The Software of the MyMac Writers

Tim Robertson and I thought it would be fun and maybe even a little informative to build a table of the favorite software each MyMac writer uses. I sent out a query, and the tables below show the results for the authors who were available to respond.

My inspiration was the recent Podcast with Guy Kawasaki. It made me think of those tables you see in the Friday paper where each sports writer makes his/her pick of the Sunday NFL games. In general, there is consensus in most areas, but it’s the outliers that are often interesting to see.

And it has happened here. The Browser selections are a no brainer while the e-mail software diversity is interesting. For example, I’m a Eudora beta tester, so I’m off in left field. I’m guessing each author has a story to tell about their e-mail choice.

Personal Information Managers (PIMs) are all over the map, and some writers haven’t even found something better than paper. Is there a message here for a software company that wants to own the PIM market?

In Web publishing, however, Dreamweaver and Photoshop get consistent honors.

Personally, I predicted that BBEdit would own the text editing category and that there would be healthy diversity in Secure FTP clients. Didn’t happen.

Anyway, without further comment and for your considerable amusement, here is a table of the MyMac authors’ favorite software tools.

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E-mail	Thunderbird	Web-based	Apple Mail	Apple Mail	Apple Mail	Apple Mail
Browser#1	Safari	Safari	Safari	Safari	Safari	Safari
Browser#2	Firefox	—	OmniWeb	Firefox	Firefox	MSIE
Word processor	Nisus Writer Express	MS Word	Pages	Pages	MS Word	MS Word
Text editor	TextEdit	TextEdit	BBEdit	TextEdit	Tex-Edit	TextEdit
HTML Editor	—	Mambo	BBEdit	Dreamweaver	Dreamweaver	—
RSS Reader	—	NWS	—	Net News Wire	Safari	—
PIM	My Brain!	Paper!	iCal	Soho Notes	—	iCal
File Utility	—	Spotlight	Disk Utility	QuickSilver	—	—
Scrensaver	The Matrix	OSX	OS X	—	—	Flurry
Graphics	—	Freehand/Maya	OmniGraffle	Photoshop InDesign	Photoshop CS2	Photoshop InDesign
SFTP client	—	Transmit	—	—	Transmit	—

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E-mail	Entourage	Apple Mail	Eudora	Apple Mail	Entourage	Apple Mail	Thunderbird
Browser#1	Firefox	Safari	Safari	Safari	Firefox	Safari	Camino
Browser#2	Safari	—	Firefox	Firefox	Safari	Firefox	Safari
Word processor	MS Word	Quark	Nisus Writer Express	MS Word	MS Word	AppleWorks	Pages
Text Editor	MS Word	TextEdit	BBEdit	BBEdit	BBEdit	TextEdit	TextEdit
HTML Editor	GoLive	—	Sea Monkey	GoLive	Dreamweaver	Taco HTML Edit	Dreamweaver
RSS Reader	You Control	—	Net News Wire	Safari	—	Safari	Net News Wire
PIM	Entourage	—	Soho Notes	iCal	Excel	Palm Tungsten C	Paper!
File Utility	DiskWarrior	—	PathFinder	DiskWarrior	Spotlight	XRay	Disk Warrior
Screensaver	OS X	TSC	Marine Aquarium	—	Marine Aquarium	—	Void
Graphics	CS2	—	Graphic Converter	Photoshop CS2	—	ColorIt, Photoshop	Illustrator
SFTP Client	Fetch	—	Transmit	Interarchy	Fetch	—	Fetch

—  Not used

Tim R. and John M.