Following on from my post on the Top 10 Mac Productivity Apps, I’m now going to share what I feel, are the top 10 web development apps.

Now, obviously my choices will not suite many programmers. For this reason, please bear in mind that I’m a PHP developer, and my choices focus on PHP/HTML/CSS development. There are going to be a few repeated apps, simply because there’s a fine line between the two subjects.

Ok, lets get started! (click here to continue reading…)

Well the first post of the new year! Hope everyone had a great Christmas/New Year.

When I was out in Florida over Christmas, I bought myself an Acer Aspire One netbook. Basically this little thing has very similar specifications to my Mac Mini which has recently had lots of problems….problems that would be very expensive to fix.

Anyway, I decided I would have a go at getting OS X Leopard running on the Aspire One. I had read that it was possible however without wireless and in some cases sound. Plus I would have to sacrifice the use of the SD expansion port and other media ports. That’s not really something that bothers me though as I use my main computer for anything relating to cameras.

So I installed OS X using Kalyway’s great distro (also I may note that I do own a separate OS X license for this computer) and got everything working except wireless. I found that the Atheros based wireless card in the Aspire wasn’t supported by OS X. So I purchased a broadcom based dell card from eBay for £12 inc P&P. Once that arrived, I fitted it and it worked first time. At the same time I took the opportunity to replace the 512MB RAM module with a 1GB module, taking the system memory up to 1.5GB’s

Overall I’m very happy with the result. I got a great portable laptop / server running the best operating system around for just $349 USD in Walmart!

Unfortunately I cant post any snaps up at the moment as I’m in the middle of moving from Flickr to my own gallery, however will update you once I do have a bunch of images to show off!

1Password on the iPhone

I’ve been using an application called 1Password for about 5 months now. I purchased it through the MacHeist Bundle for a really low price. I wanted to share a bit about this app, as they have just announced that they are releasing an iPhone version that will allow you to sync all stored passwords from your mac! Not only that, but the iPhone native application is set to be FREE for a limited time!

These guys have provided me with free updates and are now providing an entire application, free! The new application will allow pushing of passwords to an from the iPhone. It will fill out all saved forms, and submit them without you needing to touch anything!

This post is really just to thank Agile Web Solutions for their fantastic work and updates to 1Password. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone with a mac. It uses browser plugins to work with all major Mac browsers such as Firefox, Safari, Camino and Opera, plus it can be used across more than one mac at a time!

Take a look at the link below for some great screenshots and details about the upcoming iPhone App!

Switchers’ Blog » 1Password Coming Soon to an App Store Near You.

(NOTE: None of the links in this post are affiliate links. I simply want to thank the developers for their fantastic work!)