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Having just made the jump from Windows PC to Mac, I thought it might be helpful to share some of my findings from the other side.<\/p>\n
A basic one, but well worth mentioning – as well as the usual screen shot familiar to windows users, there’s also the option to select a portion of the screen with your mouse cursor. To capture a portion of the screen, just press cmd+shift+4<\/strong>. You’ll get a crosshair that you can drag and click with to select a rectangle. This is then saved as a file. To save to the clipboard, just use ctrl+shift+cmd+4<\/strong>. Something slightly less well known about Leopard is that it has a good VNC client built in.<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n A key part of our development process (and I’m guessing for many other development teams) is the ability to run local copies of our websites on our own machines. Because our servers are all Linux based, local development on a Windows platform requires a lot of messing around with virtual machines, they sap a great deal of system resources, and need time to get them working. Because the Mac is BSD based<\/a>, all that’s required is to copy the relevant files to my machine and setup Apache appropriately.<\/p>\n
<\/strong><\/p>\n Remote viewer<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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Textmate<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>Having lived with UltraEdit<\/a> on Windows, the difference is amazing. The best feature of Textmate<\/a> is the ability to expand its features via bundles. The most basic are syntax highlighting – of which there are bundles for pretty much every language you could want – but all kinds of functionality can be scripted in, for example the Subversion bundle that allows you to commit, update and so on, all from within Textmate.
<\/strong><\/p>\n CSSEdit<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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<\/a>For excellent CSS inspection and live editing capabilities. It offers a number of excellent tools, for example a selector builder that allows you to build CSS selectors via a series of drop-down boxes, making the process a whole lot quicker and simpler. You can download a demo version from macrabbit.com<\/a>.
<\/p>\nRun dev copies of your website locally<\/strong><\/h3>\n
Darwine<\/strong><\/h3>\n
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A big problem with moving from Windows is checking your work on Internet Explorer. There are various ways around this, but one of the simplest solutions is to