Recent acquirements: Coda & OmniWeb

Since the very first days I got my Mac I downloaded Coda and OmniWeb. I made some hard tests on them and by the moment the limited license was about to expire I decided to buy them both.

Coda

Coda is an HTML, CSS, PHP etc. editor but this description is not accurate. Coda does a whole lot of more things.

As an editor, it works perfectly well, but there are a number of equally good editors, for example Textmate. The thing is Coda includes a very handy panel from where you can edit your files both locally and on the server.

Ever better news: Coda lets you update and synchronize both the local and the remote files with one click because it includes an FTP as well! No more pain whether a file has not been uplodaed to the server.

Coda comes with some reference books (HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP) which can save you when in hurry. It also includes a Terminal for the absolute geeks.

Buying coda was a piece of cake and secure as well. It costs less than €50.

OmniWeb

I almost hear you: “How can you spend money for a browser?”

I can when it is about such a good browser. OmniWeb is so good I nearly don’t need Firefox anymore.

It is very stable, secure, fast and customizable. The most noticable feature is the vertical alignment of tabs but there are a lot of features which make it great such as the advanced security settings, the Web development tools, the highly customizable layouts etc.

Omniweb is a very beautiful browser. Only Shiira is equally slick. Unfortunately, Shiira suffers from stability problems, at least this is what I saw in it.

Buying OmniWeb costed me less than €15 and like Coda everything regarding the buying procedure went very smoothly.