performance issue issues everything I throw BBEdit is like butter Adam and some of those
27:04 those other editors just crawl to the knees you know they just to just keel
27:10 over yes and every every user every user
27:15 needs a good text editor and what I find is that a lot of people would just use TextEdit um
27:21 highly discouraged uh yes character encoding and it it'll insert characters
27:28 and break things on your page so you know prior to be beheaded BBEdit was the
27:33 paid version of their software and they had another app called text wrangler they discontinued text wrangler in favor
27:40 of a BB at a free version and a BB at a paid version so I highly recommend you
27:47 know you could just use BB had a free version for most users and you can edit all sorts of HTML text file CSS files
27:53 etc etc using this use that tool it has a built in SFTP client as well so you
27:59 can edit files right directly on the server - so wait BBEdit yeah talking
28:05 about SFTP I'm gonna go ahead and say transmit is my de-facto FTP client it is
28:12 just you know it's probably the most expensive one out there I know there's a lot of debate you know people using
28:17 stuff like forklift and yummy FTP and a bunch of other you know inexpensive FTP apps and transmit is just solid and I
28:26 think you get what you pay for a perfect example just last week actually I had a customer that was um it
28:34 was a German customer so a lot of the file names had em Lots in it right so you know hewed and he what he did is he
28:40 downloaded some CMS data from from top from total CMS from one server and he
28:46 uploaded it to another server okay I'm using I believe it was yummy FTP
28:52 and and the date it wasn't working on the new server and I'm going and racking my
28:58 brain of what what the heck's going on here and what happened is yummy FTP had
29:04 inserted some invisible characters with the oom lots with the US because it's a you know unicode character and I asked
29:13 the guy can you please download you know transmit and try that and it worked flawlessly so you know stuff like that
29:20 he it would have saved him days of work you know in frustration if
29:26 you know he just used transmit so um everyone you know I'm not saying that
29:32 you know that that sort of scenario is gonna happen to everybody but you know I I'm a strong proponent of you get we pay
29:38 for and transmit is the best FTP out FTP app out there and I think you should get
29:44 it much more to add then yes I do have
29:53 forklift I actually test and download a lot of FTP apps it's you'd be amazed because I have to
30:02 make sure they all work you know and the chili dog and stuff like that so I can just be able to see what people are doing and and try to replicate their
30:10 experiences with their saw with these software applications and transmit is
30:16 just Bar None the best FTP app out there and
30:22 you know aside from that if you had a go in every different direction forklift would probably be my number two mm-hmm I
30:28 could go with that you know I I had I have had good success with forklift um I did use it for a little while I'm having
30:35 used it for a long time since you know I just I'd love transmit so much yeah another one that I was trying that I
30:41 really kind of like but they've kind of seemed like they had burned me is a one
30:46 called in Turkey in Turkey they're supposed to ship an update big update but they've seem to become
30:53 always in beta mmm I never never release yeah
31:00 okay I think let's see my last big topic I think that he kind of covers web
31:05 design is like previewing locally right um so you know a lot of you I should say
31:14 rat fever seven um it has a built in um kind of PHP server built into the app
31:19 and that is really good it has been a godsend for me I'm just developing and making you know
31:24 knowing that there's a web server behind the actual preview engine in rapid eevr um so actually this has been less
31:30 important to me oh now that rep you over seven kinda have baked in but um you
31:36 know I think it is very useful to have you know some sort of web server local
31:42 on your machine that you can use to preview stuff so you can export locally to a folder and then set that as your
31:48 document root and then preview in the browser um it is very powerful very useful to have um and there are prep
31:55 right now primarily two ways um that you could do it there there might be more first Mac Apple has OS 10 server um
32:03 which I use um and then there's MAMP which is very widely popular um it is
32:09 free um now the reason I don't use MAMP I used to be a big map user um is I
32:15 purchased Pro years ago man Pro purely I
32:20 didn't really need the features I just wanted to support man because I thought it was a great project right and I
32:26 discovered something interesting about Pro that um it what I did is on my Mac
32:31 Pro I'd have MAMP running all the time because you know it's just something that I'd always have you know running
32:36 said I could preview my sites locally and then I found when I was on my laptop let's say sitting on the sofa
32:43 I couldn't launch MAMP it wouldn't let me launch it at all and the reason is MAMP they don't allow you to have
32:49 multiple Pro instances running on the same network unless you buy a second license um and I asked them I'm like hey
32:57 you know I don't really this just you know I was just trying to support you and they you know stuck to the guns they
33:02 knew they didn't want to allow me to have you know two instances on the same network so I said fine and I moved to
33:07 Apple server and I've been pretty happy with it but with that said I think Apple server
33:14 they've been removing a lot of features from it um it still has a web server built in but I'm wondering how long that
33:20 is gonna last um it is pretty cheap it's like 20 bucks but um you know like I said the apples
33:26 been removing features like mad from that server app over the past couple years so I'm not sure how long it's
33:33 gonna survive but it is good yeah I used to use Pastis mant myself I'm surprised to hear your story I'm
33:40 wondering if you could have blocked it using like little snitches I'm feeling that mm could have been yeah I actually
33:48 migrated off a mem myself I actually moved into something a lot more developer focused so probably beyond the
33:56 scope of what we're talking about today but I moved into a tool called vagrant
34:01 yeah that's yeah I I'm aware I'm aware of vagrant and I've played around with it it was just it was too much work I
34:07 mean I wanted something simpler yeah but once you once you get a set up is I just I just run a command and I
34:14 have yeah three instances a PHP running and yeah you know yeah that's getting pretty that's pretty getting pretty
34:20 geeky there yes yeah I agree what's your next pick I think I have two more okay one for
34:28 collaboration with peers and clients is an app called napkin and so I take take
34:35 a screenshot make a few quick edits I blow up a blow up a little I loop on an
34:41 image jot some notes send it back just a quick and easy way to you know I think a
34:48 lot of people use what slows that little image editing app
34:53 that used to be free for a while just to mark up stuff you know it's hatin like a
34:59 member but napkins napkins my pic for stuff like that yeah um it leaves lets me kind of communicate a little bit
35:04 better with people cool and then my last little utility I'm I have to give a
35:12 shout out to is an app called magnet and I work on multiple displays a lot so I
35:17 work on my laptop I work on my my 21 inch display so magnet that's me move
35:24 windows around and organize my work so I could have they could have code on my left I can have preview on my right or I
35:30 can rearrange the contents of whatever I'm working with pretty quickly pretty easily and keep it kind of Sigma separated so
35:37 moving switching between desktops in different displays it's expecially especially useful cool yeah are you I
35:44 use a similar app called mooom mo-om um I do own magnet I've just used moom
35:50 for years and it just it just clicks with me so um I tested magnet and I didn't really feel like learning a whole
35:56 new workflow so um I stuck with moom but yeah very similar you know workflow yeah
36:02 that's cool yeah Thanks I I have a cup I have a couple
36:08 more I think there's smaller ones that I use less frequently so I'm not gonna talk a you know a ton about them but I
36:14 think they're your fool your 300 your 300 more than I do so our text is a cool
36:21 app it's kind of image based it allows you to like crates like really fancy you know you know text you know that's very
36:28 stylized it's not made for reading it's purely you know to make art out of text it's cool I don't think I've ever
36:35 actually used it on the website but I've played around - yep I think it's cool I know a lot of people that do use it on
36:40 websites though next one is font Explorer um if you're gonna be managing your own font files I like purchasing
36:47 fonts and whatnot font Explorer is a pretty expensive one but it is like the
36:54 de-facto kind of standard for um you know managing you know your own font libraries so font Explorer is a good one
37:01 what about the front days I own font base fun Explorer does a lot more than
37:06 font base does its yeah um it in terms of like previewing fonts and like you
37:12 can type out the text and like select multiple fonts and you can kind of compare them and um it font Explorer is
37:18 a really a really nice app um so yeah I do own font base as well but I think
37:23 font Explorer I've tried three or four and font explorer for me is is if you're really gonna get serious about fonts you
37:29 should look at font Explorer it's good one cool next one is an a small app called
37:35 pattern oh I think that's how you pee a TT pattern and then oh at the end so and
37:41 it's just for creating an app for creating like repeatable backgrounds um
37:46 I don't use it very often but it is useful it's a nice little app so if it's
37:51 you know you're looking for you know for some tiled backgrounds pattern O's pretty nice another one photo bulk I
37:58 know a lot of rap Weaver users use photo bulk and it's kind of like an image automation thing where like if you want
38:04 to batch resize a ton of images um you know photo book will do that for you you know we talked about op image optimizers
38:11 in terms of compression the images and making them smaller but photo book will do is it'll actually resize the images
38:17 as well so um that that is a nice one um but I don't think photo book actually does the compression like you know
38:23 squash and you know JPEG mini and imageoptim in the other apps we're talking about so but photo bokeh is good
38:29 for bulk resizing of images and I think it does some renaming and other stuff and that's funny I'm used to using
38:36 Automator for that see my last tab
38:41 there's an app call feeder and feeder is a cool app if you want to like create
38:47 your own RSS feeds or podcast feeds um and you don't want to like use some sort
38:52 of service that manages those for you it is a nice app for manually creating
38:58 an RSS feed it's not something I really have to do very often even for this podcast yeah we're hosting it on
39:03 transistor but if you need to create an RSS feed feeder is a great way to do
39:09 that yeah Theater is awesome I used to use that all the time but I've had to
39:17 to be my workflow more and I wasn't able to do that within within feeder so I had
39:23 to kind of abandon it unfortunately but that is a good pick yeah and my last one for
39:30 creating collages of images um there's an app called turbo collage it doesn't
39:36 look like it's a fabulous app like if you look at the screenshots or whatever it kind of looks old-school but like its
39:42 algorithm for auto like you know generating collages of images is pretty
39:48 spectacular so john hawkins hipster weaver he's the one who's kind of sold me on it and like
39:55 he uses it all the time just to like um he'll use it like temporary to just like you know he has ten images he wants to
40:01 create like some sort of random layout and like and then he'll try to replicate that in rapper Deever or he'll use you
40:07 know the actual collage itself the image that it generates but I think collage turbo collage is if you're looking for
40:13 creating causes it's pretty cool pretty cool sweet well that's all I have for
40:21 chit yeah I think that was it that was that was a lot of apps that was a lot of apps man um I think we went a
40:28 little bit over but I think that was good oh I guess one thing we went think we should talk should talk about is an app that everybody already has its
40:34 Safari or Chrome or whatever the developer tools inside there um very
40:39 powerful stuff we could probably go on for an it for multiple sessions just about that alone but that is I think a
40:47 number one pick in terms of all right weaver users should learn how to use the the web inspector whether or not it's
40:53 safari chrome firefox doesn't matter learn it absolutely and if anybody
40:59 hasn't checked out Firefox in a long time do it because the new Firefox has gotten really nice really fast they I
41:08 read a lot about how they rewrote a lot of their core CSS engine in a different
41:14 language and had huge improvements though yes I I'm really into it good call
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42:15 yes thank you sir good to talk to you take care everybody we'll see in the next episode but later guys
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