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Coda: A Collection of 120+ Plugins, Clips, Snippets and Tuts For Designers and Developers

I’m quite sure that every Web developer out there who owns a Mac knows / is using Coda.

What’s Coda, exactly? As Shawn Blanc wrote in his review back in January 2008:

“Coda is a text-editing, CSS-styling, WebKit previewing, file-managing, FTPing, terminal-accessing, web-site-building and publishing application for the Macintosh.”

Now, I’ve collected 120 of the best resources about Panic’s Coda: they include tutorials, clips, snippets, plugins and more.

Do you know other useful tools for Coda? Feel free to share them in the comments!

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Secrets Updated for Snow Leopard

HawkWings link

“Secrets provides easy assess to many of Mac Os X’s settings that you can otherwise only change by messing around in Terminal with long command strings, which is not everyone’s cup of tea.

It includes tweaks for many Mac core and a wide range of third-party apps. The most popular tweaks across all the apps are listed separately as well.”

A long-awaited update of a great prefpane every Mac geek should install.

Vitae Theme Now Available For Snow Leopard

This is a post aimed to all of you Mac customization nerds. That said, you should probably know Vitae, one of the best custom OS X themes available for Tiger and Leopard.

Now, since Snow Leopard hit the shelves back in August, many users started to request a porting of Vitae to Snow Leopard. Due to some changes Apple applied in the core structure of 10.6, the conversion process took a little longer, but I’m very excited to confirm that Vitae theme is finally available for download.

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Viewfinder: Browse Flickr From Your Mac Desktop. Reviewed.

Flickr, that awesome “social network”  for sharing photographs, is probably one of the best resources for finding inspirational photos, screenshots, whatever a camera / computer can take. Now, Flickr is no doubt one of the best resources for bloggers to find photos to use in their posts: just as Wikipedia says “the service is widely used by bloggers as a photo repository”.

As you may have understood reading MacStories, whenever an application that uses the APIs of a webapp is released, I go download it to write a review about it. So, what about an application that brings Flickr “discovery” experience to our Mac desktop?

Meet Viewfinder.

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N64 Emulator For Jailbroken iPhones On The Way?

TUAW link

“ZodTDD, the developer behind GpSPhone (a Nintendo Gameboy Advance emulator for the iPhone and iPod Touch), announced the development of an N64 emulator for the iPhone and iPod touch. Zodttd believes that the current generation iPhone and iPod touch have the graphic CPU horsepower necessary to run those games. “…I can’t promise it will run games top notch just yet, as things are too early to say. There’s hope though, with a 3D accelerated graphics plugin, as well as an ARM dynarec.”

Now, I’m quite skeptical about it. I was a beta tester of the PSP emulator years ago (when I was following the PSP homebrew scene, God blesses Pspupdates) and it never worked, let’s face it. Could an iPhone emulator do better?

I doubt it.

Cruz Browser Gets Twitter Integration

Cruz, the “social browser” developed by Todd Ditchendorf has been recently updated to version 0.3: the update added Snow Leopard compatibility and other bug fixes. See the complete changelog here.

Anyway, the developer sent a tweet this morning where he mentioned a Twitter plugin for Cruz, still in beta. After a quick test, I found it very interesting and useful.

See the screenshots after the jump.

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Squarespace iPhone App Is Out: Reviewed.

Blogging apps for iPhone suck.

Let’s face it: iBlogger is ugly and cluttered and the official WordPress app (which has recently been updated to 2.0) is slow, buggy and way too simple. How could this be even possible? I mean there are 100.000 apps out in the App Store and we don’t have a “Tweetie” for bloggers. You know, the champion who beats all and sits on the throne.

Well, the problem is that developing a blogging app is hard (yes, way too harder than developing a Twitter client) and needs a terrific support from the developer: we’re talking about an application which lets you blog from your iPhone and you know, people want stable and up-to-date apps. If WordPress didn’t make a decent app, how could a single developer make it?

Now, Squarespace (that awesome less known platform Web AppStorm reviewed here) has just released its official iPhone app and - guess what - it’s amazing.

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